What Are You Jealous Of?
In Yosef's first dream, his brothers' sheaves bow to his sheaf. In the second, the sun, the moon and eleven stars bow to Yosef himself. After the first, the brothers hate him more. Only after the second does the Torah say they were jealous. Why would jealousy show up only then?The Beis HaLevi, with help from Rabbeinu Yonah, reads the gap between the two dreams as a lesson in what is worth envying at all. A man comes to Rav Shteinman afraid of the ayin hara his fancy new car will draw, and gets a few short questions back. Going into Chanukah, it tests what you measure yourself by.