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Does anyone have any stories about peoples experiences when there were possul mezuzos?
Yes, you take down your mezuzot, and bring them to a sofer. He unrolls the tightly wound poor quality klaf and lo and behold, there are cracks in the letters. VERTICAL CRACKS, in every one. Planned obsolecence. Honesty would be making claf for mezzusot soft and pliable and treated to stay that way.
the person who checks my mezuzas always reminds me that the reason we put up mezuzas is because the Torah says we should.
There is an extra benefit to putting up mezuzas, and that is that they are a “shemira”. But “shemira” is not the main reason we do it.
I know someone who had a bunch of bad things happen to them, including a home robbery and they checked and found a posul mezuzah.
Before I was born my parents bought mezuzos from a sofer. Shortly afterwards my mother was at a shiur for ladies given by this sofer and he said some things that were so strange that she decided she didn’t trust him and went to get them checked by a third party. Sure enough they were typed.
twisted: Traditional yemenite sofrim write on g’vil (pronounced Djah-wil by yemenites and some diqduq freaks) which is very soft and pliable. An ashkenazi sofer I know writes g’vil mezuzos for the reason you mentioned.
When I put my mezzuzah up outside the front door of my condo, my neighbor asked me if it was part of my burglar alarm system. I explained what it was but my son in law said that I should have told her that yes, in fact, it was part of an alarm system with the best “central” monitoring available.
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