What is yichud, and where is the prohibition derived from?ask your rav
Yichud is the seclusion of a man and a woman; the Talmud derives the restriction from the verse about a close relative.
Rav Refael Avraham HaKohen Soae
He cites the explanation in Kiddushin of the words your brother, the son of your mother: the permitted seclusion of a son with his mother is contrasted with seclusion with forbidden women. In the case described, a closed room, the prohibition is tied to the impossibility of outsiders walking in unexpectedly. The author brings an unlocked door here as the basis for the absence of yichud in this general explanation; in particular cases (for example, at a doctor's appointment) the same author considers an unlocked door insufficient.
“If the door is unlocked it is not regarded as Yichud.”
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