"The discrepancy between the rebbeim and teachers’ gifts is definitely not warranted"
B. Neuhoff, Brooklyn, New York.
I would like to commend you on the excellent Succos supplement “Yiddishe Gelt.” I read it from cover to cover and urged my children and grandchildren to read it as well. In fact, I think it should be required reading for all young adults and, indeed, for anyone whose grasp of financial literacy consists of “Earn it, spend it” or “Want it, get it.”
The cautionary tales were revealing, the experts’ advice invaluable, and Rabbi Reisman, as always, pitch perfect. You handled a heavy topic with a light and deft hand. Very well done!
L.K.
I read and reread the supplement about frum finances with great interest. It’s definitely one of those mysterious topics that I’ve always tried to make sense of. Seems that there are a lot of creative ways people make ends meet, a lot of siyata d’Shmaya, and a lot of unsolved problems and debt, too.
As a poor middle-classer, both me and my husband working, with four kids kein ayin hara, we are budgeted and work very hard to live within our means. And a struggle it is. Life is very expensive. And no, we don’t get a free dime.
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