(1) When I lived in Singapore, I was in a rented apartment, and tacked my mezuzah up on the doorframe.(2) It's a place of risk, where demons lurk; it's where one hangs the mezuzah .(3) But every Jewish building has, of course, a tell-tale identifying sign: a mezuzah on the right-hand doorpost.(4) So if God asks you to re-dispense 10 percent of your income to charity, or put a mezuzah on your door, how can you object?(5) The Torah instructs us to put a mezuzah on our door post.(6) On the doorpost of every Jewish home rests a mezuzah .(7) But if you open up a mezuzah and read what's inside, you'll see that God is one, that He is a personal God who cares about us, and that He does everything solely for our benefit.(8) A mezuzah was affixed to the doorpost of the home.(9) One example - out of many - is his discussion of the mezuzah , a small capsule attached to the doorposts of Jewish homes containing a piece of vellum with verses from the Book of Deuteronomy.(10) Without the Oral Torah we wouldn't know about the mezuzah and countless other ways of day-to-day Judaism.(11) We all filed out of the room, kissing the mezuzah on the doorpost as we left.(12) As we enter the house with the mezuzah on one side and the Chanukah menorah on the other, there is no mistaking the Jewish focus of the home.(13) In the portion of the Torah inscribed on the mezuzah , we read that one should converse in Torah while in the home, on the road, when one arises, and when one retires.(14) Shema is contained in the mezuzah we affix to the doorpost of our home, and in the tefillin that we bind to our arm and head.(15) I told her then how a mezuzah , with the verses of the Shema handwritten on its parchment, protects one's home, and she nodded but didn't say anything more about it.(16) She wonders whether she should remove the mezuzah from her front door.
