Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Mikeitz 5778

[Applause] it's time for rabbi mankiewicz weekly Torah lesson a place where life's most difficult questions are answered here with his spiritual perspective and insight rabbi megawatts welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is pontius me Cates the question in the of the week is is this world one big dream so in this week's Torah portion we learn about the third set of dreams that took place that caused the Jewish people to enter into exile the first set of Dreams was as we discussed last week Joseph and his brothers Joseph had two dreams the second set of Dreams was at the end of last week's Torah portion when the slaves had the two dreams that Joseph interpreted and in this week's Torah portion you have the two dreams that pyro had that caused Joseph to come out to become the to interpret the dreams and eventually took over the second in command to pyro so the Rebbe says here you see something fascinating in order for Joseph to eventually to come down to Egypt and eventually become the second command which caused the Jewish people to come down and oil caused to go into galute into exile it all happened through dreams dreams after dream three sets of two dreams so in others you see clearly what God is telling us that the whole eggs are all the way in is one big dream a matter of fact King David in Psalm says when we say it will mean before the grace after meals says Cheryl my lord but sugar shun I see if I see him God's gonna bring back we're gonna say how ye know kahan you're gonna realize that hold that the whole goal was it was a dream however but we are indolent and if we're in garlic how can we be conscious that we're that this is a dream because we're conscious that it's a dream then we won't take godless so seriously we won't take our challenges so seriously and we won't take our darkness oh Syria so seriously so the Rebbe explains that Joseph gave us the hint and the key how to succeed in government and that is what was Joseph interpret perros dream he said you're gonna have plenty for years and then even after years of hunger what was the interpretation of the dream then the plentiful years you should put away for the years of hunger in other words we have in our life times and moments that it's plenty what is that when we pray when we study when we do a mitzvah when we're inspired we realize the truth but at that but then we go out to deal with the world and we get it back in the world we get lost in the dream of life so Joseph says take stock from the times that are high when you're praying you're studying and doing mitzvahs and transform that and transfuse that into the low parts of our life so the answer the question is this one big dream yes it is it's one big dream but when we pray and study and do bits both we should take the energy that when we're in the dream we should be remember that it is one big dream this week's Torah lesson is a memory of bora pandari leave and Ben Yosef may their souls be elevated to the Torah that we're studying in their memory thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson for more information on Habad please see our website [Music]