Mezuzah

A mezuzah is a box with a scroll in it. Jews put on mezuzahs their doors. The mezuzah is written by a Jewish scribe called a Sofer.

Most people put their mezuzah on the front doorpost, but halakha requires that every room with 36 square feet (but not bathrooms) should have a mezuzah on the right side of the doorpost.

There are 4 different types of writing styles for Mezuzahs: Beis Yosef, Arizal, Sephardi and Alter Rebbe.

In the United States, prices for Mezuzahs range from US$50 for a cheap mezuzah, $85 for a medium quality, and $130-150 for a high-quality mezuzah.

The idea for mezuzah comes from Deuteronomy, chapter 6: "And you shall inscribe them on the doorposts (mezuzot) of your house and on your gates."

Mezuzah Media

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  Mezuzah Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw

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  Ashkenazi mezuzah, as accepted in Rabbinical Judaism; the case is tilted and features the Hebrew letter ש (Shin), as is commonplace in such

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  A Sephardic mezuzah, as accepted in Rabbinical Judaism; the mezuzah case is vertical and features the Hebrew letter ש (Shin)

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  President of Israel Reuven Rivlin putting up a mezuzah at Beit HaNassi, 2017

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  Krakow rabbi Sacha Pecaric hammering a mezuza on the entrance of a prayer room in Bielsko-Biała, 1999

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  Clear mezuzah case in Jerusalem, Israel

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  Samaritan Mezuzah on Mount Gerizim, written exposed, in Samaritan Hebrew.This one reads, "Blessed is the One who said: I will look with favor upon you, and make you fertile and multiply you; and I will maintain My covenant with you. (Leviticus 26:9) The LORD will open for you His bounteous store, the heavens, to provide rain for your land in season and to bless all your undertakings.