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# If a doorway only has one doorpost, such as if the lintel is connected to a wall, then if the standing doorpost is on the right, one should put up a mezuzah without a bracha or recite a bracha when putting up a mezuzah in a doorway that is obligated and then put up this mezuzah. If the standing doorpost is on the left, that doorway isn't obligated in a mezuzah.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 11:11, HaMezuzah VeHilchoteha 10:4</ref> | # If a doorway only has one doorpost, such as if the lintel is connected to a wall, then if the standing doorpost is on the right, one should put up a mezuzah without a bracha or recite a bracha when putting up a mezuzah in a doorway that is obligated and then put up this mezuzah. If the standing doorpost is on the left, that doorway isn't obligated in a mezuzah.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 11:11, HaMezuzah VeHilchoteha 10:4</ref> | ||
==Bathrooms and Bedrooms== | ===Bathrooms and Bedrooms=== | ||
# A mezuzah should not be put up by the doorway to a bathroom, mikveh room, or a room people wash in and stand there undressed.<ref> Yoma 11b, Shulchan Aruch YD 286:4, Aruch HaShulchan YD 286:5, Yalkut Yosef 285:43</ref> | # A mezuzah should not be put up by the doorway to a bathroom, mikveh room, or a room people wash in and stand there undressed.<ref> Yoma 11b, Shulchan Aruch YD 286:4, Aruch HaShulchan YD 286:5, Yalkut Yosef 285:43</ref> | ||
# A bedroom should have a mezuzah.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 285:5</ref> However, when a couple is together if the mezuzah is on the inside of the door it should be covered.<Ref>Yalkut Yosef YD 285:41</ref> | # A bedroom should have a mezuzah.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 285:5</ref> However, when a couple is together if the mezuzah is on the inside of the door it should be covered.<Ref>Yalkut Yosef YD 285:41</ref> | ||
