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<div><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="Arial">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.<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span id=""></span><br>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?)<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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