well a shabbos goy cannot carry for you, that is for sure if there is no eruv, and there are a lot of things he cannot do, he cannot turn the lights on if you request it, some poskim I heard you have to leave the room if he turns on the light for you on purpose, but if you tell the shabbos goy to look for your shoes and the only way he is going to find them is by turning on the light for himself it is alright, in the case of the shul some people say he can turn on the a.c. because people need it for a mitzvah, well I dont know much but where I live there are a lot of them so we always have to know what to do and what to ask and what not to ask. It is part of the envirenment.
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