It is meant for man to work for his living and while doing so, not to look down upon another’s job position in life. How much labor did Adam have to go through to get his bread on the table? He ploughed, sowed, reaped, piled up the sheaves, threshed, winnowed, sifted the flour, kneaded, and then baked. Whereas, we just get up to the bread already sitting there for us and never think of that as any kind of blessing. Then when it came to clothes Adam had to grow the animal, shear it, wash the wool, comb it, spun it, weave it, and then affix it all together. What do we do? We get up and choose each day which ready made garment we want to wear that day. Some may have worked in a hot factory to put all those clothes together. Another may have the job of picking out the finest of the breads for a resturant or clothes for a fashion show. The one who sewed together the 10,000 dollar dress is no less on God’s scale than the movie star who wears it.

It is said that a man named Simeon, who was a well digger, once told a Rabbi, “I am as great as you are.” “How so?” asked the Rabbi. “Because my work is of as much consequence to the community as yours.” “When you tell a man or woman to use water which is ceremonially purifying, it is I who provides it for them.” So if everyone no matter what high position he holds in life, works as if they are performing a service for the community and unto God, there wouldn’t be as much “class-pride” to contend with in the world. A group of people were on a boat when a man began to drill a hole under his seat. They asked him what he was doing. “Why is it any of your business?” he snapped. “I’m the one drilling the hole here, aren’t I?” “Yes”, they replied, “but your hole could drown all of us!”

As so typical in life, that man’s actions affected a whole group of people. How do you think it affects the spiritual part of us when we won’t cooperate with others, or look down on another man because of lack of education or job position. The bottom line is, your conduct affects your neighbors and theirs affects you. We are all in this life here together, so if the house falls, woe to the windows! So let’s try not to knock down anyone elses’s house in life. You can’t “look down” on another person if you’re always “looking up” to the Father!