[Avodah] LBD lists

[Ben Waxman]

It all depends on how one defines what is a l'chatchila yid. Counting heads 
may be one method, but there are others. If someone has a minhag avot about 
certain foods, and he wants to keep it because, well that is his minhag, 
that sounds perfectly l'hatchila to me. If someone got a psak that something 
is muttar, I don't see the need for him to go check to see if this fits in 
with what other rabbis say.

Ben
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Samuel Svarc" <ssvarc at gmail.com>
 like myself, upon hearing the
formidable issues, such as constant use in a commercial environment
removing ben yomo, failure of CIP to remove beins, the heter of bishul
akum ha companies not being used by the vast majority of poskim
rendering it a daas yachid, and on and on, feel the view expressed by
R' Schwab ("I'm a l'chatchila yid") seems most sensible.

I wonder as well at the sentiment expressed, that this is "observing
kashrut, stringently". It would appear that a more objective
evaluation would term it "observing kashrut, utilizing lenient
positions, at times relying on daas yochids". While one might be
allowed, halachically, to do so, to me it appears to be dangerously
close to an attitude of 'novil b'rishus haTorah'.