Parshat Miketz - A Crisis of Dreams

We will be discussing the beginning of Mikketz. Pharaoh’s dreams and their lack of solution is the key to the story. This parasha is the story of the initial lack of solution and the eventual resolution of that crisis. Phaaoh ultimately cedes control to Yosef the Hebrew.

It is not just Yosef who recognizes God, but Pharaoh who recognizes God- which conjures up the idea of Shemot in the reader's mind. This story foreshadows who is really in charge in Egypt - and it is appropriate that it appears here, at the very beginning of the Exodus story.