I
recently said to a friend – that the people who cannot afford the expensive ' hechsherim' , the super
glatt meat, the suits and Borsalino hats, women's wigs and Pei'ot , the
imported or Nochri fruit and vegetables during Smittah, bug free ( but plenty of insecticide )
vegetables etc are buying these products , while those who
can afford them don't. And it is not just a question of different communities
spending money on different things or having different priorities, but it seems
that the poorer communities are cutting back on healthy nutrition and this
is impacting on kids' health
development with problems of
underweight kids and malnutrition.
Stringent bug-free standards for vegetables mean that kids may also be missing
out on many important green and leafy vegetables.
There
is a video clip of the Harav Ovadia Yosef
Z'TL on the -Credibility of the Heter Me'chirah hechsher . The interesting point for me was his statement that if you have extra money
to spend, buy produce from the Otzar Beit Din. I have heard his son, the chief
rabbi of Holon remark how families and especially the bigger families could not
afford to pay the exorbitant prices of the Smittah le'mehadrin produce and meet
the nutritional needs of their families.
I
was wondering whether parents , educators and rabbis reflect on the saying –
when you are machmir in one area you are mei'kel in another area ?
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