[Avodah] Rav Moshe Feinstein: Going To College In The Summer

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 08:00:45AM -0400, Prof. Levine wrote:
> From http://revach.net/article.php?id=4333
>
> Rav Moshe Feinstein: Going To College In The Summer
>
> In 1972 Rav Moshe Feinstein was asked (Igros Moshe YD 4:34) by a Rosh  
> Yeshiva if he should allow his talmidim to go to college in the summer 
> during Bein HaZmanim...

It's written in 1972, unfortunately addressed only to "yedidi", so we
don't know the audience. Our only clue is that it's a yeshiva where
macha'ah against going to college altogether won't help at a time when
some yeshivos were successfully doing just that.

For some audiences, the chiddush would be the tzad heter -- that RMF
feels that the other semesters are merely "eino pashut", and that it only
pays to overcome the problems of macha'ah for the additional problems
of summer attire and behavior.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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