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==Types of Doors== | ==Types of Doors== | ||
===Accordion Door=== | ===Accordion Door=== | ||
# An accordion door where the accordion door opens to the left certainly should have a mezuzah on the right doorpost. If the door opens to the right or both sides if after folding the door there is a tefach between the post and the area of passage, some hold that it is necessary to set up a new post next to the end of where the door folds, some hold it is exempt, and the minhag is to put the mezuzah on the right doorpost.<ref>[https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1037727/Rabbi%20Mordechai%20I.%20Willig/Mezuzah%20Shiur%2028%20-%20Elevators,%20Accordion%20Doors,%20Garages,%20Hospitals Rav Mordechai Willig (Mezuzah Shiur 28 min 14)] accepts the minhag to place it on the right doorpost even though it is more than a tefach from the entranceway. Teshuvot Vehanhagot 3:328 and Otzrot Piskei Igrot Moshe p. 11 quoting Ohalei Yeshurun fnt. 175 agree. Chovat Hadar 8:3 fnt. 8 holds that an accordion door needs a post placed next to where the folds end so that the mezuzah is within a tefach of the passageway of the door.</ref> | # An accordion door where the accordion door opens to the left certainly should have a mezuzah on the right doorpost. If the door opens to the right or both sides if after folding the door there is a tefach between the post and the area of passage, some hold that it is necessary to set up a new post next to the end of where the door folds, some hold it is exempt, and the minhag is to put the mezuzah on the right doorpost.<ref>[https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1037727/Rabbi%20Mordechai%20I.%20Willig/Mezuzah%20Shiur%2028%20-%20Elevators,%20Accordion%20Doors,%20Garages,%20Hospitals Rav Mordechai Willig (Mezuzah Shiur 28 min 14)] accepts the minhag to place it on the right doorpost even though it is more than a tefach from the entranceway. Teshuvot Vehanhagot 3:328 and Otzrot Piskei Igrot Moshe p. 11 quoting Ohalei Yeshurun fnt. 175 in the name of Rav Moshe Feinstein, and Shaarei Hamezuzah 12:15 agree. Chovat Hadar 8:3 fnt. 8 holds that an accordion door needs a post placed next to where the folds end so that the mezuzah is within a tefach of the passageway of the door.</ref> | ||
#If there is a part of the accordion door with a thickness of a tefach that doesn't move next to the right doorpost, the mezuzah can be placed on this fixed area.<ref>Agur Bohalecha 22:11</ref> | #If there is a part of the accordion door with a thickness of a tefach that doesn't move next to the right doorpost, the mezuzah can be placed on this fixed area.<ref>Agur Bohalecha 22:11</ref> | ||
