Yeshivoh attendance for Gen X boys was a highly immersive environment. Nothing else mattered besides learning. Financially secure parents spared nothing in tuition and dormitory expenses in their quest for raising a boy that was highly esteemed in the shidukh market by dint of his scholarly wit. “Learning” was practiced solely for the sake of study —supposedly honing a pupil’s mind— without any expectation that the pupil would ever receive ordination and become a pulpit rabbi, dayyon, or other “holy vessel”.
