Mikeitz - Dreams And Aspirations | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

hi this is D olowski and welcome to the par and 5 where in five minutes we give you an insight into the paraa that can only help you have a much more enjoyable chabas because when shabas comes to Jews everywhere we work so very hard to prepare and isn't that part of it is to be able to get an insight into the paraa you know it's so interesting when you see people come into shabas they don't even know what the paraa is yeah paraa should be part of our shabas preparation and that's what we do here with the par and five and that's why we're so thankful to our sponsors who make this possible okay um the paraa opens with parro having dreams dream dream dream dream dream all right what is the what is the dream first he dreams that there are seven cows and then seven SC cows come and eat the big fat cows and they're just as scny as before then he wakes up and he goes back to sleep and now he sees seven beautiful sheaves of Wheat and seven really terrible sheaves of wheat come and swallow them up and they're still disgusting and they wake up and you know what these dreams are and now finally the S maskim says when it serves his purpose well you know I know a kid who knows how to interpret dreams and uh you know let's go send for him and he explains what the dreams are seven years of plenty and seven years of famine to follow yeah and he introduces uh you know that they should save up during the the good years so they'll have it in the lean years and this is the second set of Dreams because in last week's parisha Yosef also starts off by having dreams first he has dreams of we're all out in the field making sheaves and he says to his brothers and all of your sheaves bowed down to my sheave the brothers were not happy with this dream and then he has another dream he says you know we were all stars I saw 12 stars and 11 stars and the sun of the Moon all bowed down to me so there's a lot of things to say about these dreams there's a lot of things to say about dreams in general the gamorra tells us that a dream is 160th of a naua it's good for you to be able to get insight into what's going on but you notice a distinct difference in the presentation of the dreams yosef's first dream is about working in the field and harvesting grain his second dream is about celes Cal bodies maen parro's first dream is about animals and his second one is to plant life parro's dreams are going down to a lower level and yosef's dreams are going up it's a funny thing about dreams let's substitute dreams for aspiration cuz you often hear those two words together what are your dreams and aspirations what do you hope for yeah and dream dreams imagine imagine what you could do and where you could be R Le has a very powerful story about this uh guy who son is a very successful doctor and he he lives in Cleveland left was going back to tells in Cleveland and he's on the plane and this guy you know the plane is delayed and he's having too many you know drinks on the plane he's getting a little tipsy and he tells the story that my son took me out to this restaurant and I ate I I knew my son's rich I ordered the biggest steak and I ate the steak it was enormous I don't know how I got through it but I just kept working at it and I finished the whole steak and the matred and the waiter came out and said to me you are only the fourth person in the history of this restaurant to finish that steak you see that plaque on the wall there were three names on it now there will be a fourth your name will be on the plaque and as the guy is telling the story he starts crying and he says I could die now and know that I've accomplished something in my life because my name will be on that plaque and RAB Le said could you imagine your life's work has been finished you ate the biggest possible steak those are your dreams yeah our dreams are should come the world should be perfect we want to fill the world with the glory of God we want to be able to raise children and grandchildren to carry on the mission that we got from abob our dreams go up into the heavens and other people's dreams just keep going lower and lower and until their life is reduced to nothing I remember when these phones first came out the only game they had on was snake and you'd see people looking at this tiny little screen playing snake and I said they've reduced their entire world to a little window this size and there's a big world out there there's a lot to see yeah there's a world outside of Yonkers there's a world Beyond this hick town Barnaby yeah I know I'm singing today a lot but anyway the point is everybody has dreams everybody has aspirations your dreams should always go up to the shamayim as Casey casm used to say in America top 40 keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the Stars chavas