Mezuzah on My Doorpost

Authors

Heather Thomson

Keywords

BYU Studies, Shabbat, Judaism

Abstract

When my husband and I moved across the city into a Jewish community in Montreal four years ago, we discovered the previous owners of our newly purchased home had left their mezuzah on the front doorpost. I don’t remember now if I’d noticed it when we first stepped through the doorframe of the mid-century, red-brick bungalow on a Friday evening—so unused to the rhythms of Jewish religious observance were we then that we’d unwittingly requested a showing that fell just before sunset, the beginning of Shabbat. But we did see the mezuzah when we moved in a month later, on another Friday evening: its small cylinder case on the right-hand side of our front door at about eye level, positioned at an angle, pointing inward, as though an invitation to enter.

Recommended Citation

Thomson, Heather (2021) "Mezuzah on My Doorpost," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 60: Iss. 2, Article 11.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol60/iss2/11