When one helps others, he is also helping himself. The Sefas Emes discerns this idea from the pasuk (Devarim 22:4) that states: ‘You shall surely pick him up with him.’ This can be understood to mean that when one picks up his friend, he picks himself up along with him. This is as Chazal say (Rus Rabbah 5:9): ‘A poor man does more for a householder than the householder does for him.’
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