1)
A shtender (a bookstand) or similar item that can be adjusted for
height via lifting it or lowering its legs and then pulling out and
re-inserting a pin or peg to hold the desired height, may be adjusted on
Shabbos and doing so is not a concern of Boneh.
The
reason for this is that the shtender is considered a completed item at
all heights, and the raising and lowering of it is simply the way it was
intended to be used. (Ruling of HaRav Shlomo Zalmen Auerbach
Zatzal quoted in Sefer Me'Or HaShabbos Vol. 2: Letters 32:3. See also
Shu"t Shevet Haleivi Vol. 6 Siman 32. This is also the way Maran HaRav
Yosef Shalom Elyashiv Shlita rules.)
2)
A cooling fan's standing base, however, according to some Poskim, may
not be raised and lowered on Shabbos, as when the bolt is loosened to
adjust the height, the head of the fan falls downward, and in that
position it cannot serve its intended purpose, and thus when it's
refastened it will be considered Tikun Maneh, fixing of the object. (See Orchos Shabbos page 288 footnote 88)
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Reader's Question:
At shacharis today we had exactly ten. Right after kedusha, two people had to leave.
The
rabbi said that we should continue until the end of chazaras hashatz
and say tachanun and say chatzi kaddish and then say Ashrei, Uva Letzion
and then say kadish shalem and them say Aleinu and kadish yasom.
Was this correct? Can we say kadish yasom after Aleinu If we had only eight (number nine and number ten left after kedusha).?
Answer:
He is correct for all except the last Kaddish after Aleinu which isn't said unless a Minyan is present.
See Shulchan Aruch and Rama Siman 55:3 and Mishna Berura S"K 15 and 20.
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