Extra Large Birkat HaBayit Cream Jerusalem Stone Mezuzah

Birkat HaBayit (בִּרְכַּת הַבַּיִת, Blessing for the Home) is the text most Jewish households keep somewhere near the entrance: no sadness in this house, no trouble at this gate, no fear and no strife. Here it is worked in raised gold Hebrew into a nine-inch column of cream Jerusalem stone, so the blessing and the doorpost become a single object rather than two separate things on the same wall.

This is as much a housewarming and wedding piece as a doorway fixture, which is why it appears so consistently in our wedding gift mezuzahs and at the upper end of our mezuzah gifts. At nine inches it wants a front entrance or a wide hall, and it is best compared against the rest of our extra large mezuzahs before you commit to the scale.

Extra Large Birkat HaBayit Cream Jerusalem Stone Mezuzah Specs

Use the specs below to confirm scroll fit, material, measurements, mounting and recommended placement for this extra large Birkat HaBayit mezuzah case.

• Origin: Made in Israel
• Scroll Fit: Fits a 4-Inch (10 cm) up to 8-Inch (20 cm) kosher mezuzah scroll
• Material: Real Jerusalem stone
• Color: Cream with raised gold lettering
• Design: Birkat HaBayit home blessing in raised Hebrew
• Measurements: 9" tall by 1" wide / 22.8 cm by 2.5 cm
• Mounting: Affixes with extra-strong double-sided mezuzah mounting tape, included. No nails needed.
• Use: Suitable for indoor doorways and exterior doorways
• Water-resistant: Yes, when sealed properly with double-sided tape
• How to Insert Scroll: Back
• Packaging: Ships gift-box ready

Birkat HaBayit Mezuzah Scroll Guidance

This case holds a kosher scroll from 4 inches (10 cm) through 8 inches (20 cm), and the matching parchment is shown in the product add-on area near the Add to Cart button. A 6-inch (15 cm) klaf suits the proportions best: the Mehudar Ashkenazi Mezuzah Scroll for Ashkenazi households, the Mehudar Sephardic Mezuzah Scroll for Sephardi families, or the Alter Rebbe Chabad Mezuzah Scroll for Chabad.

If you buy the scroll from us as well, we can ship your mezuzah with the scroll carefully rolled and inserted inside the case. When this mezuzah is shipped with a scroll already inserted, we seal the back with double-sided tape to help create an airtight seal, making the case usable on exterior doorways when properly sealed.

One point worth stating plainly, because it comes up often: the blessing on the face of this case is decorative and carries no halachic weight of its own. The mitzvah (מִצְוָה, commandment) rests entirely on the kosher klaf (קְלָף, parchment) sealed inside, which carries the Shema (שְׁמַע) and the parshiyot (פָּרָשִׁיּוֹת, Torah passages) written by hand by a sofer (סוֹפֵר, scribe). One is a sentiment on the outside; the other is the obligation on the inside.

Where minhag (מִנְהָג, custom) matters, our Ashkenaz Mezuzahs and our Sephardi Mezuzahs are separated for exactly that reason, the full range sits in the main kosher mezuzah scroll collection, and our guide to mezuzah lettering styles explains what distinguishes each ksav tradition.

Extra Large Birkat HaBayit Jerusalem Stone Mezuzah Design

The blessing is set as running raised Hebrew down the length of the column, which is a harder thing to execute in stone than a single symbol: the letters have to stay legible at depth without the strokes breaking at the serifs. Reading it takes a moment at the doorway, and that pause is precisely the effect the text is after.

• Birkat HaBayit text: The traditional home blessing in raised gold Hebrew
• Real Jerusalem limestone: Quarried and finished in Israel
• Nine-inch scale: Sized for a front entrance or a wide entry hall
• Raised lettering: Catches side light rather than flattening out under it
• Gift-box ready: Packed for a wedding, housewarming or new home as shipped

Giving a Birkat HaBayit Mezuzah as a Gift

A blessing for the home is difficult to get wrong as a present for a first house, a move, or a chuppah, and it ships gift-box ready without needing to be asked for. If the recipient's entrance is fully exposed to weather, the safer choice is something from our outdoor mezuzahs; on a covered porch this case holds up perfectly well once sealed with the included mezuzah mounting tape.

It is worth sending our guide to putting up a mezuzah along with it, since most recipients have never mounted one themselves, and which rooms need a mezuzah answers the question that follows immediately afterwards about the rest of the house.

Get Mezuzahs for Your Entire Home!

Jewish tradition places a mezuzah on nearly every doorway of the home, not only the front door. Bedrooms, the kitchen, a study and the back door all take one, which is why most families build their collection a few doors at a time. Our guide to which rooms need a mezuzah works through which doorways are obligated, and the full range of mezuzot is organised by size, material and colour so a second case is easy to match to the first.