Reply To: Are Some Yeshivas Too Large to Function?

Furthermore, the book by Rav Shlomo Lorintz mention a story with Rav Shach ZT”L where 2 menahalim came to him to get his reshus to kick a bochur out of yeshiva for being mechalel Shabbos. Rav Shach ZT”L asked them if they knew what his matzav at home was like. they said “no”. Rav Shach ZT”L screamed at them and called them “Rotzchim!” They investigated and found that the bochur was going through a rough time at home. This is why a machgiach must know every talmid, and this is why yeshivas can’t be so large that people slip through the cracks. It used to be that people said, “I learned by Reb Aharon, I learned by Reb Reuven,”etc. Now they say I learned in this yeshiva, I learned in that yeshiva. No rebbe from whom to get guidance. This is why we live in a dor yasom.

To reiterate, I’m not chas veshalom saying close the yeshivas. I’m saying make many new smaller yeshivos where people can get a real hadracha and develop in all aspects- torah, mussar, hashkafa, etc, which cannot be imparted in a megayeshiva.