Of course the people eating pizza are not thinking about their avodas hashem and of course the gra didn’t wait on line for hours for his beer. However, what is clear from the gra is that the mentality of we shouldn’t be thinking about chametz over pesach, is clearly wrong. The gra specifically used beer to show that he actually wanted chametz all 8 days of pesach, and the only reason he didn’t eat chametz was because we’re not allowed to. This really gets back to the whole pepperoni pizza argument from a few months ago, and what came out over there is that most yw posters could care less what the gemara and rishonim say, they have their views instilled in them by their 1st grade rebbe, and no gemara or gra, or logic, will get in the way.
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