May I refer you to the Igeres HaRamban (which is now included in Artscroll’s Expanded Complete Siddur), in which he cautions against thinking badly of rich people. That letter needs to be read by everyone. Hashem gave each of us what wealth, possessions, etc. that we have, and we’re each supposed to use that to the fullest to live up to Hashem’s hopes for our potential. Rich people have nisyonos, and poor people have nisyonos. There are both rich and poor people who overcome them and contribute greatly to Klal Yisroel and the world. There are also rich and poor people who fall to the nisyonos. And most of us are probably somewhere in between. It’s bad enough that our nation’s top leader is mounting a class warfare to enable his agenda. We should not be imitating that example, of mounting a war between the rich and the poor, in the Jewish world.
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