TBO – you might mean well, but you are notbeing so realistic IMO. With the cost of Yeshivah tuition, kosher food, trying to raise a family (WITHOUT LUXURIES OF ANY KIND), my husband and I can barely support our own kids, much less anyone else’s. Times have changed drastically for EVERYONE. The money is no longer flowing freely even for the formerly wealthy, as businesses declare bankruptcy and people are downsized. My husband is a teacher. Should he support someone else’s kollel family, when it is all we can do to support our own. I would never be able nor even be inclined to pay for some boy to sit in a beis medrash all day while my husband and I worked our backs off so that he should not have too. That is not the Torah way, though it has become popular in the last decades. While it is true there was a Yissacher/Zevulun, they were the ONLY tribes that were so designated. Hashem did not say Reuven will support Shimon, and only Levi was to be supported by ALL of Klal Yisroel, in the form of Maaser. But that is because Levi was assigned a specific role and that role was AVODA, not sitting and learning.
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