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#If the doorway doesn't have a door a mezuzah is put up without a bracha. If there is a sliding door or another door without hinges there is a question whether a bracha is recited. However, if it is a folding door or even if it has hinges on the top of the door it would still require a mezuzah with a bracha.<ref>Chovat Hadar ch. 7 fnt. 41 has a doubt about the case and leaves it unresolved. Mezuzah Vhilchoteha ch. 10 fnt. 22 cites this Chovat Hadar and adds regarding a curtain the sefer Mezuzat Beytecha says it requires a bracha, but the sefer Pitchei Mezuzot argues that a curtain isn't a door.</ref> | #If the doorway doesn't have a door a mezuzah is put up without a bracha. If there is a sliding door or another door without hinges there is a question whether a bracha is recited. However, if it is a folding door or even if it has hinges on the top of the door it would still require a mezuzah with a bracha.<ref>Chovat Hadar ch. 7 fnt. 41 has a doubt about the case and leaves it unresolved. Mezuzah Vhilchoteha ch. 10 fnt. 22 cites this Chovat Hadar and adds regarding a curtain the sefer Mezuzat Beytecha says it requires a bracha, but the sefer Pitchei Mezuzot argues that a curtain isn't a door.</ref> | ||
==How to Put Up a Mezuzah== | |||
===Preparing the Klaf=== | |||
# The klaf should be rolled from left to right. It should be rolled tightly so that the klaf almost but doesn't actually cover the word שדי on the outside of the klaf.<ref>Agur Bohalecha 1:8</ref> | |||
# The klaf should be wrapped well, usually with saran wrap or the like, so that it doesn't get ruined by the elements.<ref>Agur Bohalecha 1:10</ref> | |||
# It is proper that the klaf should be positions so that the שדי is facing outward towards the opposite doorpost.<ref>Agur Bohalecha 1:33</ref> | |||
===The Bracha=== | |||
# Initially, the homeowner should put it up himself. If he can't do it, he should appoint a Jew to do it in his stead.<ref>Agur Bohalecha 1:15, 8:15</ref> | |||
#The bracha only after everything, such as the tape or nails, is prepared so that one can put it up without delay after the bracha.<ref>Agur Bohalecha 1:18</ref> | |||
# If he is using double sided tape or glue he should take the mezuzah in his right hand and recite the bracha. If he is using nails and a hammer he should take the mezuzah with his right hand and place it against the doorpost in the correct spot. Then he should hold it with his left hand and hold the hammer with his right hand. Before the bracha he should begin to put in the bottom nail to minimize the delay after the bracha until it is put up.<ref>Agur Bohalecha 1:19, 24</ref> | |||
# A person should recite the bracha upon putting up the mezuzah that indisputably needs a mezuzah with a bracha and then without interruption put up the other mezuzot. There is no need to put up the front door one first.<ref>Agur Bohalecha 1:57</ref> | |||
===When to Put It Up === | |||
# 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. 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 suggests 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.</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> | |||
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