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Definition of Mezuzah

1. Noun. Religious texts from Deuteronomy inscribed on parchment and rolled up in a case that is attached to the doorframe of many Jewish households in accordance with Jewish law.

Definition of Mezuzah

1. Noun. (Judaism) A piece of parchment inscribed with Pentateuchal texts and attached in a case to the doorpost of a house, in accordance with Jewish law that says that “the Jews must remember the Tenth Plague and the blood on the doorposts.” ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mezuzah

1. a Judaic scroll [n -ZAHS, -ZOT, or -ZOTH]

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Literary usage of Mezuzah

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"mezuzah: A rectangular piece of inscribed parchment enclosed in a wooden or ... The mezuzah is by the pious touched with the hand as they enter or leave the ..."

2. Jewish Laws and Customs: Some of the Laws and Usages of the Children of the by Alfred Kingsley Glover (1900)
"LAWS ABOUT THE mezuzah. 1. The law requires that the mezuzah be fixed to the door-posts and ... The mezuzah are of less sanctity than the phylacteries. 3. ..."

3. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse by Joseph Friedlander, George Alexander Kohut (1917)
"The mezuzah ALICE LUCAS. HP HE Cerberus breakers that brawl and that cry, The sun and the sky with their Raphael eye, The skylarks that soar and the ..."

4. The Guide of the Perplexed of Maimonides by Moses Maimonides, Michael Friedländer (1885)
"This class includes the laws of Prayer,1 Reading of Shema,2 Grace,3 and duties connected with these,4 Blessing of the priests,5 Tefillin,6 mezuzah,7 ..."

5. Jewish Ceremonial Institutions and Customs by William Rosenau (1912)
"The mezuzah must be examined periodically in order to ascertain whether it is in good ... If the ink has faded the mezuzah should be replaced by another. ..."

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