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#Double doors with or without a poll in between is considered a single doorway and needs only one mezuzah on the right.<ref>Rashba (teshuva 4:91) writes that double doors with a poll in the middle, with the doors that are attached to the poll in the middle should have two mezuzot, but if they're attached to the side doorposts it should have one mezuzah since the poll in the middle is only for decoration and not to create two doorways. Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 286:21 codifies the Rashba. The Tur Y.D. 286:21, although similar in formulation to the Rashba, writes that if there is a single door that opens for two doorways it only needs one mezuzah, implying that if there are two doors that can open separately they need two mezuzot. [https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14428&st=&pgnum=49 Yad Ketana ch. 3 fnt. 9] makes this point but finds the opinion of the Tur very difficult to sustain in this case since the door functions as one doorway. He concludes that we follow the Rashba and Shulchan Aruch in that case and one mezuzah suffices.</ref> | #Double doors with or without a poll in between is considered a single doorway and needs only one mezuzah on the right.<ref>Rashba (teshuva 4:91) writes that double doors with a poll in the middle, with the doors that are attached to the poll in the middle should have two mezuzot, but if they're attached to the side doorposts it should have one mezuzah since the poll in the middle is only for decoration and not to create two doorways. Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 286:21 codifies the Rashba. The Tur Y.D. 286:21, although similar in formulation to the Rashba, writes that if there is a single door that opens for two doorways it only needs one mezuzah, implying that if there are two doors that can open separately they need two mezuzot. [https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14428&st=&pgnum=49 Yad Ketana ch. 3 fnt. 9] makes this point but finds the opinion of the Tur very difficult to sustain in this case since the door functions as one doorway. He concludes that we follow the Rashba and Shulchan Aruch in that case and one mezuzah suffices.</ref> | ||
===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)]. 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)]. 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> | |||
===Revolving Door=== | ===Revolving Door=== | ||
