“leaniyas daati the whole thing sounds like a shtus (if no yidden are learning then the world goes back to tohu vovohu) but it has it’s mekoros so there you go”
there is a story about a priest who asked Rav Yonoson Eibshitz how can jews not learn nitel? dont you believe that the world cant exist without torah? his answer was that since minhag yisroel torah the fact that we do not learn is torah.