Reply To: Grocery that gets rid of all Chometz before Pesach

Should each person evaluate his Chumros to see if they make sense? Sure

This applies to the chumra of not eating temporarily sold chometz as well as the chumra of buying from yidden that don’t accommodate your needs as well as the chumra of “emunas chachamim” in the meikel over the machmir.

But the wildest chumra of them all is the “chumra” to bash other people’s chumras or to specifically not accommodate to them. This Chumra needs to be most carefully re-evaluated. I don’t think anyone is as sure of themselves as Bais Shamai were and Chazal tell us that Bais Shamai would accommodate Bais Hillel because as much as they stuck to the truth, they also stuck to peace.

For some reason, when it comes to other people’s even baseless Kulas most people go with “live and let live” and tend to mind their own business. On the other hand when someone has a not even so baseless chumra, suddenly the “live and let live” attitude tends to go out the window.