Reply To: Kollel Life – Reality?

Oomis, it saddens me when I hear middle class girls come back from a year of seminary in Israel brainwashed into believing the ideal marriage is to live in poverty supporting a learning husband. Only someone who has never experienced poverty would willingly embrace it. The reason I said brainwashed is that, for the most part, the seminaries present only an extremely rosy scenario which then leaves the women woefully unprepared when faced with the realities of work, life can be very rewarding but seminaries should prepare their students to deal with the hard and difficult parts as well