This is our responsibility as a community as a whole: to nurture and raise the flag bearers of the next generation. Now is the time to act. Join us in supporting 100 top avreichim who will take on the future spiritual leadership of religious Zionism.
While in the past we took a backseat and focused on religious issues, today we’ve successfully taken on national challenges and have become leaders not only at the forefront of the settlement enterprise and education but also in the media, in the army and in politics.
The few in our sector who choose to give up higher paying careers for this challenging track, often live in poverty and some even drop out. We as a society lose out on individuals who could have been Torah scholars that are connected to Am Yisrael and the Zionist vision.
Government allowances are a joke. Students are not allowed to work. There is no grant system like in Universities.
But, if we are honest with ourselves for a minute there is an extremely important front we’ve slightly neglected: Torah Learning. True, most of us remember how to learn gemara. Some of us even attend a daily or weekly shiur, and we pay a ton of money for religious education.
To put it simply, in our sector, one who dedicates his life to Torah learning is valued less than people with other careers, and certainly less than his counterparts in the charedi world – where they are viewed as superstars.
The solution is quite simple. Today, there are approximately 3,000 married avreichim in the religious Zionist community. Out of this number, we are focusing on the 100 “top” avreichim. Those who have the potential to become Torah leaders yet are reliant on our support in order to continue in their studies.
The Echad L’Echad Foundation is a project of the Torah B’Tzion organization.
