Joseph the Righteous

◆  All insights are drawn from studies and articles published on kabbalah.com.

1 · Key Points

• On the day a tzadik is elevated, all the Light of his soul becomes available to whoever connects.
• Joseph crossed betrayal, slavery and prison holding unshakable certainty, and that stance carried him to power in Egypt.
• Joseph is the chariot (merkavah) of Yesod: a physical human being who reached a metaphysical level and became a permanent channel.
• Yesod is the neck of the bottle. Every blessing, health, money, creativity, healing, passes through it before manifesting in Malchut, our 1%.
• Joseph was never a victim. Karen Berg calls him "Yosef Hu HaShalit", Joseph the Ruler: he became a leader in Potiphar's house, a leader in prison, a leader in the palace.
• His formula has three parts: restriction, joy in the process, and sharing.
• In a hilulah, calling the tzadik's name makes him immediately present, even if unseen.

2 · Who Joseph Was

Jacob's beloved son, a dreamer, envied by his brothers. Sold into slavery as a teenager. Bought by Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's officers. Propositioned by Potiphar's wife, he refused, and for that he was falsely accused and thrown into prison. He stayed there twelve years.

Twelve years. And in not one of them did he call himself a victim.

In Potiphar's house he became head of the servants. In prison he became a counsellor and dream interpreter for the other prisoners. Before Pharaoh he became governor of Egypt and steward of all the wealth of the most abundant country on earth. Wherever they put him, he rose, because he did not depend on the place. The Light he carried was not in the title; it was in the consciousness.

And when he met again the brothers who sold him, there was no revenge, no grudge, no score to settle. That is the signature of Yesod: a pure channel, without ego.

3 · In Short

Kabbalah teaches that on the anniversary of Joseph the Righteous's elevation, all the Light he gathered, certainty, prosperity, and the power to unite heaven and earth, is released to whoever consciously connects. Joseph governed Egypt because he never wavered before adversity: instead of falling to his difficulties, he took advantage of them and reached the highest spiritual level available in each situation. That is why his hilulah is a window for learning to convert obstacle into channel. As we invoke his name during the 24 hours, we touch the bridge between the invisible 99% and the physical 1%, and draw that strength into our own blockages.

4 · Phrases for Contemplation

5 · Takeaways

6 · Yesod, the Neck of the Bottle

The Tree of Life has ten Sefirot. The tenth, Malchut, is the only one with physicality, what we can see, touch, measure. It is the 1%. The other 99% of our life happens above it, unseen, like the force inside a seed that decides how the apple tree will grow.

Directly above Malchut is Yesod. Yesod is the funnel. Everything, health, children, wisdom, success, creativity, even an immaterial boost to the immune system, must pass through Yesod to manifest down here. If Malchut is ego-driven ("me, me, me"), Yesod is where the blessings of the upper worlds are funnelled through, no ego, no noise.

Joseph is the chariot of that level. Raising our consciousness to Yesod is, literally, putting our hand on the tap of our own prosperity.

7 · Joseph's Formula · 3 Steps

8 · Dreams, Reading the 99%

Joseph is the dream interpreter. That is not a footnote: the dream is precisely where the 99% speaks to the 1%. Pharaoh saw seven skinny cows swallow seven fat cows, and no one could read it. Joseph read it: seven years of plenty, seven years of famine. And in reading it, he turned an invisible image into public policy, full granaries, a whole nation fed. That is Yesod in action: the metaphysical becoming physical.

Kabbalah teaches that dreams show us our negative traits and what we must change in order to grow. Joseph's consciousness is not "having dreams", it is having the courage to interpret them and then act.

9 · Action Plan · 24 Hours