[Avodah] Glatt Yosher?

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:39:15 -0500, "Rich, Joel" <JRich at Segalco.com> wrote:
> I  agree with YGB's statement but I think Micha was asking a link up the
> causality chain - why is there sufficient demand for glatt kosher but not
> glatt yosher?

Yes, glatt kosher or chalav yisrael are good examples. We can pretend the iffy
is mutar when it comes to mesayeih ledevar aveirah bein adam lachaveiro, but
we'll spend a fortune on chumros when it comes to kashrus. (Those of us who
are bound by minhag to follow these chumros can find their own examples.
They're rife.)

But I wasn't asking, I was being rhetorical. We have a community willing to
put money out for chumros our fathers didn't consider ikkar hadin, but not to
police ourselves financially.

It's like the obvervation I made a while back on Areivim about shul
architecture. Shuls are peturim from both mezuzah and maakah. Yet, most shuls
have mezuzos. Think how many shuls you know have a duchan built like a stage
-- no maakah. We think of Judaism in very rite-based terms: frumkeit, not
ehrlachkeit.

To drift even further: Why is it mutar to own a stage without a maakah?

:-)BBii!
-mi

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