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Today's learning is dedicated in memory of his pure and holy Neshama.
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1) In many restrooms there is a toilet paper or tissue holder which hold the paper in place using an insert with a spring in it.
According to some Poskim, removing or inserting this spring into the paper holder is prohibited on Shabbos and doing so is a transgression of the Melacha of Boneh/ Soser.
Their reasoning is that this holder is considered a part of the structure, as it is always there and even when it is removed to fill the paper, it is immediately returned to its place. (Ruling of Maran haRav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv Shlita quoted in Orchos Shabbos page 271 footnote 26)
2) Other Poskim, however, maintain that removing and inserting this spring is not a transgression of Boneh/Soser as it is always looked at as an independent item and not part f the structure. (Ruling of Rav Shlomo Zalmen Auerbach Zatzal, ibid. footnote 27)
For Halacha L'Ma'aseh, as always, a Rav must be consulted.
Halachos for Shabbos Kodesh
1) In many public places, near the sink, they have a long towel hanging from a rod which turns so that a dry part of the towel can be reached in order to dry the hands.
If this rod is screwed closed, it may not be opened on Shabbos to remove the wet towel and exchange it with a fresh one, even if this screw is only loosely screwed in.
If, however, the rod is not screwed down at all, and is simply laying there on brackets, it may be opened and closed on Shabbos in order to change the towels. (Ruling of Maran Harav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv Shlita quoted in Orchos Shabbos page 272)
2) The above remains permissible even if there is a lock preventing unauthorized individuals from opening the rod to remove the towel, as since it isn't screwed down it is not considered a part of the structure. (ibid.)
Likewise, the rod of a Paroches (curtain) that hangs in front of an Aron HaKodesh, which fell off, may be returned to its place if it is free standing on brackets and not screwed in.
If it was screwed in it is prohibited to return it to its place and doing so is a prohibition of Boneh, as we deem it as part of the Aron HaKodesh. (Besides for it being an issue of Muktzeh. See Mishna Berura Siman 308:35)
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Reader's Question:
Some people in shul answer Amen prematurely. They say Amen sometimes two or even three words before the chazzan has actually finished the bracha. Is this OK? The same is done during Kaddish.
Answer:
No, it's not OK.
Answering Amen before the one reciting the Bracha has completed the entire Bracha is referred to in halacha as an "Amen Chatufah" and is prohibited. (See Mishna Berura Siman 124:30. See also Talmud Brachos 47a where it describes the not so pleasant consequence of one who regularly answers such Amens)
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