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Pulling the Strings

852 views · Jan 17, 2021

Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan

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yosef at sadiq had all the reason in the world to find all the trauma that anyone would find with troubles in their upbringing in their youth and in their past if there was anybody that had a right to say you know what i'm throwing in the towel i'm done life has thrown me a bad shake my brothers hate me my father is weary my brothers call me rodef they throw me in a pit snakes and scorpions they sell me to a band of arabs they sell me down to egypt i don't see my father for 22 years they stripped me of my ketone passing i only lived with sibling rivalries and jealousies my whole life finally i get to egypt i get put on a slavery block do you know who i am i'm the son of the god oladar you're putting me with slaves i get sold like an animal to the highest bidder i get thrown into that i get thrown into the house of a of a of a potiphar which i already told you in a different class what he was about that was not the time and then on top of that what does the torah tell you is it potiphar the biggest test in history besides he was a magnificently looking woman but that's not the point she came to him yeah yeah every single day she didn't let up not and then on top of that she makes up a story about him falsely accused so that his reputation is destroyed they take him they throw him into a jail they put him on the ground for 12 years let's see how much this kid can take and after being put in jail for 12 years falsely accused he finally gets pulled

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  2. 0:34my brothers call me rodef they throw me in a pit snakes and scorpions they sell…
  3. 1:07bidder i get thrown into that i get thrown into the house of a of a…
  4. 2:11and then on top of that she makes up a story about him falsely accused so…
  5. 2:43out and now years later he comes right back to the spot that it all started…
  6. 3:16nessa wow the brothers said are you joking we could have sworn you were thinking of…
  7. 3:46your puppets on strings you can't do nothing to me nobody can do anything to you…
  8. 4:16every step of your life to see what you're made of to see what you believe…
  9. 4:46for me so instead of thinking revenge you know what he's thinking unbelievable joseph goes back…

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