We just purchased our first mezuzza and want to know how to proceed with putting it on my door. Is there a prayer and a proccdure? Also can I get a translation of the 170 words as I cannot read Hebrew. Thank you

I am happily married to a man who is not Jewish, but who is more interested in Jewish culture than many Jews I know. He is very intelligent and moral and goodhearted. Most of our friends are Jewish. I was a lapsed Jew myself for many years and have recently rediscvered my own faith. We keep Shabat every week and I would like to celebrate holidays but I am more tentative about this because I am not a member of a temple. Now I have a longing to join a synagogue and wonder if there is a place for us ? Please advise. (He is a lapsed Catholic but has no interest in the religion of his birth .We are past childbearing age.)

I don’t understand if the reason for Hashem punishing us and bringing upon us pain and suffering, more specifically the destruction of the temple and all the bad stuff such as women having to eat their own babies to survive and so on, is not just to punish us and to take vengence upon us, Hashem is not some king or authoritative figure who finds pleasure in hurting us but really wants to have a loving relationship with us and the bottom line for him to have that relationship then whats the point of all the suffering and punishment wouldn’t it make more sense that when Jews go away from Hashem and ruin their relationship with him that Hashem should point out that he loves us and cares for us and tells us that we shouldn’t give up this great relatinship with him and inform us of the wondeful relationship we giviing up on by doing averos and moving far away from him I don’t understand How punishment and making us have pain is going to lead us back to that relationship in fact I think that there is more of a chance for people to say to Hashem that if this is what you do to me I don’t want to have a relationship with such a being and leave me alone.I just feel that this approach of punishment and suffering will not accomplish the goal. It seems like Hashem is trying to reestablish his relationship with us through a very childish method cause even if we do give in to the pain and suffering and say ok Hashem you win “I wont do averos anymore and I will have more love for my fellow jew”if we are only doing it as a reaction to the suffering and pain and not because we want that relationship then what is the point of the destruction,pain and suffering after all.

Why is our Faith based so much on superstition? It just seems that we can do better in living our lives without all of that. Thank You in advance David............

ShalomIn the Spher Melachim 3:12 it says: Behold, I have done according tothy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; sothat there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shallany arise like unto thee. This is talking about the greatness andwisdon of Shlomo, but before him came also Moshe, and about him wassaid something similar, that no one like him will raise again, andalso if after Shlomo no one will come as wise as him, so what´s up with Meshiach, it says in the Midras that he is greater than thefathers and than moshe, the Universe was created for Meshiach unlessMeshiach is cosidered an Angel, maybe in this case can Shlomo be thegreatest, but we still have Moshe who came before him. What do you think about thisw matter.Thanks Yom Tov.