Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucdavis.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!ucdavis!ccrdave From: ccrdave@ucdavis.UUCP (Lord Kahless) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Kosher Mazuza? Message-ID: <4@ucdavis.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 00:06:27 EDT Article-I.D.: ucdavis.4 Posted: Mon Aug 19 00:06:27 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 21:19:36 EDT References: <3660@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 22 > By the way. I have one question. Exactly what makes a mazuza kosher? > Frederick R. Liss UUCP ...decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-gramps!liss > Digital Equipment Corp. ARPA liss%gramps.DEC@decwrl.ARPA The scriptural quotes on the parchment scroll (klaf) must be hand written by a proper scribe. I think you have to apply the same standards to the parchment as to tefillin, i.e. that the parchment must be made of a kosher animal. It is regrettable that there are people who sell improper or even printed mezuzahs. 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. ucbvax!ucdavis!vega!ccrdave P.S. You can't easily get good religious supplies in this area either. Could anybody out there possibly help me?!?! Return e-mail would be appreciated. If there is enough response/ interest, I will summarize and post a list of proper suppliers.