Syag > When anyone who actually understands the value of Torah learning knows that doing it full time, for however long, is a privilege
Look, there are lots of good reasons for someone to sit and only learn and nobody suggested that Vilna Gaon should have been teaching math at Vilna Universitas. But, to the opposite, that someone who actually goes out and fulfils holy mitzvas of having correct measurements; paying workers on time; plowing without kilayim; giving free loans; returning bag left by a customer; putting a fence around the heavy equipment at the factory; leaving correct inheritance to his sons; not plow with an ox and a donkey; keeping your vows (or away from them) – and this is just from the last parsha – so you are saying that a person who expresses himself to these mitzvos is somehow an inferior person, provided he “only” learns 70% of his available time?! This is a huge machlokes even if he is supported by his heilike parents, in laws, and spouse, before we involve an unsuspecting taxpayer.