Reply To: Different levels of religious observance (frumkeit)

Damoshe – let’s be real here. being asked why we didn’t enjoy the world in our generation….i doubt any of us will be asked that, as we enjoy a LOT more comfort and pleasure than literally anyone who has ever lived before. curtailing one’s dairy eating to cholov yisroel and eschewing breyers ice cream, opting instead for kleins, will not impact in the slightest the taanah of the nazir that he is choteh al.hanefesh by withholding legitimate pleasure from himself. If anything, in our time we’ll be asked why we engaged so much in material pleasures when we had an unprecedented ability to sit and learn