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mezuzah depot

Purchasing STA”M

How can it be that someone walks into a Judaica store, purchases a mezuzah for $30 or a set of tefillin for $250, and after a few years when he gets them checked, the sofer tells him that they were never kosher?

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Retzuous

Posul Retzuous

Retzuous must be black. This is a halachah l’Moshe m’sini (a law passed down from Moshe but not written in the Torah).

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mezuzah

Inferior mezuzos story

Recently I was checking mezuzos at a home in Bergen County. The customer had eight mezuzos of which one of them is in the above picture. A few points are in order. First, they all had the little sticker which you can see in the picture.

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tefillin

Completely Posel Tefillin And Mezuzos

You don’t need to have any special education in safrus to know that these parshios are pretty bad. As always, the person who brought them to me wanted to know why somebody would sell something like this.

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In this video, Rabbi Yisroel Reisman explains what makes a mezuzah ‘low quality’ and what someone should look for in a mezuzah. First let’s take

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