R' Chaim Kanievsky to Yeshiva Bochurim: "Who Do You Think You Are?!"

(Yeshiva World News) HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, a foremost leader of the Israeli Charedi community and among the few true, league-of-thier-own gedolei Torah, spoke out recently against the phenomenon of yeshiva bochurim making exorbitant demands of potential in-laws. The rav told a gathering of roshei yeshiva that the trend of boys demanding–often of families who can not afford them–apartments is an "epidemic" that has "crossed acceptable boundaries" and must be fought. "When we were young," R' Chaim said, "we received sheds to live in, and only rentals at that... Today, every bachur who learns four or five years believes he has attained a level of worth higher than his father-in-law and therefore, he is entitled to an apartment." So seriously does he take this issue that, he exclaimed, "a fast day must be declared to stop" it.