POSTS
(Heb. “mezuza”). Timbers to which the doors were secured (1 Kings 6:33). Sometimes there was a stone column instead of a piece of wood.
The Hebrew slave who wanted to remain in perpetuity with his master when the sabbatical year arrived had his ear pierced against the post with an awl (Ex. 21:6; Deut. 15:17).
Orthodox Jews placed a piece of parchment called a “mezuza” (doorpost), on which were written, in twenty-two lines, Deut. 6:4-9 and 11:13-21. They put them inside a small wooden, metal or glass box and fixed it to the post, as these passages order.