Avi K:
MW, you are correct
So we do agree on something 🙂
However, it is also offensive, presumptuous, and frankly just ridiculous for anyone in any generation to look for chumrot
I don’t believe that to (necessarily) be true. To casually dismiss a practice that large segments of Klal Yisroel have been adhering to for so many generations is an issue. But to say that we today may need a particular extra safeguard today so that people don’t ch”v end up violating actual prohibitions is something Chazal and their successors have been charged with doing since time immemorial, as stated in the very first Mishnah in Pirkei Avos: ??? ??? ?????.
zd:
companies are forced to make only non-gebroachs items
Funny, ’cause I seem to recall there being a gebrokts section in my local kosher grocery… must have been my imagination.
But seriously, if you honestly expect everyone to follow the most lenient opinion on everything just to give companies an incentive to make better/cheaper food for you, I have nothing left to say to you. We clearly do not share enough common assumptions and attitudes to be able to have a real conversation.
lesschumras:
DY:
Did they force you to buy that too?
No, but it caused him so much emotional distress just seeing that stuff on the store shelves that everybody should be banned from using anything even remotely like that so as not to ch”v hurt anybody else’s feelings.