Kanoi: No, it is preferable to live off perfectly legal government programs and learn full time than to work.
I totally totally disagree with this attitude on so many levels that I can’t even begin. All I will say is this: If you truly believe that what Hashem wants is for all Chareidi Jews to refuse to work (legally) and just live on tzedakah, we live in different worlds. I guess you can try to justify your decision any way you like, twisting and turning whomever supports this untenable position, but anyone who has more than a eighth grade education will realize that this is totally unsustainable. Do you realize that in Israel and America, the view of chareidi life gets more negative every day? All we see are people who demonstrate against other religious Jews in Ramat Bet Shemesh, shnooring money to marry off their children, and refusing to do anything to help other Jews other than themselves. Is it any wonder there is so much hostility against them? At some point, you are going to realize that not only is this lifestyle completely unsustainable, but goes completely against Hashem’s will. I’m sorry, but thats what most of non-chareidi Jews believe.
Your other comments like ” The Chareidim have just as much of a right to the land as the Zionists do. Would you be singing the same tune if the Chareidim passed a law that nobody could go to work?” are even more insane. Is that really what you want? Pass a law that no one should work? All you are doing is playing into every negative stereotype against you. Although it saddens me to see this, I was not surprised by the union of Bennett and Lapid. Your stance toward everytyhing non-chareidi has managed to turn even other religious Jews against you. So sad…….