Comments on: Examination of Tefillin & Mezuzos in Elul http://www.jerusalemkoshernews.com/2011/09/examination-of-tefillin-mezuzos-in-elul/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=examination-of-tefillin-mezuzos-in-elul Reporting on Kashrus in Eretz Yisrael Thu, 17 May 2012 09:46:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Joe http://www.jerusalemkoshernews.com/2011/09/examination-of-tefillin-mezuzos-in-elul/comment-page-1/#comment-9471 Joe Sat, 10 Sep 2011 19:13:34 +0000 http://www.jerusalemkoshernews.com/?p=5386#comment-9471 Is there a halacha that botei mezzuzos can't be made by Chinese who anyway don't practice avodah zarah? I would rather spend my money on a product made by a goy than support Israelis 90% of whom don't keep anything. Is there a hechsher on LeDorot Mezuzah botim? If not there is no difference between them and anything else. I make a point to support Torah Jews but do not tell me just because something is made in Israel it's kosher. I live here and I see what goes on with my own eyes. The whole point of this blog is that without a good hechsher all the claims in the world amount to nothing. Is there a halacha that botei mezzuzos can’t be made by Chinese who anyway don’t practice avodah zarah? I would rather spend my money on a product made by a goy than support Israelis 90% of whom don’t keep anything. Is there a hechsher on LeDorot Mezuzah botim? If not there is no difference between them and anything else. I make a point to support Torah Jews but do not tell me just because something is made in Israel it’s kosher. I live here and I see what goes on with my own eyes. The whole point of this blog is that without a good hechsher all the claims in the world amount to nothing.

]]> By: Danny Schoemann http://www.jerusalemkoshernews.com/2011/09/examination-of-tefillin-mezuzos-in-elul/comment-page-1/#comment-9460 Danny Schoemann Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:06:34 +0000 http://www.jerusalemkoshernews.com/?p=5386#comment-9460 Rav Micha Berger write me: Rav SZ Auerbach was not masqim. He held that given today's tech, we make ink that is mixed so well out of ingredients ground so fine, and write on kelaf so well prepared, and then stored in houses with far less temperature change, that rolling and unrolling mezuzos are our biggest cause of pesulim. When we learned this with R' Mordechai Willig, back in the 1980s, he thought it was mistaber, but with some provisos: - perhaps only indoor mezuzos, as outdoor ones are subject to rain and temperature changes - perhaps only after the mezuzah was checked once, as mezuzos that never had a letter or word are still an issue. (And if found, there is no chazaqah demei'iqara.) Rav Micha Berger write me:
Rav SZ Auerbach was not masqim. He held that given today’s tech, we make ink that is mixed so well out of ingredients ground so fine, and write on kelaf so well prepared, and then stored in houses with far less temperature change, that rolling and unrolling mezuzos are our biggest cause of pesulim.

When we learned this with R’ Mordechai Willig, back in the 1980s, he thought it was mistaber, but with some provisos:
- perhaps only indoor mezuzos, as outdoor ones are subject to rain and temperature changes
- perhaps only after the mezuzah was checked once, as mezuzos that never had a letter or word are still an issue. (And if found, there is no chazaqah demei’iqara.)

]]> By: Shmuel http://www.jerusalemkoshernews.com/2011/09/examination-of-tefillin-mezuzos-in-elul/comment-page-1/#comment-9459 Shmuel Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:22:02 +0000 http://www.jerusalemkoshernews.com/?p=5386#comment-9459 Halachah does not require mezuzot to be checked by an examiner. As long as they were checked initially one time, it is enough for a layman to open up the mezuzah and ascertain that there was no water or heat damage to the writing, and then wrap it up and put it back on the doorpost. regarding tefillin: experience shows that sweating does not warp the batim. It only warps the titura, which is not a Halachic problem. Halachah does not require mezuzot to be checked by an examiner. As long as they were checked initially one time, it is enough for a layman to open up the mezuzah and ascertain that there was no water or heat damage to the writing, and then wrap it up and put it back on the doorpost.

regarding tefillin: experience shows that sweating does not warp the batim. It only warps the titura, which is not a Halachic problem.

]]> By: Yitzchok Goldstone http://www.jerusalemkoshernews.com/2011/09/examination-of-tefillin-mezuzos-in-elul/comment-page-1/#comment-9451 Yitzchok Goldstone Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:32:26 +0000 http://www.jerusalemkoshernews.com/?p=5386#comment-9451 You do not mention how often tefilin and mezusos should be checked (mezusas twice in seven years, tefilin once (before first used). You do not mention how often tefilin and mezusos should be checked (mezusas twice in seven years, tefilin once (before first used).

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