[Avodah] Chumros

[Allen Gerstl]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Moshe Y. Gluck wrote:

> 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....


>[RMYB:]  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...

What is really missing then is that people should be TAUGHT that they may not be machmir on someone else's chesbon.

KT
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