Jerusalem – What may be the world’s largest mezuzah was affixed at the gate of the upper entrance to the Kotel plaza Monday. The mezuzah was contributed by philanthropist Shmuel Flato-Sharon.
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Arutz Sheva reports The Kotel’s mammoth mezuzah was written by Sofer Rav Zalman Michaelshvilli, and checked by the Kotel Sofer Rav Israel Gottlieb. Its design was influenced by the work of surrealist Spanish artist Salvador Dali.
The bronze mezuzah is 1.4 meters long, 25 cm. wide, and weighs 40 kg. The parchment is 60 cm. high.
Checking it will be easy on the eyes and they don’t have to worry about someone stealing it because it will stand out on an apartment door.
Do we find anywhere in the 100’s of episodes and stories in Tenaach, that anyone ever, put onto his hand, or took off, or Wrote, or lost, or found, a Mezuzah or Tefillin or a Sefer Torah.
On the Choimas yerusholaim for sure not.
now some rich jew will have to outdo this and hang a even bigger one
Chabad has a strange tradition about big public menorahs. But where do we find a halachic source for “bigger is better?” If I wear the biggest tefillin in the world, is that a hiddur? What about blowing the biggest shofar in the world? Is that a hiddur? Suppose I build a 2 meter tall mezuzah that weighs 100 pounds so that this kosel plaza mezuzah is now in second place. Is this the type of kinas soferim Chazal had in mind? Perhaps this biggest mezuzah story sends the wrong message.
Isn’t there a bigger one at Ben Gurion Airport? (or is that one a fake?)
Flatto-Sharon arrived in Israel in 1975, when he was on the run after embezzling $60 million in France. In 1977 he formed a one-man party to run for the Knesset, hoping to obtain parliamentary immunity to avoid extradition to France.
As soon as he had his tuchas on his seat in the Knesset one of his first acts was to vote in favour of a law that prohibited the extradition of Israeli citizens. Quelle surprise! He ran in the 1981 and 1984 elections, but did not pass the electoral threshold of 1% in either, and subsequently disappeared.
Flatto was never extradited to France to serve the five year sentence given to him in his absence, as the five year statute of limitations had expired. He did not entirely manage to evade the courts however.
In 1984 he was sentenced to three months of community work, which he did in Tel Aviv, for bribery during the 1977 election campaign, in which he had “bought votes in 1977 by promising apartments to young couples and homes to others at reduced prices”.
It’s all in the Jerusalem Post archives (and in Wikipedia) if anyone wants to check. No danger of being taken to a beis din from him; he’s an unreformed crook.
Why do people have to write negative comments it’s a very nice kosher mezuzah and if you don’t like it don’t look at it.
This is a very nice mezuzah and a large mezuzah does have a place especially on such a holy place.
There is a big one at Ben Gurion, but I have no idea if its kosher or not, or whether it’s bigger than this one.