[Avodah] hidur

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 04/20/2015 05:52 PM, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> My own dilemma. Say I earmark $X (Y NIS, in your case) to spend on
> my esrog. And say the price of a definitely kosher (or at least, just
> as sure to be kosher) but not very hadar esrog is half that or less.
> Should I buy myself a mehudar, or should I buy two esrogim and give the
> other to someone hitting on hard times? Shouldn't the asei (tzedaqah,
> dei machsero) trump a "mere" hidur mitzvah (esrog)? And yet, we know
> many great rabbanim who didn't follow this calculus. What am I missing?

Perhaps that they would then let the other person use their mehudardige
esrog, so both benefit.

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