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Examples

  • Would an observant Jew be surprized by the Mezuzah in the frame of our re-revolutionary door?

    OC Pilgrimage, Station 02: OC Friends Meeting. | Mind on Fire 2006

  • Even though we're not Jewish, I've been thinking of putting a Mezuzah on the door to serve the dual purposes of warding off evil and, hopefully, pissing them off.

    Mezuzah baggyk 2006

  • Hurwitz is the author of One Mezuzah: A Jewish Counting Book as well as articles and poems.

    Ann Hurwitz. Jewish Women's Archive 2006

  • I suffered greatly from fear, for there was no Mezuzah anywhere near me.

    In Those Days The Story of an Old Man Jehudah Steinberg

  • I wanted a Mezuzah, some talisman, a protection against evil spirits, and that fool offered me barking dogs!

    In Those Days The Story of an Old Man Jehudah Steinberg

  • I suffered greatly from fear, for there was no Mezuzah anywhere near me.

    In Those Days Steinberg, Jehudah 1915

  • I wanted a Mezuzah, some talisman, a protection against evil spirits, and that fool offered me barking dogs!

    In Those Days Steinberg, Jehudah 1915

  • Christian wine, the Mezuzah, phylacteries, etc. These measures resulted not so much from his own initiative as from the requests preferred to him by his disciples, or by other rabbis, or even by private individuals.

    Rashi Liber, Maurice 1906

  • As he goes out, he touches and kisses the_ Mezuzah _on the door-post, with a subconsciously antagonistic revival of religious impulse.

    The Melting-Pot Israel Zangwill 1895

  • Nailed on the right-hand door-post gleams a_ Mezuzah, _a tiny metal case, containing a Biblical passage.

    The Melting-Pot Israel Zangwill 1895

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