Parashas Mikeitz Chanukah

Our Parsha this Shabbos that is also Shabbos Chanukah is Parashas Mikeitz.
This Shabbos we also still celebrate the Holy Festival of Chanukah which certainly adds light to the Mikeitz that we will discuss in this Parsha.
In this Parsha,Par'o has two dreams that his necromancers and wise men could not interpret.
Each one came to Par'o with different explanations to his dreams but Par'o knew that their interpretations were wrong.
The reason he knew they were wrong is that HaShem implanted within the dream subconsciously,the hidden interpretation,so that he would know which is subconsciously when the right interpretation was given.Each one of his necromancers came with a different interpretation,playing on the ego of the Pharaoh.
Par'o dreamed two dreams.In the first dream,Par'o was standing over the river ,out of which came seven healthy cows that grazed in the marshland,after which came seven lean cows that came out of the river after the healthy looking cows and stood next to the healthy looking cows.The lean cows then consumed the healthy cows and Par'o awoke.
Par'o then fell asleep again and dreamed a second time of seven healthy ears of grain sprouting from a single stalk and then seven thin ears scorched by the east wind grew after them and swallowed up the seven healthy ears of grain.par'o then awoke.
It is then that the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers remembers Yosef in the Prison and how he interpreted the dreams of the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers and the Chamberlain of the Bakers.
Yosef is quickly attired and brought before Par'o.
Straight away we see Yosef's holy value for he instantly tells Par'o that is is HaShem who interprets dreams and not him and HaShem will respond with Pharaoh's welfare.
Par'o relates the dreams to Yosef and Yosef answers from HaShem how the two dreams are one meaning.
What is interesting is that even though Par'o mentions that he awoke after the dream of the cows,in relating them to Yosef,he doesn't directly say they were two separate dreams.So when Yosef straight away tells Par'o the dreams were two separate dreams,Par'o instantly knows that Yosef is going to be correct for Yosef's response of this fact shows HaShem Working here in Interpreting the Dreams.
As we know,the dreams refer to seven years of abundance to be followed by severe famine and HaShem Hastens to fulfill them.
Yosef suggests a wise overseer to prepare during the years of plenty for the coming of the years of famine.
It is at this moment when things completely turn around for Yosef, and Yosef is made Viceroy over all of Egypt.Yosef is adorned similar to how Mordechai got adorned after haman was removed and that king placed Mordechai in a high position and adorned him similar to how Yosef is now adorned.
Yosef is given a wife called Asenath,who is actually the daughter of Dinah and shechem , grand-daughter of Yaakov who also separated from the family along time before that and also found her way to Egypt and was adopted by Potiphera and his wife.
The story of how Yosef and Asenath came together again is such a sweet miracle.When they were younger,at the time when they lived with the family of Yaakov,Yosef gave her a locket which she always wore and never removed.When Yosef was being accused in Potiphera's home by his wife,it was Asenath who stood up for Yosef and told Potiphera, how it could not have been Yosef at fault , as Zulaicha was left holding onto the back of Yosef's garment thus showing that Yosef must have been running away from Zulaicha's attempts at him,but Yosef was still sent to prison.
Now,when Yosef was being inaugurated by Par'o and being led through the street as Viceroy,she recognized him and threw the locket down to him and they found each other again.So were they married and had two children Manasseh and Ephraim,two children that still kept to holy Yiddishkeit, even in the Diaspora,and so ,on Shabbos eve,we remember their faithfulness to Judaism, by using their names today to bless our children to be like them, for they stood against other beliefs and remained faithful to Judaism.
Par'o gave Yosef a name called 'Zaphenath Paneah,' which meant 'Revealer of the Hidden,' or 'He who explains what is hidden.' The Zohar mentions that this was Divine Providence, for it hid Yosef from his brothers when they came, for they knew not him by this name.
Then , the interpretations HaShem Gave Yosef to Par'o came about and the seven years of plenty were followed by the years of famine.
Due to the famine,Yaakov sent his sons except Binyamin at this time, to Egypt to buy provisions and so, Yosef's dreams start to prove their truth.
Yosef knew they would come and so instructed certain laws to be put in place that would ensure they would have to come before him , like that every one coming would have to give the details of who they were and the name of their Father as well as the place from which they came from .
The brothers always suspected that Yosef might have come to Egypt and so they thought they would use the opportunity to look for him and so they split up and entered through different entries and so, when they came before Yosef, he was apt in calling them 'Meraglim,' - 'Spies.'
The test that Yosef puts them through is never for reasons of revenge, but only to see if they have changed form how they were when they mistreated him and also to give them the spiritual opportunity to make up for what they did.
Yosef puts them in a ward and lets them go on condition that they bring Binyamin back to him and Simeon is kept imprisoned, for it was Simeon who wanted Yosef killed when Yosef was younger.
Yosef has their bags filled and returns the money to their sacks.When they left and found the money back in their sacks, they were filled with anguish,remembering what they had done to Yosef.
When they return to their Father and tell him what happened,Yaakov refuses to let Binyamin go.
Only when the famine becomes more severe does Yaakov finally relent to let Binyamin go,but only on the words of Yehudah.
On returning to Egypt,they are brought to Yosef's house to dine with him and are marveled at how their place settings were set from youngest to oldest.
Yosef lets his brothers refer to their Father as 'your servant our Father,' ten times without a protest and due to this, Yosef loses ten years off his One Hundred and Twenty year lifespan and thus passes away later on at a hundred and ten years of age.
It is then that Yosef lets them see his silver cup which finds its way into Binyamin's sack , as a test for the brothers to see if they would defend a child of Rachel, for when the brothers try again to leave, they are again chased down, the cup found in Binyamin's sack and they are again brought before Yosef.
It is here that Yehudah proves his worth for he shows that the brothers have now learnt their lesson, for he steps forward to confront the Viceroy of Egypt, who is unknowingly to him, his brother Yosef.
It is here where the Parsha ends.
This Parsha is called ' Mikeitz,' which means 'At the End ' for it was exactly at the end of two years to the day that Yosef had stayed another two years extra in prison after the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers and the Chamberlain of the Bakers were let out of prison.
The word 'Mikeitz' has within it , the word 'Ketz' which means ' The End' and is in deep Yiddishkeit , the name referred to as the 'End of Days,' the time of the Final Redemption.So what is the relationship to this event here with Yosef.
So long have we Jews waited for Mashiach and the End of Days, wondering when that will come,hoping for an end of our Galus and pain among our enemies. HaShem Tells us that though Mashiach Tarries, when he finally will come, it will happen like a flood and at the exact moment that it is set for him to appear, he will appear without delay, in HaShem's Time.
This is similar to what happened here with Yosef.Though Yosef tried to get the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers to remember him, the time for his rise had not yet come, so as to fit in with al the events that would surround it.This is like our awaiting earnestly for Mashiach ton come while he appears to tarry.
It was only when HaShem Knew the time was right for Yosef to be freed, then was he freed. The same that will happen with Mashiach , who will come at the appointed time, and not a moment sooner then is ordained by what HaShem Knows is needed and on also how we behave.
When Mashiach does finally come, he will come like a flood , with no delay , the same as what happened to Yosef, for when the time came for him to come to power, it happened at its appointed time and all things then took place very quickly, for he was quickly rushed from the prison, quickly cleaned up and without a delay, brought before Par'o, so HaShem's Will would be Fulfilled , just as it will be at the 'Ketz,' - the ' Miketz' at the End of Days.
Thus, just as Yosef was brought to power at the exact time needed and not a moment later, so will the "Ketz,' the End of Days come at its appointed time.
And even though Par'o stood over the Nile in his dream (for the Egyptians falsely believed the Pharaoh's were deified and created the Nile) and saw he really had no power at all over it and so now would the people, so will all that follow , in this day and age , that which is false and idolworship, so will they realize at the End of Days, how wrong they all are and that there is only One True Path and One True And Only Creator Who Created and Creates Creation , and that is HaShem .
As we have experienced steps of 'Mikeitz,' - ' Ends' throughout the generations, so will the time come when the Final "Mikeitz' Comes where the Whole World will be filled with the Knowledge of of the L-RD as the waters cover the sea.The sooner we all follow G-D as He Requests, the sooner we will bring the final 'Mikeitz,' ushering in the End of Days and Olam Habah - the World To Come .
It also being Chanukah,we count up to the Eighth day ,where all the Eight Candles of Chanukah burn brightly for the miracle of the Eight days the the oil burnt in days of old.Here we note how again the spiritual number of Seven which is Mashiach ,takes us into the next level Eight, the End of Days , which is the Mikeitz .
All things in HaShem's Creation have a purpose so far beyond what we know and can imagine.
We all await the Final ' Mikeitz' - The End of Days and Olam Habah - The World To Come .
May it come soon in our days and may we soon all join our Precious and Beloved Creator HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu The Holy One Blessed Be He.
I wish HaShem with Love a Beautiful Sweet Shabbos Kodesh and Chag Chanukah Sameach with Love and to all my fellow Yidden, a beautiful sweet Shabbos Kodesh and Chag Chanukah Sameach with love.