A רב complained to רבי עקיבא איגר that the members of his קהילה were making his life unbearable. רבי עקיבא איגר told him: “The members of your קהילה are עמי-ארצים. And so they hate רבנים and תלמידי חכמים. In the past, every עם-הערץ would pay a נדוניה to buy a חתן תלמיד חכם whom he could abuse. But they figured out that this is expensive. Instead, they now get together and acquire a single תלמיד חכם, make him the רב, and jointly abuse him.”
06/10/2021