Halakhah for Menachot 65:5

אמר רב יהודה אמר רב עשאה כמין נגר פסולה איני והא כי אתא רב יצחק בר יוסף אמר כולהו מזוזתא דבי רבי כמין נגר הוו עבידן וההיא פיתחא דעייל ביה רבי לבי מדרשא לא הוה לה מזוזה לא קשיא הא דעבידא כסיכתא הא דעבידא כאיסתוירא

In what circumstances?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Is one to be guided by the conclusiveness of the hinge.');">⁴</span> - For example, where there is a door between two houses, one house being for men and the other for women.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The mezuzah must be affixed to the right door-post as one enters the house; in this case, however, where one door communicates between two houses, whilst each house has its own door leading into the street, it is difficult to establish which house leads into the other, and on which door-post of this door is the mezuzah to be fixed. We are therefore taught the following test: that side of the door where the sockets for the door-pin are placed is considered to be the inside. Accordingly the mezuzah must be affixed to the right door-post as one enters that house on the inside of which the sockets are found.');">⁵</span>

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