rabbiofberlin – i agree with the beginning of your statement.
but……you say the chasideshe world goes to work, do you realize that the litvish world does as well. its yeshivish – which really stems from chassidus, since most of these people daven sfard and wear gartlech. my great grandfather was the rov of a major Lithuanian town, and he worked as well. yes he found time to learn, sit on the bes din, etc. but the litvish ALWAYS worked. REAL roshei yeshiva (reb ahron excluded, as he had the job of rebuilding yeshivos) will tell guys to leave the beis medrash and go to work.
side point, you missed the biggest one as far as going out to get a job, the kesubah every one of the kollel guys hands his wife. it states he will provide her , no that her father will provide him!!!
enlightenedjew – youre thinking is the problem. that working is not for everyone. are you shikker? working is for everyone, learning is for a very select few, maybe 2-3 percent if we are lucky. the rest need to go out and work. Sheishes yomim taavod, hence kollel yungerleit are called batlanim. Hashem built a drive to create, to build things, a drive for personal responsibility into EVERYONE!! the ones that dont want to are flat out lazy, just like you have lazy people all over society who would rather not get a better paying job, one over lets say $13,000, because then they will lose government handouts. your post is really a pathetic attempt to condone laziness, and perpetuate the mindset of the problem. working isn’t a lifestyle keneged the torah, learning all day is! it is high time roshaei yeshiva started kicking 90% of their kollel yungerleit out, and paid the remailng people more money so they can sit and learn in earnest, and actually support their families the way a ben torah should.