Comments on: His Business is Failing, But he Has 5 Son-in-Laws in Kollel

By: Raisa Colgate

Raisa Colgate — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 05:35:52 +0000

Have an article you need to publish? Check out this site, I have a bunch of my own there too.

By: Dave Kent

Dave Kent — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:30:55 +0000

I really question the motivation in all this.Why are you so concerned about this guy?If he wants to support his sons-in-laws thats his right and none of anybody’s business.If he can’t or doesn’t he can cut them off.Nobody has a gun to his head.Obviously,the hatred and envy in seeing somebody else becoming big in learning is like a thorn in the eyes of envious people.Nobody says” boo” when some rich 22 year old (with a “job” ) gets a mansion in Passaic thanks to mommy and daddy.Only people who devote their lives to the ultimate purpose are subjected to these targeted insults.If there are a few bums in a kollel then everybody is a bum???No way!!Bums used the yeshivas in the 60s to get out of being drafted to fight in Nam.Thats makes every rabbi who learned in a yeshiva in the 60′s a draft dodger?Nobody who learned in the 60′s is either a success or sincere ? You like to take the exception and claim its the rule.Mashgichim throw bums out because they like any good business manager they demand people to produce.

By: Zachary Kessin

Zachary Kessin — Tue, 18 May 2010 03:26:04 +0000

he is going to need to tell his Sons in law to get jobs. If the money is not there its not there, and you can’t magically make it appear.

By: whatsinaname

whatsinaname — Mon, 17 May 2010 05:52:09 +0000

i work in hitech in israel. i know someone here who lives in Beitar, and now works part time to support his family. I commend him. He was telling me how difficult it was to transition from Kollel to working, and considered it a traumatic experience for him. It took me a little bit, but i guess i could understand him. big transition – lots of nisyonos. At the same time however, i kept thinking if this was someone who was nervous about the nisyonos, or perhaps he didn’t want to leave his cushy, comfortable, secluded and easy-to-live lifestyle of kollel. I know the money isn’t there, but the vacation time, family time, lack of “work related stress” are all “occupational hazards” of Kollel that i wouldn’t mind having. Sometimes one has to ask themselves if its the learning they want to stay in, or the cushy, lots of vacation time lifestyle that they adore.

By: RivkA

RivkA — Mon, 17 May 2010 04:38:10 +0000

The concept of learning full time and being supported by the community is a relatively new concept.

All the gedolim of our past also earned their own parnasa.

The current system is unsustainable and also supports an autocracy rather than a meritocracy. In the end, only wealthy families will be able to continue to support full time learning.