The connection between Parshas Miketz and Chanukah

Parshas Mikeitz almost always coincides with Shabbos Chanukah, which would suggest that there's some deep intrinsic, inherent connection between Parshas Mikeitz and the story of Chanukah. And to be honest with you, until this year, when we're learning through Parshas Mikeitz properly, I don't know that I ever fully appreciated what the connection is. And there's different Torah laws that we've all heard over the years, but really ain mikra yotzei midei pshuto. The Chanukah story is a story of hope. It's become literally the symbol of hope within the Jewish world. It's a story of me'at min ha'or doicheh harbeh min ha'choshech. It's a story of there could be so much choshech in the world, but doesn't mean that all is lost. It's a story where there's no avenue, there's no machalach al pi derech ha'teva, there's no way you can get out of this blotter, but then all of a sudden you find a pach shemen, and through that pach shemen, or yeshua gedolah that we celebrate thousands of years later is suddenly begins to sprout. Is there a story that depicts that better than the story of Yosef HaTzaddik? That is the story of Yosef HaTzaddik. Yosef HaTzaddik is 17 years old, his brothers hate him, they want to kill him, they have rachmanus on him, and instead of killing him, they only sell him. He gets sold multiple times, initially to Potiphar from Mishkan Zachar, but Bal Gabriel the Sar HaSais, and he saves him. And then because of a lie, he gets thrown into third world prison for 12 years. Yosef HaTzaddik's life is going nowhere fast, but Yosef HaTzaddik never gave up hope, Shem Shamayim was shogeh ba'feh, which kept him emotionally strong, and then in a second, in a second, he gets his pach shemen. He gets his pach shemen because the Sar HaMashkim and the Sar HaOifim have a dream, and they're all tumish, and Yosef HaTzaddik knows how to be halomos, right place at the right time. He tells him what the dream is going to be. They try to forget him, but 2 years later Paro has a dream. And Paro is mystified and all the women inexplicably he's clever that are geniuses. They can't figure out what Paro's dream is. Yosel gets summoned. He stands in front of Paro. He tells him what it is. He tells him what the interpretation is. And Paro says, "You know something? I think you're the right person for the job." And in a second my heart was so much and Yosel goes from being in a situation where he's living in such darkness and he becomes the mission of the story of Yosel underrated is the most incredible story. It's a mind forget all the rain and the and the just the story. It's an amazing story. It really really is. And to me it's so connected to Hanukkah. How Yosel was living in he was living in such and then all of a sudden he has and his took him not out of his his took him to the top of the world. And if there's a story that gives us hope, it's the story of Yosel. So much in so much in to read the story of of Yosel on Shabbat Hanukkah. A story of going against the odds. What were the odds that this Yosel this would somehow become of Israel? Not again. The analytics say 0% right? And Yosel becomes the mission of Israel. I think it's so so much in but just one final and that is that on Hanukkah So after we light the menorah we sing sorry. When you go through sorry if you look at the words carefully, so part of the period is we talk about the different that the year didn't have had to endure over the years, right? We mention a been a human gets a shout out. We talk about the Yevonim, the Nikbutz Olai, but just in general, the theme of it is is that Hakadosh Baruchu you've always been there for us, but at the same time we've endured so much. And then the last part of Mois Or is Chasoif Zroia' Kodshecha V'koreiv Keitz Yeshua. It says, "Please show the world your holy arm, right? The Koreiv Keitz Yeshua, and bring the ready Yeshua. Nikom Nikmas Dam Avodecha May Umor Resha'im. Avenge, right? The vengeance of the blood of your servants from the nation that is wicked. Ki Orcha Lonu Ha'Yeshua V'ein Keitz L'mei'eira. Because even though I know we live with Bitachon, we live with faith that we're going to be Zoche to a Yeshua, but I don't see the end. V'ein Keitz L'mei'eira. The Yidden stand by the Chanukah Licht, and he sings V'ein Keitz L'mei'eira. Eibishter doesn't look like there's any end. You know what the answer to that is? Vaiy'hi Miketz Nosaim Yomam. We learn Parshas Miketz to show that there is an end. Yosef Hatzadik was in Choshech. Yosef Hatzadik was in a blotter, but it came to an end. Vaiy'hi Miketz. If you look at the first Medrash in Parshas Miketz, Vaiy'hi Miketz Nosaim Yomam, sagt der Medrash, Iyov said, "Keitz Som Lachoshech. Zman Nosan L'olam Kamah Shanah Yosav Pairo. Everything has a Cheshbon. There's a failure in the world sometimes. Sometimes the whole world experiences a failure. Sometimes the individual in his life experiences a failure. And you feel like it's going to never going to end. Vaiy'hi Miketz Nosaim Yomam. Yosef Hatzadik had a Choshech. And his Choshech came to an end. Keitz Som Lachoshech. The story of Yosef Hatzadik, the story of Parshas Miketz, the first word of the Parsha is Vaiy'hi Miketz. Before all these Rabbanim. Vaiy'hi Miketz Nosaim Yomam. Keitz Som Lachoshech. That is the story of It's dark, but we light up the night with just a a little bit of a Lampala, just a little something to remind ourselves Keitz Som Lachoshech. We have this Hergesh of Ki Orcha Lonu Ha'Yeshua. taking so long. The We blame Kate's by Kate's Joseph was in a sorrow, but it came to an end. It was Kate's some That's the hope that we get from the story of Joseph That's the hope that we get from the story. We should We should be finally to the but still talking at Shiva Joseph to the for all of some for all of be a sad from here to be a man of all men of all men.