A rabbi visited Israel. A new neighborhood was being built near Haifa. He noticed that a person was busy making a door for his home. This person was not a carpenter, or someone who possessed building skills. The rabbi asked whether the apartment was built so poorly that the door needed to be replaced so soon. The man explained that the building was contracted so that each apart was to be finished without a front door. In that way each new owner was free to design his own door and install himself, representing the individuality of the new owner.
We have been doing this since Torah times. It is called a mezzuza.
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