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# | # Some say that a person should put up a mezuzah right when he starts to live there.<Ref>Magen Avraham 19:1 assumes a person puts up a mezuzah once he starts to live there.</ref> However, others hold that one should put it up before one begins to live there.<ref> Agur Bohalecha 1:1 and 8:1 writes that if one started to live in the house one should put the mezuzah right away. But he adds that it is better to put it up in advance right before one starts to live there, even though one is only obligated after he started to live there. In ch. 7 fnt. 1 he cites that Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (Halichot Shlomo Tefilla ch. 23 fnt. 54) ruled to put up the mezuzah with a bracha even before beginning to live there. Nonetheless, he also cites Rav Chaim Kanievsky (Mezuzot Beytecha 288:78) who is concerned for the Mishna Brurah 19:4 that the mezuzah should be put up immediately before starting to live there or right after beginning to live there.</ref> | ||
#One may put up a mezuzah at night.<ref>Rav Mordechai Eliyahu (comment on Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 11:10), Ben Ish Chai Parashat Ki Tavo Year 2: Halacha 4, Shevet Hakehati 1:277, Mezuzat Baitecha 289:6, Rivevot Ephraim 7:369. </ref> | #One may put up a mezuzah at night.<ref>Rav Mordechai Eliyahu (comment on Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 11:10), Ben Ish Chai Parashat Ki Tavo Year 2: Halacha 4, Shevet Hakehati 1:277, Mezuzat Baitecha 289:6, Rivevot Ephraim 7:369. </ref> | ||
