Hey there, and welcome back to Take One, the podcast that brings you just one kosher page of Talmud each day.

And on today's Daph, Menachot 31, we come across

this beauty. Rabbi Zahiri says that Rav Khananer says that Rav says, a mezzusa that one

wrote two by two, i.e. two words in each line, is fit. A dilemma was raised before the

sages. If one wrote two words on one line and three words on the following line, and one word

on the line after that, what is the halakah? Rav Nachman Bar-Itschak said all the more so that it is

fit as he prepared it as one writes a poem in the Torah scroll. The song sung by the Jewish

people at the sea after the exodus is written in lines whose length is not uniform.

The Gamara raises an objection from a baraita.

If one wrote it as one writes a poem in the Torah, or if one wrote a poem and the Torah as one

writes it, it is unfit.

The Gamara answers when that barita is taught, it is referring to a Torah scroll, not a

Mizusa.

The rabbis then are talking about Mizuzot and about what makes a Mesozoa kosher.

It's a question we've been grappling with over a tablet magazine for a long time.

Some years ago on our sister podcast Unorthodox of Blessed Memory,

we had an ongoing conversation with our co-host, Stephanie

Butnik, who famously did not want for a very long time to put a Mizuzza on her door.

She didn't want to be too publicly identified as Jewish and found the whole very public display

of faith, kind of weird, until, of course, she didn't. And it was time to visit

our beloved Westside Judeca, Manhattan's only remaining Judaica store, buy a Maziza and learn

all about what makes a Mazuzza kosher. Join us right now for that unforgettable visit.

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