[Avodah] Hashkafa Question on Sukkah Eating,

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R' Rich Wolpoe asked [as clipped in my post. -- micha]: 
Avraham spends the entire Chol haMoed avoiding the CHIYYUV 
of eating in the Sukkah. Instead of needing to find a 
sukkah, he adjusts his diet to eat foods that do not 
trigger an obligation.... 
Yitzchak religiously washes twice a day and makes hammotzi 
and benches. He aims to get in 14 s'udos mamash..» 
 
The hashkafah questioin I had un mind was more like: 
 
Is it better to obsess over what positive good one does -- even though
one might not avoid error, or might be careless
Vs. 
Someone who obsesses over being careful -- but it NOT conerned about
accomplishing anything positive!
 
The halachicists here seemed to have mostly hijacked this dilemma
by making the avoidance of eating outside Sukkah into a some kind of
positive Halachic desiderata when it s merely an avoidance of a negative.
 
The hashkafa of sur meira vaasei tov is what should we be looking at? 
 
EG: If we walked into a full room: how much good can we do or how much
evil can we avoid?
 
One response was absolutely on target, most were kind of quasi-halachic
about being normative
 
WRT nadav and avihu 
Their folly of "eish zara" was "lifnei Hashem" which made it more
egregious. Of course aveira lishma is a genuine hashkafic tangent,
but an unintended one.
 
AISI Yitzchak was not flouting any law! He was merely lacking in
zehirus. So is the lack of zehirus or "dikduk" a worthy trade-off for
his enthusiasm in otherwise observing the mitzvah? One response was
NO! Better to be a straight arrow. That response was on target [pun
intended of course]
 
Another response was pretty good. Viz. Where do we get leaders if we
have only "evil-avoiders"?
 
KT 
RRW 
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