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* The Perisha EH 22 posits that there's a biblical prohibition to have yichud with someone who is forbidden on a Biblical level (lav). | * The Perisha EH 22 posits that there's a biblical prohibition to have yichud with someone who is forbidden on a Biblical level (lav). | ||
* The Gemara Avoda Zara 36b says that the Bet Din of Dovid HaMelech instituted the prohibition of Yichud with a single woman and Bet Shamai and Bet Hillel extended Yichud to a non-Jewish woman as well. </ref> | * The Gemara Avoda Zara 36b says that the Bet Din of Dovid HaMelech instituted the prohibition of Yichud with a single woman and Bet Shamai and Bet Hillel extended Yichud to a non-Jewish woman as well. </ref> | ||
==Multiple Men and Women== | ===Multiple Men and Women=== | ||
# It is permitted for many men and women to be secluded together.<ref>S"A EH 22:6</ref> What constitutes many men and many women? Some poskim write that only if there's 3 men and 3 women | # It is permitted for many men and women to be secluded together.<ref>S"A EH 22:6</ref> What constitutes many men and many women? Some poskim write that only if there's 3 men and 3 women <ref>Birkei Yosef EH 22:3, Pitchei Teshuva 22:5, Chelkat Mechokek EH 22:6 quotes this idea from the Maggid Mishna but questions it.</ref>, some say 2 men and 3 women<ref>Bet Shmuel 22:8, Chaye Adam 126:3</ref>, and some say 2 men and 2 women constitute many men and many women.<ref>Bach 22</ref> The poskim are general strict to consider it 3 men and 3 women.<ref>Igrot Moshe EH 65:15</ref> | ||
# According to Sephardim, one man may not be secluded with multiple woman and one woman may not be secluded with multiple men. <ref>Yalkut Yosef Hilchot Ishut EH Siman 22:10. According to Yam Shel Shlomo Kiddushin Siman 20 and Sh"t Maharsham 3:152, one man with two women is a biblical prohibition. See however, Sh"t HaRashba 1:587 and Sh"t Chavot Yair 73 </ref> | # According to Sephardim, one man may not be secluded with multiple woman and one woman may not be secluded with multiple men. <ref>Yalkut Yosef Hilchot Ishut EH Siman 22:10. According to Yam Shel Shlomo Kiddushin Siman 20 and Sh"t Maharsham 3:152, one man with two women is a biblical prohibition. See however, Sh"t HaRashba 1:587 and Sh"t Chavot Yair 73 </ref> | ||
===Family Members=== | ===Family Members=== | ||
