The "Yeshiva World" is the BEST world in the world. There is so much good, Kedusha, Tahara, Emunah, Chesed, Simcha etc. etc. etc.
One of the more unseemly aspects of this world [which is much more pronounced in the general world] is the pursuit of money - particularly in the shidduch world. Compare this to the following story of Rav Shlomo Brevda:
"While learning in Brisk, word of his Hasmadah and success in Torah was reaching his old neighborhood in Brooklyn NY. Prospective fathers-in-law wanted him for their daughter, with one even offering a $250,000 Nadan and another $750,000. etc. Reb Shlomo consulted with Reb Chatzkel Levenstein, who had in the meantime become Mashgiach in Ponovezh, who told him to turn them all down.“If you want a happy life,” Reb Chatzkel said, “make sure you marry a poor girl from a Torah’dige house. Because with lots money one can never have a happy life.”
Taking this advice literally, Reb Shlomo rejected any Shidduch with wealth in the family — even as several Rabbanim vied for him. He finally married his Rebbetzin, the daughter of Reb Avraham Boruch Greenblatt, “a tremendous Masmid, who lived with his 11 children in a one-bedroom apartment,” according to Reb Velvel Brevda, Reb Shlomo’s son. Harav Efraim Greenblatt, the former Rav of Memphis, Tenn., was one of those children."
Note - Rav Chatzkel didn't tell him to reject money for spiritual reasons but for practical reasons - you won't be happy.
Pilei Plaos.
