There is a place for authentic Lithuanian yeshivas where people learn Torah for its own sake. But because there are authentic yeshivas, that fact gives frauds a cover story to make yeshivas that exist only for money or to advance a cult and call it a yeshiva.
In the days of the Gra there was in every city just the local beit midrash [synagogue] which was used as a study hall during the day. There certainly was no concept that people could or should be paid to learn Torah. To learn for hire is not allowed.
People also hired a tutor to teach their children Torah at home.
What I suggest is for people to go out and buy their own set of the Babylonian Talmud and to plow through it.
The problem with the idea of learning in some local shul [synagogue] today is that the majority of the religious synagogues are affiliated with some cult. In fact the majority of the frum world consists of various cults. They are called frum because they are united in external rituals. The world views of most of these cults are highly antithetical to the world view of the Torah. Most worship some charismatic figure, dead or alive. But they cover this worship with Jewish rituals that their their idolatry seems kosher.
For this reason it is best to avoid these places like they were filled with people that had the black plague and learn at home or in some Conservative or Reform Shul.
The "Kollel Movement". The Kollel movement as a whole today is directed towards the goal of making Torah into a cash cow.
כל תורה שאין עמה מלאכה סופה בטילה וגוררת עוון All Torah that does not have work with it in the end will be worthless and brings to sin.
Appendix: If you are wondering about the excommunication of the Gra, See the several books out there that collected all the testimonies in Villna in Yiddish and the actual language of the different excommunications and you will see what I mean. The excommunications are certainly still valid
.
One of the book I used for this research was in a library in the Old City of Jerusalem. It had the original language in Yiddish of the actual testimonies and documents.
If you can find it look at חיי מוהר''ן the edition put out by נקודות טובות printers. They put the parts that were left out. Those left out parts were included in their edition even more thoroughly than other editions that claimed to put in all the left out parts. You either have to find the השמטות of Shmuel Horwitz--the actual booklet or that specific edition that I mentioned above.
In the days of the Gra there was in every city just the local beit midrash [synagogue] which was used as a study hall during the day. There certainly was no concept that people could or should be paid to learn Torah. To learn for hire is not allowed.
People also hired a tutor to teach their children Torah at home.
What I suggest is for people to go out and buy their own set of the Babylonian Talmud and to plow through it.
The problem with the idea of learning in some local shul [synagogue] today is that the majority of the religious synagogues are affiliated with some cult. In fact the majority of the frum world consists of various cults. They are called frum because they are united in external rituals. The world views of most of these cults are highly antithetical to the world view of the Torah. Most worship some charismatic figure, dead or alive. But they cover this worship with Jewish rituals that their their idolatry seems kosher.
For this reason it is best to avoid these places like they were filled with people that had the black plague and learn at home or in some Conservative or Reform Shul.
The "Kollel Movement". The Kollel movement as a whole today is directed towards the goal of making Torah into a cash cow.
כל תורה שאין עמה מלאכה סופה בטילה וגוררת עוון All Torah that does not have work with it in the end will be worthless and brings to sin.
Appendix: If you are wondering about the excommunication of the Gra, See the several books out there that collected all the testimonies in Villna in Yiddish and the actual language of the different excommunications and you will see what I mean. The excommunications are certainly still valid
.
One of the book I used for this research was in a library in the Old City of Jerusalem. It had the original language in Yiddish of the actual testimonies and documents.
If you can find it look at חיי מוהר''ן the edition put out by נקודות טובות printers. They put the parts that were left out. Those left out parts were included in their edition even more thoroughly than other editions that claimed to put in all the left out parts. You either have to find the השמטות of Shmuel Horwitz--the actual booklet or that specific edition that I mentioned above.
