Mikeitz - Waiting for Justice

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold wag recorder with a showman's never-ending assistance in roma beit shemesh israel 5780 2019 this week's freshest parshas me Cates and we had the continuation of the story of Yosef at Sadiq who was sent he was sold by his brothers into slavery sent to Egypt there he had to interact with a very difficult situation where his master's wife wanted him to be with her he ends up in jail for 12 years and finally the beginning of our parsha micachina sigh meeow meeow another two years after his interaction with the star much keenness are away from their dreams Paro has a dream and para calls him out of the dungeon in order to ask his explanation of the dream Torah tells us this entire story and as we watch the story unfold from the age of 17 till the age of 30 when he's finally redeemed so to speak he comes out of jail not only that becomes second-in-command only to Pharaoh only to parl we read the story and we see that there are so many in Justices this is what I would like to focus on this week I also want to connect it again to Conoco like we spoke about last week but it's very important to understand this is a foundational idea I hope I can express it properly I'm going to share with you a few different interruption that I that I came across and trying to connect them and draw them together but we have at Sadek we have a Yosef at Sadiq he has these dreams he's meant to be the leader of his brothers he's meant to guide them and that's what the dreams express him when he tells it over to his brothers his brothers are just jealous and they sell sell him such a great injustice they take their own brother and they sell him into slavery he ends up in Egypt he's it's I think he's a good person he runs away from doing evil and he ends up ensnared by the wife of Poti far sent to jail for 13 for 12 years until finally finally after so much time I mean he was its addict he didn't belong in jail he hadn't done anything wrong all the way around you did what was right after 12 years finally he comes out now there's a mattress here it says something very interesting Kiwi based a Surat Salim like the plastic Telecinco Hellas includes the SC chapter 4 verse 14 then he came out it's a reference it's not clear what the plastic was talking about but major she understands that it's speaking about Yoshie if it's a dick that he came out from the jail in order to in order to rule in order to be the king CEO safe the verse doesn't say what speaking about the measure says is speaking about yo safe she gots any base assume shall parley came out of Pharaohs jail yacht Salim light shine mr you should have power we came out in order to become the King right it wasn't clear perhaps at the time at the moment when power called for him you know be it could be that he would be taken out sent right back in yachts Elimelech she never usually pyro pyro called for him so for the fact that power was the one calling which is very strange very unusual that that the leader of the entire world at that time the entire civilized world would call for a slave boy who's in jail for having done a terrible dastardly that act there was an indication that there was a connection between him and the king and that was that he was going to become a king himself now it's interesting he GABA mah Hussein or LaRoche the verse also says a language which needs explanation and says that in his kingship so somebody became poor who was it the became poor but ma who essentially is not the Raja sir shall point afar Poti far right think about it let's talk about far for a moment po t far had this slave he bought on the market a beautiful slave handsome slave who served him faithfully for that full year wouldn't touch anything of his everything that he touched turned into gold on his behalf cause your voice - I'm not sleepy other he saw that Hashem was giving success - yo safe he wouldn't touch his wife you know Potiphar's wife was doing all that he could all that she could to try and snare him he was the ultimate faithful slave and he had only blessings from him and what is party far do ultimate betrayal the ultimate injustice he takes his faithful slave he knows it's very clear to his wife is who she is she's a liar but he takes his slave and he throws him into jail with Hugh Rozz for 12 years and then the Madras room say that he had such enjoyment from you know say if he enjoyed having you know safe around that he actually would take him out of jail in order to pour him tea and to set set up his house and to keep doing what he had been doing before that's the Madras him but for a moment let's think about without the without the let's just look at the push-up shot the simple explanation is simple verse poet fr has done such a terrible injustice to his slave his faithful slave his faithful servant how could he live with himself the message tells us an amazing thing that when yoseef came out of jail Poti fire became poor he became poor very interesting meaning somehow Poti Farhad sucked out of Yosef his benefit Yosef brought two Poti fire to Potiphar's house blessings and the court dementia she continued to serve him throughout that time and Poti far what did he show how did he show him any kind of hot currents Hotel where was his gratitude sent him into jail for 12 years the blessings continued Potiphar's house why because he was the one who is in charge of your safe he was the one who had the power over yo safe it's reminiscent very much of Yaakov inna would love and all the blessings that came into Lovins house because of Yaakov because of the work of Jacob till finally at a certain point just just as it was with Yaakov so - it was video safe at some point it became clear that the blessings were not because of anybody other than y'all safe when the Aussie comes out and becomes the king and following the blessings come upon himself so then poverty far becomes bereft all the blessings that were coming to him because of Yosef argon-argon it's all taken and whereas we could even say yeah you know he marries Potiphar's daughter he takes everything he takes everything everything becomes his he becomes the heir a Potiphar's resting so so there's a certain justice there's a certain justice and that's what I would like to bring out from here that the way that things function in our Shems world many times it seems that those who are righteous those who do what's right those who in fact they're supposed to be leaders as earth was supposed to be in charge who you say was supposed to be the leader of his brothers but the injustice the injustice of them selling him into slavery and it continues and it deepens and it gets worse he becomes a slave of a Potiphar and he brings him success and all of the success goes to Potiphar he ends up in jail for 13 years all these things it sounds terrible thirteen years 13 years that this whole thing was in his gal girl the result of the brothers enmity their their anger towards him unfair unfair unfairly they treated him and you know safe amazingly this is also there's like a profound deep lesson here number one is that it seems unjust but yosef doesn't see it that way what a profound lesson everywhere he goes he continues to have success and to be optimistic and to be positive he doesn't allow his situation to destroy him he doesn't allow the injustice to destroy him and to Jade his view when the brothers come in well before we get to the brothers coming in like to share with you something that you see something just amazing in in in in Yakko in Yosef in his attitude he's positive optimistic attitude Yosef comes into power power calls him in and he says come I've heard that you know how to translate and explain dreams I want you to explain my dream and yoseef says beloved I beloved I says it's not me likey me on Ashland her God is going to respond to you the measure says Tallahatchie do Labib ll he didn't take the credit for himself here's this amazing thing Yosef italic he has the talent he understands dreams he he knows that he knows that he doesn't say it's me excuse me he says it's God that's God de la diets me he sticks to the facts that's an amazing thing yo safe despite the fact that he always loses out it seems he's always lost that when he stuck to the fact they said I can't touch you you hear Potiphar's wife that's the fact I can't do what's wrong right I'm supposed to be the leader over you my dear brothers it's the fact that's what the dreams meant that's what they said it's the facts he always stuck to the facts then always seemed to work out well for him but he always stayed positive he sucked the facts i coach for who is the one who's in charge of my life a Shem is the one who's in charge it seems like I'm losing out because of it I don't care Billa died power system I heard about you that you're the man he says it's not me I have to tell you the truth I had to tell you the truth I know it's not me if I have a talent it's because God gave it to me and I could wish for who can take it and coz well who can give it some can take it away you can give it back it's not me he sticks to the facts Tala howdy-doo lovable el he says who that really belongs to it's an amazing thing and I'm sure of the story as the story continues byakurai serve as a club he becomes the king becomes a ruler over the land and his brothers come to me it's nine years later now he's 39 years old and he still always sticks to the simple facts he sees the truth via chaos yeah Yosef is a cog the gamer he recognizes them but they don't recognize him he's there's something very interesting here and I think it's indicative that's the PASOK okay the measure she explains because he didn't have a beard at the time when he was 17 when he left him they didn't recognize I mean it looked the same yeah the beard now he was 39 years old he was 22 years later but he saw the truth that's an amazing thing because he was I don't know if the right word is addicted to truth because he was committed I would say to truth he saw the truth he saw his brothers and the fact that the pus gets to tell us that he recognized them there's an indication they were much older they had a big role perhaps they had going grown gray they look different I'm in time n taken they're taking his toll on his brothers but he saw the truth he was accustomed to looking for truth he was accustomed to recognizing the truth that's how he was able to understand the dreams understand the true meaning of powers dream understand the true meaning of this are mashkov's dream understand the true meaning of his own dream he had a special knack for being connected to truth and he stuck it out with the truth he stuck it out with the truth that was his Emunah that was his positivity the truth will win in the end Kailash for whose goodness wins in the end he recognizes his brothers he sees the truth and they don't see the truth they don't recognize him they have a problem and that problem goes back to the beginning of the story they didn't recognize the truth of who he was they didn't recognize the truth of who Yosef was the fact that he was meant to be their leader and so yo SAF has to sometimes you know there's there's something called humility humility is where I live aligned with the truth there's humiliation which is where I get caught by the truth Yosef was someone who had humility he lived with the truth and ultimately the truth the true reality of God revealed itself in his life it took it it took a long time it took a long amount of your sewer enough challenges of difficulties it seemed like the truth because he stuck to the truth he lost that that's the way it looked but ultimately the message of the story one of the many messages of the story Joseph is that when you stick to the truth when you stick to what's right ultimately you are connected to Kadesh for who and I cut Asheboro who is the reality goodness is the true reality even though many times it doesn't seem that way and so you all save recognizes them he sees the truth they don't recognize him they don't see the truth okay one last point yo save at the end of the story as he's about to reveal himself to them which we won't get until next week's parsha but as he's about to reveal himself to them so he says he says the truth the brothers come back because the gávea the special cup has been found by Benjamin by Benjamin in his bag and that caught by the truth and they don't understand the truth it doesn't make any sense to them but they're caught by the facts the facts are that there's something stolen it's not theirs it's in their possession and you hooda steps up and he says you can't take him make me your slave don't take pin yeoman and Joseph says no no I'm not interested in anybody I just want him he's the one who stole from me he's my slave that's the truth how you shine in segovia me are they who you Yeley avid a time I love the show Lima la vie come go you can go you're free that's the truth that's really the truth and amazingly Hooda has to step up with a deeper truth which is what we find the next week parsha which is that I made a promise I made I made a guarantee and that guarantee was to my father that I would return so even though there's your true Co safe which is that you caught him red-handed so to speak you caught him with the gávea but there's a deeper truth and yahudah says there's a deeper truth if I we show up in you and Benjamin is not with us our father's life is ended that's the end so throughout this story Joseph is the one who holds on to the truth he holds on to the truth until the truth is revealed 22 years later that he's the true leader and it's his responsibility to redeem them by making sure that they stand up for Benjamin for Benjamin that's that's what he's trying to get at he doesn't have any revenge that's not his mother you know it's not as a modus operandi it's not his it's not his goal it's not revenge he remembers the dreams he doesn't remember say that he remembers the things that they did to him that's not what the public says they remember what they did to him right and you read them suck him it says that he remembers the dreams he remembers the truth that he's their leader it's his job to redeem them to bring them back to have them to chuhwa for them for the terrible thing that they did that they threw away the son of rouxelle they throw away a yo safe very interesting this is not part of the main point but I want to mention it because something that came up in a discussion that I had was with another very social person about the parsha and that is there is such a quiet of yo safe he was able to be quiet he had an amazing ability just like Rockley man who luckily mina was quiet when Leia was was given over to him to be married to Yoko she was giving up her own spiritual world she was supposed to be the one who had twelve tribes she herself she gave it up to Leia and all of the problems arose because now we have two wives or Leia and an Oracle and we have the children of Leia we have Ruby and Shimon lavey who the sovereigns woman the children of Leia I'm sorry the children of Rocco we have we have Yosef we have in Yemen and really you're safe Yosef was the main child of the main wife but he but he wanted to redeem his brothers he wanted them to be able to stand up and atone for the mistake that they made in selling him getting rid trying to get rid of the other wife that other wife who had been quiet and allowed a co wife to come in he's her own sister to come in marry Yaakov you know Seif now was quiet as well didn't reveal himself didn't reveal who he was and didn't reveal what his gambit was what he was trying to accomplish for them until it became clear the truth that had been there all along and they were caught in that humiliating moment when Yosef revealed who he was and the truth became clear that they had made the mistake that they were wrong all along and you know when we look at Jewish history I wanted to talk about a little bit about Chanukah briefly look at Jewish history and we look at reality and you know we've been a people who's been oppressed we have stuck to the truth for 33 hundred years and it hasn't always looked good for us the reason that Hitler wanted to destroy me it was because the fact that we are the conscience of the world and we are not the strongest and yet we may in room for those who are right throwing those who are right to have success and to continue to survive and to thrive and we have returned to arity strong after such a long exile an exile of 1819 hundred years we've returned here and we are yo safe we are the Jewish people we are yo safe when oppressed by by the Helenus the Greeks the Romans the Egyptians the Christians the Muslims throughout history we've been oppressed and there's been claims that that have been made that we've been replaced as the chosen ones of a sham and of course we've remained steadfast to the truth that's our emunah that's our faith that's our belief just as Yosef remained steadfast to the truth and when the winds of enlightenment blue and and pulled away so many Jews from Yiddish kept from Judaism talk from authentic Judaism and reform movements came and went conservative movements came and went and all these other things that tried to pull us away the Jewish people at the core we remain steadfast in our commitment to the Taira we remain steadfast in our commitment to God and here we are back in the land of Israel it's our obligation no matter where we are in the world to return to return to the Land of Israel to return to the Taira to return to our commitment to Kadosh Baruch to return to our commitment to God no matter where we are and to the degree that we are committed to truth and to right ultimately just as it was in the story of yo safe just as it wasn't a story of Hanukkah it will be revealed again that we are the ones who have remained steadfast our commitment to God throughout all the years throughout the millennia and the truth ultimately is revealed the truth is being revealed as we speak right now the truth is being revealed because we are we are here and we have returned and there's nothing more threatening to those who carry the torch of the lie of the great lie a replacement theology that God has chosen another nation heaven forbid after all the thousands of years that we died and we sacrificed for the one true God no idolatries no other versions of God's revelation only one true version of God's revelation that's the commitment that we have to the Taira and I want to point out that this is a theme within Konica we say it in a lanista movie mamata see oh there's something about the Justice the injustice the injustice that we see the Helenus try to force us out of our religion Enlightenment movement all the conservative reform all these things try to take away the Jew from his Yiddish kite Shonda Malthusian our Sharm al-sheikh Ontario sock hola Javier America it's an echo they tried to turn off the light of truth to take us away from the truth but ultimately the message of Chanukah in the message of the story of Joseph and the message of the entire history of the Jewish people is this simple message that the truth wins in the end that's a Baraka mahara been in you in your great compassion Oh Martin let me start some you sit up for us in the time of our oppression Raftis reform you for fights Dantas the enemy judged the true judgment the comtesse Nick Muslim you took our revenge Mozart eggy Bohemia Coliseum we should have lost we were weak they were strong you gave up you gave them to us we won you're adding me I mean they were many we were few too many a time they were impure they had power we were pure usually those who are pure those are committed those who are on the side of truth it seems like they lose we're showing me out tsadikim you gave over the evil ones in the hands of the righteous is a team a discus Arrecife the ones who are the wanton sinners get them into the hands of those who are involved in studying the Torah committed to the Torah lajas Easter shame to double-car - well America was the result of this story was a result of the story of Joseph was the result of the story of Kanaka an incredible kiddush Hashem those who remain steadfast those who remain connected to truth ultimately it's revealed who was really right ultimately becomes revealed that the Jewish people who remain steadfast and committed throughout the thousands of years of gullets of Exile we're still here I shall never forsook us shall never let us go I'm Katella sees the tissue a good deal of work on Kalamazoo and here we are celebrating that with these beautiful little lights the Hanukkah menorah no matter where we are there's something inside of the Jew as far as they might be even from the Taira and even from Yiddish guy and even from from God's true will for them we still like that little that little mini are those little candles because it reminds us of what's really true and our commitment to real truths and our knowledge our awareness that ultimately the truth will win ultimately the truth will be revealed I want to bless you and ask you to bless me ashram should help us that we should be able to remain committed to truth that we should be able to remain committed to our relationship with our culture borrow who our belief in him when things are tough when it seems like it's unjust when it seems like things are not fair it seems like we were losing because we're doing what's right should help us to remain positive optimistic aware that ultimately the truth will win now Shem helped us to be there to see it in the end thank you so much for listening and wonderful Shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.gfi.com/webmonitor [Music] you