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HakunaMatada
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Anonano-

Thank you

I think you misunderstood what I meant at the end. All I meant to say was that because of the broad spectrum of modern orthodoxy, sometimes the differences are blown out of proportion, because although I may disagree on many issues with some in the MO world, there are others who I’m basically in line with, but because they are officially MO and I’m officially chareidi, it can create a big, unnecessary, divide.

I disagree with the way you started your attitude towards learning full time. You write that there is “nothing wrong with it” , while I think it’s pretty pashut that in a perfect world everyone would be learning full time, that’s one of the aspects of talmud torah kineged kulam. I’m not sure what you mean by “eilu vaeilu”; that’s when there are two valid Torah opinions on an issue, but if you look in chazal, what I’m saying is clear. In fact, one if the pshatim of what the “test” was that Hashem tested the Jews in the midbar was now that they had no worries or reasons to not learn, because their needs were taken care of, will they devote all their time to Hashem, i.e. learning, or not. Pretty clear that without financial concerns, there are no excuses, you can’t just decide it’s not what you want to do