I have a bigger issue. The yeshiva has a responsibility to be mechanech their talmid, preferably with their guidance of how to spend bein hazmanim as an added benefit. This plot to send them collecting trains young men into the world of schnorring. This is in perfect concert with the guidance and direction to absolutely avoid any career, and to sit and learn while subsisting on the income produced by the wife, who already is in charge of keeping the home, cooking, laundry, having babies, and child care. The husband, who will thus spend his life doing whatever at the expense of others, has been trained by the bein hazmanim program to live off others’ money. Unfortunately, this brief sarcastic description of what is involved in marrying the “learning boy” is a trap that leads to many ills, one of which is bitul Torah, disguised as kollel learning. I am not cynical – just realistic.
If these boys were to find and hold jobs during bein hazmanim, they would be unavailable to be of any help to their parents in preparing for Yom Tov (both Sukkos and Pesach involve enough preparation that would provide a bochur with a precious mitzvah of kibud av v’em).
Altogether, there is a pirtzah in current thinking in which the bochurim are being viewed as “fundraisers” while they are not in the beis hamedrash. Where did that idea come from? What is so bad for a bochur to come home, divide his time between family, relaxatino, and some sedorim to learn? Why must we try to balance the budget on the necks of the talmidim? Does anyone have answers to these questions?