Reply To: Kosher L'Pesach Cigarettes: Is Something Wrong With This?

Health, precisely my point. We know there is a minority opinion permitting smoking, which is shrinking by the year. We know there are people who are looking for chumras to apply to themselves. What I didn’t know, perhaps naively, was that there was ANY halachic authority who would leverage these realities to, as you put it, “make a quick buck”. That kind of thinking and acting is, or should be, michutz lamachane. It is beneath the dignity of Torah and of anyone purporting to be a halachic authority. Forest for the trees.

When the xtians condemned us as pharisees who would twist “the law” through legalisms to make the obviously immoral halachically viable, I spent considerable time in anti-missionary work disputing that assertion, among other falsehoods. Reading about this, I am not so sure they were 100% wrong. Every lie has a grain of truth from which it grows. This hechsher is a crying shame.