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WolfishMusings
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Just curious if you ever eat out and pay $40 for a piece of steak. Do you waste money on vacations and drive a leased car? If the answer is yes then you have no business complaining about the cost of Shmura Matzoh.

And now to play the other side of the coin…

IF the price of shmurah matzah truly *IS* exorbitant (and completely out of line WRT the cost to produce), then why *shouldn’t* someone complain?

The fact that someone may voluntarily choose to engage in discretionary spending does not mean that he is bound to spend more than necessary to do a mitzvah. If matzah *could* be produced more cheaply, then why the heck not? What does his choice to eat out or drive a leased car have anything to do with it?

The Wolf