Latest / SHULCHAN ARUCH YOMI: Own the Halacha in 25 minutes a day! / Yoreh De'ah 288:12-289:1. Mezuzah: How Is It Written, Rolled, Extra Words or Names; Funeral Home; What Kind of Case, the Blessing. By Rav Reuvain Mendlowitz
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- 0:00OK, so we're in Simon Rashpehas. We're up to Sifu Gimel.
- 0:02I just want to mention one point about Sifuid Bayes.
- 0:05We mentioned it last time, but apparently it was incomplete
- 0:10because somebody reached out via e-mail to clarify what I said.
- 0:15So just to repeat. So if you'd base, we said that
- 0:16it has to be written with one's right hand.
- 0:18What that means is if one is a righty has to be written with
- 0:22one's right hand. But if someone is a left-handed
- 0:24individual, so it has to be written with his left hand.
- 0:27If a left-handed person would write it with his right hand, it
- 0:31would not be kosher. If a right-handed person would
- 0:33write it with his left hand, it would not be kosher, correct?
- 0:39We are not go, we're not precious for any other sheet.
- 0:42This, this is Aloka La Mesa that I mean, in Hilchestfilin, if you
- 0:46look over there, he talks about putting it on if you don't have
- 0:48another pair without a brotha. Those are all.
- 0:52We don't have another pair without a brotha.
- 0:54But but Aloka La Mesa, a righty has to write with his right
- 0:58hand, a leftist right with his left hand, and there's no other
- 1:02way about it. Oh, so that's a big Shiloh that
- 1:04many, many posts can discuss where a person Leileno had a
- 1:08stroke or or an injury of some sort and he now is no longer
- 1:13what he used to be in terms of being right-handed or
- 1:15left-handed. So which hand should he put
- 1:18filling on? And all these types of I and
- 1:20Shuvas, Hashranim, Dimin Khasitzuk and many others talk
- 1:24about all variations of that Shiloh Sifiud sifiud Gimel
- 1:30Rieva. And this is a good one.
- 1:33Revakshadin parisha Shamala parishes, variam Shamaya mits
- 1:36Velasis Parisha stuma, right? So we discussed in Simon ratio
- 1:40and hey, what's the difference between a stuma and Absuka?
- 1:44So when you're writing a mezuzah, it should be a stuma.
- 1:47Them ASAP. Sukha shera.
- 1:50And if you made-up sukha, it's kosher.
- 1:52Why Laficia ain't a smukhala beteira?
- 1:55Because parsha Shiman parsha's volume shamaya.
- 1:58Did they follow one another in a safeteira?
- 2:01Not at all, right? They're in two different
- 2:02parashias. You have a scan and an Aikov,
- 2:05right? Shima is in a scan volume
- 2:07Shamaya is an Aikov. So they're not anywhere near
- 2:09each other. So a stuma, the fact that it has
- 2:13to be a stuma indicates that the two parachutes as we discussed
- 2:16back then are are, so to speak, adjacent or connected to each
- 2:20other. So while thematically perhaps
- 2:23that is the case, but in it's a material of mysa, they're
- 2:25nowhere near each other. Therefore, if one would make
- 2:29Absucha 'cause we mentioned that Absucha indicates that the two
- 2:34parachutes have nothing to do with each other, so that would
- 2:37still be kosher because Lamisa 2 parishas are nowhere near each
- 2:41other and they say Patella. Nonetheless, ideally we should
- 2:44make it a stuma because it's Shema, right?
- 2:48When you say Shema, it means what?
- 2:50I am Shemia as well, right? So in Hilfest filling, if you go
- 2:53back to this room in Hilfest filling, we discussed how to
- 2:56make a, we discussed that there's a Maflakis, the Rambam
- 3:01and the rush, how to make a parsha stuma.
- 3:06And we mentioned that we try and make it lacoule alma.
- 3:10And we mentioned that you can only make it lacoule alma in a
- 3:13saifa Tyra. But in filling and in in a
- 3:17mezuzah, it's impassable. In filling, it's impassable to
- 3:20make it lacoule alma because shaman bhai and shamaya are in
- 3:23different columns and you can only make it lacule alma if it's
- 3:27on the same column. So lahaira in a mizuza you would
- 3:30be able to make a stuma lacule alma as well.
- 3:33But you can't because we mentioned last time that there's
- 3:36a tradition Messiah going back well over 1000 years about which
- 3:42words should be at the beginning of each line.
- 3:45And we have a tradition that Ofisha Rafa is at the end of a
- 3:49line, and Vahaya and Shamaya's at the beginning and the next
- 3:51line. And the only way to make a stuma
- 3:53lakule alma is when they're both on the same line.
- 3:56So this mezuzah that you're looking at represents the aytsa
- 4:01of the taz, what's known as the aytsa of the taz, which pretty
- 4:05much all the Athrena agree is the way to go.
- 4:09However, there are exceptions. Notably, the basiasive
- 4:13passively. Passively does not hold the
- 4:16aytsa of the Taz and or probably does not hold of the eights of
- 4:19the taz. And the Cholkanataraab certainly
- 4:22does not hold of the eights of the taz, which is why some
- 4:24people in Philan don't do like the eights of the taz, rather
- 4:28they do like the Rambam. Again, for explanation of all
- 4:32this you have to see all the previous year.
- 4:35So some people make mezuzas like the Rambam, but some people make
- 4:39mezuzas like the Taz. Now the past is that according
- 4:42to Spardem, a mezuzah like this should be not kosher because
- 4:46Urbavadia safe and urban Sienna Bashal hold that filling written
- 4:50like the taz on that kosher. Even though there are those that
- 4:54argue or Montrelliao argues and Ryako Hill argues.
- 4:57They hope it's, you know, more or less OK, certainly not
- 5:01puzzle, but Urbavadia and urban Sienna Bashal held that it's a
- 5:05shash bro full of battola, so herb and mezuza would be
- 5:09problematic. However, it's not so problematic
- 5:13because if you look in the riskier of and fiduche Hagrez al
- 5:16Herambam, he says that you don't need a parsha at all by a
- 5:20mezuzah and the Chauvinar Faraf himself, who holds that by
- 5:24trilling parashius. If you do like the Tacitz
- 5:26puzzle, he holds that by a mezuzah it's kosher.
- 5:31So therefore, and it's likely, and the Basiasov himself brings
- 5:36the rush who says to do like this by a mezuzah.
- 5:39The rush more or less as mafours like the task which the grow up
- 5:42brings as a proof to the task. So to make a Long story short,
- 5:46this is the standard meaning of Ashkenazim.
- 5:49And for Asparidy, while certainly not ideal and one
- 5:52would be tempted to say it's not kosher lamisa for Asparidy, it
- 5:56would be kosher to have a mezuzah like this.
- 5:59Can you explain what you mean please?
- 6:01Some of the letters are off on on on athio Bisharafa.
- 6:05And then some of the letters are the invitation of the lighting,
- 6:07correct? Yes.
- 6:08The answer of the task is that you split the sheer Pasha.
- 6:12The sheer Pasha is 9 letters worth of space.
- 6:14You split that parisha between the end of Shma and the
- 6:19beginning of Ohio and the two together via sea roof.
- 6:23You have a sheer parisha now it's not absucha because you
- 6:26have less than a parisha at the end, and you have less than a
- 6:29parisha at the beginning. Hence it's not absucha.
- 6:32So it remains A stuma, but it is a kosher parisha because you can
- 6:36be mitzarif, the end and the beginning of the lines.
- 6:39That's the eighth of the task and the chauffeur argues because
- 6:43he says you cannot be Mitzharif. They have the Chabad has their
- 6:49own sheeta, but they have more than 9 letters at the end of
- 6:51Shema and more than 9 letters at the beginning of Iim Shamaya.
- 6:54So many argue on the chauffeur and they say that it's very nice
- 6:59that you need 9 letters at the beginning of a Haya.
- 7:01That's a regular Rambam parisha. Why in the world do you need 9
- 7:04at the end of Shema? So that's kind of one of the
- 7:07unsolved mysteries of the world. And and you would want a regular
- 7:12Rambam, meaning that a Bisharifa should go either like this or
- 7:15until the end. Now there's less than a share of
- 7:18parisha at the end, it's just without the 1st 9.
- 7:22I know that's a regular Rambam. That's what the Rambam says.
- 7:25You write a Bisharifa either until the end or close to the
- 7:28end. Less than a parachute worth.
- 7:30And you have a full 9 letters blank at the beginning of Valium
- 7:33shmay. So you can start Valium shmay
- 7:35around here. That's how regular round
- 7:37vampires 9 letters. That's like 9 yudin, 9 yudin, 9
- 7:42yudin, not 9 olives. That's another discussion.
- 7:44Yeah, that's a massive so that's what I feel to do 9 yudin versus
- 7:489 olives. So we hold Sarah Meisha asks
- 7:50your question in a Juba and but yes, the accepted opinion of the
- 7:56Prima garden and initi Nuburu and the Fazanisha many others.
- 8:00La Mesa. This is a fazanish.
- 8:01That's something about it. But La Mesa, we feel that if you
- 8:06can get the Rambam and the rush, so that's preferable over
- 8:11getting only the Rambam and having the full 9 big letters
- 8:16rather than just nine small letters.
- 8:18Notice we'd rather have to be the other of nine small letters
- 8:21with the lechatrillo of getting the Rambam and the rush then
- 8:25having the Rambam in the most Mahoder fashion.
- 8:28So that's that. Let's go to your Dalit, Karfami
- 8:32safer Leratian, the effort clap Ishma, right?
- 8:34So you roll in Mazusa. If we take a look over here,
- 8:36this is Lamisa, how we do roll in Mazusa.
- 8:38You roll it effort. Notice effort is referring to
- 8:41closer to the end of the line. Shaman is at the beginning of
- 8:44the line, right? So you roll it like this.
- 8:46You roll it from the end towards the beginning.
- 8:49That's how we roll in Mazusa, right?
- 8:51So Karfami safer Leratian the effort clap Ishma Tesvov AUSA
- 8:56lahais. This is a very fascinating
- 8:58halosa AUSA lahaisivva mauma. It is forbidden to add anything
- 9:04to the mezuza Ella Shami bahutz kaisman shaka.
- 9:07The only thing you add to the mezuza is here on the outside of
- 9:11the mezuza. You have the shame shakae
- 9:14kinnegged tevas vahaya shabeth name.
- 9:17So according to the Mahaber, and as if you see over here, I don't
- 9:21know if you can see, probably could see, the shaka is not
- 9:25connected. The word bahaya, the shaka is in
- 9:27the Revah, right? So according to the Mahaber,
- 9:30it's in the wrong place. So why did he do it like this?
- 9:32Because we'll see in a minute. There are motholes that this is
- 9:35where it belongs. But according to the Mahaber,
- 9:37the shaka, and this is how this fathom do it till today, the
- 9:40shaka is actually behind the word bahaya.
- 9:43Let me see, maybe I have one here.
- 9:45No, these are all Yeah, OK, but this, No, no, no, it's not
- 9:51puzzle. It's it's not a problem either
- 9:54way. It's just an Indian LP desire.
- 9:56But it's not, it's not Makif. So that's a very good question.
- 10:05If you roll it backwards, is that Makif Pash, This is not
- 10:07Makif. But I have found more than once
- 10:13that it was rolled from the bottom to the top right.
- 10:17So it was on the wall, essentially it's rolled from the
- 10:22bottom to the top and then they put it up on the wall like this
- 10:25or like this, right? So that the pastas is not kosher
- 10:29because the halafa is we hold at least let's say you have a
- 10:32mezuzah, right? So you're supposed to put the
- 10:34mezuzah up upright on the wall. So.
- 10:39So let's say you find it upside down, like a lady who once asked
- 10:42me to check from mezuzah. She told me because her whole
- 10:45life is upside down. And I checked her mezuzahs and
- 10:48the mezuzahs on her front door and on her bedroom.
- 10:50We're both upside down, my sister Haya.
- 10:52So we hold it. That's puzzle, right?
- 10:55So, so over here, the Pashtus, it's not Dafka upside down,
- 11:01right? As long as it's not right side
- 11:03up, that's not kosher. So if you roll it like this,
- 11:07right, and you put it up like this, but Pashtuns, that's also
- 11:09not going to be koshan, but Koshtan, correct?
- 11:15That's why I said but Pashtus not 1000% but but Pashtus the
- 11:19nice if you don't pass them like revenge.
- 11:20If somebody would put up like revenge time, Pashtus says that
- 11:23it's no good. I thought Little went upside
- 11:27down and the Funeral Home had called attention to what even
- 11:31the Ratliff. They just didn't.
- 11:34Care. Well, yeah, you were right that
- 11:36the mezuzah was placed in an unkosher manner, but it's
- 11:40possible that they didn't care because it's possible that they
- 11:42held. And which is what I would think
- 11:44that a Funeral Home is not high in mezuzah in the 1st place
- 11:47because nobody alive lives there.
- 11:50So yeah, OK, says Dirama. The Asia I'm Negeva Shabina
- 11:56Parishes, like I was saying a moment ago.
- 11:58Yeah, but they don't. It's not their home.
- 12:00It's not using it for a funeral doesn't count for a living.
- 12:04No, the Asia I'm Negeva Shabina parishes vets, that's what we're
- 12:08saying. The Mchaber holds that it's
- 12:10behind the word vahaya, and there are more like we saw a
- 12:13moment ago holds that it's in the space.
- 12:15The Henai again, the minute is like dirama if you're in
- 12:18Ashkenazi, if you're asparty, then it's not the same guy
- 12:21again. Well, manitha nekev bakana negev
- 12:24shame shakai. So let's say you have a a
- 12:28leather or wooden case. So you would punch a hole in the
- 12:32case so that you can see the shame shakai.
- 12:35So you hey near me bahutz because you want to see the
- 12:38shakai, which is why we have transparent case, right?
- 12:41This case here on the wall, it's a transparent case.
- 12:43Why do you have the transparent case?
- 12:44So that you can see the shakai me bahutz.
- 12:47So you're probably wondering, so how come many of us just don't
- 12:50have transparent cases? So some people don't have
- 12:52transparent cases because they're just not Moratzen,
- 12:55that's fine. Other people don't have
- 12:57transparent cases because they have children in the home.
- 12:59And we mentioned that if you have Tinafus near the mezuzah,
- 13:04so it's not covered for the mezuzah to be exposed to teen
- 13:08iphis. And therefore in a home where
- 13:11there are young children that are running around after a bath
- 13:14without a towel and you're changing diapers and so on and
- 13:17so forth. So it's inappropriate to have
- 13:20the mezuzahs exposed in such a manner.
- 13:24And therefore that's why most homes that have children or
- 13:28grandchildren present on regular braces do not have transparent
- 13:32cases. But on the front door, on the
- 13:34front door, you can have a transparent case.
- 13:36Although as I've pointed out to a number of people that if you
- 13:39leave your garbage outside your front door and some people are
- 13:44want to do so, then that's also either stop leaving your garbage
- 13:49outside your front door or cover your mezuza.
- 13:53But it's not that's not nice either.
- 13:54There was. Another reason I was told.
- 13:58So that's what I was about to say that, that even the people
- 14:01who have the grandchildren or the children, and therefore they
- 14:04have opaque cases in their home. But on your front door, you
- 14:08could have a transparent case unless your front door is
- 14:12exposed to sunlight. If your front door is exposed to
- 14:16sunlight, well, for that matter, if your Mepesa is exposed to
- 14:19sunlight, then you absolutely should not have a transparent
- 14:22case. You also should not have a metal
- 14:24case because in romantic Shemesh, if you have a mezuzah
- 14:29in a metal case, the sun will hit the metal case.
- 14:32And when you open up the case, ash will come out because the
- 14:36mezuzah will be incinerated, as I have seen with my own eyes
- 14:40here on that whole Yar cone where the sun shines very
- 14:44powerfully. And a fellow had the metal case
- 14:48on his Marbessa. And I unscrewed the cap and it
- 14:52had been, I'm sorry for using this word, but just to drive the
- 14:55point home, this is, it was cremated.
- 14:57There's nothing left of it. So, yeah, metal conducts heat
- 15:03and you don't want that in plastic.
- 15:05And what typically this is wrapped up in Saran Saran wrap.
- 15:09Yeah, there are those that say that if you wrap it in in baking
- 15:13paper that that protects the Mezuza better.
- 15:15I will go on record and on camera saying that that is not
- 15:18true. It's a nonsense.
- 15:22OK, plastic or wood, you plastic or wood, either 1 is fine, but
- 15:26if it's going to be exposed to the sun, you should wrap the
- 15:28Mezuza aside for the Saran wrap, you should also wrap it in
- 15:31regular paper, white paper, aluminum foil.
- 15:34I don't know. It might also make it hotter.
- 15:37I don't know. I never did the scientific study
- 15:41on it, but if you wrap it in white paper, regular white
- 15:45standard paper, that will help deflect the heat and the
- 15:50sunlight. So I'd now again lifting me the
- 15:52hoods, the words Kuzu bemosis Kuzu, which you see why was the
- 15:59help? It's still clean. the IT doesn't
- 16:01make difference. But over here we're not we're
- 16:03not worried about an isser over here.
- 16:05We're worried about covered. So for covered opaque helps now
- 16:09over here, so you see, we actually do this.
- 16:11The spider man do not do this because this is brought in their
- 16:13MO. So this is the Nash Ganazi
- 16:15things for them. I think do not do this, but
- 16:17Ashkenazim no spider them don't not only the Shaka, but
- 16:21Ashkenazim have it now you'll notice that where is it?
- 16:25It's directly behind Hashem aliqueno Hashem directly behind
- 16:31right. So you're about to see why, but
- 16:34right now again lifted me before it's Kuzu Moses Kuzu look in the
- 16:38shaft. You'd aleph Kuzu Bahenba Alpha
- 16:40beso AC Schaffer you'd K vov K aliqueno.
- 16:44You'd K vov K right. So you'd what's the letter after
- 16:47you'd Hoff K letter after that is valve.
- 16:50So Kuzu, the most kuzu is it's a kabbalistic thing.
- 16:57It is backwards. It's written upside down.
- 17:00It's written upside down, but the huff is behind the yud and
- 17:04the VOB is behind the hay and they try and match it up
- 17:07precisely behind the letters. And there's some big Indian in
- 17:11that. Like I just said, you write it
- 17:16upside down. The mining is to say that I I
- 17:20was once talking to a Rove and a very and he didn't want to say
- 17:25it because he held that it's a shame, but I don't think that
- 17:28that's Yeah, yeah. So the meaning is not to be
- 17:34marked with Kadeshiya Geo call ice mega the ocean, Miss
- 17:36California Alpha basa. I will befinim in the Heisa
- 17:39shundover. I'll stay parachius inside the
- 17:42mezuzah. One should not add anything and
- 17:44why would anyone add anything? So the reason is take a look in
- 17:47the Taz Haram Bam Kasab Lafisha Nira Shiraj.
- 17:51How your case in Seamus with Nim Lashmira, there was a mimic by
- 17:56the Reshinam, which is brought by the way, in the Master Vitri
- 17:59to write the names of certain Malotham in the Mazuza Fashmira,
- 18:03the Cross Aleham and the Rambam uses extraordinarily harsh
- 18:09language to express his feelings about that minute.
- 18:14Al it's so she has like FEMA. She but Terry, you have to do
- 18:17what the Terry says Bashmira told him in Mela knows you don't
- 18:20have to do extra stuff to get Shmira.
- 18:24Just do what Hashem said and that's the best Shmira, right?
- 18:28Ali DSCS Amit Sir should see about who is Barfalaino Kane
- 18:31Pirsal Kasif mishna. So now this is a very salafa is
- 18:36much more naggia than most people realize because a lot of
- 18:39times when checking in mezuzah, So in Magia we'll make marks for
- 18:44the cipher. So the cipher has to be very
- 18:46careful to the pencil. So the cipher has to be very
- 18:49careful to erase those marks because if the marks are left
- 18:53there, then it's a violation of this halafa.
- 18:56You can erase it through Major Feinstein and the Mezzitzo both
- 18:59write in the chuvus that if a McGee, for instance, would leave
- 19:05a mark on a mezuzah, mezuzah is possible.
- 19:08That's their opinion, doesn't it?
- 19:09Brew And the pencil, it's not even a pencil.
- 19:13So I would add, it's sad to say that a pencil could be even more
- 19:16makal with a pencil. But I saw in the Sarah's Mesha,
- 19:18for whatever that's worth, that he says that Ramesha was asked
- 19:22exactly that question. And Ramesha said a pencil also
- 19:25would passel wage paid tests Mark and Creosa vacates and Nick
- 19:29Vasu Bhasa bought the cover. You're coming to be quevea A
- 19:33mezuza Yanifena vishwafera shall Connor.
- 19:36So you should put it in a bamboo shoot, which in English means
- 19:40just put it in a case or you shall cold over, right?
- 19:43Doesn't have to be a bamboo shoot.
- 19:45Although I do know some cute people that got a hold of a
- 19:49bamboo shoot on Sukkah's time and they made a mezuza case out
- 19:53of it. It's not waterproof.
- 19:55It's not. No, no.
- 19:55They don't use it outside the ikanabem kheema.
- 19:58And you are quevea the mezuza in its place.
- 20:00Where's its place? In the comings, even the if you
- 20:04make a broth Ivano liquia mezuzah, and that's even if
- 20:09you're putting up many mezuzah ice, you still make only the
- 20:12broth of liquia mezuzah. You don't say liquia mezuzah
- 20:15ice, and you don't say alkvias mezuzah.
- 20:18You say liquia mezuzah for leovaras bashas Sivasana.
- 20:22You would think that maybe when you're writing the mezuzah you
- 20:25should make a brotha, right? When you shake a lulla, if you
- 20:28make a brotha. So why don't you make a brotha
- 20:31when you're writing the mezuzah says the shack and Sivaal
- 20:34Sivaalas have got an aleph, the coal mitzvah Shenasiosa Gamara
- 20:37mitzvah, a name of Arif Alabasha Gamara mitzvah writing the
- 20:41mezuza, while maybe it's a very nice mitzvah to write in mezuza,
- 20:45but the Gamara mitzvah is the Kavia on the wall because of
- 20:49Apprecia. How'd the en mevar Chefiano?
- 20:52Maybe you should make a chefiano when you put up a mezuzah.
- 20:55You know why you don't you shouldn't do any bolt, Miz
- 20:57manless man right? Schaefer comes Miz manless man,
- 21:01you make a Chefiano, right, Lenny?
- 21:03The magilla comes Miz manless man, you make a Chefiano, but a
- 21:06mezuzah doesn't come Miz manless man.
- 21:10Are you going to say we make a chefiano on a talus, right,
- 21:13which also doesn't come Miz manless man.
- 21:16So the shaft says shiny talus beggar should love she.
- 21:20You know, shahumi shum Simcha by the talus.
- 21:23You're not making the brotha because of the mitzvah, you're
- 21:26making the brotha because of the Simcha of of a new baguette,
- 21:30right? But by a mezuza, no Simcha being
- 21:34cavea A mezuza per SE, or by mezuza in a mezuza bias.
- 21:40Ella al mitzis krius a mezuza, right?
- 21:43You make a Hatayva native Al Shaziko A shamba bias, right, If
- 21:47you're if you're married and or you have children.
- 21:50So then you make I tell you I made it, but the but on the Vyas
- 21:54Mezuza, there's no birth of Shefiano.
- 21:56It's not a problem. You could do that.
- 21:57It would be 1/2 sick. If you're putting up multiple
- 22:00mezuzahs, either make that type of I made it before you make the
- 22:04birth on the mezuza or after you put up the last mezuza.
- 22:07But yes, don't say I shake his channel says it's going to look
- 22:11funny. Mezuza.
- 22:12I tell you I made it and then put up mezuzah.
- 22:14That for sure would be 1/2 sick. Yes, shouldn't say nothing.
- 22:17No, no, you shouldn't know even after you put up the first
- 22:19mezuzah, don't say at the native put up all the mezuzahs without
- 22:22a half sick and without a half sick means without a half sick
- 22:25even of D board shouldn't talk at all.
- 22:28Now it's not just de Boer and I was not just to ask like, did
- 22:32the Mets win last night? That even de Boer benign de
- 22:36Boer. So pass me the double sided
- 22:40tape. That would be more clear because
- 22:41that's lit Cyrus. But anything that's not lit
- 22:44Cyrus and I was what I mean to say is if you ask did the Mets
- 22:47win last night, that's a Hazehadas, right?
- 22:49That's Carlos Verge. That's a hazehadas.
- 22:50I'm saying even if it's not a hazehadas, right, it's it's some
- 22:54whatever powerful thing that you're saying.
- 22:56Shouldn't say that either. OK.