[Avodah] isnt koach of being maykil greater??

[Zev Sero]

On 12/08/2011 5:46 PM, Harvey Benton wrote:
> re: buses....
> i thought going lifnim.....is ok on yourself maybe, but not on your family,
> or others (not even in your group/mindset), or esp
> other groups in society.....

Again, nobody is imposing a higher level of kedusha on others.  Instead,
it is the fanatical integrationists who are imposing their lower level
of kedusha on those who would aspire to a higher level.  It's exactly
like forcing non-glatt meat or pas palter down the throat of someone who
is trying to keep a higher level of observance.  You can eat your pas
palter, I'll eat pas yisroel, and let the free market and the relative
numbers decide who has more options available to them.  If the demand for
pas yisroel is high enough in one neighbourhood, then the shops will not
find it worth their while to stock pas palter; and vice versa in other
neighbourhoods.  And if I put a sign up in my shop that "no chometz is
allowed in here at any time", do not bring chometz in, just because it's
Iyyar and next Pesach is nearly a year away.

Oh, and the answer to the question in the Subject header is that you have
completely misunderstood that line.  It takes more certainty to be meikil,
precisely because one may always be machmir, whether it's necessary or not,
so when in doubt that's what one should do.  If you see someone who knows
his stuff eating a particular thing, then you know he holds it's kosher;
but if you don't see him eating it, then you don't know that he holds it's
treif.  That's *all* "koach dehetera adif" means.  It certainly does not
mean that there's a preference for kulah.

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