Nope; Tevye was the milkman.
The fiddler was; well; the fiddler.
Oh youre right...
silly me...
it was the father I was thinking of ...
still the fiddler had his talent and his place...
he wasnt slothful...
when the LORD Jesus Christ said “The poor you will always have with you...” I think He meant they had no intention or motivation of trying to improve their lot...
They were poor because they wanted to be and they thought that that was all they could have in life...many were lazy..
But the Kingdom of Heaven is nigh us and we are entitled to everything that Heaven contains...
only unbelievers like the pope would think we are not...
and so he hides behind his “poor” as an excuse to deny that the LORD Jesus Christ is Savior and we are children of God through Him who loves us and died for us...
It was the children that the LORD Jesus Christ said we were to be like...not the poor...
Every man or woman whom the LORD Jesus Christ set as an example were not poor...
yes the woman with the issue of blood had spent all her money on doctors but she had income from somewhere and now she was healed she didn’t have to waste it on medical help anymore..