iyhbyu:
There is no “generally” that you claim is assur.
I’m sorry, I meant according to the hashkafa that we were taught.
“You might think you know what it’s saying but you might not. and I’d like you to show me where TMB said that.
If you would scroll up 27 posts above yours, you will find what I was referring to. In addition you can find mod 80. stating Rav Avigdor Miller’s opinion on page 1, as well as a number of other similar stories from like minded gedolim (that I hesitate to add because I can’t verify them) in these 2 pages.
Are you saying that your wife went to college, but her job doesn’t require the education or that she didn’t actually go to college?
When we went to Rav Chaim Kanievsky about parnassah when we first got married the only advanced studies option available to her was an all girls-Dati Leumi place which he said she could not attend. Since the charedi institutions are only in Hebrew and my wife isn’t fluent enough this option was ruled out, so no.
But one more thing-do you pay full tuition?
I live in E”Y so tuition is negligeble.
If so you are very lucky and I hope that it continues. But please realize your case is very rare.
Thank you. It is not as rare as you think. I have a number of friends in the same position as me and I don’t get around much.
Because if you don’t than you … have no right to question the decision’s of those who do.
My feeling here is that you are getting unnecessarily defensive over a perceived threat that is non-existent. I am not questioning anyone decisions, I am stating the hashkafa that I was taught.
Why is in that no one in this DISCUSSION thread, has said “Oh, I saw that Rav Moshe but I understood it as such and such”, or “While I did see that Rav Shach, Rabbi Schachter takes a ‘lighter’ stance on YU”?
More than half of TMB’s posts on this page have been paraphrased out of sources that he brings. NO ONE HAS REFUTED A SINGLE ONE OF THESE SOURCES, instead you speak as though you are arguing with TMB.
Why don’t I hear anyone saying “Well if Rav Shach holds that YU is so bad than I’m not giving any money to Ponovicz”, “If Rav Boruch Ber and Rav Chaim Brisker think that Universities are asur because they are full of apikorsus, well ‘that’s just wrong'”.
showerzinger:
I suggest that you go through all the posts again because I don’t think anyone disagrees with what you are saying.
SJSinNYC:
As I’ve already said I live in E”Y where Yeshivah is significantly cheaper. In addition I’ve been to the Tolne Rebbe to ask whether I should be putting money away for later in life when my expenses will be higher (such as weddings) and he told me that bitachon requires that I do not worry about these things so far in advance.