[Avodah] goy vs chiloni

[Eli Turkel]

Just to get the facts right I assume R. Zilberstein is referring to
the usual door in
Israeli apartment building. These doors are basically manual and can
be opened from
the outside with a key and from the inside with a handle. In ADDITION
they can be
opened from the outside electronically by pushing the correct combination and
(the case he is discussing) from inside every apartment by pushing a buzzer.
His heter is based on the act that the person on the inside could have
gone down to the door
and opened in manually.

My assumption is that the halacha would be different if it could only
be opened electronically
ie a hotel room that has only electronic access from the outside
without any manual override

kol tuv

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Eli Turkel