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DY When I read some of what I have seen here, I can’t classify it as less than chutzpah, to arrogate HKBH’s powers of judgement and assessment, to assume the value of all of one’s mitzvos versus the value of even one done by someone less outwardly observant. This even without my concern about half of what it means to be a Jew being ignored. It IS chutzpah to make such assumptions. HKBH measures you against your own potential for doing mitzvos, not against the observance of anyone else, lesser or greater. We are instructed to fight against our Yetzer Horah. Our innate nature is to be competitive, even to measure ourselves against other Jews, or other people of all kinds. But HKBH wants us to be the best fullest realization of our own potential for avodas hashem as individuals, and our potential to act on and DO what he expects from us collectively.
You know who is superior? Someone like the Chief Rabbi of South Africa, Rabbi Goldstein, who not only has managed to gather a majority of ALL the Jews of South Africa of all stripes to keep a full shabbos together, but who has also demonstrated an ohr lagoyim there on many occasions, and who has reached out to dozens of Jewish communities across the planet to replicate the incredible kiddush hashem they did in SA.
If you want to demonstrate a superior Jew, he is an exemplar.