#753 The Gentle Gentile
Question
If the door of the hotel room closed on you (the tape placed to stop locking fell) can you ask a Gentile to open the door on Shabbos?
If by mistake you left your medicine on a bag inside the safe box in your room can you ask a Gentile to open it on Shabbos?
Answer
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that you can ask a Gentile, in case of major need indirectly to open the door or the safe as this may be a “shvus d’shvus” (double Rabbinical prohibition,) in pressing need which is permitted.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit”a
Answered by: Hagaon Rav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a
Published: March 27, 2015
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