Reply To: Different levels of religious observance (frumkeit)

Joseph, you have no idea what a baal nefesh is, or what R’ Moshe zt”l meant by it. R’ Dovid Feinstein zt”l told someone that he didn’t think he himself was a baal nefesh – so clearly it’s not something you CHOOSE to be, it’s something you have to grow into.
Don’t try to make things fit your twisted agenda.
For all the chumros you like to push, I think you will be found guilty of yuhara.