יִשְ מָעֵאל וְ יִצְחָק
The Geshmak of Overcoming Your Yetzer Hara Is Much Greater Than the Geshmak Giving In
Yishmael is having his sick fun of Gilui Arayos and Sh'ficus Damim. When Yosef HaTzaddik was confronted with the wife of Potiphar, he saw that his stone would be missing from the Choshen, and this inspired him. (Gemara).
The pleasure and pure beauty of overcoming your weaknesses puts you on the Choshen, which is much more Geshmak than the Geshmak of giving in to your Ta'avos. Yishmael was: מְצַחֵק i.e., he wanted instant fun (צְ חוֹ ק) and he didn’t realize that there is much more fun in doing what’s right.
And when Yosef saw his father’s face, he saw the beauty of his father’s pure life, and he preferred the Geshmak of the truth. R' Eliyahu Lopian Zatzal explains that when Eisav asked Yaakov: מִי אֵלֶּּה לָּּךְ וישלח לג ה “Who are all these people?” he was asking: “How does an “Olam HaBah-person” have such a beautiful “Olam HaZeh”, with his lovely family, etc.?
A Yid has to glorify and spend time with all the Chazal’s that inspire him to more Torah and Mitzvos, like by looking at the gorgeous-stunning Choshen, which symbolizes the greatness and beauty of the Derech HaYashar. The sweetness of a blatt Gemara, and the Geshmak of being a Baal Tzedaka and Baal Chesed. And the same with looking down at your bad habits. I know a Yungerman who had a serious addiction, until he wrote a long: קוּנְ טְ רֵ ס essay about the evils of that addiction.
