Livre d'Or

This is almost entirly tangential to what you've actually written here, but I'd never heard of a mezuzah before, so I had to go and look up what they were, and look at pictures, and look up the relevant passages from Deuteronomy, and so forth. I find the existance of such things to be quite fascinating, though very slightly disturbingly literal (though if you're going for literal interpretation of scripture, I guess that's a fairly nice bit to take literally). This reminds me just how shockingly little I actually know of Judaism. (And also finally motivated me to actually go and look up what the Omer is as well. I can't believe that's been sitting at the foot of your entries for over a month now, and I've only just now got around to looking it up.)