Reply To: The Faces of Poverty in the Holy Land

I don’t want to start another of those threads about kollelim. People have their positions on this. I do want,however, to point out that the gemoro that “scroller” points to is one aggadata and not even the last word on this matter. The gemoro in Kiddushin (29A) on the other hand, is halacha and obligates a father to teach his son a trade.And the gemoro in brachos (35B) clearly tells us that that way of living is just not possible for normal human beings.