RebE, thanks, obviously multiple rishonim and achoronim allowed taking money for learning or teaching Torah with various sociological explanations of our weakness. R Moshe, for example, suggests that nowadays chachamim can’t juggle working and learning at the same time. It would be silly to ask R Kotler to go into real estate or R Soloveichik into teaching Hegel instead of learning despte their obvious talents. But then if there are people who do not get support that they find sufficient and are distraught by the lack of parnasa, and spend time looking for segulos and questionable sources of income – maybe then they should follow the derech that will make them successful, as the Gemora says. It depends on personal circumstances.
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