Mareh Makom

Poverty

• Poverty: When a barrel becomes a palace and the sun the most precious treasure
  Is the truly poor person the one who has nothing, or the one who needs nothing?
  'Yes,' said Diogenes, 'move a little, you are hiding the sun from me.'
• Poverty: who needs whom? A journey into the surprising truth behind charity
  Does the poor person need the rich person, or is it actually the rich person who needs the poor?
  If your God loves the poor, why does He not provide for them?
• Poverty: when imagination becomes a refuge and suffering turns to song
  Is creativity born of poverty, or is it merely a mask hiding the pain?
  Take heed of the children of beggars, for from them come many poets!
• Poverty: The crime we punish every single day
  Why do we forgive every human weakness, except poverty?
  There are many other offenses for which the law prescribes a fine or imprisonment; but poverty is a crime that we have never ceased to punish with heartless severity...
• Poverty: How scarcity captures the mind and paralyzes the brain
  Do poor people make bad decisions, or does poverty itself make decisions bad?
  13 points is the difference between an average adult and someone who is effectively a chronic alcoholic.