For some odd reason I found sticking to the straight Torah path to be hard even though I had a sincere desire to stick with learning Torah. The difficulties were from within and from without. "From within"--means I was too easily detracted. "From without" means even from people that were learning Torah because that was the way they learned Torah to make money. That is the sort of Lakewood kollel sorts of fraud that claim to be super geniuses. But one way or the other I found sticking to learning Torah to be too hard when everyone in the so called "Torah community" convinced my wife to leave me and take her for themselves, and to rape my children. The religious world at first seemed holy and upright. At that point, when they started to rape my children, they seemed to be not at all so great.
Even though Torah is great and holy, the religious world is a mess. They are nothing like their claim of keeping Torah. It all a show of religiosity. There might be others who are evil, but for me the religious people were the most evil because of their ability and success to hurt my family by means of their show and dance.
Torah is one thing. The religious world is the opposite. So the fact that some people see the religious world as hypocrites--well there very well might be something to back that up.
So in conclusion --there is some aspect of things here that are hard to understand in their very essence. Some סביב רשעים יתהלכון "the wicked go round about" i.e., where there is holiness (the holy Torah) the flies and demons gather around to surround [and use it for evil סם חיים למיימינים בה סם מוות למשמאליים בה an elixir of life for those that walk in Torah for its own sake. Torah is a poison for those that walk in it for the sake of power and money (which means the entire religious world is poison).
So what is it about the religious world that makes the show and dance about Torah which s so different from Torah itself? Well for one thing the religious world is not about Torah at all. It is about the appearance of Torah. [This is in fact something that Rav Nahman of Breslov pointed out concerning Torah scholars that are demons. And he meant this quite literally. And thy are the leaders of the religious world. ]
