ifti99:
“Good for you. Tell me something Kanoi. Who, exactly is a “gadol”?”
R’ Shteinman.
“If other rabbis (most, actually) and the Talmud believe that work is absolutely preferable than living off tzedakah, why would anyone believe otherwise?”
Obviously they believe that living off government programs while learning full-time is not what the Gemara was referring to.
“These same gedolim were the ones advising Jews not to leave Europe during the 1930s when Jabotinsky begged them to leave.”
And finally, you show your true colors. You do not care what the Gedolim say; you think you know better. You think you are smarter, or “more worldly”, than they are. You think you know what Hashem wants, not them.
You are wrong.
“You criticize… every Jew who doesn’t think like you.”
Where did I do that?