<html>
<body>
<font size=3>At 02:48 AM 9/9/2012, R. Micha wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">1- I'm no sure whether this
notion of not following a qulah vs adopting<br>
a chumerah is a real distinction. It's a little arbitrary to say
that<br>
it's chumerah vs baseline law or it's baseline law vs qulah.<br><br>
2- The distinction, even if real, isn't relevent to the comparison
of<br>
pas palter to the original objection about people asking us how we
could<br>
post in some tone / on some topic during Elul. "Do you think
you're<br>
fooling Hashem?"<br><br>
In either case, we are saying that the person is doing during 10
Yemei<br>
Teshuvah something that he doesn't consider necessary during the rest
of<br>
the year. And he isn't trying to fool Hashem by trying to avoid a
qulah<br>
he normally uses nor by trying to follow a chumerah he normally
doesn't.<br>
</font></blockquote><br>
<font size=3>I had occasion over Shabbos to read RSRH's essays Tishri IV
and Tishri VI. Most of these essays are availbale through google
books. Go to the google books search engine and put collected
writings Hirsch in. This should lead you to the Collected Writings
of RSRH. Go to the essays on Tishrei IV and VI.<br><br>
IMO, if one wants to really understand what RH and YK are all about,
then one should read these and the other essays on Tishrei by
RSRH.<br><br>
</font>It seems to me that RSRH makes the point more than once that the
purpose of RH is not to bring ourselves to some level of Chumra
observance but to have us return to the *proper observance of mitzvos*
from which we have fallen during the year. Your assertion
"<font size=3>we are saying that the person is doing during 10 Yemei
Teshuvah something that he doesn't consider necessary during the rest of
the year." means that this is the root of his problem regarding his
connection to Hashem. He should be observing the mitzvos as fully
as possible. This is the purpose of RH, the Aseres Yemei teshuva, and
YK. To stop doing the mitzvos as fully as possible after the Aseres
Yemei teshuva would, IMO, indicate an insincerity in a person's teshuva.
<br><br>
YL<br><br>
</font></body>
<br>
</html>