Reply To: Clarification to mod and DaMoshe

Arso

“ That is so similar to my chassidus. Many of us eat on Yom Kippur so that those baalei teshuva who have not gone the whole way, and the Ffb who has chilled, are equally as part of the community as the most Chassidish. If we would enforce fasting on Yom Kippur it would turn people away, and that is the worst thing possible!”

I don’t know where you get this from. We’re all into holding the highest standards personally, but not enforcing communal repercussions that will result in leaving out many people who could otherwise be on the way up (or their children etc.) This is not the same as what you wrote here. I hope you understand that. Every chossid is meant to uphold the highest standards himself and keep growing along with embracing other Jews. You see this model more famously by the shluchim. They do not eat treif to attract people and they do not take down mechitzas as unpopular as it may be. Au contraire, people are attracted to the shluchim because of their combination of authenticity and loyalty to Yiddishkeit (not personal comfort) while being open and non judgmental to others.