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When the time came for Yosef to be set free from prison, Hashem sent
Pharaoh a dream detailing future events. Seeking its interpretation,
Pharaoh released Yosef from the prison and made him Viceroy of Egypt.
Just as Hashem set the date for Yosef’s release down to the last second,
so too, Hashem sets the time for our galut to end. When one learns Torah,
he can forget the prick of galut. Torah gladdens the heart and can help us
achieve the equilibrium of faith and spiritual fortitude we need to weather
its tempestuous storms.
One who throws off the yoke of Torah in order to alleviate his suffering
is farther than ever from witnessing the end to his tribulations. By turning
his back on Hashem, he falls deeper into his ‘spiritual’ ailment and
experiences a galut within a galut.
Even though Yosef Hatzaddik was made an outcast and forced to live far
away from home, he clung to his faith. Thrown into a pit, sold as a slave,
cast into a dungeon –Yosef paid no heed to the Yetzer Hara’s lament of
