Mesorat%20hashas for Menachot 87:15

אמרו לו אמרת אמר להו לא אלא מאן דלית ליה תרי מצות חד מצוה נמי לא ליעביד ומעיקרא מאי סבר גזירה שמא יפשע

So, too, it was taught in a Baraitha: He who stays at an inn in the Land of Israel or who rents a house outside the Land [of Israel] is, for the first thirty days, exempt from mezuzah, thereafter he is subject to it. But he who rents a house within the Land of Israel is bound to affix a mezuzah forthwith, in order to maintain the settlement in the Land of Israel.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The rule that the tenant must fix the mezuzah will deter him from leaving the premises since he would not be permitted to remove it on leaving; v. B.M. 102a. Furthermore, even if he were to leave the premises the house would soon be let again because of the advantage of its having mezuzoth affixed.');">⁸</span>

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