Hirhurim linked to 2 articles by R. Yitzchak Breitowitz (Torah and Professionalism and Choosing a Profession: Torah Considerations) which compare the good and bad points of learning in kollel vs working. It is definately worth reading.
He left out some important negatives of kollel.
1. The wife has to work full time to support the husband, meaning she has to go out in the world, not kol kevuda bas melech pnima. In addition, the children end up being brought up by the babysitter.
2. It places a tremendous burden on the parents, the parents need to support the young couple while he is sitting and learning.
6 comments:
You can't make a system based on people who luck out.
It costs a lot of money to raise a family and many wives don't get paid that well so the parents need to help out.
Also, there's plenty of places to work that don't require one to "sacrifice" the things mentioned in Gil's post.
Greg
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Here is an interesting article about Charedi women working For What Careers Should Jewish Girls Study?
...the problems created by non-kosher places of employment, they also destroy the building of a house of Torah. Some women think that they should continue working so their husbands can continue studying, and although they themselves decline in ruchniyus their husbands will grow in their Torah studies. Besides this being "sinning to help another person have a zchus" and "a mitzvah caused by an aveiroh" they will not attain their goal in life. They are contradicting themselves, as HaRav Svei explained. Anyone who thinks about this matter will understand it clearly and will not use these means to construct homes of Torah.
The author makes a good point but instead fo carrying it to it's logical conclusion which is that the husbands should work and support their wives and the wives should stay hiome and build their house and raise the children, he suggests some half baked solution which won't work.
R.Svei wants to have it both ways.
Well isn't he daas torah.
What's wrong with the wife working? It demonstrates our position on EQUALITY!! Lest the nay sayers claim that we oppress our women by not letting them work , we can point to Shomie Chaim who is in kollel learning and his wife, Sarah Leah is working!
The Torah doesn't believe in equality. Different people have different roles. A Cohne has a differetn role then a Yisrael and a man has a different role then a woman.
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