When we look at Yosef’s life in Parshat Vayeshev, he almost seems superhuman. Sold by his own brothers. Taken to a foreign country. Forced into slavery. Thrown into prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Anyone else would collapse under the weight of it all. Yet Yosef stays steady. The Torah doesn’t describe anger, despair, or bitterness. He just keeps moving forward.

There’s only one moment where he even hesitates — the episode with Potifar’s wife — but even there, he pulls himself back and stands strong. How does someone survive all this and remain Yosef HaTzaddik?

The answer is bitachon.

Yosef lived every moment with a deep awareness that Hashem was with him. “Hashem was with Yosef… and everything he did succeeded.” He didn’t feel abandoned. He didn’t feel forgotten. He felt accompanied. Supported. Guided. When you truly feel Hashem beside you, you’re never crushed by what’s in front of you.

But Yosef also knew why he was there. The Ramban explains that Yosef understood his entire journey as a mission from Hashem — to prepare the way for his family and preserve the future nation of Israel. Yosef even tells his brothers explicitly: “It wasn’t you who sent me here. It was Hashem.” He wasn’t a victim of circumstance. He was an agent of Hashem.

That combination is what made him unbreakable.
Bitachon gave him the sense that he was never alone.
Purpose gave him the clarity that he was exactly where he needed to be.

When a person knows “Hashem put me here for a reason,” he can withstand anything — not with resignation, but with strength, with stability, even with a smile. Yosef wasn’t surviving Egypt. He was fulfilling his mission inside Egypt.

We all walk through our own versions of Mitzrayim — challenges, pressures, moments of confusion. But Yosef reminds us that Hashem places us exactly where we’re meant to be, with a purpose tailored for our soul and a mission only we can fulfill. And most of all, He walks with us through every step.

When we live with that level of bitachon — knowing we are guided, supported, and sent — we become unstoppable.