“snowback: the only reason i say i dont care is so oomis, and anon and lesschumras and all the other left wingers dont attack me for saying the view and opinion held by the Gedolim of E”Y. I am actually disturbed that people go against the Gedolims kol koreis by going to hotels. and if your going to say it only applies to E”Y, your right, but the only reason the Gedolim here wont make one is because no one will listen anyway so why bother”
That “left-winger” zinger is offensive, Flatbush, and I am surprised the mods allowed it to get posted. I don’t believe in attacking. I also do not believe that what Gedolim pasken in E”Y FOR E”Y is necessarily relevant to USA (it might be, but then again, might not, it depends on the situation and the kol koreh). I have great respect for our Gedolim, but I am also not a robot, and I try to understand exactly what they are saying and why, before I make a glatt statement such as you did.
I hold the view that it is none of your, my, or anyone else’s business what another Yid decides he or she needs or wants to do for Pesach. We also do not get to decide for them what makes them feel simchas Yom Tov. Assuming the hotels they go to are under proper hashgocha with a mashgiach temidi, what gives you the right to put them down for going there? I choose not to go, because I enjoy being in my own home and in control of my Pesach. I have had a hard winter, health-wise, and had the opportunity presented itself for me to have a free Pesach away in a hotel, I possibly might have been sorely tempted this year, though ultimately I would have decided to stay home as I always do.
Other women feel greatly overwhelmed by the thought of Pesach preparations, and for them the hotel is mamesh a bracha. You have a single-minded viewpoint that leaves no wiggle room for discussion AND you deride those of us who are able to view the bigger picture. It is because of this type of narrow thinking that many Jews do not appreciate a lifestyle more in concert with your own. That does not make them left-wingers (a connotation which is really VERY insulting, btw, as we are all frum people), it makes them people who are less judgmental. I have to say I am surprised at the increasingly abrasive tenor of your posts.