Reply To: Meikil=Less Religious?

akuperman; if someone feels that it’s “beneath” them to take charity, but could succeed in learning, it’s gaavah. If he thinks that the halacha discourages it and wants to follow the rambam, well, the radvaz says that we would have forgotten the torah if we would have followed that rambam, and rav moshe says that it’s gaavah as well in our time.