jphone nailed it. Fit the mold. The Yeshiva bizmaneinu produces a product, not individuals. The blame lies with oilam that is comfortable this way. What was Mir in Europe? The famous picture showed 50-ish people. One of my former neighbors, a Shanghai Mirer Ztl, told me there were a few missing from that “picture day” including himself. Also at fault is the plain fact that economically, it makes sense to run a larger institution with division of responsibilities. I was zoche once to be one of 30 or 40. I once heard a congregational Rov speak at some fundraiser, and he marveled out loud how “Rav so-and-so’s talmidim were all so different from each other.” True, but nobody liked us. About coming back to learn in places “not beneath their dignity” (mottel1), what could be if the returnees from EY could be sent to learn in large chaburos in the empty shuls across the country? The Kallas could the qvell ” my chosson is marbitz torah in a place where they are starving for it.” My son’s EY yeshiva is one that keeps its talmidim long term. The R”Y favored a request from some nidachim in a far off galus and sent ten lively bochrim for five months. They brought a chiyyus to a less fortunate community and it was not ‘beneath their dignity’. There is a strong theme in chazal against the machnis ve’eino motzee.
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