[Avodah] Open Door Policy

[Yosef Skolnick]

>
>    This could also be a situation where the husband isn't in the city, and
> that doesn't just have to mean he's traveling. According to sefer Minchat
> Ish on Hilchot Yichud, ba'alah ba'ir applies to areas that people call by
> the same city name. This leads to the rather paradoxical situation that one
> rabbi in Chicago whose shul is a half mile away from his home, on the
> Evanston side of the Evanston-Chicago border, would not be ba'ir if his wife
> were expecting a repairman and he was at shul. On the other hand if he were
> over 20 miles away on the Chicago side of the south border of the city he
> would be ba'ir.
>
> Isn't chicago broken up further into different areas?  Meaning that each
different section isn't so large as to necessitate the differentiation that
you are making.

>
> Besides that, wouldn't the repairman also have to have ishto imo, not just
> ba'ir? (Or does either of these halachot suffice to permit yichud?)
>
> --Ken
>
> In this case, I believe the fact that he is someone who is involved in his
profession, and wouldn't risk his reputation, would help to remove him from
this issue.

Yosef
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