Reply To: Lights on Shabbos and Thanking Someone for Doing an Aveirah on Your Behalf

I lent my rav my copy of “Children in Halacha” in an attempt to get him to reverse his psak.

I will iy”h ask him about a fluorescent bulb tomorrow or Shabbos.

I asked him your case. He said there is room to be meikel for the rabbim in a case like yours, even if it was a shogeig of a deoraysa. The avaryan and his son would have to leave the shul, but there is room to be meikel for tzarchei Rabbim.

This is why I daven in a shul with a rav, and one well-versed in halacha at that. Othertise it’s ish hayashar be’einav ya’aseh.