How to Earn Miracles Above Nature

Rav Shlomo Kluger says Hashem prefers not to do miracles that go against nature. So why does Chanukah, of all the miracles in our history, get its own Yom Tov and its own bracha? The splitting of the sea does not. Along the way, Leah seems to resent Rachel even though Rachel saved her from humiliation by sharing the secret signs. How could she? And what links all this to Yosef HaTzaddik? One idea ties these questions together.