Torah Study or Full-Time Job? The Haredi Economy

Daniel noticed something on a trip to the States: Jewish American relatives share the same concern about ultra-Orthodox society in Israel — but it's not about religious coercion. It's about the operating logic of a system where adult men study Torah full-time by default, women carry the entire economy, and the state foots the bill. We trace the idea of Torah study from the Mishnah through Maimonides to the 19th-century European yeshiva revolution, and ask whether the modern Haredi model is historically Jewish at all — or a radical innovation that's now a demographic freight train heading for fiscal collapse. Episode #182354 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/182354