What Am I Missing? Seriously.

[onionsoupmix]

Here is link #1. It is about Lakewood Yeshivos in Crisis. This is the 2nd or 3rd school to shut down due to lack of funding.

Here is link #2. It is about how one single Lakewood  fundraising rally resulted in  $250,000.00 for Shalom Rubashkin's  attorneys.

How does this work? I don't get it. What am I missing?

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US$ 250,000.00 is nothing

[barilanisher]

Another Lakewood fellow, Eli Weinstein, get out of jail under the bail of $10,000,00.00. And you talking about 25K, it's small pocket money.

reasons for mitzvot

[ext_242767]

The main place where reasons for mitzvot is discussed in terms of how it affects halacha is at the end of Bava Metzia (circa page 112). That is where the Rambam writes his note using the reason for the mitzvah to explain Rabbi Yehudah.
To find a good discussion about the Rambam you should look up the rambam on that gemara and right there on the page is a very good discussion by the Mishna laMelech.
Rebbi Shimon Bar Yochai hold that if the reason for a mitzvah does not apply--the mitvah does not apply. That is called dorshim taama dekra.

What are you missing?

[ext_229051]

You are not missing anything. The issue is, in two words, Double Standards. The Yeshivishe world is one of double standards. The rabbis have power, and they wield their power in a way to (A) maintain their power; and (B) increase their power.

It means hondeling with the parents and machers the same way they would hondel in the shuk. Which means that the tuition breaks are no less likely to go to the parents of privilege as they are to be grudgingly accorded to the parents of impecunious circumstance. [Having once served on the board of a Jewish day school, I have seen this firsthand.].

Which wouldn't be so bad, except that at those yeshivas, children of privilege are accorded all kinds of academic privileges.

So, after being inculcated with this for 14 or 15 years, how is a product of the yeshivishe system to understand that double standards are a problem?

-- Expatriate Owl
http://expatowl.blogspot.com

Expatriate Owl

[ext_242767]

Expatriate Owl made a really precise penetrating comment.

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[anonymous]

If these yeshivos are in crisis because they have not made reasonable budgets, then a sensible donor should not give them money until their financial plans are in order. Perhaps a lot of donors are unwilling to give money to the yeshivas until they are confident that those yeshivas have some prospect for being stable in the long term.

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