Joseph in Egypt - The Story Finally Makes Sense!

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yitzchak Botton’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

joseph josef was stuck in prison and he interpreted dreams for the two uh stewards the people one of them was the baker the king's baker power was baker the other one was in charge of power's wine they both did something wrong they were both put in jail and joseph comes and tells them that one is going to die and one is going to live so joseph is standing in front of this person and he's reasoning to himself this person is about to go back to his job in a few days his job was to serve power the king of egypt the person in charge of everything all of the the court system he's the he's the real boss so he figures this is a very nice opportunity perhaps even god ordained this whole situation so that this person can be the vehicle through which i'm saved i'm an innocent man in jail for 10 years now so he decides to tell this person i'm an innocent man i'm here and please when you go in front of the king of egypt remember me remember me and the good kindness i showed you and i helped you and please mention to him that there's an innocent man stuck in prison and he says it twice he says mention me and remember me he he does this it doesn't like a repeated language there in his in his request and then the story jumps forward two years and we find out two years later paro has a dream and the big question is what's two years for what what are we counting two years from and so the idea is we're

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1. 0:00joseph josef was stuck in prison and he interpreted dreams for the two uh stewards the…
2. 2:04and the two years that we mentioned in the cates a reflection of that that two…
3. 4:05with my helper then there'll be success if god is not with my helper then all…
4. 6:43will help me be smart also today basically let's get on with the with the story…
5. 8:52his brothers wanted to kill him and then he sold he sold into slavery and he's…
6. 11:32for two years that's the standard approach i would like to suggest a little bit of…
7. 13:39to see it that even if he had a lack of faith in both times even…
8. 15:44imagine now i'm sitting in the same car and i i can i cannot see with…
9. 18:51deeper terminology using more cassidus and kabbalistic ideas and then we'll conclude essentially this idea is…
10. 20:58but i think it's a beautiful thought it could take us a long time to find…

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