RB, so does that make any sense at all? Yes a makom Kadosh should be beautiful but not when you fall on hard economic times and the people who daven there can’t pay their mortgage, need tzedaka to put food on the table, and the Rebbeim in the Yeshiva are not getting paid. AND if yeshivas are closing down. IS it right to spend $7,000,000 to build a shul? So it should be in the face of other shuls and Rabbonim that their shul is not as grandiose? That too can cause jealousy and a race to be the biggest, grandest, etc.
Where do we stop when we start pointing fingers???