אמר ליה אנא הכי קא קשיא לי מאי שנא דכתיב ביה ולא כתיב יה
They add a vertical stroke to the roof of the letter heth, signifying thereby that He lives in the heights of the word.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The letter heth is the initial letter of the word , 'He lives', and the stroke or tower above indicates that the abode of the living God is on high. ohnkug rum 'v vhc hf');"><sup>12</sup></span> And they suspend the [inner] leg of the letter he for the reason given in the following discussion. For R'Judah the patriarch asked R'Ammi, What is the meaning of the verse, Trust ye in the Lord for ever; for in Yah the Lord is an everlasting rock?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Isa. XXVI, 4. The latter half of the verse reads and this is interpreted as meaning 'for with Yah (i.e., with the letters yod and he) the Lord formed the worlds.'');"><sup>13</sup></span>
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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