An Unfortunate Scam

I just bought my first home. As a bar mitzvah gift, one of my cousins had bought me a mezzuzah with a visible scroll and told me it was for my first home. When I was 13, I didn’t seem to understand the importance of this gift. The day family came.

Unfortunately, we had misplaced this mezzuzah after moving houses a couple times. Today my mother gave me a gift, a wonderful looking mezzuzah. Previously I had told her before that most mezzuzahs only come with a sample scroll, and most are just selling mezzuzahs that are cases for klafs.

The image is the “Kosher” klaf she bought from Amazon. It is clearly not well done, and it is very doubtful it is Kosher. The listing says:

100% Kosher hand-written by a “Sofer Stam” (expert scribe) certified by the Israel Ranninot, checked by a Proofreader Expert Certified “Mishmeret Stam”.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084JDFLSD?ref=cm_sw_r_cso_sms_apin_dp_2HGQC09KJ0THQVAWA8KJ&ref_=cm_sw_r_cso_sms_apin_dp_2HGQC09KJ0THQVAWA8KJ&social_share=cm_sw_r_cso_sms_apin_dp_2HGQC09KJ0THQVAWA8KJ&previewDohEventScheduleTesting=C&csmig=1

I’d like to post this to advise people against purchase klafs from retailers who don’t specialize in Judaica. It really looks like someone just wrote this in pen and called it a day.

I’m looking forward to going to my local Judaica store and buying a real one.

To most it doesn’t matter and I’m sure many people have hung mezzuzahs that are just empty cases or cases with printed sample scrolls.