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#Every doorway of one's house is obligated in mezuzah. Even if a room has several doorways, each one is obligated in having a mezuzah. If a doorway isn't used for entering it doesn't need a mezuzah.<ref>Maharil (responsa 94) bemoans the fact that many people think that it is sufficient to have one mezuzah per house when in fact every doorway requires its own mezuzah. The Darkei Moshe 286:4 cites the Maharil. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 11:1 concurs.</ref> | #Every doorway of one's house is obligated in mezuzah. Even if a room has several doorways, each one is obligated in having a mezuzah. If a doorway isn't used for entering it doesn't need a mezuzah.<ref>Maharil (responsa 94) bemoans the fact that many people think that it is sufficient to have one mezuzah per house when in fact every doorway requires its own mezuzah. The Darkei Moshe 286:4 cites the Maharil. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 11:1 concurs.</ref> | ||
===Cellar Doors=== | ===Cellar Doors=== | ||
#The doorpost of a cellar that is lying flat on the ground is not obligated in having a mezuzah.<ref>Chaye Adam 15:15 writes that a cellar door on the floor is exempt from mezuzah based on Kiddushin 22b that states that a doorpost lying on the ground isn't considered a doorpost. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 11:20 and Aruch Hashulchan YD 286:41 concur.</ref> | #The doorpost of a cellar that is lying flat or nearly flat<ref> [https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1037812/Rabbi%20Mordechai%20I.%20Willig/Mezuzah%20Shiur%2029%20-%20Emergency%20Exits,%20Cellars,%20Hospitals,%20Safek%20Safeka%20in%20Hilchos%20Mezuzah Rav Mordechai Willig (Mezuzah Shiur 29, min 3)] explained based on Chazon Ish OC 73:9 that if it is less than 22.6 degrees, which is the measure of a slope in eruvin that counts as a wall, it is exempt from mezuzah.</ref> on the ground is not obligated in having a mezuzah.<ref>Chaye Adam 15:15 writes that a cellar door on the floor is exempt from mezuzah based on Kiddushin 22b that states that a doorpost lying on the ground isn't considered a doorpost. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 11:20 and Aruch Hashulchan YD 286:41 concur.</ref> | ||
===Emergency Exits=== | ===Emergency Exits=== | ||
#An emergency exit or any door only used to exit is not obligated in a mezuzah.<ref>Minchat Shlomo 2:100:5, [https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1037812/Rabbi%20Mordechai%20I.%20Willig/Mezuzah%20Shiur%2029%20-%20Emergency%20Exits,%20Cellars,%20Hospitals,%20Safek%20Safeka%20in%20Hilchos%20Mezuzah Rav Mordechai Willig (Mezuzah Shiur 29, min 2)]</ref> | #An emergency exit or any door only used to exit is not obligated in a mezuzah.<ref>Minchat Shlomo 2:100:5, [https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1037812/Rabbi%20Mordechai%20I.%20Willig/Mezuzah%20Shiur%2029%20-%20Emergency%20Exits,%20Cellars,%20Hospitals,%20Safek%20Safeka%20in%20Hilchos%20Mezuzah Rav Mordechai Willig (Mezuzah Shiur 29, min 2)]</ref> | ||
