No feivel it is not poshut. I’m all for the community supporting a cadre of elite scholars who are engrossed in full time learning. Klal Yisrael has always stood for that. But that is not what occurs today. The sine qua non of a getting a good shidduch is to be registered in Lakewood. One need not actually so much learn in Lakewood as be registered. The sine qua non for a girl to get a shidduch is years of kest. That the chosson does not actually learn is not so important as the shver willing to pay for the (non)learning. The illusion of mass learning, which in truth is mass batalah is unprecedented in Jewish history. It’s also killing jus economically.
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