Why Blown glass Mezuzot?
When I was very young we had silver mezuzot with a glass beads embedded in them on the all of the kids bedroom doors. Mine had a blue sapphire stone in it which represented my birth stone as was popular in the 60s. My mother told me that the mezuzah had a parchment inside it which contained the prayers we said every night before bed. As soon as I was old enough to push a chair to the door frame, and get a butter knife from the kitchen drawyer, I pried the mezuzah off the wall to examine the scroll destroying both the mezuzah and scroll in the process. As an adult The first piece of Judaica i made was a Glass mezuzah so i could see the scroll whenever i looked at it. All of our blown glass mezuzot are hand made glass with custom made silver or copper end caps. They Mount with brads or small screws. The mezuzah comes with a photo- mechanical reproduction of a parchment which is not kosher. if you’re buying this as a gift the recipient traditionally buys a parchment from there local Hebre
