Hi and welcome back to the daily study today's Friday and we're looking inside at the sixth reading of the weekly Torah portion of a Yeshav That's Genesis chapter 39 verses 7 through 23 Poetry far as wife saw through astrological means that she was destined to be the ancestry of Joseph's descendants Not knowing that this would happen through her daughter. She sought to seduce Joseph Interesting that even though poetry far, you know is considered an Egyptian back then she still had this vision through astrological means that she was going to bring some someone through Joseph Let's look inside the verse ech ese ha'rach agadol aha zot ver khati le lo kim and Joseph told Potiphar's wife How could I commit such a great wrong and also sin before God? So here we see that Potiphar's wife was very much inclined to have relations with Joseph and obviously for Joseph this was Attemptation he had to face and Therefore this is what he says to Potiphar's wife. How could I commit such a great wrong and also sin before God?
Being a servant Joseph was obviously at the mercy of his master's wife Potiphar's wife Intimidated Joseph with all sorts of threats including death if he would not Give in to her seduction, but then Joseph saw an image of his father Jacob's face in front of him from which he understood He was obligated to resist her temptation Jacob's face reminded Joseph that our individual sins are not only our own personal matters for which there might be Mitigating rationalizations They actually affect the moral balance of all reality So Joseph could have easily given in to Potiphar to Potiphar and had relations Pussybar's wife sorry and had relations with her and no one would have known or whether you know It could have been like a little silent thing, but he knew that it doesn't only affect his personal life a sin Affects the moral balance of all reality when we sin we're actually responsible for the world It has an effect on the world and when we do a good deed it also has an effect on the world when confronted with temptation It's tempting to convince ourselves that nobody will know about it and it's technically justified That's a coming to it is only a temporary setback and that we can later repent and so on in such moments We too must envision the image of Jacob that is remember that our actions are not merely the isolated deeds of individuals and isolated times and places Our deeds have cosmic ramifications. They can harm or heal the entire world It's really really important to understand that and I was actually speaking to someone recently who unfortunately had the great temptation to To cheat in her marriage to have affairs with someone else and I told her I understand you are such in a in a dark place Right now and I understand that you feel like there's no way out and obviously I'm not a professional and you should get professional Hall, but just what I can tell you from the tourist perspective is that when you sin even if you think no one will know It will affect you and it will affect your children and will affect their children and will affect the world at large It causes a ripple effect and especially for the sin of relations we don't understand what occurs during that time because Something in the Torah intimacy is viewed as a very holy act and even when and even when Two people get together and are intimate with each other not for the sake of having children They still draw down souls into the world So we have to understand and recognize that every single action that we do whether hidden or revealed has an effect Not only on us, but on the world at large. That was it for today's daily study