Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe,
Who sanctified us with His mitzvot, and commanded us
to affix a mezuzah.
Any Jewish person can recite the blessing provided he
or she is old enough to understand the significance of
the mitzvah. After the blessing, the mezuzah is
attached.
When affixing several mezuzot, it is sufficient to
recite the blessing once, before affixing the first
one.
Mezuzah must be
careful written by a sofer that has followed every
detail in writing a mezuzah, sofer must have the
fear of God, - mezuzah must be written on
parchment, no letter can touch each other, none of
the letters can have any missing ink.... these are
just a few of the hundred of laws a sofer must
follow in writing a mezuzah.
Hear,
O Israel, the L-rd is our G-d, the L-rd is one. You
shall love the L-rd, your G-d, with all your heart,
with all your soul, and with all your resources.
And these things that I command you today shall be
upon your heart. And you shall teach them to your
children, and you shall speak of them when you sit
in your house and when you go on the way, when you
lie down and when you rise up. And you shall bind
them as a sign upon your arm and they shall be an
ornament between your eyes. And you shall write
them upon the doorposts of your house and on your
gates.
(Deuteronomy,
11:13-21)
And it will be
that if you hearken to my commandments that I
command you today, to love the L-rd, your G-d, and
to serve him with all your hearts and all your
souls. And I will place rain for your land in its
proper time, the early and the late rains, that you
may gather in your grain, your wine, and your oil.
And I will provide grass in your field for your
cattle, and you will eat and you will be satisfied.
Watch yourselves, lest your heart be seduced and
you turn astray and serve other gods, and prostrate
yourselves to them. And the wrath of G-d will be
upon you, and he will restrain the heaven and there
will be no rain, and the ground will not yield its
produce, and you will be lost quickly from upon the
good land that G-d gives you. And you shall place
these words of mine on your hearts and on your
souls, and you shall bind them as a sign upon your
arms and they shall be ornaments between your eyes.
And you shall teach them to your children to
discuss them, when you sit in your house and when
you go on the way, and when you lie down and when
rise up. And you shall write them upon the
doorposts of your house and upon your gates, in
order to prolong your days and the days of your
children upon the good land that G-d swore to your
fathers to give them, like the days of Heaven over
earth.
Halakha (הלכה in Hebrew or
Halakhah, Halacha, Halachah) is commonly used to refer to
the collective corpus of Jewish law, custom and tradition
regulating all aspects of behavior. The name Halakha
derives from the Hebrew הלך, halach meaning "going" or the
"[correct] way"; thus a literal translation does not yield
"law", rather "the way to go." Halakha constitutes the
practical application of the commandments in the Torah,
(the five books of Moses, the Written Law) as developed
through discussion and debate in the classical rabbinic
literature, especially the Mishnah and the Talmud (the
Oral law).
