[Avodah] Chumros

[Moshe Y. Gluck]

R' MB (on Areivim):
> I think chumrot are great -- if people would retain the line between 
> baseline halakhah and chumrah, so that they could know when they're 
> being machmir on someone else's cheshbon, and when they are violating 
> ikkar hadin BALChaveiro to fulfil a chumrah in BALMaqom.

I agree with you in principle, but in practice, don't Chumros and Minhagim often have a Din Neder? So, yes, someone might be acting inflexibly, but only because he doesn't have a Chacham right there to be Shoel his Neder...

KT,
MYG