Who Believes in You? Rabbi Yitzchok Fingerer

[Music] we all know it immorality is rampant it's ubiquitous everywhere we turn there are sights un scenes that we should not look at how do we maintain control yose was a 17-year-old young man handsome he had everything he was living in the most Lous decadent place on Earth Egypt there was a woman his boss's wife that tried to seduce him entice him every single day and what was yosi's reaction by he refused to succumb he wouldn't give in how what was his secret let's look earlier in the tah when Yakov Vino was despondent almost and devastated his precious and beloved Son Yosef was missing his children gathered together to comfort him to console him and what does the Torah say he refuses to be comforted he won't be consoled why because he says my son yoseph I believe in him I have faith in him wherever he is I know that he will not capitulate I know that he won't give into his desires Yakov refused to give up Yakov refused to believe his someone's dead spiritually dead my son is alive my son is faithful full that your mind went miles and miles and miles from er er Canan to Egypt and it resonated to yoseph he heard the a of his father there's someone there who won't give up on me he saw as the gamar incited says to Y sh he saw The Apparition he saw the Visage of his father was his father physically literally there perhaps not but figuratively and metaphorically he felt his father's presence he felt that the word theology is the same letters as aain because aain means affirmation aain means belief the refusal to give up was a validation was affirmation I believe in you no matter what you're safe and the question for you is who believes in you I can't look at that because someone Believes In Me Some someone trusts in my spiritual growth but more importantly than who believes in you who do you believe in is it your child is it your student there's someone out there who's be walking in the street and who's going to want to look and then he's going to stop because he says no I can't let him down I can't disappoint my role model who believes in you and who do you believe in