Timeline for Should a Mezuzah be placed in the foundations of a new house?
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| Oct 22, 2018 at 12:02 | history | edited | Double AA♦ |
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| Oct 4, 2018 at 17:29 | comment | added | Isaac Moses♦ | Is this article the source of your picture? If so, please edit to credit and explain the context. Even better, given that we probably don't have license to re-publish the picture, include a link to the article and a summary of the relevant information from there. | |
| Oct 4, 2018 at 17:17 | comment | added | Salmononius2 | Interesting point about the article, but I've personally never heard of that practice (although to be fair, that doesn't mean much). Do you have a link to the complete article where you read about this practice? Or a source for that picture (it's hard to know with crtainty what they're doing baed on the picture alone)? | |
| Oct 4, 2018 at 17:05 | history | edited | A. Allegretti | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 3, 2018 at 15:31 | comment | added | Gary | The foundation hoard is in a book I bought in the Israel Museum. It says the hoard of 139 prutot was deposited in a wall in an oil lamp by the owner shortly before the First Revolt in a house in En Gedi, probably "in order to improve the good fortune of his household."(the book's description) The official rate of exchange at that time was 128 Prutot to a half shekel, plus the 8 percent fee when exchanging metals, bringing the total to an exact half shekel amount required once in a lifetime by the Torah, but yearly in Second Temple times. | |
| Oct 3, 2018 at 15:16 | comment | added | Gary | Archaeological digs in the Middle East, going all the way back to the days and cities of the kingdoms of Sumer and Akkad, have found documents deposited in the foundations of temples, palaces, and other "royal" buildings. A LOT of information about kings and their accomplishments(doing a good job of tooting their own horns, of course)has been recovered from such foundation deposits. The question, IMO, is a valid one, except that the Jewish version of such deposits weren't mezuzahs, but probably had other names/rules associated with them.A copper deposit of a 1/2shekel was dug up not long ago. | |
| Oct 3, 2018 at 14:40 | answer | added | ezra | timeline score: 2 | |
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| S Oct 3, 2018 at 14:38 | history | suggested | Dr. Shmuel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 3, 2018 at 14:28 | answer | added | Danny Schoemann | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 3, 2018 at 14:27 | answer | added | IsraelReader | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 3, 2018 at 14:26 | comment | added | Isaac Moses♦ | A, Allegretti, welcome to Mi Yodeya, and thanks very much for bringing your question here! Could you possibly edit you question to include some information about why you suspect that placing a mezuza in the foundations of a new house may be mandated? That would make the question a great deal more compelling and could lead to more satisfying answers. | |
| Oct 3, 2018 at 14:25 | comment | added | ezra | Why do you think a mezuzah should be placed in the foundations of a house? Last time I checked you needed to put mezuzot on the doorposts of a home. | |
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| Oct 3, 2018 at 14:22 | history | asked | A. Allegretti | CC BY-SA 4.0 |