torah4ever:
However he must be able to support his family first. If one isnt accomplishing in kollel which is basically what is happening today then why hurt yourself and your family?! Kollel is just the “easy way out” in todays frum world and its ridiculous.
For something that you feel very strongly about, it doesn’t seem as though you’ve thought it all the way through.
“why hurt yourself and your family”
“Kollel is just the easy way out”
Is living well below the poverty line, without even enough money to buy enough food for Shabbos, in order to learn all day your definition of “the easy way out”? What is it “the easy way out” of?
Maybe you feel that having no furniture beyond simple beds, a table and 4 chairs is taking the “easy way out”?
How about the guy that has to buy a 50 shekel lulav and esrog package or the guy that has to be repayed for borrowing 3 shekel bus fair to make it through the month is taking “the easy way out”?
Maybe the guy that gets up at 5 am to go to a minyan to pays $200 a month even though he doesn’t get home until 11 pm is “taking the easy way out”.
How about the guy that goes to a night koillel (that is, until 10 pm) that pays in random food supplies from the local makolet to help get through the month, is that called “the easy way out”?
I know people who live like all of these. I’ll be honest. I just don’t see what you’re talking about.
People must attend college,work hard, thus enabling them to support their families.
Can you cite the pasuk that says “And thou shall work hard”? Supporting a family is a mitzvah like any other, if it is efshi al yedei acheirim how are you mevatel from Talmud Torah which is kneged kulam?