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*Exempt: Igrot Moshe YD 1:176 holds that if the direction in which the mezuzah should be put because it isn't used more for entry than exiting, the rooms it connects are used equally, and there is no door, then there is obligation to put up a mezuzah at all. He quotes the Yavetz who says to put up a mezuzah on both posts out of doubt but he disagrees. He also rejects the opinion of the questioner to put up a mezuzah on the side of his choice. | *Exempt: Igrot Moshe YD 1:176 holds that if the direction in which the mezuzah should be put because it isn't used more for entry than exiting, the rooms it connects are used equally, and there is no door, then there is obligation to put up a mezuzah at all. He quotes the Yavetz who says to put up a mezuzah on both posts out of doubt but he disagrees. He also rejects the opinion of the questioner to put up a mezuzah on the side of his choice. | ||
*Rav Elyashiv (Shvut Yitzchak v. 16 p. 4), Rav Nissim Karelitz in Chut Shani, and Shevet Halevi 2:152:2 hold that the mezuzah can be put on whichever side you want. Agur Bohalecha 27:36 agrees. This is also the opinion of the Peni Moshe and Korban Haedah on Yerushalmi (Megillah 4:12).</ref> | *Rav Elyashiv (Shvut Yitzchak v. 16 p. 4), Rav Nissim Karelitz in Chut Shani, and Shevet Halevi 2:152:2 hold that the mezuzah can be put on whichever side you want. Agur Bohalecha 27:36 agrees. This is also the opinion of the Peni Moshe and Korban Haedah on Yerushalmi (Megillah 4:12).</ref> | ||
#The halacha that the mezuzah is placed on the right side of the door applies equally to a left | #The halacha that the mezuzah is placed on the right side of the door applies equally to a left footed person as well.<ref>Mordechai Halachot Ketanot 962, Bach 289:5, Shach 289:5, Levush 289:2, Chayei Adam 15:17, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 11:3, Aruch Hashulchan 289:5, Kuntres Hamezuzah (page 102, note 22). </ref> | ||
#The side on which the mezuzah is placed depends on the norm of the people who use the house whether they own it, live there, are obligated in mezuzah or not. It doesn't depend on which way the homeowner wants to be the main direction of entry; it solely depends on which direction is used for more for entry in practice by the people who use it.<ref>Igrot Moshe YD 4:43:2 unlike the opinion of the [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=37191&pgnum=26 Daat Kedoshim 289:11]</ref> | #The side on which the mezuzah is placed depends on the norm of the people who use the house whether they own it, live there, are obligated in mezuzah or not. It doesn't depend on which way the homeowner wants to be the main direction of entry; it solely depends on which direction is used for more for entry in practice by the people who use it.<ref>Igrot Moshe YD 4:43:2 unlike the opinion of the [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=37191&pgnum=26 Daat Kedoshim 289:11]</ref> | ||
#If the mezuzah was placed on the left side of the door it needs to be taken down and put up on the right side with a bracha.<ref>Hamezuzah Vehilchoteha 11:10, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 11:3</ref> | #If the mezuzah was placed on the left side of the door it needs to be taken down and put up on the right side with a bracha.<ref>Hamezuzah Vehilchoteha 11:10, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 11:3</ref> | ||
