Plate IWest Asia & Middle East · Jewish tradition
Pl. IMezuzah case (no scroll). A plain, empty mezuzah case with no letters on it, on a wooden doorpost. Drawing: Wishlore.
No. 85 · For a fresh start · West Asia & Middle East
The mezuzah case
A mezuzah is a handwritten scroll kept in a case on the doorpost of a Jewish home, answering a verse in Deuteronomy. A case on its own, with no scroll, is not a mezuzah. We never sell the scroll.
- Earliest record
- Deuteronomy 6:9
- Source
- Deuteronomy 6:9
- Region
- West Asia & Middle East · Jewish tradition
- Wish
- For a fresh start
- Layers
- Record Folk Modern