Rabbi David Ashear Parashat Vayigash Emuna Vision

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which disturbed him. He couldn't get a satisfactory interpretation. And then they brought up Yosef and Yosef gets taken out of jail and he gets he becomes the viceroy. So the Beis HaLevi writes it looks like from the pesukim because Pharaoh had a dream Yosef was finally taken out of jail. And if Pharaoh wouldn't have had those dreams then Yosef would have still been in jail. That's the way it looks. But if you look at the Midrash our Chazal look at the story totally different. The Midrash says on this pasuk Vayehi Miketz Shanayim Yamim Ketz Sam LaChoshech. That Hashem decided to put an end to the darkness. Ketz Sam LaChoshech. The darkness in Yosef's life, the time came for it to end. And therefore Hashem made it that your that Pharaoh had these dreams. And the Beis HaLevi says you see from this the way we view the world you know, we look at the world with what's called Siba u'Mesovev, cause and effect. You say it because, you know, because she suggested this one is a shidduch, that's why they got married. It looks like the causes are what causes the events to happen. The Beis HaLevi says that's looking at the world the wrong way. We believe when events happen, it's because Hashem decided the event should happen. How should it happen? Hashem has many ways. He'll use this cause, he'll use that cause. He has many ways of accomplishing the event that he wants to get accomplished,

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2. 3:34Hashem, the way he brought it about was he put this idea in his head, and…
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4. 10:41same plateau as our forefathers if he wouldn't have complained about his suffering. Yosef came out…
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