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Thursday, December 22, 2011
"Mr Metayeg"
Since we recently had a lot of talk about "Mr Metayeg", here is a "metayeg" who put Christian crosses on the first line and shem Hashem's. This was recently found in Israel.
Definitly in gniza, it is very quite obvious that the mezuza was written by one person [possibly a kosher sofer], and the crosses added by some meshigener.
The truth is I think before putting it in geniza, it is a mitzva to erase the crosses, because the disgrace to cisvei hakodesh. This is on the probable assumption that the mezuza wasn't written by a min. Had the mezuza been written by a min, it should be burnt, the csav and ....
Since we recently had a lot of talk about "Mr Metayeg", here is a "metayeg" who put Christian crosses on the first line and shem Hashem's. This was recently found in Israel.
Elad,
ReplyDeletethis is not Mt Mitayeg's work, but some Jew for x-man [Hashem yerachem] added on a mezuza.
What should be done with such a mezuzah l'maseh? Put in Geniza or something else?
ReplyDeleteDefinitly in gniza, it is very quite obvious that the mezuza was written by one person [possibly a kosher sofer], and the crosses added by some meshigener.
ReplyDeleteThe truth is I think before putting it in geniza, it is a mitzva to erase the crosses, because the disgrace to cisvei hakodesh. This is on the probable assumption that the mezuza wasn't written by a min. Had the mezuza been written by a min, it should be burnt, the csav and ....
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