Related%20passage for Menachot 63:11

הא מורידין עושין והתניא הלכה למשה מסיני תפילין על הקלף ומזוזה על דוכסוסטוס קלף במקום בשר דוכסוסטוס במקום שער למצוה

Here the portions are closed but there they are open!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For in the scroll of the Law the space after the (i.e., Deut. VI, 4-9, the first passage in the mezuzah) is closed, and in the mezuzah it is to be left open. We must therefore say that R. Simeon b. Eleazar meant that it may even be left open, thus supporting R. Nahman's view!');">¹⁰</span> - Perhaps [it would have been permitted] only to complete<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., if a word or a line was missing in the mezuzah it would be permitted to patch it up with the same word or the same line cut out from the worn out scroll of the Law or from the tefillin, were it not for the general restriction against lowering the sanctity of a sacred object. But the space between the sections of the mezuzah must in fact be left open.');">¹¹</span>

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