Musar su Genesi 40:14
כִּ֧י אִם־זְכַרְתַּ֣נִי אִתְּךָ֗ כַּאֲשֶׁר֙ יִ֣יטַב לָ֔ךְ וְעָשִֽׂיתָ־נָּ֥א עִמָּדִ֖י חָ֑סֶד וְהִזְכַּרְתַּ֙נִי֙ אֶל־פַּרְעֹ֔ה וְהוֹצֵאתַ֖נִי מִן־הַבַּ֥יִת הַזֶּֽה׃
Ah! sì, se tu serberai appo te memoria di me, quando sarai felice, e vorrai deh! usarmi misericordia; mi menzionerai a Faraone, e mi farai uscire di questa casa.
Mesilat Yesharim
Yosef, for saying to the officer of [Pharaoh's] drink: "But remember me when it is well with you [and please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh.]" (Gen 40:14), his sentence [in prison] was increased by 2 years as the Midrash reports (Genesis Raba 89b). And Yosef himself for embalming his father without G-d's permission, according to one view, or because he heard the words: "your servant, our father [Yaakov]" (Gen.43:28) and remained silent, according to another view, died before all of his brothers (Gen. Raba 100:4).
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Mesilat Yesharim
For in truth, the evil inclination is exceedingly powerful on a man. Without a man's knowledge, it advances and strengthens over him and comes to rule over him. Even if he employs all possible strategies in the world, but does not take the medication created for it, namely, the Torah as I wrote, he will not know nor feel the intensification of his illness until he dies in sin and his soul will be lost.
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Mesilat Yesharim
Included in this, is also to fix daily times for the accounting of deeds and their correction as I mentioned earlier.
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Shemirat HaLashon
It is known, according to our sages of blessed memory that he worked in the house of Potiphar only one year, and that he sat in the prison house for twelve years, [for he was driven out of his father's house when he was seventeen years old and he stood before Pharaoh when he was thirty], and we find in Shemoth Rabbah 3 that he had to sit in the prison house for ten years for having spoken lashon hara about his ten brothers, and because he said to the chief butler (Bereshith 40:13): "For if you remember me … and you remember me," it was decreed upon him [that he sit there] another two years — but when the time was completed, he did not remain there an extra moment, as it is written (Ibid. 41:14): "And they 'hastened' him out of the pit," and not "And they took him out of the pit," for then he would have remained there a few superfluous moments.
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