I’m also in that middle category- making too much to qualify for WIC, HUD, food stamps, Child Health Plus etc but not enough to actually live comfortably. I work for a non-profit which is designed to do business work for tzedakah. so I’m doing business stuff but I’m paid like a rebbe, except I don’t get parsonage. Between tuition discounts, government programs, and everything else, being in kollel is the better lifestyle. Plus, you’re isolated from the olam hasheker. I think I should go back to kollel- I would have olam haba AND olam hazeh. Now I have no olam hazeh, and without all the learning I have not much olam haba either…
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