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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>From: "Jay F. Shachter via Avodah"
<avodah@lists.aishdas.org><BR><BR>>> I've had this question for a
year and a half, ever since I stopped<BR>staying in hotel rooms and started
staying in rented apartments when I<BR>go to Paris, to save
money.<BR><BR>...This street-facing door can be opened from the outside<BR>only
electronically, by typing a code on a keypad, or with a proximity<BR>sensor in
the newer residences. ...From the inside, the building<BR>door can usually
be opened mechanically, although in some of the newer<BR>buildings there is no
way to open the building door mechanically from<BR>the inside, you have to press
a button to open the door electronically<BR>if you want to leave your
building. ...The indoor lights, both in the carmelith </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>and inside the residential building, cannot be left on; ... In
some cases<BR>there is a motion detector ... that turns on the
lights.<BR><BR>So, what the devil do French Jews do on
Shabbath? ...<BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>...As for<BR>my trying to locate the mara d'athra from where I am, I
would if I<BR>could....
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Jay F. ("Yaakov")
Shachter<BR>
<A
href="mailto:jay@m5.chicago.il.us">jay@m5.chicago.il.us</A><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Since there are opinions (even if only a small minority) that are lenient
about electricity on Shabbos, maybe you can be lenient about amira legoy with
regard to electricity, and arrange for a goy to open doors and press buttons for
you, if there is no other way to get in and out of the building. Give him
a tip after Shabbos. Alternatively you can stand around for however long it
takes and wait for someone else to go in (or out) and scoot in after him.</DIV>
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<DIV>As for motion detectors, I was told that if you couldn't avoid the motion
detector you could just go about your normal activities and ignore it. It
seems to me that even if you benefit by the light coming on, you are not doing
anything to make it happen and you are just walking around as you would even if
there were no light. But again if it worries you, you can wait until
someone else walks in and then scoot in with him. Be sure and rent an
apartment in a large building with a lot of residents and servants coming
and going -- and not too many Jews! :- )</DIV>
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<DIV>To locate the mara d'asra, first locate a shul -- any shul -- and/or a
kosher grocery store or bakery. Or call Chabad -- in London or Belgium if
Chabad in Paris is unlisted. Sooner or later you'll find a rabbi, and I
don't believe he has to be "the" rabbi of the neighborhood where your apartment
is.</DIV>
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<DIV>Hatzlacha rabba and have a good Shabbos or do they say "Bon Chabat" in
Paree?</DIV>
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<DIV><B><FONT color=#0000ff>--Toby Katz<BR>t613k@aol.com</FONT><FONT lang=0
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