A mezuzah or not, this is a choice, but what kind of choice is it, if this mezuzah is protection, and you not having it decreases this protection and your room is not protected. Putting a mezuzah on one's doorpost makes it a Jewish room and a Jewish residence, a Jewish home. If a home has even just one Jew who lives there, the home is considered a Jewish home.
This room and house, what kind of protection is it? A spiritual protection, a soulful protection, a kind word on your lips every time you pass it and enter the room, to thank the Lord for providing you with this room and house. To feel His presence as you enter or leave this space. To honor the place as a place that includes God, a space of justice, mercy and lovingkindness. A place for the study of wisdom, a place that is there again and again, not a destruction of this space, instead to know it will be there as long as you with the help of the One God wants it to be there. To find new places, but always to erect the mezuzah on the new rooms.
This mezuzah is a ritual object that we can pass as we enter the protected room, but to use our hands to touch it, to transfer a kiss onto our fingers and apply this kiss to the mezuzah as we pass it. To no matter how much property is in this room, it is still a good room, upheld in its glory by this mezuzah.
Want love in your life? Love your space, your room, your house, your fellows, and yes, God too. But use your love wisely, love the mezuzah on your doorpost to remind you of the Torah, as inside this mezuzah is the blessing of The Shema blessing. Each time you pass the doorpost you can sing The Shema. Beauty on your lips with kindness and song in your step.
This Shema will remind you of the specialness, the one-of-a-kindness, the mysticism, the meditation, the honorableness of God, as we are instructed to know S/He is One and to never forget it.
This wisdom is our Ko-achmah, our Gevurah, our Strength.
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