I have just described the concerns of the Manalim. This is not the true Litvack. He was concerned with Hashem, all of the Torah, mitzvos, middos, chesed. But the Manal is the three G's. And by Gemara we don't mean all of the Gemara and certainly not the Yerushalmi. We mean small parts upon which lomdus or complicated abstractions are applied. We don't mean halacha, aggadata, Mishnah. We just mean thumb waving. To them, this is the entire religion. And you need money for that, so gelt is #2. And guilt is to push the Gemara and Gelt.
So what do you do with your life? Gemara lomdus. Where do you do it? In or near a yeshiva. If you are not up to that, you obtain lots of money and give it to yeshivas. That's it. That's your life. They don't know about talents, dreams, love, friendship, or even mitzvos. Gemara, gelt, and guilt and all that points to gadolim. The 4th G.
Does this describe everyone in the yeshiva world? No. Rabbi Frand is not like that. Rabbi Miller is not like that. Rav Yaakov Weinberg was not like that. There are plenty that are not like that. But there are plenty that can be characterized this way.
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