Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!stanford From: stanford@ssc-vax.UUCP (Stanford N Payzer) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Kosher Mazuza? Message-ID: <150@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 16:03:23 EDT Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.150 Posted: Fri Aug 23 16:03:23 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 06:26:11 EDT References: <3660@decwrl.UUCP> <3780070@csd2.UUCP> Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 19 > > >The case is more or less irrelevant. Simple plastic is good enough. > >Money doesn't make it kosher. Before the war in Europe, lots > >of people drilled holes in the doorpost (mezuzah) and slipped the > >scrolls in there. > > In fact, in present day Yerushalayim (Jerusalem), I have seen many doorposts > with a "sunken in" mezuzah. I've even seen it thus in some places in NYC. On a tour of Hebron in 1977 every doorpost I examined had a slot to hold the scroll or a larger hole and/or patch where the slot would have been. -- "..Israeli authorities evicted jewish squatters from the Arab city of Hebron.." ..from yesterday's morning radio news (local CBS and national NPR) -- {allegra, cornell,decvax,ihnp4,tektronix,sdcvax,utcsrgv,largo,lento}! ==> uw-beaver!ssc-vax!stanford ARPA: ssc-vax!stanford@uw-beaver