We unquestionably support Torah. What we do not (some of us) want to be forced to support is someone else who does not seem to feel the need to be achrayi on his own family. We all have expenses, we all work hard to make ends meet. My husband would also love to take a few years to sit and learn, something which he was denied for most of his life. But that will not put food on the table, and keep a roof over our heads, and my earnings were never enough except to help us get by. I raised our five children, I did not delegate their care to someone else. I took jobs at night so that my husband would be home when I was not. There is no way we would struggle like that to put money on someone ELSE’S table. It is a tough world for all of us. And as we have said repeatedly, if the Kollel generation does not wise up, there will be NO one in one generation or two at the very most, who will be skilled and educated enough to support their own children while they choose to sit and learn. And to accuse someone of being anti-Torah for feeling that way, is incredibly arrogant and probably oveir on Motzi Shem Ra. But what would I know – I don’t learn Gemarah.
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