One thing you don’t expect to find in a mezuzah? A swastika.
Thinking of it gives one the chills.
A noted sofer stam encountered just that.
The Ohio sofer was brought mezuzos to check. What he thought would be a routine examination left his mouth agape. Upon opening a mezuzah, he find a swastika written in red on the actual parchment.
At this point, no one knows how long ago the swastika was drawn, who might have done it, or whether someone removed a mezuzah from the wall to do it and then reaffixed it.
“It is truly shocking,” a neighbohr told Matzav.com. “Hopefully, the perpetrator can be found. To say this is sacrilegious is an understatement. We are shocked and appalled.”
{CB Frommer-Matzav.com Newscenter}
this will be the first time a swastika will be put in geniza…!
Why does it look like the top line of the mezuzah is cut off?
because it was cut off
Probably a self hating sofer
Maybe the mezuzah is from Germany circa 1935. ?
I think the szastka was there first and a mezuzah was written upon it, le’hacris(להכרית). We shall overcome, yes we will.
feather pen, this was done by a disgruntled employee, who belonged to a biker gang, in the month of elul please keep your judgemental comments to yourself, I know the sofer personaly, aswell as where the mezuzos were from, the owner of the establishment is an upstanding yorei shomayim
deep think, no it is from an office in ohio