Reply To: Yeshivish/Chassidish vs Frumkeit

Someone posted an interesting quote from R Moshe that I am trying to understand correctly.

“Frum is a gallach, a Yid darf zein Ehrlich”

The priest is frum but for the wrong thing. The yid is frum for the right thing. What proof is there from the gallach that Ehrlich is more ikkur than frum? Maybe frum is better where it is for the right thing?

And what exactly is the idea. I am sure he wants everyone to be fully committed to halacha.

Maybe he means that its less about the extras and more about doing whatever you do in the best way.

One guy pays $500 for an esrog so he is acting very frum, but he uses it in an average way…he comes late to daven or spaces out or puts on a shuckling/yelling show.

Another guy spends $100 for a nice regular esrog but davens with a sincere heart (ehrlich)…the second one is much greater…perhaps that is the general concept.

The priest is acting frum but he is not sincere because if he was he would know he got it all wrong?