There’s a famous story told about a rebbe who came to collect from a gevir and found him eating dark bread and herring. He told the gevir off. As much as the gevir wanted to stay humble and reduce his gashmiyus, the rebbe said that if this is what he’s used to eating, when a truly hungry man would come, he would give him that, or even less. Better that he eat good meats and foods according to his means, so he would be more generous to others.
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