Imagine a world leader today basing his or her long term economic plans on a dream! Or appointing an imprisoned slave, with no prior experience, background or university degree to be his chief economic advisor! What a field day our wise pundits would have! Yet our world today, with its total reliance on technology and high degreed experts in every field, would do well to achieve one tenth of the success than that of Yosef's dream interpretation and economic planning, which saved a world from starvation. Abdicating our G-d given instincts to microchips and 'isms' has only made our lives more void of purpose and meaning.

Miketz (Genesis 41:1 - 44:17)

Parashat Miketz is read on Shabbat:

Kislev 30, 5783/December 24, 2022

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