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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 01:23:06PM +0300, Eli Turkel wrote:</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">: Nevertheless it is brought down that the mezuza protects the house (see</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">: story with Onkeles).</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The Rambam would say that the mitzvah of mezuzah earns shemirah. Straight</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">sekhar va'onesh, nothing about the power of an object.</span> >><div><br></div><div>Nevertheless it is clear that it is the mitzvah of mezuzah that gives shmira and not just</div>
<div>getting schar from any mitzvah.</div><div>Also halachically one should put the mezuzah as far outside as possible to include whatever possible of the house within the shmira.</div><div><br></div><div>Connecting this to "inanei de-yoma" while during asetert yemei hateshuva all mitzvot are encouraged nevertheless the stress is</div>
<div>on certain mitzvot like charity and prayer as saving us and not just the schar from any mitzvah<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div>
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