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Yoreh De'ah 288:1-12. Mezuzah: How Is It Written and On What Parchment, Lines, Margins. By Rav Reuvain Mendlowitz · SHULCHAN ARUCH YOMI: Own the Halacha in 25 minutes a day!

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  We are in Simon Reshpe khes Kate said Kaisfen SA mezuzah.
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  How is 1 meant to write a mezuzah?
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  Kaisfenstein parashea shima bahaya M Shamaya al daf Ehud
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  beria akhas you write. So here you have a mezuzah.
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  You write 2 Parasheus Shima and Beraya and Shamaya al daf.
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  Ehud means on one column. Beria afas means one piece of
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  Clef for Isola. Yeah, you know, should I hold it
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  up the whole time or OK for isola?
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  Revath milamata. The Revath Milamala, if you each
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  take a look at your mezuzes and now look at my mezuzah, so
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  you'll see that my fellow was Mahmir in how much space he
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  left, right? Kemai fetsi Tsipayran, because
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  there's a big sugya. How much you meant to leave in
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  all of your mezuzahs? I imagine there's not nearly
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  this much space, but there is. Kemai fetsi Tsipayran obit
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  Hilasa here as well. You'll see on most of your
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  mezuzahs. So Shayla Ubi Tilasa and in the
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  beginning, on the right side of the mezuzah yeshaya, you should
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  leave enough space here. If you see in my mezuzah, he
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  left a lot of space, right? So that's enough space that when
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  you roll the mezuzah, the empty space will be enough to wrap
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  around the circumference of the mezuzah.
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  Now, in most of your mezuzahs, you, you will probably notice
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  that you don't have that much space if you want to know why so
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  take a look in the Khazanish where he has a Chuva from his
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  father and his father explains why we don't have that mini.
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  There's also the Khesar saifer who says that it has to be
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  enough space that theoretically, if you wound it as tight as
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  humanly possible, it would wrap around.
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  So it's possible that some of your mezuzahs have that, but
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  most mezuzahs don't have that. Well, I'm saying it's it's a
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  halafa that you're supposed to do, but there are various
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  cetarium and reasons why we don't do it.
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  But you know, you see this cypher, he did it the cypher and
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  at the end of the mezuzah, you don't have to leave any space at
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  all. Now, any space at all doesn't
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  mean that the letter could be touching the lip of the Clef
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  because you need what's called Hakova's grill.
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  You need it has to have a mash O of Clef before the end, but it
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  means that you don't need a margin per SE.
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  Halafa based Sarah, as we said, needs to be in one column.
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  In other words, you can't have the two Parachia Shaman Bahaem
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  Shamaya side by side and a pair of filling Shaman Bahaya side by
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  side. Over here, it's one on top of
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  the other. Sarah, if you did write it side
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  by side, the mezuza would be kosher.
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  No cosma shaloya al haseder If the mezuzah was written out of
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  order, Afilu shafaf me lifted ice afas sula.
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  Even if you forgot to write one letter, it's puzzle.
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  So take a look at your mezuzah. Let's say the first word of
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  Vahaya, the Volvo of Vahayam Shamaya, right?
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  If you skipped you're a cipher and or you're not a cipher.
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  A cipher was writing in mezuzah and he's writing the mezuzah and
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  he skipped the vow of I am Shamaya and he's about 5 lines
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  further and he realizes, so he says, oh look, there's plenty of
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  space there. I'll just fill in the vow.
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  So that is that is called Shalay Kisidron means the mezuzah was
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  written out of order and the mezuzah is puzzle.
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  Every letter has to be written sequentially in order.
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  So I'm Shafafmi lifted ice Akhaspsula.
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  Even if he would go, even if let's say he forgot the vov and
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  then he wrote the hay of Vahaya and then he went back and wrote
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  the Vahaya, that would also be puzzle.
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  Could be as long as there's one letter out of order, it's
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  puzzle, the N la takana, and there's no way to fix the
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  mezuza, the answer of Leimarium Hichton Pasha la Pasha.
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  If he wrote vahayim shamaya before Shamah, that's for sure
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  puzzle. Now the Taza argues on that and
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  the Taza says that that would be kosher, but we don't paskin like
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  that taz. Now if you take a look in the
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  Shah towards the end of SIF Cotton Bays, the Mahaber made a
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  statement that if you wrote the mezuzah out of order, it can't
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  be fixed. So the Shah says it's not 100%
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  accurate. Ulafiza yafa ligro mimata
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  ulamala AB mokim hafizorin the yiftov sham hafizorin the AF haf
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  yiftov mashigorar al mokim Hagar the kahai gavner have a
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  cassidra. What does that mean?
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  That means it's follows. Let's say again here, look at
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  your mazuza. Let's say you forgot to write
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  the word the vava vaya. OK, so you wrote haya IM shamaya
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  tishma O El mitzvahsai Asher anaifi, right?
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  And then you get to the end of the line and all of a sudden you
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  realize, Oh my goodness, I forgot the Vava vahaya.
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  So we just said you can't fill in the vogue.
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  That's awesome. That's like Cassidra and the
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  Mezuzah's puzzle. But what can you do?
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  Says the shaft. You can erase everything you
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  wrote. Erase how you I'm sure my attish
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  more elements. Why say shara Naishi?
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  Now that line is blank and now start again.
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  So this that the macabre says aim like Takana means aim like
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  Takana by just filling it in. But if you erase backwards, you
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  can now the place can say that that's only provided that you
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  wrote S and before you wrote the shame Hashem you realize.
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  So now you can erase back and rewrite it in order.
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  But once you wrote Hashem, you're cooked.
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  Nothing you could do just the udurilateral erase Khalifa.
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  So excellent. So we don't do Khalifa and
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  mezuzahs. We only do Khalifa in Sifra Tyra
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  or the Friedlander held in the 4th parisha of a shaliad of
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  filling, because then it's called the Hefsid meruba.
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  And if it's called the Hefsid meruba, then you could be you
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  could be Makil to go to aspirity to be cut with for you when I'm
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  in a mezuza. He held that.
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  That's not called enough of the Hefsid Meruba and one may not be
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  Macal and that's the mimic, I believe.
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  OK, so that's the shaft and sieve cotton base halafedaalid
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  Casa de Schnee Ayres, if you had right, we mentioned that it has
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  to be on one piece of claff. So what if you took two pieces
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  of claff Alphabisha tough run and you sewed them together?
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  Sula, the mezuza is going to be puzzle.
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  Has to be one piece of claff, period.
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  Aloha. Hey srika, ebud lishma lehat
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  khila. The mezuzah needs ebud lishma,
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  right? Which we discussed in the past
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  means that the processing of the hides has to be done.
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  Le shame kaduchas mezuzah Abu malkum shame Yamton Laura.
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  Mubud lishma is battle mayhem mitzvah.
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  I can get plaf mubud Lishma, but it's coming from the from the
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  Ukraine, right? Or it's coming from Turkey,
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  right, or Poland, right. This is these are places where
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  they do ebud right? So I can get it, but it's going
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  to take two weeks to get here. But I'm moving in today and I
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  have a Mazuza that's not a little bit Lishma.
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  So that's what he's saying. The Malcolm Yamptin is battled
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  me Amitz. I'm going to lose 2 weeks.
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  So then if the then Al Arsha ain't him obit.
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  Her name's Bekaima Mitzvah Miyad, but Arsham Evakish share,
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  but put in your order. Put in your order.
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  Wait for it to come right. But in the meantime, use a
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  mezuzah. That's not really.
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  So you would think that this has no practical ramifications, but
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  it actually does because we discussed, or maybe we didn't
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  discuss, I don't remember, on the subject of claff mechona
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  versus the subject of claff of voy de siad.
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  Claff can be made by machine like matsys.
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  You can have machine matsys or handmade matsys.
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  So you can have machine made claff or handmade claff.
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  So what's the problem with the machine made claff?
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  The problem with the machine machine made claphers that there
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  are some places that hold it that's not called IBU leschmat.
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  Same thing as by matzek, right? You need Lachey Matzek's
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  mitzvah. So for the seder, there are
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  people that won't use machine matzek because they hold that
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  machine Matzes are not what will bid leschmat are not are not
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  baked leschmat. So to over here there are places
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  that hold IBUT claph by way of machine is a hissarn in Le
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  Schmat. There are other shilars as well.
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  There are meikilam, there are makhmir.
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  I'm not here to be makhriya that shila.
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  I'm just saying, let's say you hold that machine claff is no
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  good and you want to get claff of aid to siad.
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  But you're moving into your apartment today and the only
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  mesuza available is machine claff mezuzah.
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  So that's what this Mahab is saying.
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  So you should put that up, keep your order in for the other
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  mezuzah, but in the meantime you could use this missus.
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  And the reason is because the Rambam is Mako that you don't
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  need ibad leshma by mazusa. That's so from telling you when
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  you find Mazusa, it's if it's a latest yard.
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  Did they tell you no if you ask? Yeah.
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  But the mezuzah don't have They don't come in a package with a
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  label, although now they do. If you buy mezuzahs with
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  Ashgartha from an organization called Stamp, you can get a
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  mezuzah and a package with a label.
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  But other than that, mezuzahs don't come in a package with a
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  stamp. So you have to ask a lot of
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  above Kosma. I like Klaf.
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  I like real Cheria loyamur de sustus LL mitzvah.
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  What this means is that as is as follows, there's three types of
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  hides. I mean, there's one type of
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  hide, but when you have to hide, So the way a hide is, is that
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  there's a, it's like the skin of the human, right?
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  It's just an animal, right? So the skin of the human or the
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  skin of an animal rather, is quite thick and, and there's an
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  outer layer, an outer layer where the hair is.
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  And then there's an inner layer in the kishkis and then there's
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  a middle layer that's just like gook veins and then just gook.
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  So so when you process the whole thing as one.
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  So that's like what we saw from the tame on him, the thicker,
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  more carpet like clath. So that's called Ville.
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  OK, Now what Ashkenazim do and spare them just not tame on him
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  is that they split the hides. OK, now you can split the hides
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  by scraping away part of it. There's different ways of doing
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  it. I mean, today we just scrape it.
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  But the point is that there's two halves of the hive.
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  So the outer half is called Clef and the inner half is called
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  dofsustus. So mezuzah, the Gemara says,
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  should be written on Dofsustus. So that's what he's saying over
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  here. Kosovo al had Clef if you wrote
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  it on Clef oil Hadville Orangeville that both kosher,
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  even though the Gamora says to write a Mazuzan do sustus.
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  Why? Because le Amr do sustus LL
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  mitzvah, because that's just the ideal.
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  But the other two would also be kosher.
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  Ah, you're thinking, so how come all our mezuzahs are on Klaf
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  says they're Emma. Oh, klaf.
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  Inshallah, no cherim la call our klaf is kosher for everything.
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  And we saw back back in Hilton safe and tell you that there are
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  most says that our cloth is the most molder because it's lighter
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  and it's and it's nicer, et cetera, et cetera.
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  So that's what we use today. On which side of the sisters do
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  you write on? That's a great question.
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  If my memory serves me right, I think you're right on the on the
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  kishkis side of the dustus. On the on the inner side, not on
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  the well, I'm saying the dustus, they're both inner, but not the
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  part with the Clipper, rather the other side.
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  No, the dustus is is the inside. So so the outside of the inside
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  know that you're right on the other side facing the hair, I
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  think. So of course there's people, you
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  know, in the old city, you know, who want to bring this back into
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  style. Is it better?
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  So I think if I'm not mistaken or been a fananel or been a
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  Gershon explains that the reason why the Gamora says that a
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  safety terror should be on villain and Mezuza should be on
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  Dos Sisters and villain should be on CLAF is because each one
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  is most appropriate for that scroll.
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  No, it's filling up very small, very thin.
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  So the claff is the thinnest and it's a patera could be heavier.
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  And it explains why each one is the most appropriate.
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  I think Mzuza will last longest, perhaps I don't remember.
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  But like Jeremiah says, today we are of the belief that our claff
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  is superior and everybody, as I say, except for Tim and
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  everybody, uses claff today for everything.
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  Zion, Dina Lynn, you know the Tagan shall shot in his gates.
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  Kamali be safer tigra the halochus of the ink and all the
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  halochus of writing. And the tagan, if you look at
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  the mezuzas, you'll see that the letter Shin ayen, Tess, Nung,
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  Zion, Gimmel and Saadi all have tagam on them.
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  So those halochus are all the same as a safer tigra.
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  Tess Srika seerthud the M Casa blois Seerthud sula.
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  Now what's here, if you look at your mezuzah, you will see that
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  it has lines scored into the mezuzah.
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  Yes, you could definitely see it in the right margin.
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  And if you look between the letters or between the words,
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  you'll see it there as well. And unlike in, in English, in
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  English when you write so the bottom of the letter is on the
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  line. Over here, the top of the letter
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  is in the line. And the reason is because when
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  you're using a colmus, it's easier.
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  The the serotid serves as a guide for the colmus Shank.
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  That's a technical thing. I'm saying it's not mackif, but
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  you could use the serotid the other way as well.
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  I believe if the bottom of like in English, if the bottom of the
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  letter was on the serotube, just stop your letter.
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  I'll so instead of hanging it, you would sit them.
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  You would sit them on the serotube.
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  I actually never saw the place him talk about that.
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  I made that up that it would be OK, but I I think that that's
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  correct. But it would be OK if yeah, they
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  do. The letters do have to touch the
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  CRT. So you so you're a ladder right
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  in between the line as long as it's very close to the CRT.
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  Now what's the gather of very close something that you need
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  shimash for? It's not something that you can
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  give over about that. There's no that it has to touch,
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  but it has to be very close. If it's more than Fisher held
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  two cash in the way from the theater, that's no good.
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  What's 2 cash in? Good luck, but it's only on the
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  bottom. Let me see.
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  Yeah. OK, so now you know why it was
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  Indonesia. OK, Say that the.
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  Yeah, some of them are totally in between.
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  Yeah. So this this is this is Apostle
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  and Azusa. For that reason, this is not
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  written on the ceratid at all. No.
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  Is he right? Some, some have it written.
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  Not the course of the ones that are written on the bottom, but
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  he has some lines. Here are some espenation Ladabra
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  bomb that are written in between the ceratid.
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  Notice he's not consistent. If he would be consistent
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  throughout, then there would be what to talk about.
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  But he's not consistent. He he moves around.
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  That's absolute the eraser. Now.
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  Now what if you have one or two letters?
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  I'll just speak this out quickly.
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  What if you have one or two letters or three letters that
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  are, that are not written on Seerthut?
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  Now, why would that be? So?
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  The reason is because the cipher made a mahika.
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  He had to erase. And I was like in our previous
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  example, let's say he erased that line and when he erased
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  that line, the Seerthut disappeared.
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  And then he rewrote the line and there's no Seerthut there.
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  So it disappears because here to it is is in the depth of the
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  clap. But when you erase, so you're
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  lowering. It's like the street, right?
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  You're when you dig up the street, so it's lower.
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  Now you have to when you pave it, you're raising it again.
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  So should shouldn't be the subject again?
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  Oh yeah, absolutely should be. The question I'm dealing with is
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  what if he didn't? So so most places can hold it.
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  The mezuzah puzzle. It's not kosher at all.
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  Now there are those that are maekel that if rave of the line
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  is Messieur Tut, that's kosher. Ribliashov didn't hold of that
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  hat there. Ribliashov was willing to be
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  maekel up to 3 letters. Why up to 3 letters?
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  Not clear, but that was Ribliashovshita.
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  Others say that if even one letter is written out on the
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  siritud, the mezuzah is puzzle medo eraser.
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  I love the Tess case of Kolshita Saha Chavez.
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  All the lines of the mezuzah should be justified right in in
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  a Word document, right? The end of the line is always
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  justified. So have they'll in a mezuzah,
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  the lines should be justified. Shalaite Athensa Rukumi habita
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  shouldn't have one line longer than the other.
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  They inherit Bashita afas yesemi but it's a shala faneha.
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  And if letters do protrude, if you look on your mezuzahs, I'm
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  sure you'll find on some of them that there are letters here or
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  there that protrude into the margin on the left beyond the OR
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  the other way around. Instead of protruding into the
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  margin, it ends short of the margin.
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  And others look at khila. It should be justified, but it's
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  kosher if it's not ubil vad. I should have brought in a
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  mezuzah with this Shalaya Seneca Kuba E Kazanova E Ki ego.
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  What that means is that if you have 3 consecutive lines
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  protruding outward, right? Once again, if you look in the
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  safer inside stand and the first thing in the safer, I think the
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  first picture in the safer is a picture of Kuba Vazanov.
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  What Kuba Vazanov means is that we just made a statement that
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  the line should end justified, and if it doesn't end justified,
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  it's not Mac if Mezuza still kosher, provided that you don't
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  have 3 consecutive lines going further out.
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  Notice if the first line goes out further than the I'm sorry
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  if the second line goes out. When I say second, I don't mean
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  one and two. It could be 17 and 18, whatever
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  it is. But if the first line ends
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  justified, the second line protrudes further than that and
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  the third line protrudes further than the second line.
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  So that's called a shila of Kuba Zanov like steps, steps.
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  So that would be absolute. Now there's a huge Mosleicus.
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  What's the sheer of the protrusion that would passel
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  cerebilias held one letter. In other words, if a yud or a
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  vov. Let me rephrase that a yud or
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  vov's worth of letter not because if it's a tough so it's
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  much wider than a yud, right. So if if the width of a yud on
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  the second line is protruding more than the first line, and
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  the width of a yud on the third line is protruding more than the
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  second line, that's absol of Kuba Vazanov.
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  However, you should know that absol of Kuba Vazanov can be
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  fixed. How can you fix it?
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  Because you could take the letter on the second line and
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  extend it a little, right? Or if you're able to, you can
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  take the letter on the second or third line and scrape a little
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  right? And in that way, you can
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  manipulate the size of the ends of the lines such that it would
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  be kosher. Al Haaretz Salah fahyud yeftev
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  be reshita akhraina for la yefteva Yasser.
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  So if you look on your mezuzahs, you'll see that the last two
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  words in the mezuzah of Al Ha. Al Haaretz are written at the
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  beginning of the line and there is nothing written after it.
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  Now why is this? As the Tazz halaf has have
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  gotten hay hatam, the reason is the shita shalafaner.
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  I'm sayyam is hashemaya right? Because the line before it
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  right? Kimei Hashemaya Al Haaretz ends
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  with the word Hashemaya urekaika MIT shila shita afreena.
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  The last letter on the line and the first letter on the line are
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  as far away as could be. So Hashemayim and al Haaretz are
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  very far away from each other, right?
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  So what is this alluding to? As far as the heavens are from
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  the earth, Caine yerbu yamayim, we may beneath him, right?
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  The POSIX says over here, woman, Yerbu yamayim, we may beneath
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  him. You're going to have long life
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  if you if you keep keep Hashem's mitzvahs.
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  How much life, Kimae Hashemayim al Lauritz?
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  That much. Which means essentially as much
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  as possible, let's just do one more alafa, let's just say two
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  more Halafiyidalaf, nagu la seisa essenbrushnayim shithin.
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  The mezuzah has 22 lines. If you look at your mezuzahs,
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  you will see that it's 22 lines. And the shaft gives you.
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  We even have a tradition as far as what should be the first
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  letter on the line and the last letter on each line, which is
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  kept until today and it goes back to thousands of years and a
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  Lafayette bayes tareth lacosta be a min kamoi bits filling.
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  Filling has to be written with the right hand.
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  Can't be written with the missiles.
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  Has to be written with the right hand, not the left hand.
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  Same as filling and safer Tyra who wrote inside stung drive by
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  moving memolets sky after the Asus.