Vayeishev - 6th Portion

Join me as we learn kitas for today for Friday the sixth Torah reading of Parishes Vesv. Yesterday's Torah reading we read as Yoseph was brought down to Egypt sold to the chief butcher and there he was put in charge and very successful in everything he did. And today as we continue from yesterday's Torah reading where Yoseph was uh prettyl looking and making and um making himself look uh very comfortable and eating wonderful food and was insensitive to the fact that his father was agonizing and suffering by missing his son. God therefore sends upon him another challenge with the wife of Potifar. As we're going to learn today, the wife of Potifar, she saw by astrological means that the children of Yoseph, that Yoseph will have children from her, not knowing that it would be from her daughter, but not from her. With this, as we start this Torah reading, she tries to seduce Yoseph to be with her. Verse 7, chapter 39. And it was immediately after Yoseph began to beautify himself in many different ways, showing his insensitivity and the master's wife cast his eyes on cast her eyes on Yoseph and she said, "Sleep with me." Any time where we find a terminology where it says after the following words means that it's referring to a period of something which was right before it [snorts] and therefore over here it's coming to a very meaning right next to the event and it happened in close proximity to the time of the event that happened before it. That's why it says right after this occurrence this started verse eight. and he refused. And if you look at the word, the cancellation on it is the shallist. Very infrequently do we have this only about five or six times. Many times that it is on the word in any time where there is a struggle where a person is indecisive of what they should do. For example, when Lot and his family were being taken out of Saddam, in this case as well, we have and Ysef refused that he was torn. On one hand, he was caught by the beauty of the wife of Potifer. But on the other hand, as we see, he is struggling not to follow what Potifer's wife is enticing him to do. And he refused. And he said to his master's wife, "My master does look, my master does not concern himself with what's going on in the house. And whatever he has, he put me in charge and he entrusted in my care. Verse n there's nobody greater than me or having more authority than me in this house and he has not withheld anything from me besides you except yourself because you are his wife. the and how can I do commit such a great wrong and I will sin and it's also a sin before God. Why was it also a sin before God? So Rashi explains because one of the seven laws was adultery and therefore this would be considered a sin in front of God as well for her. [snorts] Verse 10. And as she persisted and although she continued to talk to Yseph every single day and he did not listen to her to be with her and to listen to her that he should be with her. Rashi says over here she even wanted just regular just to be with her even if it's not going to mean to be in intimate. even without being intimate with her and even that he would not be with her and to be with her. Sashi continues to say what does it mean to sleep with her and to be with her in the world to come in purgatory. And as the balaturator says, if you look at the word lea is the same numerical value as in purgatory in ginam [snorts] and he recognize the punishment that will come because of this of being with her. Verse 10 and verse 11 and it was that day and it happened to be a certain day. What does it mean a certain day? was a specific holiday as we'll soon see in Rashi [snorts] and she and he came to the home to do his work like an ordinary day and none of the members of the home were there were present in the home. So Rashi explains what does it mean it was like this day? What does it mean this day? Which day was it? The Torah doesn't tell us meaning to say it came to a specific day a regular not an ordinary day which was a day of joyfulness and a day of jubilation on their part. It was considered a holiday on their part of the Egyptians. They all went to their the idolatry to the place of idolatry. Omra the wife of said there's no better day for me to be with Yoseph this day. And that's why she decided to be with Yseph. The problem was how was she going to tell the other people why she's not going with them to the uh house of idolatry? She told the people of her home, I'm not feeling well. Therefore, I can't join you in your fun to going to the church whatever it was at the time. Lastly, it's to do his work. What was his work? And over here, we see a dispute between the two sages between one says he came to do his work which he was hired for that he used to do every single day. One says he really intended that finally after the pestering that she was doing him and every single day nagging him, he was willing to be with her. But at the last moment the last moment he saw the image of his father and with that they reminded himself and his father told him you want to be amongst your brothers to be part of the complete Jewish nation. How can you do such a thing? as it's described in the track date of Sata explains two interpretations here. What does it mean that he saw the image of his father? One is that he saw the image of his father that even though he was succumbed to the physical beauty of the wife of Potifar however when he saw the image of his father he realized the divine beauty that exists within every Jew and because of that he realized that the physical beauty is not an entity and he was able to overcome and that's why it says afterwards he ran outside he was able to exit that space where physical beauty meant something to a place of divine beauty where the then the physical beauty was a non- entity and the reb goes on They even further explained that the very moment that he saw the image of his father, the image of his father was like the image of Adarish. Yakov looked like Marisharish. The garra says and he remembered his purpose on this world and he realized and he told himself he was able to understand and say how can I ruin my purpose of being in this world going back to Adam that every human being has a divine purpose in this world just by a moment or a fleeting moment of seduction of the wife of potif. And what happened was verse 12. She grabbed him by his garment [snorts] saying, "Sleep with me." He left his garment in her hand and he ran out and he fled and he went outside. Verse 13. When she saw that he left his garment and holding it in her hand and that he fled outside. Verse 14. So now she begins to make up a story and framing Yseph and she called to the members of her household and she said see what happened. They brought to us a Hebrew manu to mock us. He came to me to be with me the but I cried out loudly. Verse 14 Rashi explains that this is a shortened verse of the of what she said. This is a condensed version of what happened. What did she mean to say? They brought to him. She doesn't say who brought this Hebrew man here. She's saying about her husband. You brought this Hebrew man here and look what he did. I why does she call him I because that's the way at the time the Jewish people were called because Abraham was on the was in the other side of the river a from the children of A verse 15 and when he heard that I raised my voice and I yelled I screamed he left his garment by me and he ran and he fled and he went side. Verse 16. And she said these words, the same lines as she was telling everybody else, she told to she said to everybody this fellow um that means when her man when her husband came home, she said the same thing [snorts] to her husband. Verse 16. And she left her garment by her until her husband came home. Until the master came home. Verse 16, which master the master of which was her husband. Verse 17. And she spoke to her husband the following words. The same thing that she told everybody else. Lamer saying, "This Hebrew servant that you brought came to me. that you brought over here to mock us and therefore trying to seduce me. Rashi explains verse 17 that this Jewish slave that you have, this fellow, this Jewish slave that you brought, did you bring him over here to seduce me that you brought to the home? And she turned around the whole story. Instead of she being the one that was seducing him, she made it as if he was seducing her. Verse 18. And it was when I raised my voice and I yelled out and he left his garments by me and he fled outside and was when her m when the master heard these words the words of his wife that she spoke to him saying these are kinds of things is what your servant has done and he was furious. verse 19. What does it mean when his when the master heard the words generally for the person speaking to me hear what they're saying though because he said this as a spec she said it to him at a specific time which would then infuriate him even more. She said it she said it when she was intimate with her husband. Therefore she says just like these words is what your husband is what your servant did words of seduction. This is what he tried to do to me what we are presently with together. And he continues to say the verse tells us then verse 20 and therefore the master of Yseph Ysef's master took a hold of him and he put him and he placed him in the prison the place where the prisoners are incarcerated and he remained in that prison. If you look at the word in the actual words here, assur as we mentioned before, there's words in the Torah that are written one way and read a different way. The word ass is written with a v but pronounced with a yud. The yud alludes to the balotum tells us the 10 years that Yseph was in prison and then he stayed an extra two years because it put his trust in the uh butler as we'll soon see and the 10 years he was there because he spoke against his brothers. The Torah tells us now it continues verse 21. is and God was with Yoseph and he made him wellliked and he also made the warden of the prison favor him as well. What does this mean? And he made him well liked that everybody that saw him accepted him and liked him. He was a nice guy. Coming from the same words as a kala who is beautiful and liked by many that the Mishna talks about it doesn't mean necessarily that they're being kind but people around them find favor and kindness in them. Verse 22. And then the warden of the prison placed all the prisoners that were in prison in Yoseph's charge. All the prisoners that were incarcerated in that prison. And whatever was done there was done under Yoseph's direction. Meaning as the tarum says only with Yoseph's instruction were they were able to do things and under Yseph's direction were they all commanded to follow. Verse 23 the warden of the prison could not find any fault in anything that was under Yseph's jurisdiction because God was with him. Whatever he did, God made him su succeed. [snorts] Why was he so successful in the prison? Because he rec because God was making him successful. The same lesson is that we recognize for us that when we realize that everything we do is only because God is with us then we will see the success in whatever we do. This concludes the sixto reading for parasv.