The Proper placeTo Affix the Mezuzah - Rabbi Zev Smith

thank you the proper place to fix the mezuzah 718-851-8651 or email istion.com who was married a number of years without children foreign he said I checked them this is already so check the height at what height you put the mezuzah and he wasn't sure what that meant and God will explain to him it's supposed to be as we'll soon see on the upper third part maybe it's too low sure enough he had put them azusa's too low a little too low but a little too low is a big problem and he corrected it he has a clerk by now now the point is that besides of course the fact that it's a mitzvah a very halogen of mezuzah there's also a lot of smear to it a lot of school to it but that's not the only reason why we do things right you know Mitzvah has to be done right that's like every other to do and I'd like to try to discuss one part of mezuzah for today and that is the exact place the position where the mezuz is supposed to be affixed that was in the past we spoke about making the broken and how to put it up you have to use a nail and if you have a door going the two directions and the Myriad of shyless about which daughter put up a mezuzah and what room is today is cinnamon race basically the proper place to put the mezuzah now I'll start with a maester hoya believe it or not it's a true story I was once uh visited Someone who lived in an upstairs apartment there's only one way to get into his apartment through the front door upstairs and I'm going up the steps and I'm looking and looking something look seems wrong to me and I see the mezuzah is on the left side not on the right do a pose on the left door post and I'm trying to figure it out because uh you know he knows what he's doing this person so after all I asked would you mind if I ask you why is Mrs on the left side so he's looking looking look and he said you know you have a good question I said I hate asking such good questions but I didn't think about it he says he doesn't know why he did it but he put it up on the left side what's that luck in such a case when a person put them this is on the left side so this is Kimora it's a posse and as we'll see these three words that we're gonna mention now is probably the basis of today's year those three words could also be read bioshka Derek in other words explains Rashi explains a little more in detail when a person walks into a room and typically most people are righties so again typically even though it's not certainly but typically most varieties are also right footed so the first step you walk into a room is with your right foot and your right foot is on the right side and therefore would indicate that you put the mezuzah on the right side the right doorpost this person that put on the left side was not you it's unfortunately the whole time he had the muses up and every day a race pay tests base so honor says you have to put it up on the right side and there are more ads even if you're a lefty and only only one person living in the house is a lefty he put it up on the right side then cover me smile if we put on the wrong side it's possible now it's not the fair is that when you refix the mezuzah you have to make a second brother and others say there's no doubt about it he has to put up the mezuzah again and actually make another Brook but the point that we see is those three words is very much the Surah Mitzvah that's the actual way to do the mitzvah now the next is every time you put up a mezuzah and basically the question is what is the position of the mezuzah now I cannot bring a doorpost from my house but this cardboard will do a good job this will be I'll do a post now please when you're looking at me so this is the right doorpost because forget about me your right side is over here and this is a mezuzah actually this is a case and the black um lying around it is the top of it so I'll give you a choice a few Choice how to put at the mezuzah again this is the doorpost and if you could put it up erect like this straight up [Music] you can put it up lying down don't forget in the Orion when they kept the lucrez and the safe turn the orange it was laying down and the assumption is when you lay something down it's more covered it than when you're standing it up so the question is do you let you put the music standing up or laying down like this all like this so this is a good question and this is basically not push it because like a Naga or not but at the end of the day the murder comes out the way she learned and that's the sheet of that he's supposed to put the mezuzah erect vertically just like this standing up as straight as can be why so Rashi explains that if you make a kanagar which means like you're not can nailed into the wall so that goes in not vertically that goes in horizontally and that's Taco puzzle you don't lay down a mezuzah you make the mezuzah erect standing up zokov if you do it this way like this it's actually puzzle even with the edit the question is why is standing up better than laying down so the embassy is a little bit it has to do with that you know when something is standing up it's more on the zoo than if it's laying down Joseph attack in the back of Miss gimmel explains that just like we keep a safe return the aura no one lays it down you stand it up apparently there's more covered when you stand up a safe hotel room so to mezuzah stand it up and don't knock it in laying down the pisgay ridge was one of the best he says that the truth is we call this we put in the mususa cave we call it a mezuzah but that's really a misnomer is the doorpost this this is a mezuzah two mezuzahists a massive across so this guy really has an interesting argument so it's just like every doorpost every mezuzah is erect so to the scroll the Helix should also be erect and not laying down the best has by swords in the back goes in the back of the gamara Simmons there's no doubt about it he writes that moistura Bane was macabo me Sinai to put the mezuzah standing up like this so here we have a done deal mezuzah is standing erect vertically no question about it that's the right cover just like the mezuzah the doorpost is erect however toy Swiss on the same Gamora quota yes the same way about the time that we're still in and we keep his money Tom says that's not the way you respect something he quotes Sigmar and Baba bastard more speaks about a nagor that Mark calls that a cruise hamor he bury a donkey standing up a human being laying down standing up the mezuzah like this that's not their covet nutama also the safety and the Lucas in the basement if you stand it up like Rashi said that's not going that's puzzle the only way to do it is laying down like this in other words you'll get two Nails not getting over here and here but has to be laying down position in fact goes so far to say that and you really should make an Origins are laying down he says couldn't do it but no doubt about it this is a fundamentalike is how to put a mezuzah what is more covet according to bang the time if you do it vertically standing up you're not yo it's a according to Rashi if you do it laying down you're not you eat some now here's the question what do we do in fact there have been with time and safai yosha he says just think about it when you finish learning how do you put together the gamara you don't stand it up you lay it down so Ben the time is pretty insistent that you have to lay the mezuzah has to be in a a lying down position now what do we do now you know we had two parents filling and you keep the beta Thomas man but you can't put up a missus like Rashid so this is makes no mention of Albano tamshita Isuzu just like the the doorpost is erect you put the mezuzah like this straight up and that's the sheet of concludes that's the minig in the middle is there's no police enforcing it there's no inspectors upon him so in the malchus of the base all mezuzahs are put erect now if you never saw it so go to any sweater home and that's where they put up a mezuzah musus is erect the going foreign the loyal accent don't make it in any diagonal stand up the mezuzah like we never see kamat now here we come to a very unusual of the Ramon which is based on a tour and a Mario and I love to if Adam could give me a little more heads but then I'm going to give you the Ramos says argues in other words there are more major honorable mention and then drama so what do we do you can't put up two masses says there are more that Lamesa if you want to be a medican listen to his loss Now read his last name is in other words we do medact again what's called not like this no good because according to rashid's puzzle like this according to coin rash this is possible like this according to man of Thomas puzzle so you make it out of Select at a slant and the last sun is a diagonal so what's interesting is that really a Milam or you're not doing anybody you're not saying any opinion but this is again if you look at the tour and the Mario in manhog says what's called in English a 45 degree angle right like this right in the middle in other words not standing up because going through according to bedtime as possible not lying down because according to Rashi that's possible so you make it literally 50 azoi and 50 which is so developed as a famous vote that what's shot in this Museum you know you know you're not being sass of any opinion so the Bell has a famous vote that you're coming into a house or potential of bringing the skin into the house but there's one obvious unavoidable problem if you have two people husband wife living in the house so you can have on every issue at least three opinions two for sure right maybe more as people uh find it hard to get along I want this way you want that way so how are you going to give guidance that a person should bring the keep the skin in this house you have to compromise you have to give in so you know walk into the house you're gonna see you say why is there that's we have to live your life give in you give in I give in make sense and I just give in beautiful truth very good song by his tip but it's hard to believe that that's the hair so the only husband is that really according to rashi rashi is the icker everybody agrees Rashi is the a cup shot now if you lay it down according to rash United but if you slant a little bit or a little more as long as it's not slowing down yeah so really basically doing Rashi but as a token gesture we do a little bit we try to satisfy new time that's what I think if you have a better husband I'd love to hear what's really striking this age that that Rene ashkenaz do is not a bit the event not like you know you you you'd like a famous offensive Baron's man in in Barnes man is all the sheets that's not the case here this is in other words by slanting it but again the needs ahead but I'd love to hear a husband but it seemed that the ick is like Rashi but we do something as a token gesture to satisfy the sheet of a Banu town the next question is really only for ashkenazin I'll tell you why because the question is if this is the mezuzah again the black line is the top of it so according to Rashi it's very Rashi and flower them and grow it's very simple the mezuzah is made erect so you put up erect but since we but acting we make it a slant so the question is what which way do you make this land should the top of the mezuzah face into the house like you see it maybe the top of the mezuzah should be this way and facing to the street so this is a good question because we don't see it in the camera so this the Truman sedation and Simon base has a beautiful cup he says why are you making it slanty because keep it straight you got no shyness you want to satisfy the sheet of time the way you had been to Tom lay down the mezuzah I mean same question lay it down with the top into the house or tap facing the street so it's clear that according to a brand new time the top of the mezuzah smash Israel we call it was into the house so now that you're making your slant to satisfy venue time Zion and make the top slanting into the house and that stack of the way this the Ramon and the end of Race pay tests [Music] faces towards the house challenging question someone either didn't know or wanted to be creative I don't know he decided to put the mezuzah like rebenu Tom and he actually nailed the mezuzah in laying down like I'm showing you right here what does he do now and he was told that you know it's not a good idea to be creative uh you know in a mix of like this so avadi has to take off the music right away because we passed like Rashi does he make a new brother when he reaffixes it properly so it's a there's a good argument to say no time but we passed like Rashi and the past this would be that it would have to attack her make a new brother however I saw the drivers he does point out that Roberto Thomas and can you say it's more so I want to mention I saw one of the Swarm he says they found old homes they owned they dug up old homes from The Times They based on big Dash and some of them had mezuz there were affects like rabbenutan laying down horizontally so obviously eventual time is not off the maps so I could only say if you did it wrongly about you have to correct it but it's not so passionate to make a new brother Wonder talking about mistakes I had the Shiloh once someone took off because of the check whatever the story was and he put back the mezuzah the case actually correctly with the top facing in but he put the mezuzah upside down so the mezuzah was standing on there on its head on on my Israel and the Sharia was sticking upward so this is already a bazillion as backwards and the raps and others say that in such a case it's possible and the analogy could be if you pick up the the S rig the wrong way you're supposed to pick a Derek dealer so you picked it up the wrong way sir so most players can feel that you make a new bracha when you correct it and put it the right direction he feels maybe it's it's enough of a sophic it might see you might say the missus is caution it's just you did it uh in a funny way but I did see most policy mode you have to actually make a new brother next question someone put up a mezuzah with a slight a very slight slant it wasn't anything close to 45 degree angle just just I get a token slant and someone told me you know it's a remote so you have to make a slant is there any amount a minimum amount of this land so the embassy in svara the less land you make it the better off you are we paskin like Rashi you want to do a little slant you know in fact it has a niche and this is recorded in the orchestra bainu Alex made a tiny slant basically it was erect with a tiny slant but the embassy is not a riot that I will show them because the stapler explained that Village held like to grow should be erect but you want to change the meaning because when they broke they don't go to grow necessarily she made a slight slant but the question is what is the right slant what is the right angle to make this land so the Emma says until I learned to sugim I would say the smaller the better but it's not true because both the tour and the Mario which are really the avulon the the source of this land many both say sriva and hatsi amida both spell out to make a 45 degree angle which means a very significant slant Ed says to make a slant that's noticeable but there's another deak there's a beautiful does not say make a shipua he says why do you have to add the word Allah and she pulls this land there is a sland you could say is a you know a five degree a lock sign is a diagonal oh that's already of significance and that's why when you learn the sugya it is a good reason to make it at a pretty significant slant however I've been in Europe and wanted to resign him says to make it so we will say that La maisa either way is okay one thing I I will add that person that was told you have to take it off and put it back you didn't make a big slant that's wrong you can't say you're not you're used to make a small slant but I will say another point and that is which sometimes people don't realize because sometimes you have a very very thin door post again depending on the home but there's not much room in the doorpost again this is the doorpost okay and you have a mezuzah like this and you want to make a nice slant 45 degree so you do like this you get some glue and tape whatever it is but you notice the problem now part of the actual mezuzah is this it's suspended on it but it's not laying on the doorpost so you can for a hither of making a slant you're giving up the two go five minutes now if the entire mezuzah is on the doorpost just the big elaborate cases of it so it doesn't make a difference case it's not vehicle but if the mezuzah is big enough that it's not on the doorpost then you have no doubt you have to make a very slight inclination but make sure the entire class from top to bottom is actually on the doorpost now if for those that do did like a benue time they would have to either make why do a post or make small businesses but our typical measures that says come out this length if you want to lay it down you would have to make mezuzah a door pose this length otherwise part of the door part of mezuzah is going to stick out behind the doorpost so that's interesting according to many time you'd have to either make small numbers or a wider door post next hello is this concept of slanting the mezuzah is it on every door or only the front door so this is important to mention in Hillcrest it is no different difference the front door middle middle door back door if it's high of Azusa has all the same requirements although I must tell you there are more in the end the race pesayan he says a minute that they only put him Asus on the front door and there are more comes out against it of course but there was a notion out there that there are more rights in this passionate Medina's Halo that the egg is the front door so maybe some people still have that mistake but there's never front door side door middle on study bedroom any methusa has to be done with all the others next question is also very important to get it every single time see this is a pretty small doorpost but there's you know room to give us the next question where exactly should I position the mezuzah I could put it right in the beginning of the doorpost and you're coming from the street you'll see it right away I could put it closer to my house like this you see or if I'm a rambam's Mensch I'll put it right in the middle I'm Derek but on this doorpost you see you have three options close to Mr Robin okay in the middle or close to the house don't forget as you're coming in you're getting close to the house we had the mezuzah go close to the Mr Robin close to the house right in the middle so this is a buffer shikamar base in other words nothing to talk about this is the right place close to ceram because you see it first you bump into it first Dr my wife we want you to bump into the mezuzah right away and don't forget the mezuzah has a very powerful message if you're listening you're hit by a powerful inspiration you wake up from your Slumber and from from your pursuit of knowledge guide is that effect the sooner the better so here the gamara is saying if you put it over here you get it right away you put it over here you missed a second or two why not do it right away so very simple the closest place to visit sarabim you put the mezuzah Demar is another reason and also very practical because mezuzah is a smearer so why don't we maximize on our shmiram now what do I mean if you put it just like this so the mishmira starts by the first inch of your bristles forget about the house the front door has already protection if you put it over here closer to the house so this whole area is left vulnerable there's no smira so you put the smear over here and includes everything you put it further in you lose out the initial Samira so there are two stories and both that are material but it's unusual it's not just a minute which is important it's a gamara and both reasons are found in the gamot but more significantly both reasons happen to be the ikatsurusa Mitzvah the Amara says that famous martial he sits comfortably inside and people watching from the outside because this game we sit inside and the Barnstorm is outside so part of the Mitzvah is the smear that this that the mezuzah offers more so part of the Mitzvah is the effect the wake-up call the the the sofa that the mezuzah is and that's why it's twice in your area and raise pay tests that we have to put the mezuzah the closest tourists around them I'm going to ask you a question it's a little more trickier than it seems this is does that apply to all doors along the outside door so Pastor will say about the timer the reason of Samira the reason of of effect goes for every door back door study door what's the color but here we come to unusual lotion of the gemara the murders maybe it's only the front door but if you look at the rambam and the Macabre quotes this they both did so the acronym explained that the rambam was bothered by the misleading Russian agamara it sounds like it was just a rabamon it's maybe a study door do what you want so you have a zilba timer and now we have a lot of now the embassy someone asked me maybe taka you don't have to study La muscle you'd have to put it by the beginning of the of the room because I have a mezuzah in the room before the study so maybe that that mezuzah goes until the mezuzah in the study but he's wrong because if the study has its own then it does it's not it's not covered by a different mezuzah you have to cover the study room with the mezuzah how do you fully cover the study room by putting the mezuzah on tafach so no doubt about it every room you put it question if someone put it up mistakenly not by tafach he put it in the middle or towards the end so obviously he was yaita because it's only a header mitzvah but it's not my active but look how you said he should corrected seems to feel what even if something is yoitza but do it right now that's why when a person that has a mezuzah puts it up puts it up the outer part now Lamesa what often is the case the mezuzah is pretty long and he makes a pretty generous Land part of it is in the most of it is but some part of this is extending into the second tepha so there's no question about it we don't say Rubik when it comes to mitsis you know imagine someone works for a whole month and he gets his first paycheck and it's much less than they made up he has to bless what's going on here well we believe Aruba kakula is this firm you don't see people kulay regarding that are too thin but most is good or most are painted and some is not or most is above the hairline a little is lower and the beignancion and Simon could pay as a general discussion called terracula it has to be entirely the the mezuzah should be entirely in the tafach okay again it's not my active but if you do it do it right now the case is not so important but here the duskidation that's the buchach part of it is going into the second he calls iterisa and you have to refix it in this regard now you might ask zilba satima because once part of the mezuzah isn't it so I bump into it right away and I have the smira but evidently the Samira begins when where the mezuzah begins now where's the beginning of the mezuzah let's think about it if it stands like this the top part is already into the second so maybe you don't have the the and you don't have the smear so that's why you do it we do it right we put the mezuzah and the entire mezuzah itself but actually started by the beginning of the time is right by the edge so therefore you have maximum now the truth is but it's best to put it right in the beginning as quick as you can put it to gain maximum smear and maximum effect there is one exception I must mentioned and that is sometimes you have a Alto mezuzah that because of the position of it it's exposed to the Sun by day and exposed to the rain and the snow and the the elements so if you have a mezuzah that's constantly exposed to the heat of the sun don't forget even during the winter the sun is still baking and the the moisture of the rain Etc mezuz do not have a lifetime guarantee it's real Clough with real ink that if it's exposed to heat or moisture it starts to crack once one letter is possible you can't you can't fix it because it has to be considered so we'll have to give up the Milo of of what's better Myla with Apostle mezuzah so a person has to know where he putting the outdoors sometimes it's protected but if it's constantly exposed to the elements better move it in and keep it protected another important Allah that I must mention is sometimes again a person has a thin now again there are three parts of the mezuzah there are the two two posts and the top of it is Damascus in English to lintel so I want I've seen this more than once in a decorative home they have a regular door post but a very thin Mash cave on the tap then in such a case where he put the mezuzah not necessarily the the put the mezuzah the scroll under the marsh grave because that's really an integral part of our mezuzah mezuzahist means so it's better to give up a little demila but get it make sure it's under the actual Musgrave and now we come to the last part of the sugier really the most challenging and that is the position of the mezuzah but till now we spoke about the whiff of the doorpost here here now and imagine this is a little bigger than it seems you have a high door pose let's say nine feet where what height do you put the mezuzah well you could put it close to the top in the middle falls to the bottom maybe you know so what's the height from the top to the bottom where do you fix the mezuzah so here we find Allah in other words as Rashi spells out take out a tape measure because looks are very deceiving I guarantee you take at a tape measure measure from the ground until the end of the doorpost not the ceiling will soon see measure the door post the door and the door post divided by three and the upper third part is not any place in the third box means start it put it by six feet and then it goes up so the bottom of this is that says you can put it any place but not the not close to the top or close to the bottom and then the Civ explains what's wrong with putting it close to the top to the mask guy so he says within a tether of Damascus and since the mitzvah's AL mezuzah is you have to put it on the doorpost putting it on the master if you're not so the second cheetah holds you can't put it too close to the mascape or the ground because the ground is ground but any place on the length is okay how do we pass again so a raise pay test Steve Bays takes both hummus again measure it the beginning of the third part foreign but not within a tafach of Damascus that is no good so basically the mahab is saying that you can't put it on any place in the doorpost lower than this list alien United that was the story of my friend he didn't measure it he assumed that was the case but lower than initialization is possible too close a tougher close to the mass grave is also possible for a different reason but the right place is you measure a third and you start the mezuzah on the tele what's the reason for this so the gemara says [Music] what did that mean so I saw a beautiful very short but a beautiful two of them because your glove and Eric baseman he says that the base Yosef says that the gemara here is comparing mezuzah the thrill and shell yard ah now it's beautiful what position do we put the children what is the position of the heart in a person's body that's the upper third so since the philan shayad is saying that is your tests typically on a standard door is what you see first and since part of the Mitzvah is we want you to bump into it right away is the right place to put it paskins like this and I must mention Alp cabolo at the result also says this is [Music] La Mesa again yeah it's a toaver before you put up mezuzah measure the mezuzah to make sure that's right really if you have a suffix for some reason and you can't be my favorite a higher is better because higher up lower down is possible now we had a Shyla once when a person put it not by Thrillers to sell you and he put a tire up and then he was told that you know it's a little too high foreign if you made it too low you made it into the middle then it's puzzled the question you could ask is okay I have to tackle correct it do I make a new brother so this is tricky because lamisa in the Gamora the zashita the only problem is too close to the mass grave or close to the ground but then we pass in not like that cheetah so the kids sit in your Olive Bay says make another brother but the band is and this is typical of sardin that are very concerned about sabao savik rocks the huckle so you can't say this mezuzah is 100 parcel because according to some it's Kasha so corrected by all means but don't make a new brother so this is always that question of how much of a Suffolk do you need to make it something now just a point which hopefully is obvious but I guess you'll turn around just for a moment in the door that we have in behind in the back of his majors the door is not the entire Land from the ground until the ceiling in fact most doors are like that you don't measure Swiss elioin from the ground to the ceiling you magically sell you in from the ground until the end of the doorpost so people get a little confused and sometimes you have a decorative window on top well sometimes it's just open space but let's make a difference the schlich alien is from the ground until the end of the doorpost the tourists are passed out because that's really what creates oh I'll tell you an interesting story I once witnessed this and I still have agma Snapfish they gave a very young child galila it was definitely his debut and he's trying hard to do what he doesn't have to do but he's doing a pretty good job and some of the other side will start snapping and yelling as if he just did one of the gimbal hamures what this what did this child do wrong he put the garden in the in the middle of the safe attire but he did the crime he didn't put it up a third now the question is where does it say which of the difference the Sarah's neighbors say you have to put the gartel of the safety it's not in their business it's basically a minute attributed to the the cinema all explain the meaning of the of the cinema that basically by say fertility like the mezuzah and we could add the mezuzah is like filling so you have Stam or slicelian beautiful but it doesn't justify embarrassing a poor child or anybody for that matter if you want later you go and you'll adjust it but the the you know it's only basically a minute and we have to have things in the right perspective but getting back to our let's talk about this doorpost and let's assume this is nine feet the door closer nine typically is a low but let's assume this is nine feet foot door post so where should I put the mezuzah posture you find measure six feet and you start six feet you put the mezuzah just like this great right however someone told me that he won he did just that and someone said you're wrong you have to put the mezuzah shoulder length what is that but Lamesa the person that told them this had a had a point I'm not saying a valid point but at a point because basically in badly and in we don't find anything about shoulder length the deciding fact is however the series xiaomi and megillah youth base and I quote Michelle's alive [Music] please listen if you have a very high door post very high door foreign it's going to you're not going to see it because it's so high up so what do you do in other words the assumption is a cross-the-board rule but then again you're going to see them Azusa it's too high up on my legs is you're right noise put it shoulder length kinetic safe of Dr carbon Ada such a high door post if you put it too high you're not going to see it so put it shoulder length and then you're okay and what's significant the xiaomi continues basement they did shoulder length now this is nothing less than shocking you have to realize because if you put it like you're supposed to so according to the bubbly you go to the Mitzvah anything lower than that United but in the case of a shark avoya so let's see have a 30 door a 30 foot um entrance and a big for Castle 30 feet so according to the bavly you put it 20 feet and you cut it according to the xiaomi and I must tell you the average shoulder length is four feet nine inches 4.9 so you're gonna put them as there's a four feet nine inches not 20 feet four feet five feet now now what do I do according to the bubbly this this this business doesn't exist the xiaomi insists to show the length so twice is in a half a line he calls you shalomi um in other words but he says basically relax ignore the results means it's very popular to learn this Army today but it's not Allah myself however the Mordechai and Tufts of samachalev the Mordechai adds a few words and he says on a standard door doorpost both agree special it's pretty much similar but when it's gavoya the way he says that you're not going to see it if you following maybe even the bavly agrees that then you have to do Connecticut safely so it's going to be a radical change from 20 feet to four feet nine inches even according to the bodily and what what to me was beautiful he he stresses why did the baby us bubbly insist he put the mezuzah by the trailers by the by the staff because the name of the game is so it means about we also hold you have to bump into it right away you go ahead and put him to the 20 feet high that no one sees it's ridiculous so he's learning that is very high you have to drop it significantly safe so now we're faced with dilemma typhus seems to hold for bavoli for us forget about cosafe 20 30 50 feet no difference and again you can't put two messages so again in certain in bavling besides the Mordecai swara is not mentioned this this is do not mention anything about connect as I told you earlier because of course there is very much Al pisoid and basically nothing changed foreign is always measure slash and ignore can I get a cost save no matter how high the mezuzah might be and don't forget because if you do can I get a car say if you're running a risk then you're not your answer because it's not within the cellular however cotton gimmel both quote this yurush xiaomi what's amazing the Taz has a remnants to the shishami in a possibly Lane just about a week plus a past secretary speaks about Benjamin he did Hashem is always a very unique touch he says for most people when do they have only in the place where the mezuzah is being safe of shocking foreign now the problem with this Taz is that he's implying that it's always Bank safe of lavdafka on a very high GE volume that doesn't really stem with them okay but no doubt about it I should mention all say that if you have a good volume you do it connected now there are enough ashkenaza native that go like the Mahaba you never change but as if points out in Dominic is what he says is if you have agavoyamaoid we ignore slis and we follow connect and other mainstream Ashkenazi so now to apply this specifically on a regular door and a regular door typically is probably six or seven feet but I'm gonna try to give a better muscle so easy to relate it was also more of a dish let's assume you have a nine foot door post door and door post so it's a basket is nine feet so now you have a dilemma according to sochanara you put it you start it by six feet and up but according to the you sound me connected is four feet nine inches so there's a discrepancy of more than a foot foot in the foot and a quarter in that case ashkenazim also you put it because six feet is not like out of your range you know it's not like you know 30 feet that it's way above your head now a person's Vision you know we could even argue 20 feet above like Hanukkah we see okay but that's right of a gusma but no doubt about it if it's a normal or a sub-normal the height stick which list alien the name the point is because when you get to a really high door post again a 30 foot Ballroom you have a go into a room huge entrance way could be measured 30 feet now then will the ashkenazim will follow will always keep it actually sell you now the good news is even although boxing we have beautiful with huge ceilings High ceilings but the good news is you're never going to find a 30-foot door person that opens the door will get a hernia opening the door a 30-foot door all even if you have the highest ceilings the door the doors are a standard size a little bigger and maybe more elegant the only issue you have is when you're having a big Ballroom so you have a tourist that passed out but there's no door oh so that's the old Shyla so it's the best without a door this is okay so it's not as intimidating as it seems but in such a case of a ballroom with a huge series of Passage so taka the meaning of Ashkenazi would be to put it even though it's very far from this glitchell we once had a child aware and a kindergarten that was a normal let's say a nine foot door probably lower but let's assume that that that range they put them Azusa very low so the kids could kiss the mezuzah that's wrong because limey body like the Babbling it's nice to sell you but even though he's not of this particular you know people are living in the room it's standard so basically that should be corrected and put it by schliss Elliot a Bianca once visited a kindergarten and the missus was very low so he asked them why is it so low because we want the children to kiss them so he said in life you have to take the person to the mitza not lower the mitzvah for the person raise the person for the Mitzvah so put it back where it belongs and pick up the child so he should still suit to Tyra and that's fakert someone showed me and I have a picture if you want to see it he has an attic apartment a room that the height the the door post is all a 54 inches which if you're good at math is four and a half feet most of us we bang our head going into the room but anyhow that's the height so what do you put the mezuzah so special you would be 36 three feet above right problem is very simple that is very low so here we have a character case that maybe should raise it to make it can I get a cost safe take care of you have until now but I told them even if you make it higher you're still not going to have can I get a cost safe that could be 4.9 feet inches right so what are you doing you're giving up the battery and you're not satisfying to be xiaomi I put it Mama's by the mask off that's puzzle so I said keep it because you're not gaining even the TV show me and the last but not least question that comes up a very challenging case and that would be let's say you have a thin door post that's the part of the problem but in many classic security doors the door closes onto the doorpost and there's no place to put a mezuzah I couldn't bring such a door but in metal doors very off mostly security doors that that lack securely it's a very tight fit and there's no place to put a mezuzah I mean you could put the Missouri when the door is open when you close the door to get this method so the question is where do you put themselves in that case or you have a warehouse someplace in a bad neighborhood you're afraid to keep themselves exposed so some people what they do is they instead of putting the mezuzah on the doorpost like this they put it like this outside you see but this is wrong because this is this is on the wall going next to the the circle and record the most spices with that it looks good and you could see it but it's like putting this like putting it on the on on high above it's just not the right place what is a much better answer is you bore out an indentation in the right place same slice same Connecticut summer you cut out you carve out whatever is a metal seal and you make a place to put a mezuzah with the same slant that you want and you put the mezuzah in with the case to keep it protected on that you can make a bracha now if you make it too deeply in and you're not why because it's not almazuza is it's in mezuzahist but within a tafak it's still like it's Al mezuz so you bore out a hole again you measure and make it to the right slant as well but the problem with this is sometimes people find it too costly so they put it on the outside like I showed you now that's not doing things correctly because according to many sheets this United States now some say it that since technically the the physical piece of wood that you see over here is the same piece of wood as it's a beam right so maybe it's also considered like the mezuz it's not this is already the wall so it's much better and here I make a point that La Mesa the a lot of police can say in such a case if you can't do it right what you should do is make a new Surah beyond what you have now do you have a very thin suicide and you can't put them there so build another tourist that pass outside of that outside of the metal wall metal metal door high is going to cost money so what what do we do when we either renovating a home or building a new home and it's not the way we want so the the the work is the contract has taught us a secret it's called It's Only Money right and if you own a lot of money so anything listen don't worry it's the only money do it right don't do it you know wrongly no and the person's tired it's only money so it's better do it right to put it either dig it in if you can't do that make it a border around and put it upright I got to talk to you foreign [Music] so we have to make a second community of course I hope everyone's in the proper place is seeking around the prop place for themselves so just basically we learned today um it goes on the right side the ikuva la la we make it even though it's if it's supposed to make it standing or laying we make a sort of a compromise we make it uh slanty absura but it's not my active and a thin slant is also good if you have a thin post then keep it make sure more importantly that the mezuzah will be on and keep this land to a minimum but basically there is a Myla in making a slant it's made of him but definitely it's not my active the Mizzou when you make a slant so the top of the mezuzah what we call Israel faces the house and the lower part is facing the street we did it upside down or you did it laying down or in the wrong direction you should correct them in all cases but a bracha should not anubra should not be said there's basically although from the restrain of his master there should be a 45 degree slant but that seems It's not Dominic the ick is to make some type of a gesture to sorbenu tamsita in practice now this Allah goes to all doors loved Africa the outside door is the only place to put a mezuzah you really should start it by the actual beginning of the doorpost and make it a slant inward but there are two main reasons either you want to hit the mezuzah the the effectiveness is it right away you want to be influenced or to maximize the shmirah the shmira starts where the mezuzah starts the home is there's no rubikoulay in this respect the home business should be in the tafach the case is not as important the main thing is the mezuzah should be within a the first tether if it's exposed to rain or sun in such a situation then move it in under protection and don't keep it exposed to what might ruin the mezuzah the Mitzvah is to kill us to measure from the ground until the end of the doorpost not the ceiling and the beginning of the third upper part you start putting the bottom of the mezuzah upward now here it says of course it means the beginning of this list earlier if it's too low you would not be Oita higher is okay but it should be the meaning of Galileo to make the guard dogs is based on this there's a big question if you have to make it can I get a cost safe in all cases or that's only when you have a very high door post Dominica island is means faradam always makes Sicilian and totally disregard Connecticut when they have a very high door post will make it but on a standard door even a little higher than a standard try to stay with the splish earlier and as long as it's within visibility in a kindergarten don't lower the mezuzah lift the child to the Torah in a very low door post so they make it even though it's lower than the cost safe if it's not shy can someone mentioned that a lot of stores in Borough Park a lot of have glass doors so then obviously you can't drill a hole in the glass but you don't give up on attaching it on the other on the door post not on around the corner so to speak of the door post keep it to the doorpost and not on the side of it if you have a situation of a metal door or in a warehouse and you're afraid to keep it exposed so you could drill out a small area put the muses in and then you could really supposed to keep it uncovered to see it but if you're afraid of vandalism or not Geneva then you could cover it and leave it in the case that the mezuzah is there but it's best to add whatever possible a new service in its proper place the holidays