<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We are asked to - consider two sofrim, one</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> who appears to be a great yerei shomayim,</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> whilst the other appears to </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">be a kal. </span><div>
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">And we are told - There can be no question, we must go with the </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">yerei shomayim .......</span><br></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The only thing there is no question about, is that we are guilty of finding people, and attempting to drive religion, towards those who suit our own preferences, our own internal image of what is a YShamayim.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">What a great way to run a community, APPEARANCES of YShamayim is the guide, as long as they walk the walk and talk the talk. Never mind the Halacha. Reb Zev, in a candid MaSiaCh LeFi Tumo, is quoted to say, one who APPEARS to be a great YShamayim whilst the other APPEARS to be a Kal.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We can be sure that HKBH is delighted. </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Fits the old guideline, It may be good enough for HKBH, but it is not good enough for me, and therefore the YShamayim will not eat the Fleisch.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">One thing we can be sure of - the YShamayim who disqualifies too many of his own Mezuzos, or too many of his own Shechted birds or beasts cannot remain in a viable business, and in fact the more one pushes the YShamayim and Chumros, the more difficult it is to run it as a viable business and the more likely it is that some compromise will be made, being of course rationalised by the thought - It's only a Chumrah anyway. And that, my friends, is the beginning of the end. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">It begins with HaKol Shochtim - even a Kussi - but has progressed to today's standard, no-one is good enough to Shecht for me.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We seem to be confusing OC, obsessive complulsive; with FoG, Fear of Gd.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The debate, as always, devolves to - What is it that HKBH wants us to do?</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Is He happy with ChezKas Kashrus? Well, yes .... but not really, according to the YShamayim club/cult members.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">And what better way to put the boot in than the classic - </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">even if the customer never finds out in this life, </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hashem will know, and the customer will find out when he comes to the Next life. Ah yes, the Boogey man will get you.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">And they lived happily ever after.</span></div></div>