First of all, yes life in the hipocritical sysyem could be so bad when we are faced with such questions of to go broke paying tuition or put food on the table. Secondly, we have spent so much time bashing drinking that we have never actukkyy face the issue. Drinking has been part of judisim for many many years. What ever simcha you go to the first thing you hear is le’chiam. Yet we tell our yeshiva boys your men at thirteen but only for the not fun stuff but for drinking your little kids. The gemara says mayim ginuvim yemtaku, stolen water is sweeter every where yeshiva guys go the see booze but cant have it,so of course when the get access thay will drink as much as they can. When my husband went to yeshiva thats all he would do. Weneed to face the music and teach them how to drink RESPONSIBLY! That the only way we can my a dent
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