{"id":11681,"date":"2025-12-11T19:17:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T19:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=11681"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T10:32:12","slug":"he-raises-the-poor-from-the-dust-lifts-the-indigent-from-the-trash","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/he-raises-the-poor-from-the-dust-lifts-the-indigent-from-the-trash\/","title":{"rendered":"297. He Raises the Poor from the Dust, Lifts the Indigent from the Trash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>November 19, 1971<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The difference between dust and trash is that dust is something natural that was made this way while trash is waste. Our sages said, \u201cNone are poorer than a dog and none richer than a swine\u201d (<em>Shabbat<\/em>&nbsp;155b), since a swine finds its nourishment everywhere, for waste, too, is food for a swine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We should interpret that as long as one has not corrected the sin of the primordial serpent, all of one\u2019s flavor in Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;[commandments] is only as dust. This is called \u201c<em>Shechina<\/em>&nbsp;[Divinity] in the dust.\u201d One\u2019s aim in Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;should be that through our work we can raise the&nbsp;<em>Shechina<\/em>&nbsp;from the dust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This extends from the creation of the worlds, which was with the intention that we would be able to make the correction of equivalence of form, as our sages said, \u201cAs He is merciful, so you are merciful\u201d (<em>Sotah<\/em>&nbsp;14a). Hence,&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum<\/em>&nbsp;[restriction] and concealment were placed on the vessels of reception so as to be a vacant space devoid of&nbsp;<em>Kedusha<\/em>&nbsp;[holiness]. This is why by creation, there is the taste of dust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is why the verse says \u201cHe Raises the Poor from the Dust,\u201d meaning that the&nbsp;<em>Shechina<\/em>&nbsp;is called poor and meager because everyone sees that she has nothing to give in return for engaging in Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It follows that all of people\u2019s pleasures are only from waste of&nbsp;<em>Kedusha<\/em>&nbsp;that extends into the corporeal pleasures. It is called \u201ctiny light,\u201d and it sustains the&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>&nbsp;[shells\/peels], and this is called \u201ctrash.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence, He raises from the trash, meaning He has to lift man so he will not be taken after the ignoble pleasures called \u201ctrash.\u201d When he refrains from trash, he is rewarded with raising the&nbsp;<em>Shechina<\/em>&nbsp;from the dust, since one depends on the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 19, 1971 The difference between dust and trash is that dust is something natural that was made this way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":6246,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"topic":[26],"class_list":["post-11681","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-rabash"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kabbalah | 297. 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