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Menachot
31b:
Uneven Columns are Permissible
R. Ze’iri said in the name of R. Hananel who cited it in the name
of Rab: If a Mezuzah was written in lines consisting of two words each
it is valid.
The question was raised: How is it if the first line
consisted of two words, the second of three, and the third of one word?
R. Nahman b. Isaac answered: Certainly [it is valid], for it has merely
been written like the song [The Song of the Sea, Exodus 15, which is written in
a column whose lines vary in length].
An objection was raised: If he wrote it like the
song or the song like it, it is invalid! That was taught in connection
with a scroll of the Law.
It has also been reported: Rabbah b. Bar Hanah said in the name of R.
Johanan (others say: R. Aha b. Bar Hanah said in the name of R. Johanan):
If the mezuzah was written [in lines of unequal length consisting of]
two words, three words, and one word, it is valid, provided it was not
in the form of a tent, nor tail-like. [I.e. the words in the consecutive lines
must not increase in a regular order, that is, like a tent, narrow above and wide
below, nor decrease in a regular order, that is, tapering off like a tail.]
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