I Am Great - Rabbi Gavriel Friedman

[Music] how many people in the Torah have a name sadik that are added to it yadik is put through what an incredible Challenge and he overcomes he overcomes and therefore he gets this title yose Yosef the righteous one the question is though how did he overcome the challenge there is a MIT all alone and there's this woman as potifar who's trying to go ahead and get him to to be involved with her but he refuses and he refuses so how did he do it and not only how did he do it how can we do it because I was thinking about the other day yose the Torah tells us went through this one time we go through the struggle sometimes daily just walking in the streets going to work going to the grocery store even going to Sho going to learn let alone in the home with technology the challenges that are there are incredible so how does one overcome it so if you take a look in the Torah itself the PK tells us that when ases potifar was trying to go ahead and have a relationship with Y and he refused he says this is not happening there's no one greater in this house than me I'm the butler I have everything I have free reign over here and nothing was held back for me except for you cuz you are his wife my master said you're off limits how could I do such a terrible thing and to sin against God I heard a beautiful from aover of mine what was y's tactic to overcome the challenge of the to overcome the to overcome these challenges that were right in front of him he recognized who he was many there's no one greater than me I am great how could I behave like this I'm a child of literally yov I'm literally yov I'm child of I'm a prince how can I behave in such a way what was it that gave yose at sadic the ability to overcome the challenge the fact that he says no one's as great as me I'm so great that's beneath me how can I behave like that we have challenges all the time person just on the way to school person's on the way to work person's on the way to Sho person's on the way to learn a person on the way to the grocery a person on the way doesn't matter sitting in your house so how can we overcome the challenge we need to stop and remind ourselves wait a [Music] minute there's no one greater than me I am great and a great person doesn't behave like that with hashem's help if we recognize who we are and we say it out loud the next time we feel a challenge coming say I am great and I can't behave like that hopefully we'll be able to beem with hm's help overcome those challenges just like y [Music]