See, I have placed you in charge of all the land of Egypt (Bereishis 41:41)

Imagine a person God forbid becomes bankrupt, and they are down in the dumps, living in darkness. How long does it take for them to become the richest man in the world? It doesn’t happen over night, it takes a long time. But you know what is Yosef Hatzadik all about? Yosef Hatzadik shows us how it can happen in one second.

For twelve years Yosef Hatzaddik is sitting in the lowest prison, and in one day he becomes the ruler of Egypt, which in those days was like becoming the King of the world.

So in Psalms it says Mekimi Me’afar Dal(Psalms 113:7) You Raise the poor from the dust. Master of the World, take me out from the dust, but don’t just take me out of the dust for the moment. Lehoshivi Im Nedivim (Ibid), seat me amongst the princes. I want to wake up the next morning and have breakfast with the top people of the world.

Do you know what the holiness of us Jewish people is? We can be in the lowest of the lows, and yet in one second reach the highest of the highs… in one second. ~ R’ Shlomo Carlebach

“The pasuk tells us that when the brothers saw Yosef approaching from afar, they decided right then and there to kill him. But by the time he reached them, the plan had changed, and they ended up selling him.  We learn two things from this:

First, never give up – when all seems lost, one never knows what might happen or how things could change in an instant.

Second, when one comes to a decision in haste, wait a few moments and rethink the issue. You never know how the decision may be altered with a clearer mind.” ~ Ben Ish Chai in Torah Tavlin