Is the Piece Really a Mezuzah

Is the Piece Really a Mezuzah

Or, Perhaps Something Else? The /mezuzah/, traditionally affixed to the doorposts of the house by most Jews, contains two passages from the book of Deuteronomy — 6:4-9 and 11:18-20 — enjoining the faithful to write the words of God “on the doorframes of your house and...
The Silver Amulets -The Name of God

The Silver Amulets -The Name of God

We learn from these two amulets that people—at least some people—chose to refer to God by the more intimate term YHWH (יהוה).  These four letters are unpronounceable and untranslatable. This anomaly stems from the fact that biblical Hebrew is written with only...