Parshas Vayeishev: The Secret of How to Live and Really Be Successful

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com if you take notes notes you look at the beginning of the parashah you're always safe you always on the top of the world you always safe was selected by his father to be the recipient of all the wisdom that yakovalino learned in the Yeshiva Eva yaakovino gives only Yosef his special cloak represented yaakov special love for you I said so here are Joseph's on the top of the world he's a cloud nine he's wearing the special cloak he's the one learning with his father he's the Benz the kunim and you look at the end of the parashah yay saves and the lowest pith he's languishing in jail he's wallowing in jail he's trying desperately to get out the only safe has gone he's going from the highest of heights to the lowest of lows beginning of the parisha he's wearing his the Technicolor Dreamcoat and at the end of the Powershell he's in the he's in the dream he's in the pit and then you look impatius me Kate's patches me kids yasik starts off in jail he's disheveled he's unkempt they Rush him out and by the end of the parisha he's the second most powerful man in the world he's running the world the economy the lowest of lows to the highest of him parishes from the high to the low purchase me case from the low to the high what happened how do we explain the contrast so I once heard from uh great Grove of Isaac Bernstein he said the difference is as follows what does this do in patches like yeshiv he tells his brothers listen up about my dream you know that 11 sheaves are bowing down to me you know the stars in them they're all bowing down to me you want to hear about my dreams my aspirations my hopes when you walk around talking about me me bet what I want what my hopes are what my aspirations are that's a one-way ticket for disaster but in Paris this me Kates yoistif has taken a different course he always safe goes around what are you dreaming about what's on your mind what are your hopes what are your aspirations that is a one-way ticket to success in Our Generation all you hear about is my rights entitlement what am I allowed to have what am I allowed to achieve in this world how do we measure someone who's successful if I have this degree if I have this profession if I own this if I'm a gear well in the Torah there's no Mitzvah to be a gear what does it say Havoc vir the that's what xvira is what could you do for somebody else that's how the Torah measures success when are you agree you're a gear when it's very interesting what word does a Torah use to describe successful ish matsuya matsuya you would say successful you should say ish sales it has the causative mem means to cause to give over simcha's happiness to cause happiness limwood is learning milami to give learning or is light Mar to give life why does the Torah consider successful first why is it called matsuya answer is because in the definition of the Torah the definition of success is not when you're successful it's when you're matsuyak when you bring success to other people even the most accomplished the smartest wealthiest if they're only interested in their own welfare they are not saleha they are lawyer the definition of success in the eyes of the Torah is if you cause success to other people foreign poor man yeah a leper Sona Saras you have a Suma a blind person so at first glance how do we explain this Kamara how would we explain this we would explain it that all these four situations are different types of hardships different types of yesurim where a person is troubled the person has pain and their life in a way is not complete because they have these sorrows says the gemara is not these people have hardships because life with hardships is very fortunate yaso yes the fact that a person has hardships at its fullest it still beats the alternative what does this Kamara mean the gemara is teaching us what is that the definition of you know what the definition of is the ability to give and all these four people are in circumstances that their ability to give is mitigated someone who's in Ani doesn't have the resources to give someone who's a matsura a leaper he has to be but yes he can't have interaction with people he can't give he's an isolation someone who's a summa if you can see another person like my shopping how could you help a person in order to be able to give you have to be able to see um that provides you with whom to give but it's not a technical law someone who's an ani could certainly compensate all these four people they are mitigated their ability to give us mitigated it's not just by the standard of the Torah a successful person is a person who gives by the standard of the Torah a living person is the definition of Life the definition of Rios is to give if you look throughout the whole time there are only two people who are called Sonic can I ask you right now what's the topic Sadiq is somebody who learns who davins they're only two people on Tanaka are called sadik Ayla told us and in this week's have Torah nimkar bakes it says what do these two people have in common the only two people that fed the whole world fed all the animals and all man who was alive he provided for the whole world you want to be at Sadiq give food to other people that's what that's addict is everybody has their own picture and definition of Sadiq well let's look at what the torah's picture of its Atticus the Titus picture is foreign and listen to this you know who else is called the tadek there's one other individual called Titanic Sadiq Hashem why because you know what the plastic before is give food to loving people that just as the Jew knows and recognizes that learning Torah is a critical part of our Vegas Hashem or Jew would not let a day go by without Lima Torah says by the same token a Jew at the end of the day should say to himself to me that I let the day go by without doing that the same way you can't let a day go by without learning you can't let a day go by without trying to help another kid in some way this is the definition of sadik this is a definition of matsuya this is the definition of and you always safe not only from this week's pasta he starts off the world he ends off in the pit yoi safe learned this lesson so clearly that not only by the end of next week's parishes on the top of the world but he also gets a new name he's at sadik in other words he learned this lesson and he excelled in it everyone have a wonderful day you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com