Question

Hello Michi,
I wanted to ask you about something that people “attack” me over quite often.
Quite a few people who weren’t raised as commandment-observant, and sometimes even those who were, just can’t wrap their heads around the idea that God cares about all the tiny details of Jewish law…
In their view, it’s a crazy obsession—there’s no way that’s what the Creator wants from us—and they don’t believe this is how our ancestors behaved.
For example, before Passover I bought handmade matzah with a very stringent kosher certification, and because of that they “attacked” me, saying that our ancestors ate pitas and that all this meticulousness today is insanity.
So I know that the way Jewish law applies in the small details changes from one era to another, but still, the basic fact that there is serious insistence on fine distinctions in Jewish law has not changed. And about that I ask: how can I explain to people that there is a real point to the small details, and that this is not just obsession for its own sake?
I’ve heard various answers that satisfied me, but not other people, because they “just can’t digest that this is what the Creator wants.”
I’d be happy to hear your opinion and your answer on the matter.
Thanks in advance.