Vayeshev: Yosef’s Test | Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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Okay, good morning everyone and thank you for joining us on this beautiful Wednesday morning as we are studying together. One of my favorite parot so relatable. So much going on in this para about life and relationships and sibling rivalry and personal struggles and jealousy and every emotion and every test that we could even think of that and touch is found in this week's parv one definitely definitely uh strongly one definitely definitely uh strongly recommend reading this one uh from a toz the next few weeks it's just a roller coaster of a saga they could definitely make a movie out of this but We don't need movies. We have the Torah. We have our commentaries. We have the legit goods. So, let's jump right in to this week's parv. And often when we think of tests, who do we think of? We think of the was tested. Abraham was tested. Abraham was tested 10 times. Of course, one of the last ones. andu had a lot of tests of course had tests. We often think of the as the realm of however however it is also important to note that Yseph Ysef was tested in this week's par not only tested my friends but we read how maybe his test in a way but we read how maybe his test in a way surpassed the test of Abraham. I want to read to you what our rabbis tell us. Omar Ysef said begins let's just read the first and it was after these things Ysef's mistress looked at him lifted her eyes and she wanted him she tested him. She tempted

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1. 0:00Okay, good morning everyone and thank you for joining us on this beautiful Wednesday morning as…
2. 3:03broken probably emotionally. Who knows what kind of issues he had after his brothers has sold…
3. 6:38Torah echoing. That was his thirst to learn. So you were too poor to learn. No…
4. 9:44that moment he was visited by his father in the window. An image of his father…
5. 13:20equally hard for both. So, that was the test of Ysef. It was so difficult because…
6. 16:56right thing to do. It's for a good reason. Um got to let people know. And…
7. 20:00parenting. We find nice words and expressions and ideas. Principle it's principle and for the principle…
8. 23:38Big Ben 3 minutes. And then another guy walked by and he saw 9:33. Mine says…
9. 26:42cuz when you change Big Ben, then there's nothing to live. There's nothing to aspire. There's…
10. 30:27feelings. Whether those feelings are are anger or or even mercy, my heart melted for them.…

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