{"id":14270,"date":"2026-01-08T11:43:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=14270"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:43:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:43:33","slug":"he-raises-the-poor-from-the-dust-1","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/he-raises-the-poor-from-the-dust-1\/","title":{"rendered":"788. He Raises the Poor from the Dust \u2013 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cHe raises the poor from the dust, lifts the indigent from the trash.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We should ask the following: 1) what is dust, 2) what is poor, 3) what is trash, 4) what is indigent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDust\u201d is as in, \u201cA serpent, all its food is dust.\u201d That is, he tastes the taste of dust in Torah and work, due to lack of faith. At that time, one must strengthen oneself with confidence that \u201cEven if a sharp sword is placed on his neck, he should not give up on mercy,\u201d which is the mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPoor\u201d means that he is deficient of faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTrash\u201d means heart, when one is immersed in worldly lusts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIndigent\u201d is&nbsp;<em>Av-Yaven<\/em>&nbsp;[in Hebrew].&nbsp;<em>Av<\/em>&nbsp;[father] means \u201cdesire,\u201d from the words, \u201cand he did not&nbsp;<em>Ava<\/em>&nbsp;[want] to send them away.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Yaven<\/em>&nbsp;comes from&nbsp;<em>Tit HaYaven<\/em>&nbsp;[quicksand like material]. When one\u2019s desire falls there, it sinks deeper each time. This is one who has no desire, who does not really want to immerse himself so low, meaning he does not have the sharpness in the will to receive because he only acts without thinking. Conversely, one who thinks and wants acts sharply about executing the will to receive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet, when a person is on the lowest degree in terms of the mind and heart, he must believe that the days of mercy and good will assist one to be rewarded with exceptional success, meaning with a quality that is not in him by way of cause and consequence in a gradual manner, but in the manner of skipping over degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe raises the poor from the dust, lifts the indigent from the trash.\u201d We should ask the following: 1) what [&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-14270","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 | 788. 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