[
US
/məˈzʊzə/
]
[ UK /mˈɛzjuːzɐ/ ]
[ UK /mˈɛzjuːzɐ/ ]
NOUN
- religious texts from Deuteronomy inscribed on parchment and rolled up in a case that is attached to the doorframe of many Jewish households in accordance with Jewish law
How To Use mezuzah In A Sentence
- We all filed out of the room, kissing the mezuzah on the doorpost as we left.
- A mezuzah was affixed to the doorpost of the home.
- The Torah instructs us to put a mezuzah on our door post.
- I told her then how a mezuzah, with the verses of the Shema handwritten on its parchment, protects one's home, and she nodded but didn't say anything more about it.
- His attack on the popular superstitious practice of turning the mezuzah into an amulet is particularly sharp.
- But every Jewish building has, of course, a tell-tale identifying sign: a mezuzah on the right-hand doorpost.
- But if you open up a mezuzah and read what's inside, you'll see that God is one, that He is a personal God who cares about us, and that He does everything solely for our benefit.
- Shema is contained in the mezuzah we affix to the doorpost of our home, and in the tefillin that we bind to our arm and head.
- If there is a God who can see inside mezuzahs, a God who burns people's houses for two smudged letters, then He must know that secret, too.
- It's a place of risk, where demons lurk; it's where one hangs the mezuzah.