Category: Mezuzah

  • The Trees Are Also Immigrants

    The Trees Are Also Immigrants

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    hershel
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    I am sickened by the daily images of  brown people being shoved, beaten and disappeared by men wearing masks into unmarked cars. I fear that tomorrow they will take my friends and after that come for me. Where I live, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 265 miles from the Mexican border, people have migrated to and…

  • Mezuzahs are for Everyone

    Mezuzahs are for Everyone

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    Can anyone have a mezuzah? Or does it belong only to the Jews? A Cornerstone of the Religion The mezuzah is a sacred object that plays a central role in Jewish tradition.  It is used in a ritualistic way.  It contains our most important prayer, the Shema.  Affixed to the doorpost, it defines the home…

  • The Queen Esther Mezuzah

    The Queen Esther Mezuzah

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    hershel
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    There’s nothing on the outside to identify the mezuzah as Jewish. The Jewish is on the inside, unseen. The Queen Esther Mezuzah holds the scroll on your doorpost secretly. In order to save her people, Queen Esther kept her true identity secret, and for that reason she has been called “the patron saint of the…