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Menachot
32a:
Leaving Margins around
the text of the Mezuzah
[R. Helbo continues to speak of R. Huna; cf. previous passage:] Moreover, he
left [the space between] the sections closed.
[I.e., he began the second passage in the Mezuzah on the same
line as that on which the first passage ended, allowing only
a short blank space between the two passages.]
An objection was raised: R. Simeon b. Eleazar said: R. Meir used to write
[the Mezuzah] on duksustus [the part of the skin next to the hair,
which is of an inferior quality to the ‘klaf’, the part of the skin
next to the flesh of the animal], in the form of a column,
leaving a space above and a space below, and leaving
[the space between] the sections open. [I.e. he began the second section on a new line,
leaving a vertical space between the two sections.] And I said to him:
Master, what is the reason for this? And he answered: Because
[the portions] are not close to each other in the Torah. And R.
Hananel said in the name of Rab that the halachah follows R.
Simeon b. Eleazar.
Now presumably [the halachah referred to
the ruling] of leaving [the space between] the sections open?
No, it referred to the ruling of leaving a space [above and below].
And how much space must there be? R. Menashya b. Jacob
(others say: R. Samuel b. Jacob) said: The space taken up by
the clasps of the scribes. [Clasps were used by scribes to prevent
the sheets of parchment from rolling up.]
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