Mezuza Depot is an online Judaica store, based in Monsey, NY, specializing in safrus, which stocks only the best new and used items, meticulously checked by our certified and experienced Sofer STaM, Rabbi Melech Michaels, to ensure its kashrus. From Prestige bags, to mezuzahs, tefillin and more, if you need Judaica for you, your home or a gift, you’ve come to the right place
The Tallis Hamefoar is a full weight tallis. It feels good and solid. You can see in the picture comparing the fabric of the Tallis Hamefoar Full Weight and the Kal Kanesher Lightweight Tallis that the fabric on the bottom is thicker and heavier. You can see from the picture comparing the fringes of the two tallisim that they are both identical, the full weight Tallis Hamefoar and the Kal Kanesher.
At the introductory level is the Kesher series which are straightforward tefillin sets consisting of Tefillin Mehudaros or Muzikant Battim (depending on availabilty, Ozer Yisroel Retzuos, and containing parshios written by Rabbi Chaim Levison or other available parshios of a comparable level . Kesher tefillin sets are well made and should last for many years with proper care.
Battim Mehudaros are quality gassos battim at a reasonable price. This set inludes asel yad and shel rosh.
Depending on availability battim may be from either Maalin Bakodesh or Muzikant.
Gassos battim are the preferred battim for tefillin because of their strength, quality, and strict adherence to halacha.
Techeiles strings made by Ptil Techelet. These are thick avodas yad strings in either the Rambam, or Raavad If you need techeiles tied, we have an expert who will tie your techeiles according to any style that you want. He does excellent and prompt work so your order will be processed quickly. Please contact us for more information.
These simplistic Chrome Aluminum Mezuzah Cases are sophisticated, unassuming and fit into any budget.
Mezuzah Case Material: Aluminum and Frosted Lucite
Mezuzah Case Colors: Black, Gold, Silver, and White
Mezuzah Case Size: 12 cm and 15 cm
These Painted Aluminum Mezuzah Cases are beautiful and decorative, yet unassuming and inexpensive.
Mezuzah Case Material: Aluminum
Mezuzah Case Colors: Black Stripe, Grey Stripe, Brown Marble, and White Marble
Mezuzah Case Size:
This Sandblasted Aluminum Mezuzah Case is a top-seller for years. It is durable, waterproof, modest, and tasteful.
Mezuzah Case Material: Aluminum
Mezuzah Case Color: Bronze
Mezuzah Case Size: 12 cm
This Sandblasted Aluminum Mezuzah Case is a top-seller for years. It is durable, waterproof, modest, and tasteful.
Mezuzah Case Material: Aluminum
Mezuzah Case Color: Brown
Mezuzah Case Size: 12 cm
This Sandblasted Aluminum Mezuzah Case is a top-seller for years. It is durable, waterproof, modest, and tasteful.
Mezuzah Case Material: Aluminum
Mezuzah Case Color: Black
Mezuzah Case Size: 12 cm
This Sandblasted Aluminum Mezuzah Case is a top-seller for years. It is durable, waterproof, modest, and tasteful.
Mezuzah Case Material: Aluminum
Mezuzah Case Color: White
Mezuzah Case Size: 12 cm
This Sandblasted Aluminum Mezuzah Case is a top-seller for years. It is durable, waterproof, modest, and tasteful.
Mezuzah Case Material: Aluminum
Mezuzah Case Color: Gold
Mezuzah Case Size: 12 cm
This Sandblasted Aluminum Mezuzah Case is a top-seller for years. It is durable, waterproof, modest, and tasteful.
Mezuzah Case Material: Aluminum
Mezuzah Case Color: Black with gold shin
Mezuzah Case Size: 12 cm
This Sandblasted Aluminum Mezuzah Case is a top-seller for years. It is durable, waterproof, modest, and tasteful.
Mezuzah Case Material: Aluminum
Mezuzah Case Color: Glossy silver
Mezuzah Case Size: 12 cm
This Sandblasted Aluminum Mezuzah Case is a top-seller for years. It is durable, waterproof, modest, and tasteful.
Mezuzah Case Material: Aluminum
Mezuzah Case Color: Silver
Mezuzah Case Size: 12 cm
This Sandblasted Aluminum Mezuzah Case is a top-seller for years. It is durable, waterproof, modest, and tasteful.
Mezuzah Case Material: Aluminum
Mezuzah Case Color: Black with silver shin
Mezuzah Case Size: 12 cm
This Sandblasted Aluminum Mezuzah Case is a top-seller for years. It is durable, waterproof, modest, and tasteful.
Mezuzah Case Material: Aluminum
Mezuzah Case Color: Bronze
Mezuzah Case Size: 15 cm
This Sandblasted Aluminum Mezuzah Case is a top-seller for years. It is durable, waterproof, modest, and tasteful.
Mezuzah Case Material: Aluminum
Mezuzah Case Color: Brown
Mezuzah Case Size: 15 cm
The Lightweight Shabbos Tallis HaMefoar prayer shawl is an elegant pure wool tallis with a little more weight than a regular lightweight tallis. Its unique weave pattern creates a slightly rough surface which keeps the tallis from slipping while being worn. Its wool is slightly heavier and more substantial than a true lightweight tallisim that are offered but it is still a good alternative to a full weight tallis when you need to keep cool, or if you need a less bulky tallis for traveling but you don’t want to sacrifice the solid feeling of a tallis with lining and side bands.
This prayer shawl includes lining, a side band and corner reinforcements. The lining is made from white cotton and is sewn on the inside upper part of the tallis helps keep dirt and sweat off of the wool and makes it more comfortable to wear. The corner reinforcements are made of the same wool as the main body of the tallis and are perfectly integrated into it. The tallis corners are made of reinforced wool fabric. The fringes of the tallis are decorated with a double knot and double fringe providing it with beauty and elegance.
Also included are reinforced side bands on both ends of the atara which increase the lifespan of the tallis.
This is a light weight tallis. It has the same fringes, lining, and thick strings as the Tallis Hamefoar but the fabric is thinner (see picture in gallery comparing the two fabrics). This is what you want when the temperature is really high or if you travel and you don’t want to take up extra space. Otherwise you might like the heavier cut of wool that the Tallis Hamefoar is woven from. On the other hand, some people prefer all of the time to have a tallis which is less noticeable. Rest assured that light weight does not mean short on features. You can see how the fringes are the same in the picture that compares them side by side. They both come with lining and a side band. The corners feel as reinforced and solid in the light weight tallis as in the full weight version.
The Tallis Hamefoar is a full weight tallis. It feels good and solid. You can see in the picture comparing the fabric of the Tallis Hamefoar Full Weight and the Kal Kanesher Lightweight Tallis that the fabric on the bottom is thicker and heavier. You can see from the picture comparing the fringes of the two tallisim that they are both identical, the full weight Tallis Hamefoar and the Kal Kanesher.
Techeiles strings made by Ptil Techelet. These are thick avodas yad strings in either the Rambam, or Raavad If you need techeiles tied, we have an expert who will tie your techeiles according to any style that you want. He does excellent and prompt work so your order will be processed quickly. Please contact us for more information.
The Lightweight Shabbos Tallis HaMefoar prayer shawl is an elegant pure wool tallis with a little more weight than a regular lightweight tallis. Its unique weave pattern creates a slightly rough surface which keeps the tallis from slipping while being worn. Its wool is slightly heavier and more substantial than a true lightweight tallisim that are offered but it is still a good alternative to a full weight tallis when you need to keep cool, or if you need a less bulky tallis for traveling but you don’t want to sacrifice the solid feeling of a tallis with lining and side bands.
This prayer shawl includes lining, a side band and corner reinforcements. The lining is made from white cotton and is sewn on the inside upper part of the tallis helps keep dirt and sweat off of the wool and makes it more comfortable to wear. The corner reinforcements are made of the same wool as the main body of the tallis and are perfectly integrated into it. The tallis corners are made of reinforced wool fabric. The fringes of the tallis are decorated with a double knot and double fringe providing it with beauty and elegance.
Also included are reinforced side bands on both ends of the atara which increase the lifespan of the tallis.
This is a light weight tallis. It has the same fringes, lining, and thick strings as the Tallis Hamefoar but the fabric is thinner (see picture in gallery comparing the two fabrics). This is what you want when the temperature is really high or if you travel and you don’t want to take up extra space. Otherwise you might like the heavier cut of wool that the Tallis Hamefoar is woven from. On the other hand, some people prefer all of the time to have a tallis which is less noticeable. Rest assured that light weight does not mean short on features. You can see how the fringes are the same in the picture that compares them side by side. They both come with lining and a side band. The corners feel as reinforced and solid in the light weight tallis as in the full weight version.
The Tallis Hamefoar is a full weight tallis. It feels good and solid. You can see in the picture comparing the fabric of the Tallis Hamefoar Full Weight and the Kal Kanesher Lightweight Tallis that the fabric on the bottom is thicker and heavier. You can see from the picture comparing the fringes of the two tallisim that they are both identical, the full weight Tallis Hamefoar and the Kal Kanesher.
Please see the detailed description below for detailed information on how to select the various options. Tefillin parshios are written entirely by hand. There is no way to rush the process if they haven’t yet been written! I will do my best to accommodate your schedule. In the event that no parshios are available from the sofer you have chosen, I will contact you with other similar options. Sometimes tefillin orders may take up to a month to be put together.
At the introductory level is the Kesher series which are straightforward tefillin sets consisting of Tefillin Mehudaros or Muzikant Battim (depending on availabilty, Ozer Yisroel Retzuos, and containing parshios written by Rabbi Chaim Levison or other available parshios of a comparable level . Kesher tefillin sets are well made and should last for many years with proper care.
The Tiferes series are tefillin sets with very high quality writing, written according to the accepted standards associated with mehudar tefillin. This is Melech Michaels’ recommended series of tefillin. Having beautiful mitzvah objects is a mitzvah in and of itself (זה קלי ואנוהו). The Torah teaches us that it is worthwhile to own beautiful mitzvah objects..
Battim Mehudaros are quality gassos battim at a reasonable price. This set inludes asel yad and shel rosh.
Depending on availability battim may be from either Maalin Bakodesh or Muzikant.
Gassos battim are the preferred battim for tefillin because of their strength, quality, and strict adherence to halacha.
What does a Schecter set of tefillin battim have over a Starek set? I posed this question to my battim macher, Reb Yaakov Yosef Schwartz. He’s the person who puts all of my tefillin parshios into the battim, sews them up, paints them and seals them. Basically he works on tefillin battim all day. “Are their any important hiddurim that a Schecter bayis has that a Starek bayis doesn’t have,” I asked. “No, nothing especially important” he told me, “but their are a lot of small details in halacha that they incorporate into their battim. These details may not be so important in and of themselves, but if they are careful about the small things, it gives me the confidence that none of the really important things are overlooked.” While that may not be a convincing enough argument to spend $400 more for them than the Starek battim, Reb Yaakov Yosef had more to say on the matter. “The workmanship is exceptionally good. They work really hard to produce an extremely strong, beautiful set of battim. When you work with battim all day, there are aspects that can’t be put into words, marks of quality that may be intangible, but are still very real. That’s Schecter battim.”
Schecter battim are made to exacting standards in a small workshop. Includes shel yad and shel rosh and protective plastic boxes.
The process of squaring the battim is powered by battim macher himself as he peddles the machine. No electric machines are used in the squaring. The holes for the stitching is very precise. The entire process of making the battim is done by hand, with specific intention that the tefillin attain the required level of kedusha. The master craftsmen who create these tefillin conduct themselves in the mannor of G-d fearing Jews. There are no holes in the battim whatsoever. The shin is made entirely by hand. The battim are completely separated and no glue is used in between the four compartments. The stitching that goes through each of the four compartments is visible from the outside. A square window of leather is used in the battim to add strength.
