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#Accordingly, if the mezuzah wasn't wrapped before it was put in the case or if you follow the stringent opinions above, before the couple is together the mezuzah should be covered with an external covering such as a piece of clothing. Even if the case is clear it counts as a single cover.<ref>See above notes. [https://www.yutorah.org/sidebar/lecture.cfm/788640/rabbi-hershel-schachter/the-laws-of-mezuzah/ Rav Schachter (Laws of Mezuzah min 55-6)] cites both opinions but seems to be strict to cover the mezuzah with a cloth if it is on the inside and the couple is going to be together. Mishna Brurah 40:7 clarifies that it is sufficient if one of the covers is not designated for the mezuzah. (Avnei Nezer YD 383:1 explains that something inside a double covering is like it isn't in the house at all.)</ref> | #Accordingly, if the mezuzah wasn't wrapped before it was put in the case or if you follow the stringent opinions above, before the couple is together the mezuzah should be covered with an external covering such as a piece of clothing. Even if the case is clear it counts as a single cover.<ref>See above notes. [https://www.yutorah.org/sidebar/lecture.cfm/788640/rabbi-hershel-schachter/the-laws-of-mezuzah/ Rav Schachter (Laws of Mezuzah min 55-6)] cites both opinions but seems to be strict to cover the mezuzah with a cloth if it is on the inside and the couple is going to be together. Mishna Brurah 40:7 clarifies that it is sufficient if one of the covers is not designated for the mezuzah. (Avnei Nezer YD 383:1 explains that something inside a double covering is like it isn't in the house at all.)</ref> | ||
#A laundry room should have a mezuzah.<ref>Rav Moshe Feinstein (Mesoret Moshe v. 3 p. 277) explains that a laundry room is obligated even though it isn't a very honorable room since generally it doesn't have uncovered feces or a bad smell. Shaarei Mezuzah 2:12 quotes Rav Elyashiv (Sefer Habayit 20:25), Rav Nissim Karelitz (Leket Hilchot Mezuzah ch. 3), and Shevet Hakehati 2:296 as holding that laundry rooms today require a mezuzah since generally the rooms are clean. In conclusion, Shaarei Mezuzah writes to put up a mezuzah without a bracha like Yalkut Yosef 286. Az Nidbaru 10:32 favors the approach that a laundry room needs a mezuzah if it is a clean room such as an apartment building laundry room or drycleaner.</ref> | #A laundry room should have a mezuzah.<ref>Rav Moshe Feinstein (Mesoret Moshe v. 3 p. 277) explains that a laundry room is obligated even though it isn't a very honorable room since generally it doesn't have uncovered feces or a bad smell. Shaarei Mezuzah 2:12 quotes Rav Elyashiv (Sefer Habayit 20:25), Rav Nissim Karelitz (Leket Hilchot Mezuzah ch. 3), and Shevet Hakehati 2:296 as holding that laundry rooms today require a mezuzah since generally the rooms are clean. In conclusion, Shaarei Mezuzah writes to put up a mezuzah without a bracha like Yalkut Yosef 286. Az Nidbaru 10:32 favors the approach that a laundry room needs a mezuzah if it is a clean room such as an apartment building laundry room or drycleaner.</ref> | ||
# A washing room | # A washing room before a bathroom, if it is used exclusively for washing one's hands when leaving the bathroom it is exempt. If it is used also for other functions such as storage of items or washing one's hands for a meal, and it is the size of 16 square amot, then according to most poskim it is obligated in a mezuzah.<ref>Agur Bohalecha 32:18-9 writes that a room that is used exclusively as a passageway to a bathroom is exempt from mezuzah. However, if it is used also for honorable activities it would be obligated in mezuzah. He clarifies in fnt. 42 that a room used for washing one's hands outside of a bathroom is obligated if it is also used to wash one's hands for a meal or another honorable activity. However, if it is just used to wash one's hands on one's way out of the bathroom that is exempt. Shaarei Hamezuzah 2:26, Or Yitzchak YD 1:55, and Ohalei Shem (Mezuzah 286 siman 15) all agree with Agur Bohalecha. Chovat Hadar 2:10 is a good proof that he agrees with Agur Bohalecha as well. </ref> Some poskim hold even in such a case it is exempt from a mezuzah.<ref>Pitchei Shaarim p. 136 quotes Rav Belsky in name of Rav Moshe Feinstein that it is exempt even in this case. Mishnat Yehoshua 6:11 agrees. Az Nidbaru 3:63 seems to agree with Rav Moshe. Also, Minchat Yitzchak 4:90's quote of Rav Horowitz seems to agree as well. Minchat Yitzchak's actual opinion there isn't relevant to this case. Chayey Halevi 2:67:14 isn't sure if it is chayav when it is used for other purposes besides washing after going to the bathroom, but says that it isn't 4x4 amot it is exempt on left side. He says that in the house of the Squever Rebbe they have such a room and it doesn't have a mezuzah.</ref> If sometimes people get undressed in this outer room it is exempt.<Ref>Mishna Brurah 84:7 quoting Pri Megadim, Az Nidbaru 3:63</ref> | ||
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