yitzy – I don’t know the mekor and if he meant it at face value – but one thing I can tell you, is that if he was alive today, he would agree with today’s gedolim, our generation’s “rabban gamliel”s who say that it’s a hora’as sha’ah in our generation that we need as many as possible in klal yisroel who are capable of sitting and learning all day to do so, as in our immoral generation, while it’s shayich to also LEARN torah, it’s not shayich to get GADLUS b’torah, or make talmidei chachomim/poskim if they do not stay enveloped in the bubble of torah. This is specifically for our generation that things changed, and given that it is da’as torah, I’m sure the gedolim would say that the tanaim and amoraim would agree to this “shita” if they were alive in this depraved generation…
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