[Avodah] Kashrus Trains One's Self-Control

[Cantor Wolberg]

"Rabbis Berkovits and Isidore Epstein say similarly, saying that  
kashrut trains one in self-control."

Unfortunately, the facts do not support the above statement. There are  
many, many, many overweight individuals who are frum and stringently  
follow the laws of Kashrus.
Personally, I've known many O. rabbis who were more than 50 pounds  
overweight and had absolutely no self-control in their eating. One,  
who will remain nameless,
suffered so many health issues because he was morbidly obese. He ended  
up in a wheelchair before he was 60. Would that it were true that  
kashrus trained one in
self-control!  I'm reminded of several very frum people I know who  
were virtual chain smokers. However, as soon as Shabbos or Yom Tov  
arrived, they put down the
cigarettes and didn't smoke until after Shabbos or Yom Tov. I call  
that "compartmentalized control."  We also have the concept of menuval  
birshus haTorah which
has discarded the concept of prishus.

Kol tuv.
ri
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