The Secret of Yosef's Success - He Cared for Others & God Cared for Him

Yosef is one of the really main main characters in The Torah unbelievable his own personal story he's a symbol of righteousness a symbol of faith a symbol of of success you know a symbol of of of ultimate humility a symbol of someone who recognizes he's in God's world on the highest of levels and we're going to talk about this a lot unbelievable personality unbelievable person we can make him much much larger than life and and and and lose the opportunity to to learn from him and apply it to our own lives because we might think that such a giant and who are we compared to that what does his life have to do with our life but we have to know that everything about Yosef exists within us he's one of those unique biblical personalities that represent the totality of the Jewish people and each one of us in a specific way have a connection to to him and must connect and bring out that potential of Yosef within us in a spiritual sense and it has to manifest in our actual life accomplishments so let's learn an unbelievable lesson about Y and and hopefully we'll see how we can apply it so the famous uh not a famous but basically the main the beginning of of where the story gets interesting in Egypt once yoseph is in Egypt is when he starts to become a dream interpreter clearly interpreting dreams has has to do with you know tapping into into higher dimensions of reality than the physical one that we're used to I mean we can sense of we have a sense of smell we we can hear things that we don't physically see but to tap into a realm of dream and and perceive what message that that dream may contain within it is clearly a power that is so spiritual and so lofty that it's beyond the average person so here we see really the beginning of yose's true greatness start to express itself in his ability to interpret the dream of the two Ministers of parro so the there are two people in jail with Yosef and these are two prominent people important people two ministers in in in in in power's Kingdom one person's in charge of the wine and the other person's in charge of the bread that parro eats which may entail more than just bread uh so they called in Hebrew the sahh the minister of wine and the sahim it's the the minister of his bread which means really I think his food now they both are really downtrodden very upset and sad in jail now one would think so what that's that's the pr that's the right attitude in jail people many people are sad in jail but we must understand that they were very sad and meaning they were their Spirits were worse than when they got there in in such a dramatic way that Yosef took notice now there's an unbelievable lesson we're going to take now from Yosef unbelievable lesson that we all have to really think twice about how we live our lives and how we allow the negative experiences in our lives affect us and how much we allow it to detract from our ability to be there for others so let's take a look at this for a minute ysf sadik is himself an innocent man falsely accused and convicted to a life sentence in prison the real the real penalty was death but because he was such a great person and he did so much for his his master his boss so to speak so they didn't kill him and possibly included in that because they knew he was innocent but they had to put him in jail to save face so they didn't kill him but they but they left him alive but it would be a life sentence in prison for something that that that was a lie and they understood it was a lie um potifar his master knew ysf knew his values knew his type of person he was and so on some level he he had to know that it wasn't true but an accusation from his wife such such noble people in Egypt if you don't do something about it then then then it then it blemishes her and him as immoral people as she was she was someone that was chasing after yoseph threatening him if he wouldn't concede to her wishes to be intimate with her and so it's a very Twisted story it sounds like one of those like soap operas that people watch it you know you know when they're busy they at home they got nothing to do so they get you know drawn into these soap operas which drag out all of the all of the most perverted uh you know really sick type of Lifestyles that they end up glamorizing so here we have potifar and his wife and so they're stuck in that if they they don't put him in jail at least so then it'll it'll expose how his wife was not loyal to him and really you know someone that that that betrayed her husband and so in order to to kind of cancel that they put him in jail and that's one that's one that's one dimension of the story now ysep can be very upset can be very angry he he's in a dark place and he's been treated mistreated after he gave so much to people you know they they betrayed him they turned on him and they put him in jail he could be so overwhelmed and so involved in his own misery where does he find time for other people's misery you know like you're miserable come back in 10 years when I I'm still working on getting over my own issues I don't have time for your issues yet we see yose unbelievably able to notice the the the feelings and and how and the well-being of other people in jail that that he didn't even know not related to not even from the same country and he notices that they're upset and it and it bothered him enough that he reached out to them it's not even that they came to him he reached out to them to try and help and so we see an unbelievable lesson first lesson for us no matter how tough your situation is if you're able to somehow be resilient and recognize that everything in your life ultimately is coming from Hashem which is he certainly realized despite its difficulties we're not saying to ignore its difficulties but the idea that Hashem is not abandoned you and you're not alone will give you an inner strength to kind of like not give give up on yourself in the situation and and and and then that opens you up now to have a potential to even be considerate of what you can do to help others while you're in your own suffering you can still think about what you can do to help others now ironically his decision to help them becomes a catalyst to help himself and we have to look deeper Hashem brought them there perhaps as a test for Yosef passing that test they became a catalyst for his actual ultimate Redemption from these false accusations to Freedom