You just answered my question to Meir, Mag.  Although I still don't see
why one's family would rank below studying the Torah.  Well, I guess I
can, but it's still alien to me.

Kat

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> As Meir said, Kyle, Praying in Shul was an accepted lifestyle in those days,
> some were supported by their wives' families,  others by the community, but if
> you lived in a poor one, you went hungry. What year was this... Well,  it had
> to be between 1890, and 1910 as my dad was born in 1923 and his oldest sister
> was 14 years ahead of him. (grandma thought dad was just a tumor!)  anyway my
> dad was born in the States.