[Avodah] Is a Mezuza a Segula

[Danny Schoemann]

I read something in last weeks [Hebrew] Mishpacha (pp 44) by Rav
Yaakov Posen related to an old thread.

He mentions that when his late father was deathly ill they went to
every Rov and "Baba" they could find, in order to get brochos.

One Tzadik told them to put a Sefer Raziel Hamalach and a Mezuza in
the patients pocket. Once he was on his deathbed they put these items
on his pillow.

Many years later he saw in SA YD 289:2 the Shach who says that a
Mezuza needs to be put in the Tefach closest to the outside so that
(1) you meet it immediately upon entering from the street and (2) so
that it can protect the entire house (even the first Tefach) from
Mazikin.
The Gilyon Maharsha (of R' Shlomo Eiger) adds that if you're doing it
for the mitzva (of Mezuza) then you're allowed to think that as a
reward for the Mitzva, Hashem will protect you. But of you're doing it
only for protection - then you have no protection and it becomes "a
knife in his eyes!"

He ends off by saying that we can learn from here that (regarding
various segulos) the concept of "it can't hurt" is not always true.

- Danny

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