Mezuzoh placement, touching, and kissing
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17 Mar 2009 14:23 #943
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a) According to Minhag Ashkenaz, how does one position a mezuzoh? I understand that most people position a mezuzoh on an angle into the room. My father and a close family friend, also a Yekke, positioned a mezuzoh straight up and down, like Rashi and like the Sephardim.
b) Does one only touch a mezuzoh when entering a room or is one obligated to touch it and to kiss one's hand?
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b) Does one only touch a mezuzoh when entering a room or is one obligated to touch it and to kiss one's hand?
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01 Apr 2009 02:33 #975
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Rashi holds that one should place the Mezuzoh straight up (vertically), and Rabbeinu Tam holds that it should be placed laying down (horizontally).
Tosfos says, that as a compromise between the minhogim, the Mezuzoh is placed diagonally.
The Rosh says that the minhog is as Rashi, to put the Mezuzoh straight upward (that was the old minhog). In Worms that was the minhog until our days.
The Maharil brings that the minhog is to put the Mezuzoh diagonally, and that is the common Ashkenaz minhog.
The Chazon Ish put the Mezuzoh straight with a slight tilt.
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Tosfos says, that as a compromise between the minhogim, the Mezuzoh is placed diagonally.
The Rosh says that the minhog is as Rashi, to put the Mezuzoh straight upward (that was the old minhog). In Worms that was the minhog until our days.
The Maharil brings that the minhog is to put the Mezuzoh diagonally, and that is the common Ashkenaz minhog.
The Chazon Ish put the Mezuzoh straight with a slight tilt.
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01 Apr 2009 21:06 #976
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Yosef Ometz says that when one leaves his house he should put his hand on the Mezuzoh and say a nusach. Then he continues that his father used to touch the Mezuzoh 3 times and then kiss his hand and pass his hands on his eyes.
There is a book of 300 years ago that mentions that one touches the Mezuzoh and kisses his hand and says Hashem Yishmereinu.
Generally in most sources one kissed his hand also and one said a nusach almost in all sources, (but the nusach itself changes from source to source. In addition - maybe the nusach was only when they went out traveling).
Michael FRBSH
There is a book of 300 years ago that mentions that one touches the Mezuzoh and kisses his hand and says Hashem Yishmereinu.
Generally in most sources one kissed his hand also and one said a nusach almost in all sources, (but the nusach itself changes from source to source. In addition - maybe the nusach was only when they went out traveling).
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23 May 2010 13:06 #1756
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R' Hamburger seems to imply in the "Minhagim of Worms" that the prevalent Minhag in Germany was to place the Mezuzah vertically and not on an angle. Is this the common Minhag today?
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04 Jun 2010 17:43 #1760
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No, the common Minhag is to put the Mezuzoh diagonally.
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