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Halakhah for Menachot 58:6

אמר רבא שבעה אותיות צריכות שלשה זיונין ואלו הן שעטנ"ז ג"ץ אמר רב אשי חזינא להו לספרי דווקני דבי רב דחטרי להו לגגיה דחי"ת ותלו ליה לכרעיה דה"י

Then said Moses, 'Lord of the Universe, Thou hast shown me his Torah, show me his reward'.' Turn thee round', said He; and Moses turned round and saw them weighing out his flesh at the market-stalls.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Akiba died a martyr's death at the hands of the Romans during the Hadrianic persecution. V. Ber. 61b. mdzbyga');"><sup>9</sup></span> 'Lord of the Universe', cried Moses, 'such Torah, and such a reward!' He replied, 'Be silent, for such is My decree'.

Sefer HaChinukh

And [also] that which they said (Yoma 11b) that the mezuzah of an individual is to be checked twice in a seven-year period, and that of a group twice in a jubilee period. And [also] that which they said (Menachot 29b) concerning the crowns, "Rava [Rabbah] said, 'Seven letters in the mezuzah need three [letters,] zayin each, and these are them, shin, ayin, tet, nun, zayin, gimmel, tsaddi (shatnez gets)'" - meaning to say that each letter in the mezuzah from these requires three crowns. And [also] that which they said (Menachot 44a) that one who rents a house outside of the Land [of Israel] and one lives in an inn in the Land of Israel are exempt from a mezuzah for thirty days, but that one who rents a house in the Land of Israel is obligated immediately [to affix] a mezuzah. And [when a landlord] rents out a house to his fellow, it is upon the renter to bring a mezuzah and to affix it, as it is an obligation on the resident. And when he leaves, he can not take it [away] in his hand, unless the house belonged to a gentile (Mishneh Torah, Laws of Tefillin, Mezuzah and the Torah Scroll 5:11). And there are ten conditions that are required of a house before it is obligated in [having] a mezuzah, and these are them: 1)That there be enough [space] to make a square of four ells by four ells; 2) that it have two doorposts; 3) and a lintel; 4) and a roof; 5) and doors; 6) and that the gate be ten or more handbreadths tall; 7) that the house be non-sacred; 8) that it be designed for the residence of a man; 9) that it be designed for residing in dignity: 10) and that it be designed for permanent residence. And a house that has many openings is obligated in the affixing of a mezuzah in each of them, even though he is only accustomed to entering regularly through one of them (Menachot 44a; Mishneh Torah, Laws of Tefillin, Mezuzah and the Torah Scroll 6:10). And a small opening that is between a house and an attic that people sometimes make at the feet of a ladder, upon which people climb to the attic, is obligated in [having] a mezuzah. And rooms in a house - even a room within a room - are all obligated in [having] a mezuzah, since all of them are made for residing. [These] and the rest of the details of the commandment are [all] elucidated in the third chapter of Tractate Menachot (See Tur, Yoreh Deah 285).
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