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Jesus' parents were devout Jews, who probably had a mezuzah (a roll of parchment containing an ancient Hebrew prayer known as the Shema) on the doorpost of their modest home in Nazareth and kept a kosher kitchen. "We may deduce," Aron says, "that Jesus observed the dietary laws." Aron believes that Mary probably put tzitzit, or fringes on the child's coat, in obedience to an injunction in Deuteronomy, and that Joseph taught him the carpenter's trade. "Just as it is necessary to feed one's son," says the Talmud, "so it is necessary...
Leaning against the doorpost I strain to see afar in time The fate that waits our present age . . . The Pharisees exult. How hard This life, and long my way of stone...
...murder by the wailing widows and orphans of the dead. While the audience screams for his head, the terrified stranger is forced to draw back the blanket covering the corpses-and discovers that his "victims" were nothing more than three inflated wineskins that had been tied to his doorpost. Everyone but the stranger has a good chuckle as he learns that he has been the butt of the town's annual Festival of Laughter...
...great voice trumpeted behind him, how must the Saint, on the verge of the Apocalypse, have looked? That was the question Sculptor John Angel has spent eight months trying to answer. Angel, one of the top church sculptors, had been commissioned to carve Saint John for the central doorpost of Manhattan's slowly building Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, which was originally designed to be Romanesque and is gradually growing up to be Gothic...
...rabbi reported: "On one occasion the 'mazooza' [a packet approximately four inches long, which contains a portion of the Scriptures and is nailed to the doorpost of the entrance to the congregation, and is regarded as a very sacred object] was found to be denied and smeared with manure. I, personally, saw that desecration and I myself wiped the surrounding area...