Exploitation and oppression draw their existence from the attribute of voracious selfishness in Man that knows no satiation or mercy, but favors exaggerated pride and much vanity, saying: Do all that is within your might – oppress the weak, abuse the poor, enslave under your rule those weaker than you by force and sword. This worldview justifies itself by the fig leaf of racist doctrine or by a misled philosophy that states that the weak were born only to be subordinated to those tougher than they… Judaism, on the other hand, institutes its worldview on the basis of the world's unity and the unity of Man, who is the pinnacle of creation and is responsible for the world's unity, flourishing and wellbeing; coming from of this worldview it declares: "Have we not all one father? Hath not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother?" (Malachi 2, 10). And the Torah of Israel commands and states, 'For the poor shall never cease out of the land; therefore I command thee, saying: 'Thou shalt surely open thy hand unto thy poor and needy brother, in thy land.'
The poor person is not a lowly or superfluous creature in the world that you are permitted to abuse, torment and destroy or even to ignore, but is part of it all that will not cease to be. And you are commanded to sustain him, and not only at a wretched level of existence but with a generous heart and open hand, for poverty was created only to oblige generosity, just as evil was created only for mankind to transform it for the better.