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WolfishMusings,
Because then, according to that opinion, I am, once again, doing something wrong.
To take this one step further…
According to some, it is not ok to eat gebrockts on Pesach because of the concern that some flour left on the matzah will become chometz once the matzah is made wet. According to others, there is no concern about this, and on the contrary, to avoid gebrockts is wrong because you are reducing your simchas hachag.
According to some, a married woman should not cover her hair with a sheital, because others may confuse it with her own hair. According to others, a married woman should wear a sheital, because (as I heard it), if the president of the United States came in the room, a woman in a tichel would be tempted to remove it so as to not look foreign or strange in front of somebody so important, but a woman in a wig would not dare remove the wig, which would be incredibly embarrassing.
When Pesach comes, you have to eat something. When your wife goes out, she has to have something on her head. Can’t please everyone all the time!
For some reason, I don’t feel that such contradictions threaten my belief in Judaism. So what if somebody down the street things I’m doing something wrong?