I simply want to say to the comments, think before you write. Their loss is our gain? We are one community! We are one family! These words make me sick.
RIETS is falling apart? Have you been to the YU Beis? I’m not MO, but there are guys learning seriously until all hours of the night. Top learners. There are world class talmiday chachamim and poskim. Don’t speak from the outside, until you have walked he proverbial mile.
This issue is one we can raise within our own world. How many Baal habatim that wear hats on shabbos do not put on tefillin every day during the week? How many local shteibels can hardly make a minyan during the week? Sure, Shomrei Shabbos is booming, but we know we are not fully accounted for.
We all live in glass houses. We all need to stop throwing rocks, and start doing yeshiva! It’s Elul! Elul!