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Joseph’s story in chapter 39 in many ways mirrors Judah’s in the previous chapter. They both begin with descent, and they both pivot around the actions of a seductive woman who appropriates personal possessions, and who makes an accusation of sexual impropriety. <\/span><\/p>\n

But while it’s undeniable that Joseph finds himself in much more difficult circumstances than Judah, it is Joseph’s story that is saturated both with a sense of divine presence and success. The two are related. While the Torah explains Joseph’s success as Divinely arranged, the Midrash gives more credit to Joseph himself. Explaining how Joseph’s master saw that ‘God is with him’, the Midrash suggests that God’s name was constantly on Joseph’s lips.<\/span><\/p>\n

If so, it was Joseph’s attitude, not his good luck, that earned Potiphar’s trust, and it was an attitude that shouldn’t be taken for granted. For Joseph, rejected by his brothers, perhaps even by his father, to think that he had been rejected by God as well, that he no longer had any part in the God of Israel, would be an entirely reasonable conclusion. To maintain the name of God on his lips was to stubbornly, boldly, cleave to hope.<\/span><\/p>\n

From the Midrash, and from Joseph’s \u00a0speech in subsequent chapters, we can imagine God’s name on Joseph’s lips in thanksgiving for his great successes, first in Potiphar’s house, and then in jail. <\/span>Baruch Hashem<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i> But in this chapter, we hear Joseph invoke God’s name not in those successes, but in his moment of greatest crisis. It is not God as provider whom he praises, but God as commander whom he obeys. And perhaps herein lies the secret to Joseph’s ability to see hope and light in servitude and imprisonment. For as long as a person sees himself as commanded by God, he can’t see himself as rejected by Him. 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