Reply To: Interesting Customs on Pesach

Again, the Chofetz Chaim permitted his family to eat gebrots. His own decision not to was a personal stringency, not meant to be copied by others.

Much more important than the so-called “prohibition” of not eating gebrots is, for example, to keep yoshon and to be makpid about zmanim (for Mincha and krias Shema). A person has to know what is the ikar and what is tofel. People who are careful with gebrots are not necessarily careful about other things that are real halachos (e.g., lashon hara). We have to get our priorities straight.