## Tractate Mezuzah Chapter 2

###### Tractate Mezuzah 2:1
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המזוזה נכתבת על הימין בכניסתו מן השוק לבית שער וביציאתו מן החצר לבית שער

**The Minor Tractates of the Talmud, trans. A. Cohen, London: Soncino Press, 1965:**
The *mezuzah* is placed¹ on the right-hand side of the entrance from the street into the lodge, and [on the right-hand side of] the exit from the courtyard into the lodge.²

footnotes:
¹ lit. ‘written’.
² It refers to where the lodge is in front of a courtyard and has two doorways, one facing the street and the other facing the courtyard.


###### Tractate Mezuzah 2:2
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גננא שיש לה פצים מן החצר נותן דרך יציאתו מן הגנה לחצר ואם יש לה בית שער נותן מכאן ומכאן

**The Minor Tractates of the Talmud, trans. A. Cohen, London: Soncino Press, 1965:**
If a garden has a doorpost where it adjoins the courtyard, the *mezuzah* is placed [on the right-hand side of] the exit from the garden into the courtyard; and if a lodge is attached to it,³ *mezuzoth* are to be placed on both doorways [of the lodge].

footnotes:
³ Between the garden and the courtyard, with doorways leading to each of them.


###### Tractate Mezuzah 2:3
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קיטוניות שהן פתוחים לטרקלן נותן דרך הנעלה ואם היה רגיל על כולם נותן דרך כולם

**The Minor Tractates of the Talmud, trans. A. Cohen, London: Soncino Press, 1965:**
Where small rooms open into a reception room,⁴ the *mezuzah* is placed on that doorway which is customarily used.⁵ If they are all customarily used, *mezuzoth* are placed on all the doorways.

footnotes:
⁴ Access to which is gained only through the small ones.
⁵ So according to H. V’s reading is corrupt.


###### Tractate Mezuzah 2:4
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בתים לפנים זה מזה נותן דרך כניסתו לכולם רבי יהודה אומר אם היה הסולם מטלטל לארבע רוחותיו

**The Minor Tractates of the Talmud, trans. A. Cohen, London: Soncino Press, 1965:**
If a number of rooms have doorways leading from one room to the other,⁶ *mezuzoth* are placed at the entrance of each one of them. R. Judah says: If the ladder is movable on the four sides….⁷ is placed at every side’; but this also does not convey much sense.

footnotes:
⁶ lit. ‘rooms within one another’.
⁷ The sentence is obviously incomplete. H reads: ‘If the ladder is movable a mezuzah


###### Tractate Mezuzah 2:5
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פתח שהוא פתוח מן הגג נותן דרך כניסתו מן הגג אמר ר׳ נתן בר׳ יוסי בזה ב״ש מחייבין וב״ה פוטרין

**The Minor Tractates of the Talmud, trans. A. Cohen, London: Soncino Press, 1965:**
If a doorway leads from a roof [into a room], the *mezuzah* is placed [on the right-hand side of] the entrance from the roof. R. Nathan b. R. Jose said: In such a case Beth Shammai hold that the doorway is subject to *mezuzah* and Beth Hillel hold that it is exempt.


###### Tractate Mezuzah 2:6
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סוכה שהיא לפנים מן הגג נותן דרך יציאתו מן הסוכה לגג ר׳ יוסי אומר מן הגג לסוכה

**The Minor Tractates of the Talmud, trans. A. Cohen, London: Soncino Press, 1965:**
In a booth that is set back⁸ from [the edge of] a roof the *mezuzah* is to be placed [on the right-hand side of] the exit from the booth to the roof. R. Jose says: [On the right-hand side of the entrance] from the roof to the booth.

footnotes:
⁸ lit. ‘within’.


###### Tractate Mezuzah 2:7
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אכסדרה שהיא לפנים מן הבתים ואין לה יציאה ממקום אחר נותן דרך יציאתו מן האכסדרה לבתים ר׳ יוסי אומר דרך כניסתו מבתים לאכסדרה

**The Minor Tractates of the Talmud, trans. A. Cohen, London: Soncino Press, 1965:**
In the case of a portico that is set back from the rooms and has no other exit,⁹ the *mezuzah* is placed [on the right-hand side of] the exit from the portico into the rooms. R. Jose says: [On the right-hand side of] the entrance from the rooms to the portico.

footnotes:
⁹ Except through one of the rooms.


###### Tractate Mezuzah 2:8
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פתח שהיא משמשת שני פתחים וכותל רחב טפח נותן מזוזה אחת כדברי ר׳ יהודה יותר מכאן שני מזוזות

**The Minor Tractates of the Talmud, trans. A. Cohen, London: Soncino Press, 1965:**
If an entrance serves as two doorways and a wall [of not more than] one handbreath in width [separates them], only one *mezuzah* is to be affixed, according to R. Judah. [If the wall was] wider than that two *mezuzoth* are required.


###### Tractate Mezuzah 2:9
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המזוזה ניתנה מן החצי ולמעלה דברי ר״מ ר׳ יהודה אומר מטפח ולמטה ומטפח ולמעלה

**The Minor Tractates of the Talmud, trans. A. Cohen, London: Soncino Press, 1965:**
The *mezuzah* is placed in the upper half of the doorpost;¹⁰ so R. Meir. R. Judah says: [It should be placed] below the handbreadth [from the top of the doorpost] and above one handbreadth [from the bottom].

footnotes:
¹⁰ lit. ‘from the half and above’. Another reading is: ‘on the upper third’; cf. the ruling in the name of Samuel in Men. 33a (Sonc. ed., p. 208).


###### Tractate Mezuzah 2:10
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חקק בכותל והרחיק טפח ונתנה הרי זו מזוזה כשרה יותר מכאן פסולה חקק במקל ונתנה הרי זו פסולה נתנה בשפופרת תלאה אחר הדלת אחר המזוזה ר׳ מאיר מכשיר ור׳ יהודה פוסל

**The Minor Tractates of the Talmud, trans. A. Cohen, London: Soncino Press, 1965:**
If one made a groove in the wall at a distance of [not more than] one handbreadth [from the doorpost], and placed [the *mezuzah*] in it, the *mezuzah* is valid. [If the distance] was greater than that it is invalid.
If one made a groove in a stick and put the *mezuzah* in it, it is invalid. If one inserted [the *mezuzah*] in a tube and hung it up behind the door [or] behind the doorpost,¹¹ R. Meir declared it valid, but R. Judah declared it invalid.

footnotes:
¹¹ Hanging the stick on the doorpost.


###### Tractate Mezuzah 2:11
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בית חדש כיון שגמרו חייב במזוזה

**The Minor Tractates of the Talmud, trans. A. Cohen, London: Soncino Press, 1965:**
A new house is subject to the obligation of *mezuzah* as soon as it is completed.


###### Tractate Mezuzah 2:12
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הדר בפונדק בארץ ישראל שלשים יום חייב במזוזה השוכר נותן מיד ובחוצה לארץ הרי זה פטור והשוכר נותן לאחר שלשים יום

**The Minor Tractates of the Talmud, trans. A. Cohen, London: Soncino Press, 1965:**
One who lodges in an inn in the Land of Israel for thirty days is subject to the obligation of *mezuzah*, and if one rents [a house] he must affix [a *mezuzah*] forthwith. Outside the Land of Israel, [one who lives in an inn] is exempt, and one who rents [a house] must affix [a *mezuzah*] after thirty days.


###### Tractate Mezuzah 2:13
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השוכר בית מן הנכרי ומן הכותי נותן מזוזה מיד וכשיצא יטלנה והשוכר מישראל יתן מזוזה מיד ואם נתן לא יטול

**The Minor Tractates of the Talmud, trans. A. Cohen, London: Soncino Press, 1965:**
[A Jew] who rents a house from a Gentile or from a Samaritan must affix a *mezuzah* forthwith, and when he quits he must remove it; but if one rents a house from an Israelite, he affixes the *mezuzah* forthwith and when he quits he must not remove it.


###### Tractate Mezuzah 2:14
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הלוקח בית מן הנכרי ומן הכותי חייב במזוזה ומישראל הרי זו בחזקתו

**The Minor Tractates of the Talmud, trans. A. Cohen, London: Soncino Press, 1965:**
One who buys a house from a Gentile or a Samaritan is under the obligation of putting a *mezuzah*, but [if he bought it] from an Israelite it is presumed [to have been provided with the necessary *mezuzoth*].


###### Tractate Mezuzah 2:15
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הלוקח מלבן מן הנכרי לא ידליק עד שיבדקנו שהמזוזה נבדקת אחת לכ״ה שנה דברי ר״ש ר׳ יעקב אומר עד זמן מרובה אבל הכל שוין שאם היה מעביר ממקום למקום שצריכה בדיקה כיוצא בה מוכנות מים שברשות הרבים נבדקת אחת בשבוע ושברשות היחיד אחת לכ״ה שנה דברי ר׳ מאיר וחכמים אומרים אחד זה ואחד זה זה הכלל כל מקום שהוא בת ראש נבדק אחת בשבוע ושאינו בת ראש נבדק אחת לכ״ה שנה:

**The Minor Tractates of the Talmud, trans. A. Cohen, London: Soncino Press, 1965:**
If one buys a brick-mould from a Gentile, he should not heat it before he had examined it.
[The scroll in] the *mezuzah* should be examined once in twenty-five years, according to R. Simeon. R. Jacob says: A much longer time [may be allowed to intervene]. Both, however, agree that if it was transferred from one place to another it requires examination.
In like manner, water-tanks¹², ‘stores’. in a public domain must be examined once in seven years, but those situated in a private domain once in twenty-five years, according to R. Meir; but the Sages say: In either case the general rule is that wherever there is a top cover¹³ instead of V’s *bath*. the examination takes place once in seven years, and where there is no top cover the examination takes place once in twenty-five years.

footnotes:
¹² lit. ‘machines’. H has mogeroth
¹³ Reading with H beth