MEZUZAH AND MORE

I recently gave a shiur intitled Hiddur Mitzvah of Tefillin and the Difference between Ashkenaz and Sefardi Tefillin. It's available here.

The Torah teaches that mezuzos must be placed on the door into our houses (Deuteronomy 6:9). Does every room inside the house require a mezuzah as well? This question was asked of The Maharil (Rav Yaakov Moelin, 1365-1427) in an unusual way. The questioner felt that he wanted to show extra love for the mitzvah of mezuzah by placing a mezuzah on every door inside his home. He was concerned however that doing so would demonstrate haughtiness (yuhara) because common practice at

The Talmud (Menachos 33a) records testimony that the doorway through which Rabbi Yehuda Hanassi (Rebbe) entered his beis medrash did not have a mezuzah. The Talmud questions why it did not and refers to the beis medrash of Rav Huna as an example that such doorways should have a mezuzah. The Talmud answers that in the laws of mezuzah we follow the commonly used entrance. One can infer from this gemara that when there are multiple entrances to a room or to a house, only the mos