Dear Readers and Members, The forum has been down for over 6 months because the domain name (www.stamforum.com) lapsed and it is no longer available to re purchase. Although this forum is now defunct (it has morphed into several whatsapp groups), I have had many requests to put it back online because it contains so much information (over 1,800 posts and thousands of comments in the discussions, on a wide range of topics related to STa"M). I have therefore put the forum back online at blogger, so the address is www.stamforum.blogspot.com. The forum lasted for a decade...not a bad effort! It was pretty popular back in the days before whatsapp and managed to receive over a million hits in it's short life. It was one of the only organised forums in the STa"M world and definitely the largest in it's heyday. I would like to thank all those who cobtributed over the years, particularly the early members who helped build it up. Thanking you all, Eli
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ReplyDeleteBut only if the case touched the actual Klaf of the Mezuza. If the Mezuza was rolled entirely, in plastic or paper, then the case is Tashmish D'tashmish. Mishneh Berura and Biur Halacha, 154, s"k 14.
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ReplyDeleteA mezuzah case offers protection and honor (kavod) to the mezuzah klaf. Therefore it should have the status of Tashmish Dkedusha and require geniza even if there is a plastic wrapping around it.
ReplyDeleteSee the Mishna Berurah source you quoted.
I saw someone that wrote that if the mezuzah case is very simple, so therefore it offers only shmira and no kavod, it does not need geniza. If the mezuzah case is nice so that it offers kavod to the mezuzah it would need genizah (as mentioned even if the mezuzah klaf was already wrapped with plastic).