{"id":50710,"date":"2019-03-04T17:13:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T15:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=50710"},"modified":"2022-09-27T07:23:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T04:23:07","slug":"the-inevitability-of-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-inevitability-of-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inevitability Of Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[500,836],"acf":{"old_id":"50710","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"168","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Shall the poor indeed never cease from the land?","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our chapter includes the following provision: \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If there be among you a needy man, one of your own brethren, within one of your gates, in the land that the LORD your God will give you, do not harden your heart, nor tighten your fist from your needy brother\u201d (verse 7). The use of \u201cIf\u201d implies that the presence of needy Jews is only a possibility; however, in the continuation of the chapter the Torah stipulates: \u201cFor the poor shall never cease from the land\u201d (verse 11), seeming to stipulate that poverty is inevitable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Curiously, the matter of perpetual poverty assumes a disproportionate significance in a Talmudic discussion about the Messianic era.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Samuel said: There is no difference between this world and the Messianic era other than [Israel\u2019s release from] the oppression of [gentile] kingdoms, to wit: \u201cFor the poor shall not cease from the land.\u201d (BT Berakhot 34b)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other words, while political fortunes will change in the future, socio-economic conditions will remain the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This view was elaborated on by Rabbi Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz (1550-1619), who propounded the rather idiosyncratic theory that poverty exists in order to give the rich an opportunity to atone for their wealth by sharing it with the less fortunate. (See his commentary, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">K\u2019li Yakar<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, to Exodus 22:24 ff.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, lest the poor take unfair advantage of their circumstances, Luntschitz also stipulates (Exodus 23:5) that no one is entitled to economic assistance unless they first make a good-faith attempt at earning their keep. 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