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of course the husband has an obligation to support his wife. but if they mutually agree that she should work of course it works. and all this malarkey about going OTD from collge. please. dont we all know professionals who actually became baalei teshuva in college? a person is obligated to learn a trade and if the world we live in doesn’t agree with torah values, what are we going to do, lock ourselves in a cage?! hopefully the torah that he learnt before he goes to college and his own convictions will keep him from being influenced by anti-torah values.
and while were on the topic. i digress. this era in yiddishkeit is the era of ‘gedarim'(fences). no internet. no college. no working. all ‘gedarim’. the irony is that while the purpose of ‘gedarim’ are to keep us from being ‘parutz’, we have now become ‘parutz’ in making ‘gedarim’. but isn’t the purpose not to avoid nisyonos but to overcome nisyonos!? why must we shy away from every battle and not have some trust in our torah, our mesora, and ourselves!? isn’t it time we faced the world as it is, became part of the world, and still held on to our traditions to the fullest extent?! wer’e acting like a child who plays peek-a-boo and thinks that since he cant see you, you cant see him as well. the ‘gedarim’ are not the purpose. the purpose is living a torah life – that is, living, with torah.