Yosef's Dreams & Effects
After Yosef's first dream, the pasuk says his brothers hated him. After the second, it says they were jealous of him. Why the change, and what is the difference between sheaves bowing in a field and stars bowing in a circle? Rabbi Asaf Prisman follows the Bais HaLevi, who reads the two dreams closely and finds two very different kinds of greatness hiding in them. From there Rabbi Asaf Prisman turns to how much we let money and possessions define us, and what our children learn when they watch us react to a scratched car or a chipped coffee table. It ends with a man in Israel whose shiny new BMW left him worried about ayin hara, and the short questions Rav Steinman asked him in reply.