[Avodah] Chumros

[Moshe Y. Gluck]

> >[RMYG:]  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...

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


I'm not really following you - if I was Noder not to eat non-Cholov Yisroel, and I come to your house and you're serving Carvel ice cream, and you will be extremely insulted and put out if I don't eat, I still have an Issur D'oraysa forbidding my eating.
Perhaps I misunderstood what you're saying?

KT,
MYG