Reply To: What is a Yeshiva Education Worth to You?

Ames, I didn’t say Kollel is “the easy way out of responsibility” just that it is a luxury. Learning Torah is not a luxury, but spending all day learning with someone else’s support IS a luxury (even if its your wife). I am not sure if you are offended for Kollel men or housewives though – in today’s day and age, being a housewife is a luxury.

Is it fair for you to stay home with your kids and get a break on tuition, when I am out of the house 11 hours a day to pay my tuition bill? No, you should get a job or find some way to make a major contribution to the school. I would love to be a stay at home mom – but there is absolutely no way (if you include Yeshiva tuition) that I can afford it.

I am not placing the blame of the cost of education on Kollel families in the slightest – the schools I am choosing between don’t really have many kollel families in it (and since they are likely YU Kollel families, chances are the women have good educations and can make good salaries) and the tuition is still astronomical. I personally think its people not giving up their luxuries to pay for school thats a problem.

Cantoresq, I am sorry you are going through that. I am not quite up to that stage yet – we still only have one (a boy), with one of the way. But the economics make me wonder that if this is a girl, am I going to stop?