She threatens the doorkeeper: "If thou openest not that I may enter I will smash the doorpost and unhinge the gate.
Mezuzah, also spelled Mezuza (Hebrew: "doorpost"), plural Mezuzoth, Mezuzot, Mezuzahs, or Mezuzas, small folded or rolled parchment inscribed by a qualified calligraphist with scriptural verses (Deuteronomy 6 4 9, 11 13 21) to remind Jews of their obligations toward God.
After a special blessing is recited, the mezuzah is firmly fixed to the main doorpost of the home (to the right as one enters).
He nodded his head — he needed his arms to hang on to the doorpost.
Thorsteinn went into his house and held on to the doorpost.
There were two very small Danish plastic flags in the TV room, one of which my friend stuck between the door and the doorpost to lure the Danish in.
The physical traces of these traditions here are literally cast in stone in the remains of Jewish quarters in nearly every town — Hebrew letters on a grave, the indentation on the right side of an ancient doorpost indicating a once-posted mezuza, names like Rue de la Juiverie or Rue de Jérusalem found on cobblestone streets.
You can see the colours he used, preserved in stripes on the doorpost of the little thatched summer house where he sat to work and where his assistant cleaned his brushes: cyclamen, deep brown, turquoise and green.
From the moment we first see her in the doorway of Steve/Bogart's Martinique hotel room in To Have And Have Not (it was Hawks's brilliant notion to have her slouching against the doorpost), we realise, as Steve realises, that this is a woman who is all angles - angular beauty, sharp, angled suits; lippy, funny, sexy, provocative.
But there are three windows overlooking the street like the house in Ariela's picture and a mezuzah shadow on the doorpost.
As we search the facades for similarities to the one in Ariela's photograph, we see that on almost every right-hand doorpost at head height is a pale rectangle of lighter wood, a few centimetres long and set at an angle.
