Calling something a chiyuv doesn’t necessarily make it one. If the practice of your particular affinity group is to have, say, separate seating at weddings, fine. You and your group can consider it a requirement but in no way can it be considered an obligation min haTorah on anyone else. Also the idea that anyone who observes this or any other chumra is on a higher spiritual level than one who doesn’t is not only nonsense, it is a slander on that person. Take care of your own spiritual level and let others take care of their’s.
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