When the late lamented Nasrallah was yelling victory after the last Lebanon war, President Bush quipped that the victors don’t usually go into hiding to protect their skin. When the Roshey Yeshiva of E’Y are sending emergency emissaries to collect the basic minimum of funds needed for survival of these Kollelim, that is hardly victorius, although very unfortunate. Yes, we need a population that devotes themselves solely to Torah, but the “kemach” has to come from somewhere. Yakov Avinu himself blessed his descendents with wealth and financial success, in agriculture, trade, mining, because that is what a person needs in order to serve Hashem properly and learn his Torah, as opposed to spending the whole seder thinking about paying his utilities before they get disconnected. Idealism and realism CAN be in accord, if one only starts thinking.
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