A slightly more interesting/hair splitty question... Would it be considered "OK" if you put some select quotations from Psalms or something in there instead? It seems from an outsider perspective not to be in violation of anything specifically... but if there are laws about *how* you pray, that could certainly be problematic... Or is it not in violation of any laws, but sort of generically disrespectful to be swinging a piece of scripture around?
(1) We don't like to mess around with holy texts on scroll. We keep them sealed up in mind condition because they're expensive and holy.
(2) We don't believe that you can pray with a text except by reading it out loud. The only reason we have texts posted on our doors in mezuzahs is because G-d specifically says "You shall post it on your doorframe." The same with tefillin "you shall put it over your eyes and by your heart" (not an exact quote here.
(3) We try not to imitate the customs of the gentiles, though we do end up doing a lot of it anyway. Most of our non-Torah customs are Greek or Zoroastrian.
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(1) We don't like to mess around with holy texts on scroll. We keep them sealed up in mind condition because they're expensive and holy.
(2) We don't believe that you can pray with a text except by reading it out loud. The only reason we have texts posted on our doors in mezuzahs is because G-d specifically says "You shall post it on your doorframe." The same with tefillin "you shall put it over your eyes and by your heart" (not an exact quote here.
(3) We try not to imitate the customs of the gentiles, though we do end up doing a lot of it anyway. Most of our non-Torah customs are Greek or Zoroastrian.
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