All Entries Tagged With: "wife working"
Every Girl Needs a Good Degree
In addition to providing support for their kollel son-in-laws, parents must also give their daughters a degree so they can have the ability to bring in parnossa for the family. This is the opposite of what chazal instruct us to teach one’s son a trade – instead we are teaching the daughters and not teaching [...]
Response to Mishpacha Magazine’s Goldmines Story
Mishpacha magazine (order a copy by clicking here) just ran a story called Goldmines that got many people all fired up. The story is almost predictable. A mother of 3 “top” boys wants only the best for her sons, after all, they are great masmidim and budding talmidei chachamim. She marries them all off to [...]
The New Reality for Kollel Support
Our parents’ generation, when kollel was a novelty, a kollel family could manage to get by with the meager kollel salary, the wife’s meager earnings, and a very simple lifestyle. Parental support, either from the husband’s or the wife’s parents, was unheard of, aside from occasional gifts. Today, the situation is vastly changed. A kollel [...]
Is Parnossa the Wife’s Responsibility?
My wife told me that when she speaks with her friends, they all agree on this point. They all feel that it is their duty to bring in parnossah for the family, and if they c”v lose their job, the pressure is on them, as the breadwinners of the family, to replace the income lost. [...]
An Overheard Conversation
It’s not usual that I listen in to the ladies chattering, but this was a topic that I could relate to (it had nothing to do with labor or shaitels!). I was at my in laws’ house over Pesach, and my wife’s younger sister (who’s husband works, and never really was much into learning) was [...]
What is Kollel all About Anyways?
I know, the question itself is pure kefira. But that is something that crosses my mind countless times a day, when I am awake, at night trying to fall asleep, or during davening. What is the goal of spending so many years in Kollel? I am a 29 year old yungerman in Lakewood, having spent [...]
