I received this shayla be email this morning. Any one have an opinion on this? my gut is to put up without brocho

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Dear Rabbi Gutnick
I am attaching a photo of a kitchen (The photo needs to be rotated so that the lights are on the ceiling).
It is a kitchen. Entering it there is no real kitchen wall, only cupboards that block it off from the rest of the structure. Entering the kitchen is a large upright wooden beam that goes all the way to the ceiling. It forms a "tzuras hapesach". Does it need a mezuzah. If so, with or without a brocha?

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  1. moshe weinerNovember 5, 2012 at 11:28 PM

    I dont have a clear picture of this enterance, but it is definite what you suggest that no bracha can be made on this pesach.

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  2. OneDayNovember 6, 2012 at 3:12 PM

    I think that it doesn't need mezuzah since the beam is there for structural support and not for an entrance, also you can not see the top of the beam, if it plainly goes up to the wall then it seems that it is not tzuras hapetach

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  3. OneDayNovember 6, 2012 at 3:12 PM

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  4. Alberto AttiaNovember 6, 2012 at 4:07 PM

    Hi Eli,
    Is there a chance we can get a better picture from a different angle?

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  5. Yerachmiel AskotzkyNovember 7, 2012 at 2:02 PM

    is there a mashkof? if not, then there is no need for a mezuzah.
    is the beam there just for support? If so then it doesn't count.

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