It happens to be a machlokes between Rashbi and Acherim. When everyone learns who will do the work? People have to learn לשם שמים so מלאכתן נעשית ע’י אחרים. Who are the acherim if everyone learns?See Rambam Hilchas Talmud Torah (3,10) and the referenced Yabia Omer. I would have liked to sit and learn but I did not have chance. It does not say to learn in the Kollel. You work and learn when you have time. The halacha is that if a mitzva must be done and there is no one else to do it, we are mevatel talmud torah to do it and then go back to learning, otherwise no mitzvos would be done. We currently, with the Kollel, don’t have תורתן אומנתן.
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