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Menachot
33a:
Determining the Inside of the Doorway
Rab Judah further said in the name of Samuel: In the law of Mezuzah,
one must be guided by the conclusiveness of the hinge.
What is meant by “the hinge”? R. Adda said: The sockets [for the pin of the hinge].
In what circumstances? For example, where there is a door between two houses,
one house being for men and the other for women.
[The mezuzah must be affixed to the right door-post as one enters the house;
in this case, however, where one door communicates between two houses,
while each house has its own door leading into the street, it is difficult
to establish which house leads into the other, and on which door-post of
this door is the mezuzah to be fixed.
We are therefore taught the following test: that side of the door
where the sockets for the door-pin are placed is considered to be the
inside. Accordingly the Mezuzah must be affixed to the right door-post
as one enters that house on the inside of which the sockets are found.]
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