Filling the Emptiness with Inspiration

My thanks to Rabbi Zvi Romm for the inspiration

Parshat Vayeshev (and Chanukah)

 by Rabbi Avi Billet 

When Yosef was confronted by the temptress, his master Potiphar’s wife, the Talmud says he was able to control himself and overcome her advances because he saw his father Yaakov's image appear "in the window." If an image popped into his head or mind, why did it specifically need to be seen in a window? The old cartoon method of having a conscience on the shoulder, countering the little red guy who is telling him to sin, might accomplish the same mission! Why the window?