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Jewish thing for the door? Menora or what is name?
Posted by: samintx
Date: November 02, 2012 08:46PM
I know Menora isn't the name of the jewish thing you put on the door but can't think of the name. Help me please.
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Re: Jewish thing for the door? Menora or what is name?
Posted by: dmann
Date: November 02, 2012 08:47PM
Mezuzah. It has a roll of scripture inside. A menorah is an 8 branched candelabra used at Hanukkah.

Edited to add: Technically, the parchment scroll itself is the mezuzah. The covering is the mezuzah case. The scroll is sacred, the case is not.

DM



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/02/2012 09:14PM by dmann.
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Re: Jewish thing for the door? Menora or what is name?
Posted by: Janit
Date: November 02, 2012 08:47PM
mezuzah
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Re: Jewish thing for the door? Menora or what is name?
Posted by: Black
Date: November 02, 2012 08:52PM
[www.google.com]
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Re: Jewish thing for the door? Menora or what is name?
Posted by: Manlove
Date: November 02, 2012 09:04PM
Why? Are you getting one of them Jewish thingies?
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Re: Jewish thing for the door? Menora or what is name?
Posted by: Black
Date: November 02, 2012 09:20PM
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Manlove
Why? Are you getting one of them Jewish thingies?

On the HOA board maybe...
[www.necn.com]
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Re: Jewish thing for the door? Menora or what is name?
Posted by: samintx
Date: November 02, 2012 09:22PM
Thanks for the name.

I'm going to Israel and Jordan and wanted to get the word in my dumb brain. Yeh, I might get one for my door even tho I'm not Jewish it would make a meaningful something to bring back.
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Re: Jewish thing for the door? Menora or what is name?
Posted by: decay
Date: November 02, 2012 09:52PM





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Posted by: Paul F.
Date: November 02, 2012 09:56PM
decay;

I see what you did there... smiling smiley


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Re: Jewish thing for the door? Menora or what is name?
Posted by: Mr Downtown
Date: November 02, 2012 11:10PM
Wow. I had forgotten that Menudo wore their pants so tight you could tell if they were Jewish.
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Re: Jewish thing for the door? Menora or what is name?
Posted by: (vikm)
Date: November 02, 2012 11:21PM
Thank you for this post. Last year sometime there was a CPR class held in North Hollywood at this dump of a hotel complex. Apparently one of the rooms was rented out for the class. I walked about the cneter courtyard and noticed these (mostly) metal things affixed to the door frames on most every unit. I wondered what they were. Assumed they were some sort of religious item and meant to post the pic I took here to ask about them. Forgot all about them until now. Now I know... thanks!
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Re: Jewish thing for the door? Menora or what is name?
Posted by: RgrF
Date: November 03, 2012 03:07AM
You cannot live in North Hollywood without being overrun with religious Jews on their way to or back from temple, all on foot, both on Friday and Saturday
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Re: Jewish thing for the door? Menora or what is name?
Posted by: (vikm)
Date: November 03, 2012 03:47AM
Lol... Didn't realize that. It was my first experience of seeing those things on the doors. At first I thought it was some kind of halfway house type arrangement for addicts. It was just odd at the time.
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Re: Jewish thing for the door? Menora or what is name?
Posted by: Greg
Date: November 03, 2012 11:12AM
geniza
apikoros
shanda
yiddishkeit

None of these words are in the dictionary!



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Re: Jewish thing for the door? Menora or what is name?
Posted by: Jimmypoo
Date: November 03, 2012 12:05PM
I always thought that since 1948 those things were called “German/Arab Shrunken Heads” - no??
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Re: Jewish thing for the door? Menora or what is name?
Posted by: samintx
Date: November 03, 2012 12:32PM
how did we get on soup and tight pants?
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Re: Jewish thing for the door? Menora or what is name?
Posted by: rgG
Date: November 03, 2012 01:04PM
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samintx
how did we get on soup and tight pants?

Look up Menudo on Google.




Roswell, GA (Atlanta suburb)
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Re: Jewish thing for the door? Menora or what is name?
Posted by: CJsNvrUrly
Date: November 03, 2012 02:31PM
In my youth, I delivered newspapers in Freeport, NY. (Poor Freeport, but that's another story...) There were apartment buildings on my route where these mezuzah cases were mounted on numerous doorways. I always liked them. Aren't you supposed to touch them and do something before entering?
I'd forgotten all about them til now. You don't see Jews in Bedford, VA.



bunny smileyCentral VA
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Re: Jewish thing for the door? Menora or what is name?
Posted by: Black
Date: November 03, 2012 02:47PM
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rgG
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samintx
how did we get on soup and tight pants?

Look up Menudo on Google.

I'll save you the trouble. Latin American jews have developed a tradition of putting on tight pants and eating soup on or shortly after their 13th birthdays to signify that they've become men. I think what lead us to that was that pretty much all of the mezuzahs are manufactured in Mexico these days.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/03/2012 02:48PM by Black.
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