MEZUZAH

Mezuzah

A mezuzah is a piece of parchment inscribed with specified Hebrew verses from the Torah . These verses comprise the Jewish prayer "Shema Yisrael", beginning with the phrase: "Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is One"

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mezuzah

Noun

  1. 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.”


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