Parshas Yayeshev: On Not Breaking Character

The importance of maintaining one's unique, God-given identity

Look, this is an action packed parsha, so its almost a dissapointment I’m gonna pick something right from the end.

Yosef, stuck in prison, interprets the dreams of two disgraced officials, interpreting one as foreseeing a return to power and prestige, and the other as foretelling his doom, featuring one of the darkest jokes in the Torah (“Pharaoh will l…