Thank you kiruvwife. I very much appreciate your kind words. The Netziv has an interesting essay on the Akeidah. He writes that Abraham had a dilemma as G-d was being inconsistent. On the one hand He commended that Abraham offer his son as a sacrifice. On the other hand, there is an issur in the Torah of “et bincha at titein laMolech,” that the Torah prohibits child sacrifice. Abraham, not hvaing a ready solution, relied on the 13th hermeneutic of R. Yishmael: “Vchein shnei ketuvim hamakchishim zeh at zeh ad sheyavo hakatuv hashilishi v’tachriah beineihem” when two verses in the Torah contradict one another, a third verse will resolve the contradiction. Thus Abraham did as he was told, and waited for the deus ex machina to resolve the Divinely created contradiction. I’m doing the same. On the one hand I’m obligated to do everything in my power to provide a torah education for my children. On the other, the same body of Halacha seemingly prohibits me from using all my skills to do so. I’ll continue exploring whatever avenues are apparent and G-d will have to do the rest. That resolution might take the form of my winning the lottery, or caming into some other cash windfall, it may come in the form of lowered tuition. It just might even come in the form of a heter from a well regarded posek to sing in a church on Sundays. I wouldn’t go to a non-Orthodox schul unless there was a halachik basis to allow me to do so. But I will explore every possibility, hoping G-d takes pity on me.
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