“He saw that he could not prevail over him.” What did he do? He promptly “touched the hollow of his thigh,” he schemed against him. He said that since the supports of the Torah were broken, the Torah will promptly become unable to strengthen further, and then what their father said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau” will come true. And he did not know him.
“Supporters of the Torah” means that they support the Torah, that through them a wise disciple can learn, for without provision, it is impossible to learn; if there is no bread, there is no Torah. “Provision” means that which gives sustenance and enjoyment to the body. The body needs to be provided for, as through the provision, the body has sustenance. To the extent of the joy that a person has, to that extent he wants to exist.
Some people, whose sustenance is from money, meaning that if they are given money, this gives them all their joy, meaning they relinquish lust and honor and want only money. And the more money they have, the more they can work and enjoy life.
“So give honor to Your people.” Can we ask the Creator to give honor? After all, our sages said, “Be very, very humble.” The thing is that it is known that man is a small world comprised of seventy nations. This means that each nation has its own lust, which correspond to seven qualities, and each one consists of ten Sefirot, thus they are seventy. That is, man consists of seventy desires of the seventy nations and craves those desires that they want, meaning passion for money, respect, and so forth.
People respect the passions that they want, to the point that moralists said that we must loathe these lusts.
Conversely, “ordinary people,” when the people of Israel must yearn to bring contentment to the Maker, this is not respectable, but to the contrary. When one does something that he does not see that it will yield any benefit to himself, and that it must be done only for the purpose of bestowal, at that time, a person feels himself in a state of lowliness, that he has no vitality from the work, since he does not see any self-benefit.
This is why we pray to the Creator, “Give honor to Your people,” so we will respect the state of bestowal and not degrade it. This is called “the glory of the Shechina [Divinity],” “to raise the Shechina from the dust.” This means that when we must act for the sake of the Creator, in order to bestow, this work tastes like dust. Hence, we pray that the people of Israel will be respected and the seventy nations will be only slaves serving the people of Israel, meaning that our engagement in corporeality, which is the desires of the seventy nations, will be only in order to thereby serve the quality of Israel within man.