The religious world has found a way to make Torah into a tremendous source of profit. I doubt if Moses would be happy about that

The approach of the Gra is important from many angles. But much of it the Litvak world has missed a few of the most important points. The main thing is learning Torah for its own sake not for money. Nowadays Torah is big business. Why not serve in Zahal, The Army of Defense of Israel? The reason is that that would dig into the status of the religious fanatics. It has nothing to do with what the Torah requires.("You will sit here, while your brothers go up to war?" That is from the book of Numbers.) It is a major characteristic of the religious world to make big deal about minor details while ignoring direct un-mistakeable commandments of the Torah .[the law about charity is brought at the end of the first chapter of bava kama in the rosh. it is derived from the general law about presents to the poor in the torah, the forgotten sheaves, etc. The rule is one who has 200 zuz is not allowed to receive charity. So then for people that are getting paid to learn torah, is it charity or is it payment for services rendered? If charity if one has the amount of a ketubah then it is forbidden to receive charity. if it is payment for, that also is forbidden because of the prohibition of using torah as a shovel to dig with]