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DaasYochid,
I don’t know if this letter exists or not, nor can I comment on the status of the various educational institutions being referred to. However, I think most who have commented here have missed the point.
The letter isn’t saying that because Hashem provides, we therefore do not need to do hishtadlus. It is saying that a certain type of hishtadlus is unacceptable, and as a result, we must avoid it, and use other means of hishtadlus, and even if it seems difficult, we must trust in Hashem to provide.
I got the overall point of the letter, and I agree with its descriptions of the dangers. I think the issue may be even more pronounced in Israel, because whereas in the U.S. most college instructors are non-Jewish and generally ignorant of and supportive of Orthodox Judaism, that is not the case in Israel.
What bothers me is that this letter, which was introduced by a poster whose OP is the sole post on the account, and then “confirmed” by the second post ever made by another user (can anyone else confirm it, btw?), are two things:
1. The writer goes out of his way to try and dispel a notion that rabbis are locked in ivory towers and unconcerned about the plight of kollel families. No, they are in the trenches with these families and feel their pain. My question: why would he assume that kollel families felt this way about their rabbis? I don’t think that they by-and-large do. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe the letter is not directed at kollel families, but that’s the way it reads to me.
2. Then, as an almost perfect foil for this earlier point, the writer’s sole example supporting the notion that the primary cause of the sense of poverty among kollel families is that they are living overindulgent lives is a claim that families must buy a new borsalino hat for each son at the start of every zman! Is that really a thing in Bnei Brak?? I don’t think so.