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ZK, repsectfully, that is exactly what chumros are. They add on strictures to the already perfect mitzvos that Hashem gave us, albeit with the best of intentions. If Hashem did not in His Infinite Wisdom seem to feel those chumros were necessary, then why do we presume kivyachol to think He did not do the job right the first time?
Do we know better than He, what Man is capable of doing? I am playing Devil’s Advocate here, just a bit, because when I hear certain thoughts expressed by many posters (whose beliefs and opinions I respect, even if I may have another opinion), it is clear that those posters believe that they alone have the universal clue and know what Hashem wants. That is a dangerous attitude that causes sinas chinam in Klal Yisroel, and we have not learned that lesson yet. While those harchakos may bring that one individual closer to Hashem, it potentially is a harchakah of a very different and undesirable nature, when it is marchik other Jews from Hashem and from the klal.
If you have a machlah, i.e. a strep throat, and your doctor prescribes one antibiotic pill per day of a certain dose, does it heal you faster, better, or even at ALL, to take TWO pills per day? And even if by some chance, you do get better, should you look at another person who also has strep, and demand that he, too, take two pills (because it was SO helpful to you) when the doctor told him the palliative dose is one? And worse yet, when he actually FOLLOWS his doctor’s instructions, should someone look down his nose at the other guy, because he didn’t do it HIS way??? That is essentially what I am seeing today among different factions of Jews, each of the opinion that THEIR way is THE way. Is this truly what Hashem wants?