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A small parchment scroll (Hebrew: klaf), written by hand in Hebrew, was originally placed in a mezuzah, an oblong box that has not survived. On the inside of the parchment, there are two Torah fragments: Deut. 6:4–9 with part of the Shema Yisrael prayer ("Listen, O Israel!") and Deut. 11:13–21. The reverse of the parchment bears the Hebrew inscription "Shaddai" (Almighty), visible through the window in the case, as well as three words in Hebrew, which are encrypted forms of God's designation: HaShem Elohejnu HaShem (Hebrew: the Lord, our God, the Lord).

The mezuzah, along with the scroll, is attached to the right door frame at the main entrance and on the frames of the doors leading to different rooms in a Jewish house, as well as on the gates of tenement houses and houses. Pious Jews touch the mezuzah with the fingers of their right hand when entering and leaving a particular room, and then kiss it. The mezuzahs are intended to sanctify the house and constantly remind its inhabitants of God's omnipotence ( more in: Zofia Borzymińska, mezuza; Mezuza, in: Polski Słownik Judaistyczny, Warsaw 2003, vol. 2, pp. 147–148).

The item was donated to the Lublin Open Air Village Museum in 1994 by a resident of Lublin.