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"Folks should remind
others to wear their safety
belts. Remember, there could
be a dummy in your car"
iriam and Jack on her bedroom, foyer and front
Shenkman have no doors.
For a while, "business" was
problem selecting house-
slow after most of their friends
warming gifts.
After all, the 75-year-old part- moved to Florida. But now
time Boca Raton residents have friends' children and grandchil-
been giving everyone the same dren are buying homes and re-
questing Shenkman mezuzot,
present for about 17 years.
When their friends started Mrs. Shenkman said.
"The mezuzot are a confir-
moving to south Florida, the
Shenkmans were concerned mation of (the Shenkmans')
many of them were purchasing deep dedication to Judaism,"
non-kosher mezuzot for their said Dr. Jack Lawson
door frames. So the longtime De- of Boca Raton, whose niece and
troiters collected and distributed sister received a Shenkman-
different types of the spiritual style ceremony at the end of De-
cember. "The one they gave me
containers and scrolls.
Then the friends asked if the just further enhanced our
couple would give a mezuzah to friendship."
another friend.
And another.
Now, almost
200 mezuzot later,
their silver, gold-
plated, ceramic
and brass gifts dec-
orate the homes
of friends and
strangers from
Coral Gables to
Detroit. Their
"supply house" is a
Judaica shop in
New York, Mrs.
Shenkman said.
"We're very
honored to be able Miriam and Jack Shenkman place a mezuzah.
to do this," she
said. "Some people
The significance of their gifts
have been so touched, they
really hit home two years ago
cried."
But the Shenkmans, who be- when a friend was hospitalized,
long to Congregation Beth Abra- Mrs. Shenkman said. He asked
ham Hillel Moses and support the couple if they would hang a
many Jewish causes, do not just mezuzah on every door in his
give the mezuzot away. They home.
They Also checked the one on
also created a 10-minute hang-
ing ceremony that was approved the front door and found it wasn't
by Rabbi Yitzchok Kagan of the only not kosher, but upside down
Lubavitch Foundation of Michi- — which some Jews believe could
gan. It explains the history and be the cause of mysterious ill-
significance of the mezuzah and nesses in the house.
"It really meant a great deal to
includes appropriate prayers,
him that we did that," Mrs.
Mrs. Shenkman said.
"As a rule, we won't give away Shenkman said. "It made us feel
a mezuzah without doing the very humble."
The couple would also like to
ceremony," said Mrs. Shenkman,
who has silver mezuzot hanging give mezuzot to people who can-
not afford to buy one.
"We do this as a mitzvah for
Ronni Dreyfuss is a staff writer
us,
and for them," Mrs.
for our sister paper, the Palm
Shenkman said. ❑
Beach Jewish Times.
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