Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site aecom.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!cmcl2!rna!rocky2!cucard!aecom!teitz From: teitz@aecom.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Removing Mezuzot Message-ID: <991@aecom.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 14:41:21 EST Article-I.D.: aecom.991 Posted: Mon Dec 3 14:41:21 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 05:49:32 EST References: <583@spuxll.UUCP> Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY Lines: 19 > Does anyone know the reason why one is not supposed to remove the > Mezuzot from the doors, if they move from a house or an apartment > that Jews are going to move into? > > Meyer Steinberg The question could be asked, why we are permitted to remove a mezuza when we leave a house. What permits us to take the mezuza down once it is up. The answer is simple. If the person moving in will abuse the mezuza and not treat it with respect then it should be taken down. Otherwise it should be left up. If a non-Jew is moving in, I imagine we assume that he will not treat the mezuza properly, so we remove it. If, however, a jew moves it, why should he not respect it, and therefore we must keep it afixed to the doorpost. Eliyahu Teitz. P.S. This is by no means a definitive answer, it's only my ideas( a s'vara ).