Reply To: Brand Names�Wasting Money

The Artscroll Mesorah Series of Pirkei Avos says in one of the commentaries that people should give more tzedaka instead of spend extra things on themselves. Rov Nosson Scherman goes onto say how the yetzer harah tries to deceive people into spending money on luxuries for themselves and how it is wrong to live such a lifestyle. Is that judgmental as well?

If we threw out all the mussar seforim that view people’s lifestyles with a critical eye in the hopes of getting them to make changes then we would have none left.