Shnayim Yomi - Miketz - Sheni - #2 - Rabbi Mordechai Kalatzsky - The Peace of Trusting Hashem

Now we get to the second aliyah. Can you imagine Yoseph? He's been in a pit for 12 years and he's been away from his family and he was wrongfully accused and his brothers sold him and everything was lost. There's no lobbying. You're sitting in a pit in Mitzim. No one's taking you out. and he's standing in front of parro and parro tells him I want to tell you my dream right he's going to tell him about the cows he's going to tell him about the stalks he's telling him about how they were fat and they were skinny and he's going to literally this is Yoseph's one opportunity to do it now something very unique about pyro parro believed that he was god says he used to go to the Nile right the y and he used to be part of the river and he says I need he says He says that I made it. I am God. And he tells Yseph, I had a dream and there's no one to interpret it and I heard about you, Ysepho that you could. You're a dream interpreter. The first thing he tells, it's not me. It's the real God. is the real Hashem. Are you crazy? You finally have an opportunity to be protected and saved. Like Pyro didn't say anything about I'm God or try to have discussions with him in ashkava. He just said I heard you translate dreams. So you throw in for the megalomaniac that oh I have to tell you it's the real Hashem. Why would Y do that? And there's a second question which really answers the first which is so powerful. I don't know if you've ever had this question, but I know I have. [snorts] So, so Yoseph says, "Oh, seven cows, they're fat and skinny. There's going to be seven years of plenty, 7 years of famine, and it's going to be so quick and you better like get everything together." So, first of all, nothing happened yet. Second of all, he's just talking about cows. So even if he's right which would be okay a maybe make him the viceroy of the world maybe the head of agriculture the viceroy of the world don't you think it like it it's extreme like pyro like pyro was the most brilliant man of that of the ancient era to do that what was he thinking was this unbelievable thought you know when someone wins the lottery most of them destroy their lives I think like 80% % because for a person to do a complete 180 in your life to shift completely as a person creates a breakdown inside your head cuz I can't handle the overwhelmingness. And Pyro knew, you know what? I see this Jewish boy, he seems smart. I'm going to take this slave who's been in prison for 12 years and I'm gonna tell him, "You're in charge of the country." And right in front of me, he's gonna break down and just collapse to the floor. He says, "Yeseph, wow, you're so smart. I think you should run the country." And he was like, "Let's go." And Par's like, "What?" He goes, "Yeah, let's go. Let's do it. We're going to take a fifth. We're going to put away make storage houses." And he's like, "Why? Why isn't he like falling apart?" And the answer is cuz Yoseph lived his life. Bil Adai. There's only Hashem. There's no one else. So like what's the difference when I'm in prison or I'm running the country decides everything. If we realize that we'd be able to find such a and such a happiness that we live a different existence.