Reply To: Why do working people tend to not be as ruchniyus as Kollel people?

Joseph, little I know is right about what Kollel should be. Kollel as we know never existed in Europe. Jews were too poor to support anyone who wasn’t talented enough to be a Talmud chachom , rosh yeshiva etc . Ironically, it was the baby boomers who went to yeshiva AND worked that funded the current system. As the boomers age out and pass, the system will contract. A friend supports two sons in a Lakewood kollel. However, there is no way fifteen years from now that they’ll be able to do the same for their sons. The contraction won’t happen tomorrow but it’s inevitable.