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According to your own approach, we shouldn’t view ourselves as superior to a non frum or non ehrliche Yid either.”

Please re-read what I posted. I never said or implied that whatsoever. In the case of someone non-ehrliche whether outwardly observant or not, I do think that person is of low-quality and a phony. Someone who is non-frum can only be judged properly by Hashem. It is not typically for us to make assumptions about that person, particularly if in all respects he is a mensch. Though he may be lacking in an aspect of his Avoda, so is the person who davens with a minyan three times a day, learns yomam v’layla, follows every possible chumrah, and then lies and cheats to get undeserved food stamps, or other benefits of stealing (yes, STEALING) from the government, or who commits other acts of Chillul Hashem. Neither Jew is fully doing his avoda. We just tend to look the other way when it is someone who otherwise appears frum.

There are all kinds of superior actions and inferior ones. It behooves us to leave the cheshbon to the Only One Who actually Knows our hearts, to decide if we merit such nomenclature as “Superior Jew.” Most of us are pretty beinoniyim in lots of areas, and could do with some improvement. I know that I could, for certain. I think that a superior person, never believes him/herself to be so. He or she is always reaching to be better and do better. I know that sounds hokey, but it’s how I feel.