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There are different shitos about davening (more stringent) vs. berachos (less). Check with your LOR.
In defense of soliek –
Many of us are missing his point here (IMHO). Imagine yourself as a little girl, whose mother has left her in her grandparents’ care, her father is not 100%, and whose grandfather is raising her the way he was probably raised – with precious little affection.
Imagine yourself growing up in a family-centric community, and never having Mommy attend PTA, or watch your siddur play, or bake hamantashen with you.
Nu?
I actually have a little sympathy for this…person…although certainly more for those whose names she dragged in the mud.
BTW, to those of us who are interested in mental health issues, she displays all the typical behaviors of HPD. And the real question is, how will the next HPD child in Satmar be treated?
Hashem is the True Judge. It is not our place to judge her, but her actions we can certainly judge.
Many years ago I heard a lecture from Rav Hershel Shachter on kashrus. In the course of that lecture, he explained that even water needs to be researched. He said that treif liquids can be (and sometimes are) run on the same lines used to bottle water. To be honest, I had never thought until then to check if water has a hechsher. It seems to me it is really not so simple to pasken by ingredients.