Reply To: Forcing chumrot on others

Lilmod, which Torah world. Those who separate themselves from the public?

MW, it is not a chumra. It is a Torah obligation.

Golfer, you cannot extrapolate from two individuals to the army. Sometimes because of exigencies it is not possible to cater to everyone’s whims. Sometimes it is even necessary to rely on leniencies. Rav Asher Weiss has mentioned on several occasions that he has used leniencies when paskening for the IDF that he would not use for civilians. BTW, Rav Moshe once ate at a kiddush made by an average baal bayit. When someone asked him about he said “ED echad ne’eman b’isurim. The Halacha allows me to eat. It does not allow me to insult someone”. For that matter, when a bachur asked if he could eat by relatives who use Rabbanut hechsherim, Rav Neuwirth replied that it is not treif. See Pitchei Tesuva YD 116:10 that according to some opinions a person who is machmir on something on which the Amoraim were not is an apikoros. On a lighter side, the Kotzker said that the real miracle of Purim was that they all went to Ahashverosh’s seuda. They all used the same hechsher. There is also a joke about a big machmir who went to Gan Eden and was invited to a seuda. He asked who was the mashgiach. When told “the GRa” he declined. This went on and on. Finally he was invited to a seuda where Hashem was the mashgiach. He replied that he would have a glass of water.