The Poverty of the Poor

Poverty grew at twice the rate of U.S. population growth from 2000–2008, and now encompasses 39.1 million over ten percent of Americans.

Why is it that our hearts pour out for the victims of Haiti while we turn a blind eye to the poverty in our own country? In Haiti where the economic system has collapsed people have reverted to there original way of life–sharing.

Disaster often brings out the best in people and in governments, but why not all the time? The decrees in the Torah from God: be constantly vigilant concerning the poor–leaving the corners of the fields for the poor, placing a tax to raise revenue for the poor and caring for the widow and orphans.

The Cabala sees each human being in the world as being themselves a small world with good and bad traits-the metaphoric wealthy and the poor. It is our fashion of government which instigates guilt in the populous for indiscriminately helping the poor. They call it the protestant ethic: no work no food.

On a grander scale every human being is worthy before God; eating and shelter are human rights. There is nothing holy about capitalism, communism or socialism, but there is something holy about the human being.