In his annual address to the Mir Yeshiva, Rav Dov Landau, the current charedi “Gadol HaDor,” just declared as follows:

“It is the duty of all those who do not study to show gratitude day and night to those who do learn Torah. It is only thanks to their learning that they are able to live here. Even if there are those who do not understand this, or do not wish to understand it, this is the truth the entire community owes its life to the kollel scholars and the yeshiva students who devote themselve...