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Recent Q&A

May a man and woman be alone in the same home if his daughter is present? I live alone with my daughter who would like to have a female guest stay over for a few days. Is this ok?

 

This matter is disputed amongst the Poskim. Practically, you may be lenient during daytime and non-sleep hours of night, at night past the time people go to sleep you should have another Shomer.

 

See Zechor Leavraham [Machmir], brought in Pischeiy Teshuvah E.H. 22:2; Beis Shlomo O.C. 48 [Machmir initially, Meikal Shaas Hadechak]; Yosef Ometz 26 [Chida; Stringent]; Dvar Halacha 8:4; Igros Moshe E.H. 2:15 4:65-8 [lenient even at night]; Toras Hayichud 8:3 and 18 [permits even at night]; Nitei Gavriel 27:4 [lenient] and 14 [stringent]

Sefaradim:

It is forbidden for a Sefaradi man to be alone with a group of women, or a group of Sefaradi women to be alone with a man, unless one of the valid Yichud breakers are applicable.

Ashkenazim:

Yichud of man and two women: Is forbidden, unless one of the valid Yichud breakers are applicable.

Yichud of man and three women or more: In a time of need, one may be lenient to allow a man to be alone with three women, even if no other Yichud breakers are applicable, if the man does not work with women for his occupation. However, at night, or on the road outside of the city, it is initially best to have four women present.

May a man and a group of women be alone together? – Shulchanaruchharav.com

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Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein is a 6th generation descendent of the famous Chief Rabbi of Izhmir, Rav Yehoshua Avraham Krispin, who authored a number of Sefarim, and was a colleague of Rav Chaim Falagi, and father in-law of the Pesach Hadvir. He currently lives with his wife Shayna, and twelve children K”H, in Tzfas, Israel. Rabbi Goldstein received Semicha from Rabbi Schneur Zalman Labkowski of the Tomchei Temimim headquarters in 2005 and served as a chaplain in the Lotar/Kalatz and K9 unit of the IDF from years 2005-2008. He is also a certified Shochet, and has performed Hashgacha work in slaughterhouses. Rabbi Goldstein is the director of Shulchanaruchharav.com, the world’s leading web-based Halacha database, and is the director of the Home Study Semicha Program, a self-study web-based Semicha program. He is a prolific author of over 50 Sefarim studied by a wide range of readers throughout the world, which is used regularly in Semicha programs around the globe. He is a world renowned Posek, answering questions to a web-based market, and serves as a local Posek, Rav, and Lecturer, in the Tzemach Tzedek community Shul in Tzefas, Israel. His many classes can be heard both from his website, Vimeo and YouTube channel. Students can join live to classes given in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul, through the “בית חבד צפת Chabad Tsfat” YouTube channel.

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