Tutoring, safrus, dirshu tests, translating, editing, writing, being a rebbi in yeshiva, shlepping in a grocery store, working in an american company and working overnite, stock boy in a store, working in a home for disabled children, chazzanus, accounting. do american taxes. being a cleaner in a grocery..

in 1929 in the great depression, they wouldn’t care what they did as long as it put food on the table.
do you think those sweatshops in the lower east side were fun? no way. it was done to put food on the table and roof over the heads.
do you know about the mesirus nefesh for shabbos in those days.

By letting your kids starve you are playing with fire. I doubt that these kids are thinking that they have zechusim for their father’s learning.. I also wonder if they would want to be in kollel in the future themselves after going through this.

This is by no means an attack on kollel but an idea that it should be done with sechel and not at the expense of basic necessities, especially for the kids who need the food to grow and be healthy.

And being in the Mir, I find it somewhat amusing to read how my meals have recently ‘become far simpler’. I just finished supper at the Mir a few hours ago, and I’m at a loss trying to figure out how on earth such a rumour began. The Yeshiva may indeed be going through a difficult period, but the meals don’t seem to have affected one iota.