Parashas Miketz : - The Shabbos Parsha this Shabbos Rosh Chodesh Chanukah is Parashas Mikeitz . With The Help Of HaShem , as we read in the previous Sedra , Yosef had helped interpret the dreams of the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers and the Chamberlain of the Bakers . As we know , the Chamberlain of the Bakers was hanged and the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers , was restored to his former position . Yosef had asked him to remember Yosef when the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers was restored to his position , but The Torah Tells us at the end of the previous Parsha , that the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers " did not remember Yosef but forgot him . " The reason this verse repeats the idea of how he did not remember Yosef , and also forgot him , was because the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers , had tried so many ways to remember Yosef and to mention what Yosef had done in interpreting the dreams , With The Help Of HaShem , the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers trying to remember to tell the authorities and Pharaoh , but he kept forgetting . He even tried tying reminders around his wrist , fingers and arm , but still kept forgetting . We are told that the reason that he kept forgetting , was because Satan came and kept making him forget , removed the reminders he would put on his fingers , wrist and arm . And so , Yosef had to stay an extra two more years in prison . The reason HaShem Allowed this , was because Yosef was a Tzaddik and so he was judged much more harshly . Yosef as a Tzaddik should have rather had faith in HaShem To Free him rather then try and rely on human help . For this reason , our Parsha this week starts with Yosef two years later When HaShem Was Ready To Free Yosef , For HaShem Alone Knows the right time in which everything must happen . So Yosef the Tzaddik , had to spend another two years in prison because he asked the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers to speak to Par'o Pharaoh for him so he could get free . All HaShem Does is for our own benefit , even though it may not appear so at the time , for even though he had to spend that extra two years in prison , the time had to be right for Yosef's sudden rise to power , which would not have happened had he been freed earlier . Yosef had already spent ten years in prison before the extra two years , where that ten years was to atone for each of the ten brothers that he brought reports back to his Father , a year for a brother report , so now the " Mikeitz " - " The Happening " which also has within it , the Hebrew word " Keitz " - " The End / Final Point " had arrived , and Yosef was to suddenly rise to power and not a moment later . The day was Rosh HaShanah , When HaShem Judges the World , that Pharaoh had his dreams , And So Did HaShem Judge That the Years of Plenty and then Years of Famine was to occur . Our Rabbis teach us that even before these dreams of Pharaoh of the ones mentioned in this Parsha , he had minor dreams up to this point to do with this happening , but the day came , " to the day " as the Torah States , that the History of the Jewish people was to make their prophesied occurrence , resulting in Yaakov's family coming to Mitzrayim Egypt . Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing over the river , out of which came seven cows of beautiful appearance and robust flesh and they were grazing in the marshland and after that came seven more cows of ugly appearance and gaunt out of the river and they stood next to the other cows and then ate them . Pharaoh awoke and then fell asleep again and dreamed of seven ears of grain that were sprouting on a single stalk - healthy and good and then after them grew seven ears thin and scorched by the east wind that swallowed up the healthy and full ears and then Pharaoh awoke . With these dreams , HaShem Had Given To Pharaoh the interpretation , but hidden within them , and would only reveal itself for the correct interpreter's interpretation From HaShem so that Pharaoh would know who is interpreting for him correctly . The dreams also bothered Pharaoh for at the time the Pharaoh's were falsely thought to be deified and here Pharaoh had to stand over the River and watch the happenings , yet was shown he had no control over anything , thus a blow and a showing of how he and all Pharaoh's are just human beings and that they did not create the Nile , unlike how they thought at the time . Here was G-D , The True G-D , Showing How Only He, HaShem G-D Created the Nile And Creates Creation , and that no human , or man , is deified . Only G-D Is G-D . Pharaoh called all his advisers and necromancers , but none could interpret the dreams for him . He tested them by leaving out parts of the dreams in order to see if they would know the dreams , but none of them did . One adviser said he would have seven sons and then seven daughters . Another spoke of a wonderful harvest of wheat and still another spoke of seven nations being beaten by Pharaoh and being forced to be under Egyptian rule that would rebel . None of these interpretations were acceptable or true , for deep down HaShem Had Given To Pharaoh an inkling of the meaning and nothing that any of these advisors said , matched this inner feeling of the meaning of these dreams ,That HaShem Had Given To Pharaoh . It was then that the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers remembered Yosef and told Pharaoh of what Yosef had done - With The Help Of HaShem , in interpreting his and the Chamberlain of the Baker's dreams and how they had come true , only with the Help of HaShem , and only through HaShem . Suddenly Yosef was rushed from the prison and cleaned and shaved and dressed and brought before Pharaoh to stand on the bottom of the seventy steps leading up to Pharaoh's throne . Yosef gave credit to HaShem , who is the True Interpreter of dreams for all things Come From HaShem Who Makes all things . Pharaoh tested Yosef by saying that he , Pharaoh was standing on the bank of the river , and Yosef corrected him by saying that , ' No , but you were not standing on the bank of the river , you were standing over the river . ' Pharaoh asked Yosef how he knew this , and if he had been standing behind Pharaoh while he ( Pharaoh ) had dreamed , but Yosef again gave correct credit to HaShem . When Pharaoh related the dreams to Yosef , Yosef also showed that he knew From HaShem , that they had been two separate different dreams . From HaShem , Yosef related to Pharaoh that there would be seven years of plenty followed suddenly by seven years of terrible famine and that Pharaoh should appoint someone to organize grain for the years of famine , during the years of plenty . The fact that there were two dreams similar , showed that HaShem would hasten its happening , for it stood ready to take place . Pharaoh knew that this was the true interpretation for as I said , HaShem Had Implanted within Pharaoh's dreams , it's interpretation to reveal itself only for Yosef . From one moment being a prisoner , to suddenly be brought before Pharaoh and win his favor By HaShem , happened not a moment too late or too soon from when it was supposed to . Yosef's sudden rise to fame , happened in it's time , with not a single moment more to wait , thus the suddenness with which he was brought before Pharaoh . This will be just like the coming of Moshiach , though he tarry , At The Time Of HaShem Sending him , it will happen very quickly in its time like a flood when the time of the " Keitz " - " the Final Moment " comes - thus the Word " Miketz , " - " The Happening in its time . " Pharaoh wanted to appoint Yosef Viceroy of Egypt , but Pharaoh's advisers objected saying that he is a Hebrew and a slave . Pharaoh answered them that Yosef does not appear to be a slave but is of obvious cultured and well mannered stock ( Kavod to his Father Yaakov and Grand - Father Yitzchak and Great Grand - Father Avraham ) . The advisers to Pharaoh , still objected , saying that a viceroy of Egypt has to know all seventy languages . HaShem that night sent the Malach Angel Gavriel ( the only Angel to also know Aramaic ) to teach him all the languages of the nations . To aid and assist Yosef , HaShem Added a ' Hey ' Letter From His Own Name to Yosef's name , so it could also be ' Yehoseif ' and so did Yosef learn all the languages and he then appeared before Pharaoh and the advisors the next morning . Yosef starting on the bottom step had Pharaoh talk to him in each language and as Yosef answered in that language , Yosef would climb a step per language he answered in , to Pharaoh ( who also had to know all the languages , in order to be Pharaoh ) , until Yosef had climbed all seventy steps and stood directly before Pharaoh , who made him Viceroy of Egypt and gave him a name " Tzafnas Pa'neach , " - " He who explains what is hidden / Revealer of hidden things . " According to the Zohar , this was ordained By HaShem so that when Yosef's brothers would come before him , they would not know his name is Yosef . Yosef knew one more language more than Pharaoh , the language of Hebrew , for no matter how Pharaoh tried to learn it , he could not grasp it for it was too holy for him ( for he was filled with Tum'a Impurity ) and Yosef had to assure him that this fact that Yosef knew one more language more than Pharaoh , Yosef would not reveal . Pharaoh handed Yosef his ring , and Pharaoh only outranked Yosef by the throne . He dressed him in fine linen , put a gold chain around his neck and set him on the royal chariot , appointing him over all Egypt . Pharaoh also gave him Osnas as a wife , who still wore Yaakov's family emblem as a pendant around her neck for though she was adopted by Potiphar and Zulaicha , she was originally Yaakov and Leah's grand-daughter , daughter of Dinah and Shechem . As Yosef was being taken through the city on royal horseback , the females above tried to get the attention of the new viceroy but Yosef only looked up toward Heaven , thanking and blessing HaShem . It was then that Osnas threw him her pendant , and looking up at her , knew her and who she was , for when Yosef was younger and living with his Father Yaakov , Yosef and Asenath ( now Osnas ) had often sat and spoken to each other by streams and in the open field , as he taught her of The Sweetness Of HaShem's Light And Holiness , in the Creation of Life of all of Creation . Asenath was treated at the time in her youth , as a bit of an outcast , having been the daughter of the union of Dinah and Shechem and so Yosef took it upon himself to watch over her and remind her of her holy value . Yosef was thirty years of age when he stood before Pharaoh . Pharaoh had a throne made for Yosef of pure gold and silver , with a picture of the Nile River engraved on it . As HaShem Had Shown Yosef and so had Yosef related , the years of abundance came swiftly . Yosef had told Pharaoh that the dream was a " single one . " By referring to the dream as a " single one , " here again , With HaShem's Help , Yosef had shown that by the very fact that it had become a " single one , " it showed , as he told Pharaoh , that they were actually two separate dreams , and coming one after the other as one single dream , even though Pharaoh had not directly told Yosef that they were two separate dreams , and that Pharaoh had awoken in between . The very fact that they were two separate dreams , showing the same things , showed HaShem's Urgency To Fulfill HaShem's Word to Pharaoh and so , after the years of plenty in which Yosef had stored one fifth away for the years of famine while people still had food on their table , as the years of Famine started , instantly that food rotted and devastation and hunger became the state of the day . People hungered and came to Pharaoh for grain , but Pharaoh told them to go to Yosef . Yosef told them he would give them grain only if they praised HaShem and if some even circumcise themselves . Yosef's hidden reason for requesting this , was that he prophetically was shown that we would end up in Egypt and he did not want us to lose our keeping of this Law of circumcision , so he thought it would be easier if those around us did too . The people complained at what Yosef asked for and they went to Pharaoh saying that Yosef wants ' outrageous things . ' Pharaoh questioned them as to what Yosef had asked them to do and when hearing what it was , reminded them that if not for HaShem and Yosef , they would not have any food at all and so they must listen to Yosef . Yosef had two sons with Osnas , Manasseh and Ephraim . Yosef knew that his brothers would eventually come to Egypt to buy grain , knowing that even there in Canaan , the famine had struck , so Yosef instituted certain laws to ensure that they would be brought before him when his brothers arrived in Egypt to buy grain . All who bought grain had to come themselves and were not allowed to send a servant or messenger , thus ensuring that the brothers would have to come personally . All who bought grain , would only be allowed to carry one donkey - carrying amount per person , thus ensuring that all his brothers would have to show themselves . All who came to Egypt to buy grain, would have to give details of their name and their Father's name and from where they came so that Yosef , who requested every night the list of incomers , would straight away notice his brothers arrival . All who bought grain , were not allowed to sell it as a business , but could only buy it straight from Egypt , thus ensuring that his brothers would have to come directly . The Parsha says that Yaakov perceived that there were provisions in Egypt . That is a very hidden way to put it . The reason for putting it this way , is that Yaakov never lost hope that he would find Yosef again and so , the word for " Provisions " - " Shever " also means " Hope , " thus pointing to a hope that the brothers might find Yosef who might have ended up there . So the brothers were sent to Egypt to buy grain where Yaakov told them to try to look for him there but to separate and enter through different gates when they would go over the border and make a search for him . Every night after his day's work , Yosef would ask for the list of incomers to be brought to him , to peruse . One night while reading through them , Yosef noticed that through different gates separately were the names Reuvein ben Yaakov , Levi ben Yaakov , Simeon ben Yaakov and all of his brothers names son of their holy father Yaakov , entering through separate gates and looking around the city in different areas . Yosef knew what they were doing but decided to accuse them of being spies , as this is what spies do . They were all caught and brought before him . Yosef recognized them but they did not recognize him as he was now a grown strong man with a beard and part of his face covered and a different name , the name that Pharaoh had called him , which was " Tzafnas Pa'neach . " He accused them of being spies over and over again . He put them in a ward for three days . They remembered what they had done to their little brother Yosef who had cried and begged them to release him and to please not send him away and now they knew that they were paying for that sin . Yosef did not do any of this out of malice but wanted to test them to see if they had changed and if they would finally stand up for Rachel's other son Binyamin , when he would eventually be brought to Yosef . Yosef had the brothers released and only kept back Simeon , and told them to return to their Father and bring back Binyamin so as to prove that they were not spies . It was Simeon who had wanted Yosef to be thrown in the pit as a boy . Reuvein reminded his brothers that he had warned them at the time not to hurt Yosef and now they were all paying for what they had done . They were forced to return home without Simeon for Yosef had told them that he would release Simeon when they returned with Binyamin so as to ' prove that they were not spies . ' Yosef had their money returned to their sacks and it was Levi who first had the worry and heart-ache of being the first one to find the money returned , thinking a charge would be leveled on them , for it was Levi who had said when Yosef was a boy at the incident of them selling him , " Ah behold the dreamer comes . " Yosef was actually giving them all a spiritual opportunity to atone for what they did . When they returned to their Father , Yaakov never let them go with Binyamin even when Reuvein offered to have his two sons slain if he let his Father down Chas Ve Shalom , but still Yaakov never let them take Binyamin , reprimanding them for telling this Viceroy so much that they had another younger brother . They spoke up and said that this Viceroy seemed to know spiritually a lot about them and how should they know not to tell him that there is another brother , that this Viceroy would ask for him to be brought down there too . The brothers told their Father Yaakov how much this Viceroy seemed to know about them . This Viceroy told them he could foresee their births and what wood was used in their baby cradles , what their habits were , and even what each one liked and did not like . The brothers told their Father how this Viceroy had told them that they are searching for a relative in Egypt and that was why they entered different gates and that if they might have looked hard enough and close enough they may have found him . The brothers did not tell their Father how this Viceroy had said that they had once committed an act against a relative and that he ( this Viceroy ) seemed to know their wrong . The one thing Yosef did not fully consider was how much anguish this new worry to Yaakov , of keeping Simeon back and wanting to see Binyamin , before releasing Simeon , might cause his dear beloved Father Yaakov and for all the time that this was the case . This caused Yaakov very much pain and anguish , and surely , Yosef is and would truly be sorry for this , for surely Yosef never meant to cause his dear and very beloved Father any pain or anguish . May HaShem , and Yaakov , forgive Yosef for this and Bless Yaakov with many Brochas , for each moment of anguish Yaakov ever suffered and felt . The grain the brothers had brought back from Egypt dwindled and their Father Yaakov again asked them to go to Egypt to go and buy more grain , but they refused saying that they would only go if Binyamin would go too . Yehudah assured his Father that he would personally guarantee him and only then did Yaakov allow them to take Binyamin and go . Yaakov told them to take the returned money back to Egypt and also to take a letter to the Viceroy pleading to let Binyamin and their other brother ( meaning Simeon , but also prophetically meaning Yosef ) go and Yaakov also told them to take a tribute of things from Canaan as a gift . The Brothers returned to Egypt and again came before Yosef . This was now the fulfillment of Yosef's dreams with them . When Yosef saw his younger brother Binyamin , the son of both his Mother and Father , he asked that preparations be made to dine with him in his palace which Pharaoh had built him for three running years . The Brothers returned the double money they had brought back into the hands of Yosef's son ( not knowing it was Yosef's son ) and were put to wait for Yosef to return home . Yosef had food prepared in the Kosher way and the brothers were amazed . Yosef held up his silver cup and pretended to look into it and so , place set everyone at the table from oldest to youngest . Yosef said to Binyamin , ' do you have any children ' and Binyamin responded yes and that he had , and he had named all his children in a way that had a hidden connotation to the dear beloved brother of his Yosef , that he had lost . It was then that Yosef could no longer contain himself and he had to leave the room to weep . He returned and asked Binyamin about his Mother and Binyamin told him that she had passed away . Yosef responded that seeing as he also had no Mother , they would both sit together . Then they ate . The brothers were forced to eat a meal with anxiety wondering what charges may be brought on them . This was a punishment for the meal they sat down to eat straight after they had sold Yosef . Yosef purposefully had Binyamin served a portion five times the portion of the other brothers in order to test them if they had gotten over their jealousy issues . Yosef left the table and returned shortly afterwards with an astrology chart asking Binyamin if he was able to read it and Binyamin said that he could . Yosef asked him to study it closely and to see if he could work out where his lost brother was . Binyamin , was shocked to see that his beloved brother Yosef was sitting right next to him but Yosef quickly took him aside , Yosef put his finger on his own mouth as if to motion to Binyamin not to say a word and so , Yosef revealed himself to Binyamin and told Binyamin that he would now test the brothers but not to say anything or let anything on of what was being done , to test them . The Brothers spent the night there . Yosef told his son to prepare for them to leave early in the morning , and to put Yosef's silver goblet in the sack of the youngest one . They were then followed , caught up with and the search made , with the goblet being found in the youngest one's sack , and so they were forced to return to Egypt . Yosef told them that only Binyamin must be the one to stay and be a slave and that the others could go . It was then that one of the Brothers Yehudah , stepped forward and spoke to Yosef and this is where the Parsha ends . Ever so deeply and sweetly in this Parsha do we see The Holy Hand Of HaShem . HaShem Knows the exact time that things need to happen , and this is In His Own Time - and His own " Ketz , " and not before it . So When HaShem Chooses when that time is the right time , then all that follows it comes like a flood . HaShem Is The Only One , Who Knows every tiny and minute detail And HaShem Is The Only One Who Knows When That Right Time Will be . Only HaShem Can See the full picture And Only HaShem Is All Knowing And All Seeing . To be worthy to behold HaShem's Shechinah , we need to be totally pure and totally Holy . Just like the purity of the one single drop of Olive Oil , that is squeezed from that very first squeeze of each olive , that is the only pure unsedimented drop of Olive Oil , worthy to light the Menorah . So must we be the same , squeezed with tests of Holiness , and be pure of heart and soul , in the service of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . HaShem Alone He Is One . HaShem Alone , He Is The One And Only Creator Of Creation . Our people , are to be a holy people , faithful and humble to HaShem , just as Yosef was humble and faithful to HaShem . True Tzaddikim show HaShem's Light to the World . When Shlomo Ha Melech ( also a man of holy humility ) , who is usually in the Haftorah for this portion in other years , built the Temple , he built the windows smaller on the inside and larger on the outside , to show how HaShem's Light Spreads outwards , as it must do with us . Each one of us are HaShem's Messengers and we are , each one of us , to let that Holy Purity spread outwards to the World . We are always to be pure , and if we keep ourselves pure , just as Yosef kept himself pure in the impure surroundings of Egypt , HaShem Will Then Bring the " Ketz " - " The End Of Days , " that we all await , for when This Holy Time Comes , it will , just like in this Shabbos Parsha with Yosef , " Mikeitz , " - " Happen and Suddenly Come like a flood . " If we all obey HaShem. And rid ourselves of foreign ways and beliefs , following only In The Footsteps Of HaShem And His Holy Torah , then we can usher in This Final Time of the ' End Of Days . ' HaShem Waits every day and every moment To Bring On The End Of Days , The " Ketz , " but by our wrong actions and by those who do not follow HaShem and His Holy Torah and Laws and by those who stray , Chas Ve Shalom , we are delaying the Time , The Ketz , of the End Of Days With HaShem . If one Jew goes away from Judaism and Torah , it affects us all and delays the Time of Redemption. If just one Jew shuns a Torah Way of life , The Way Of HaShem's Will , that affects us all . One Jew that does not keep The Holy Shabbos , can hurt another Jew even far away . Each Jew , as our Tradition Teaches , is responsible one for another . We are all one . We are all HaShem's Creation and so must we learn to behave like it . Yosef , a very holy man , would not in any way , no matter what test was put his way , stray from HaShem's Will . Even though he was in Galus Exile , he still kept to HaShem's Laws . His sons did too . In fact , when we bless our children on Shabbos , we bless them to be like Ephraim and Manasseh who , even though they grew up in a non Jewish environment , never forgot who they were and continued to follow the Tenets Of HaShem for our people , not letting themselves be tempted away from Torah Holy Yiddishkeit Judaism , for our Forefathers kept the Torah instinctively even before it was given to us on Har Sinai . For HaShem and His Instructions , we are to stay strong in Torah Yiddishkeit Judaism , and so , warrant and deserve the " Mikeitz Ketz " - " The Happening of the Final Days , " at the End of Days . The World today is similar to how it was in Yosef's day , in the wrong temptations to other false beliefs and wrong faiths , which were plentiful then as they are now . Let us remember That HaShem Rewards those who are faithful to Him Just As HaShem Did With Yosef And Just As HaShem Will Do With us . Today is also Rosh Chodesh Teves and on Rosh Chodesh , we Jews are as a people renewed , as the New Moon , and so , Rosh Chodesh and the first few days afterwards , and also on Chanukah , a time of holy lighting and ' Nissim ' - ' Revealed Miracles From HaShem ( Revealed Miracles , as all of CReation Is A Hidden Miracle From HaShem ) , is as good a time as any time , to renew our faithfulness and love of HaShem and His Laws Faithfully kept Al Pi Ha Torah . So let us all work together as Yosef did , to stay faithful and true to Judaism , and shun foreign ways and beliefs , like the foreign beliefs that the Chashmonaim shunned and fought against , in the time of the hellenists , which the Festival of Chanukah also reminds us of , where the purity of pure Olive Oil , like the purity of faithfulness in HaShem Alone , as the One And Only G-D And Creator , teaches us to stay faithful to G-D and to shun all foreign ways and beliefs and so , to work together to bring on the " Miketz Keitz , " - " The Happening of the End Of Days , " May It Come Soon In our days , With HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With The Very Deepest Of Eternal Love , A Very Sweet And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh And Chodesh Tov Teves And Chag Chanukah Sameach With Everlasting Love , and to all my fellow Jews with love , a Blessed Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh and Chodesh Tov and Chag Chanukah Sameach with love . Shabbat Shalom to all of Creation . May the End Of Days Come Soon In Our Days . Shabbat Shalom with Love .