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The posuk says סלם מצב ארצה וראשו מגיע השמימה A ladder was set earthward & its top reached heavenward. 
The Yismach Moshe says that the ladder is a metaphor for man himself-that man was created from earth & put on earth מצב ארצה & he has a neshama which is heavenly מגיע השמימה.  
The Chafetz Chaim says that man is similar to a ladder because on a ladder you don't stand still; you go either up or down. So too, a person is either going up or down -  you don't stay in the same place. 
The posuk says ויקח מאבני המקום וישם מראשתיו He took from the stones of the place & put them around his head. 
Rashi says the reason he did that was to protect himself from the wild animals. 
The obvious question is how is putting rocks around his head going to protect him from the animals? The rest of his body is still exposed?!?
The Saba from kelm says this is teaching us that a person's health,parnasa & all he does is really the result of hidden miracles, & all our efforts by themselves would be meaningless if it wouldn't be the will of 'ה.  We just have to put in the effort to do our part & 'ה will make it happen. 
Rav Lieff says that one person can be on top of the ladder & one person on bottom, but if the one on top is on the way down & the one on bottom is on the way up then the one on bottom is on a  much higher level than the one on top he is climbing closer to 'ה 
So maybe this is what the Saba from kelm is saying. That all we have to do, even if we're on the bottom, is just to take small steps; to make that little effort to go up & then 'ה will take us all the way to the top!