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it's time for rabbi mankiewicz weekly
Torah lesson a place where life's most
difficult questions are answered here
with his spiritual perspective and
insight
rabbi megawatts welcome to this week's
Torah lesson this week's Torah portion
is poshest negates the question of the
week is how can we be inspired not to be
intimidated from obstacles and to forge
forward with success so in this week's
Torah portion practice me gates we learn
about Joseph going from all the way
being a prisoner in prison to rising to
tremendous power because power needed
talent interpreters dreams
Joseph was able to interpret his dreams
and not only was he able to interpret
his dreams he gave him tremendous good
advice how to deal with the upcoming
famine and sure enough powering for
Joseph in charge of the whole famine
that's going to be Joseph put away the
food for the whole fall of all of it for
the whole of Egypt and for the
surrounding countries later on when the
famine did start everyone that put away
food it rotted they didn't have the
talent that Joseph had that would put it
away in a way that it would last for a
while and then when they became hungry
they came to power in same power we want
food so power says go to Joseph whatever
he asks you you should do cerasus
wandering or whatever he asked you
should do but wanted to go to Joseph to
begin with so Rashi says the truth is
they came to Joseph but Joseph went
ahead
Joseph atomic was telling them to
circumcise themselves and they didn't
want to listen so they went to pairi and
Pryor said guess what if Joseph was the
one that saved us from a famine you're
gonna have to listen to him
so let me ask a simple question how do
we know that Joseph was telling them to
go ahead and circumcise themselves where
do we know that from so the Rebbe
explains that we know that God
instructed Abraham to circumcise himself
and his whole family so Joseph that went
in the footsteps of his grandfather when
they hadn't also inspired people to
circumcise himself the reality is they
don't want to listen to him but when
Perry realized how powerful Joseph was
he encouraged them to respect Joseph and
listen to Joseph the Rebbe
brings out a phenomenal idea from this
and that's as follows we know it was a
major difference between Joseph and his
brothers the brothers all of Jacob's
sons besides Joseph they didn't want to
get involved with the materialistic rule
they want to live a spiritual life they
took a the Sheep no one bothered them
they don't have to interact with any
outside forces life was simple they
don't wanna engage with the world Joseph
on the other hand was not afraid of the
world he would got involved in the world
up to the point he was the whole second
in command in Egypt it's a not only was
he the second in command and he wasn't
intimidated and he stayed loyal to God
and Torah and mitzvot and the ways of
his forefathers privately but even
publicly he would encourage people to do
what God wanted namely in this case a
circumcision said Larry brings out
here's a beautiful lesson on life that
we can learn from Joseph which answers
the question how can we not be
intimidated from challenges and forged
forward to be inspired from Joseph
Joseph was not intimidated by the world
and not only wasn't he intimidated he
forged forward with a mission that
everyone should be connected to God and
if we think about Joseph how Joseph can
do it each and every one of us can do
the same
this week's Torah lesson is a memory of
bora pandari liebe and Schlomo Ben Yosef
may their souls be elevated to the Torah
that we're studying in their memory
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