Blow away the dreams

For BTs to survive they must be humble. Joining the frum world puts you at the bottom of society. So if you have a cousin who is a professor at Harvard, and a distant cousin who is a Congressman, or if as a Jewish American you aspire to such things, know that all goes away when you become frum. The nutty rabbis in yeshivas who tell you to dump your career and become a lamdan and the restrictions of halacha and the financial demands of having 16 kids (so you can't afford to invest in a new business venture) eliminate any possibility of career success. In addition, you are now a second class citizen, a BT. Even your kids will struggle with shiduchim when this is discovered. Therefore, you must learn to enjoy the simple pleasures of life because that's all you are going to get. 

This fact is another reason that Machon Shlomo is a horrible place. Aside from the isolation, lack of a program, and perverse hatred of everything in the world, there's the snobbery of the guy who teaches the only class besides Gemara. He's all about fancy colleges and hoity toity hobbies like fencing, and of course rich people. Your introduction to Judaism is poisoned by this elitist, ambitious Jewish American sickness that injects in you an expectation that you can never reach. This person struggles with that too, but sees himself as a success because he runs a school but it's a school that fills you with poison. It's like the Ivy League schools bankrupting middle class people by charging $50,000 a year so they can get degrees in Semiotics. It's all a show and Brown University and the professors are the only ones who profit. So too, the Machon Shlomo approach to kiruv only benefits one person. It leaves you lost and broken hearted.

There’s a dark cloud rising from the desert floor

I packed my bags and I’m heading straight into the storm

Gonna be a twister to blow everything down

That ain’t got the faith to stand its ground

Blow away the dreams that tear you apart

Blow away the dreams that break your heart

Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted

Bruce Springsteen