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מרכבות פרעה's avatar

i give it a 90% chance that the voice will print the letter. He printed the "apology" from Strauss, because they wanted to receive responses like these. He likes creating controversies. Gotta read between the lines.

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This response misses the entire point. As a system with an ideal to be entirely engrossed in torah should not be encouraging side hustles and college courses. This does not mean that there are none who do other things besides sit and learn. It means that as a system it has worked for years with an ideal and there are many who have lived that life without a thought to how they will finance their lives. As the author of the grasshopper effect wrote you can ask how they do it but they nor does anyone else really know. Can one also not question why god has chosen to inject billions of dollars into the hands of frum businessmen in the current generation? I am sure the rational group would say for private Jets and to fund a certain non profit in beit shemesh or dedicate a chair of judaic studies in some random college.Just as a side point to those who deride people who dedicate their their lives to learn and must live from others….that is Rabbeinu Yackov ben R Ashers description of himself in the beginning of hilchos shabbos. (if you dont know who that is stop by BMG and ask)

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