Reply To: Is the chassidish way better?

yekke2 – I don’t know that when people check esrogim out it’s just for show. There is the concept of hiddur mitzvah, and I don’t know about where you are from, but where I am, people choose nicer esrogim because they want to glorify the mitzvah. Also, it wasn’t my idea to bring proofs from Rishonim – I am saying that in earlier posts, people said things like, “It worked for Yaakov, why shouldn’t it work for us?” Therefore I brought the example of Boaz and Rus, to show how ridiculous it is to compare ourselves to previous doros – especially the avos, for crying out loud!