Reply To: American Pharoah: Kiddush Hashem or Not

As I said, “If i understand correctly, Rav Moshe refrained from saying that timers are assur in the case of lights in deference to the fact that they were already in widespread use for that purpose, and so relied on an established precedent which, although debated among the Acharonim, he considered to satisfy the Zilzul problem.”