“Further more we need to stop the culture of parents working until they are put into their graves to supprt their kids. Married children must realise that it is fine to learn as long as you can put bread on the table and shoes on the feet of your kids. When you can’t – you go earn a living. It is surely more Kibud Ov V’aim to earn a living than to make your parents work well past their retirement ages.”
I wanted to see that repeated, it was so on the mark. Those same kids who are benefitting from daddy’s financial support, will be unable to offer it to their own kids, if they do not get educated and make a parnassah. What is next — GRANDparents providing the shana rishona, sheinis, shlishis parnassah??????? Who will raise the next generation – the babysitters, not the mothers, from THIS generation? Is that really what Hashem wants? Because if that is true, then all the things I was taught all my life in Yeshivah about women’s tafkid being the holy task of mothering and raising the children of klal Yisroel, seem contradictory with this idea. It is important for men to understand that their primary responsibility it to fulfill the ratzon of Hashem by both learning AND earning their way in life to support their families. It behooves the Yeshivos to put an emphasis on the idea that one can and has a chiyuv to do BOTH. Imm ein kemach ein Torah. Our greatest Gedolim also had jobs.