[Avodah] Mar'is Ayin and Personal Standards

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

> Someone mentioned to me that we may not make up our own
> "mar'is ayin" issues. implying it MUST stem from halachic
> sources and NOT from seichel.
>
> Akiva, I think your post hit the nail on the head - FOR ME.
> But I wonder if others will say: "Look at this owner making
> up his own shulchan aruch? Who says he may not use just the
> boxes of treif or dairy? Vu shtayt geshribben?"
>
> So my question is addressing THAT SHEETAH, not my own issues.

If the owner claims that the halachos of Mar'is Ayin forbid him to use those boxes, then those others would have a good point. But if the owner says something like, "people could see it and come to the wrong conclusion. I have a reputation to protect." - then I see no problem.

> May Kashrus agencies be *machmir* beyond halachah for
> sociological or marketing or ch'shad reasons - using seichel
> over the black letter of the law?

Again, as long as they don't make any claim that the halachah requires them to do this, they are on safe ground.

Akiva Miller

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