mikehall:
Considering you are the one that started this DISCUSSION thread in which it seems you were attempting to prove that university is an important element of Jewish live (R’ Keleman’s son wouldn’t have been able to survive without it), you are getting awfully spiteful and vicious of other people’s views.
TMB’s opinion is a direct reflection of the sources that he has provided to you. I wonder how much of your attacks you are reflecting onto TMB when you really mean to be upset at Rav Baruch Ber and Rav Elchonon and everyone else he mentioned. Are you upset that he follows the opinion of gedolei hador?
In addition as Mod-80 has pointed out, you need a zchus to be allowed to support Torah learning. Hashem doesn’t need your money to go to Torah- you do. Hashem can get money from other people, you are only losing out on the zchusim yourself.
All myself and I think TMB has said so far is that: yes, university is assur in general. There is a good reason for this too, even among the Jewish institutions. But it is not our views that are being argued it is the views of our gedolim, the previous generations gedolim…
Why do you call TMB “hollier than thou” and not Rav Chaim Soloveitchik? Why do you say that “If it is not your way it is wrong-and that is very very wrong”? Do you not believe the same thing about conservative and reform? What differentiates all of us in that respect if we are all just following our rabbis’ interpretation of the Torah?
There is only one thing- our mesorah. And so throughout history whenever someone has departed from the mesorah that we have they become controversial at best. This is the way we have preserved our mesorah. This is the way it is now, this is the way it was in Europe, I daresay this is the way it was during the second Beis HaMikdash.
You can argue that your mesorah is the correct mesorah. That is fine. But that doesn’t patir us from trying to protect what we believe is the mesorah. That applies to university, that applies to zionism, that applies to chalav stam, that applies to the gedarim of tznius that we have taken on ourselves, and all the other things that we may disagree on. If these things bother you, then you shouldn’t have created this thread. Otherwise, it is not right of you to get so vicious when someone offers a stance that is counter to your own especially when he brings good sources to account for his views.