By COLlive reporter
What is said to be the largest mezuzah in the world has been placed at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
Kotel Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz and Israeli businessman Shmuel Platto-Sharon placed the mezuzah, one of the 3 designed by Salvador Dali, the late prominent Spanish surrealist painter.
“The mezuzah is a testament to safe gaurd the Jewish home,” said Rabinowitz. “There is not a more appropriate place to place this mezuzah than the entrance gate to the Kotel – the resting place of the Divine Presence.”
Make out of bronze, the mezuzah’s length is about 1.4 meters. Its width is 25 cm and it weighs 40 kg.
The length of the parchment is 60 cm and the writing was done by Rabbi Zalman Michashvili, and reviewed by the Rabbi Israel Gottlieb.
“This is a very big challenge for me to put one of the most familiar Jewish symbols on one of the most important places for every Jew,” said the donor, a former Knesset member.
MORE PPL WILL HOPEFULLY DO THIS MITZVAH NOW 🙂
A Mezuza is the Holy scroll, a case is nothing, just a cover. Title for this article should add the word ‘cover’. I love this shul i sell mezuzahs to. They ask for the ‘inserts’ for the mezuzahs. I’d love to see the Ksav (writing) on this massive mezuzah. (written with an ostrich feather ?!!!) Also, Dali was a crazy man, anything he did should not be taken seriously, i never heard he was a fascist. If he designed a Mezuzah CASE, then let it be used !! People always ask for the smallest mezuzah, its about time we show… Read more »
Nice!
But this doesn’t look as big as the one that they put at Ben Gurion.
omg lol
The Divine Presence at the Kosel and l’havdil Salavador Dali could not be more diametrically opposite…
if someone knows a little history or art,should know that Salvador Dalì was symphatetic with the nazi regime.