YOSEF AND YEHUDAH-HEAVEN AND EARTH

MUCH INK AND THOUGHT HAS BEEN DEVOTED TO ANALYZING YEHUDA'S CONFRONTATION OF YOSEF. YOSEF WAS VICEROY OF THE GREATEST POWER ON EARTH. DUE TO THE DEVASTATION WROUGHT BY THE WORLD-WIDE FAMINE,PHARAOH PLACED ABSOLUTE POWER IN YOSEF'S HANDS IN ORDER TO DEAL WITH THIS EMERGENCY. IN EFFECT, YOSEF WAS THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE SUPERPOWER OF THEIR TIMES.
YEHUDAH WAS TAKING ON , IN HIS MIND ,A NAPOLEON OR EVEN A GENGHIS KHAN
AND NOT BACKING DOWN.WITH WHAT STRENGTH WAS YEHUDAH ABLE TO STAND UP TO THE MIGHTIEST MAN OF HIS TIME? WHAT ALLOWED HIM TO BE SUPERIOR TO HIS SIBLINGS?IN FACT WHAT MADE HIM ULTIMATELY A BETTER MAN THAN YOSEF?
WE ALL HAVE IMAGES OF OURSELVES VIS A VIS OUR FAMILIES ,OUR SOCIETY ,OUR POSITION IN LIFE. YEHUDAH HAD RANK. HE WAS A MAN OF GREAT PHYSICAL PROWESS AS WELL AS JUDICIOUS INSIGHT. HE WAS GIVEN THE POSITION OF JUDGE WHEREVER HE WENT,AMONGST HIS BROTHERS AND IN CANAAN WHERE HE SETTLED.
IMAGINE FOR A MOMENT THAT A MAN IS CAUGHT HAVING AN EXTRA-MARITAL AFFAIR AFTER PROMOTING FAMILY VALUES FOR A LIFETIME! WHAT AN EMBARRASSMENT. HE WOULD BE DISCREDITED. IF HE WERE A MINISTER HE WOULD BE DISBARRED.
NOW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF HE COULD HUSH IT UP, AS THE WOMAN INVOLVED WORSHIPPED HIM AND WOULD GLADLY DIE IN ORDER TO INSURE HIS REPUTATION.
WHAT WOULD THE REACTION OF MOST MEN BE?
EVEN IF THEY COULD NOT CAUSE OTHERS TO HAVE PAIN, THEY WOULD HAVE RESIGNED AND LEFT THE SCENE. OR WORSE , THEY WOULD HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THE POOR , STARLIT GROUPIE WILLING TO PROTECT THE MASTER.
TO STOP AND TAKE TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE FACE OF HUMILIATION WOULD BE THE ROUTE OF THE FEW, THE TRULY STRONG OF PERSON.
IT TAKES A GREAT MAN TO BE COURAGEOUS ENOUGH AND ADMIT GUILT , EVEN WHEN ONE CAN DENY OR FINAGLE OUT OF THE CONSEQUENCES.
THIS WAS YEHUDAH'S POWER. HE NEVER TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE WEAK TO COVER UP FOR HIMSELF. NOTWITHSTANDING HIS POSITION AND THE DERISION AN ADMISSION WOULD BRING, HE FACED UP TO THE MUSIC OF CHASTISEMENT AND BEING DEFROCKED.
FOR THERE IS A FAR GREATER FULFILLMENT IN THE MAN WHO CAN CHANGE HIMSELF
THAN THERE IS FOR THE FUNCTION OF PROFESSIONAL "MACHER".TAKING RESPONSIBILITY NO MATTER THE RESULTS REFLECTS ON THE TRUE MEASURE OF A MAN. IT MEANS THAT THIS MAN IS INCORRUPTIBLE , FOR ONE WHO ADMITS BLAME
IS NEVER A SLAVE TO ONE'S IMAGE OR ROLE IN SOCIETY.
AS GREAT AS YOSEF WAS HE WAS NOT GREATER THAN HIS POSITION. ONLY YEHUDAH
DEMONSTRATED THAT HE COULD OVERCOME HIS OWN ASPIRATIONS FOR THE SAKE OF TRUTH.
ULTIMATELY THE MOSHIACH COMES FROM YEHUDAH , NOT YOSEF. THAT IS BECAUSE MESSIAH WILL BRING EVERY MAN TO DO TESHUVAH- CHANGE. WE WILL FOLLOW MESSIAH WHO WILL DEMONSTRATE THAT IT BETTER TO BE TRUE THAN TO BE SUCCESSFUL . YOSEF WAS SUCCESSFUL , YEHUDAH FACED THE TRUTH. YEHUDAH WINS!