Why did he need to use a child, though, especially a child that’s not his? You can’t just come up to someone else’s kid and do things like this. What’s wrong with carrying an object in his hands, like a wallet, phone, etc.? The problem is obscurantism. Being totally out of touch with reality. I’m not saying that halacha ought to be compromised, although this is not something that appears in the Shulchan Aruch even, but this man should’ve used seichel and exercised common sense. He did break the law in order to fulfill an inyan of kashe l’shichacha, basically. I don’t think he had any negative intentions, but to call him a tzaddik based on this is not appropriate, either, although maybe he is, according to people who actually know him, I don’t know. His stupidity did him in.
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