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Posted: Tue, Aug 26 2008, 2:10 pm Post subject: re: Kollel Life
and people are in shevet levi because they are born into it (and are descended from people who did not participate in chet ha'egel). They will get the respect or the maaser, etc only because they are born into it. It's yichus.
Being a talmid chacham and learning in kollel is certainly laudable. But that person got that way through their own hard work. not because they were necessarily born into it.
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