[Avodah] Mezuza On The Home Of A Mixed Married Couple

[Prof. Levine]

 From http://revach.net/article.php?id=4503

Someone offered a mezuza to a Jewish man living with a non-Jewish 
woman.  The man agreed to pay for it and hang it up on his door.  Rav 
Moshe Shternbuch was asked (3:327) if it was worthwhile to help him 
at least keep this one mitzva, despite his grave situation.

Rav Shternbuch answered that a Jew who lives with a non-Jew has a Din 
of a Meshumad, someone who converted to another religion.  A Meshumad 
is not even entitled to be buried in a Jewish cemetery, and neither 
is someone who lives with a non-Jew.  This is worse than any other 
aveira in the Torah.  He is not merely Oveid Avodah Zara he is a Meshumad.

A mezuza says Rav Shternbuch, is sign of Ol Malchus Shamayim.  A 
Meshumad cannot have such a sign on his door.  Even a Michalel 
Shabbos Bifarhesia may, and should, have a Mezuza because he can 
justify in his own mind a belief in Hashem.  However this man wants 
live with a non-Jew, yet show that this is a fine arrangement for a 
kosher Jewish home.

Technically speaking, says Rav Shternbuch, the house is not even 
Chayav in Mezuza since in secular law the women is part owner in the 
assets, it becomes a house that belongs to both a Jew and non-Jew in 
partnership, which is not chayav in mezuza according to most Poskim.

The bottom line says Rav Shternbuch is that not only are you not 
obligated to assist him with his mezuza, but it is forbidden.  It is 
our obligation to ostracize him until he divorces her and returns 
B'tshuva Sheleima.
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