Reply To: Forcing chumrot on others

MW, Rav Tzvi Yehuda (Rav Kook was not alive when the state was established and what he wrote was in regard to the WW1 British army – at the time he was in London as he could not return to EY being that he was technically a citizen of Russia, which was at war with Turkey) only approved of the deferment if a guy was really learning and was not needed. For the rest of my reply see the “Protest” thread.

Apushatayid, OK. I’ll accept your reformulation. Now you answer a follow-up question. What happens when chumrot conflict? For example, in your hospital case those who are makpid to eat gebruchts as per the Gra, who said that those who do not will ahve to give an account as to why they did not do the mitzva of simchat Yom Tov, lose out (BTW, someone I know said that he has a cousin in America who is such a big Mitnagged that he eats it every day EXCEPT the eighth). What about those members of the Eidot HaMizrach for who it is not Pesach if there is no rice?