Don’t Be A Spiritual Pushover

[Music] the entire story of Yosef going down to Mitri and the brothers following him there and Yakov settling there and subsequently the Jewish people living there for hundreds of years can all be traced back to a single action one little seemingly insignificant action that caused it all yakov's decision to give ysf a special coat Theus pasim a uniquely Majestic suit that ysf wore this caused the brothers to be jealous of ysf which led to the brother sending ysf to MIM which led to his becoming a second in command which led the other brothers to need him Etc there's an overwhelmingly obvious question which is what was yaku thinking doesn't every parenting booklet pamphlet and course and seminar preach to refrain from demonstrating favoritism amongst one's own children why would Yakov give y if a special coat knowing the other brothers would find out about it perhaps the answer is the following idea perhaps Yakov knew that one day YF would stare in the face of sin and need an extra dose of confidence to overcome it perhaps yako felt that it was so necessary for YF to develop what musar him call GAA to kadua confidence in Holiness that it was worth giving him this Royal coat despite the potential rivalry it would cause perhaps Yakov saw in his rues that there would one day be a day when y would need every ounce of confidence he could muster to overcome the challenges and Temptations his life would throw at him perhaps this coat would give him that and how right yakob was for what is the approach Joseph takes when he's approached by the wife wife of potifar to commit a sin with her he says to her do you know who I am do you know what I represent I'm not a Mor moral free janitor I'm not a scoundrel from the street I'm the second in command of this house this sin you speak of is beneath me yoseph didn't say I can't sin because I'll get fired or to look bad at my resume he didn't say I can't sin because sin is bad he said I can't sin because this sin is beneath me sometimes when we Face sin or Temptation or the naysayers or the peanut gallery we need to tell ourselves that we are Majestic we are royal it is beneath us we are eagles in a world of chickens at the Agoda convention that was dedicated to installing RHA Feinstein as the N of the head the head of a Sal was asked to introduce and he said the following he said it says in that it is proper to say some of one's Praises in front of him but not all of them for doing so will lead to GAA to haughtiness so rash asked the following question if we don't want to say all of one's Praises in front of them lest it lead to haughtiness to GAA so then why is it even proper to say some of their praises in front of them aren't we concerned he'll get a little guy think isn't a little guy also bad so he answered that sometimes when a person is so many levels higher than the rest of his surroundings when someone is in a completely different Stratosphere of greatness the simpletons on Earth do not understand him they begin to get confused their confusion leads to resentment and they begin to question the decision-making of the leader and this in turn runs the risk of forcing the leader himself to question his own ability to make proper decisions and therefore we say some of his Praises in front of him reminding him that he is great reminding him that the peanut gallery is beneath him reminding him that the world of the naysayers and the confusion mongers is below him sometimes even the greatest of the great need reminders that we are all too great to sin we we are all too holy to be impure we are all simply too big to be small [Music]