Uprooting the Greek Influence

Yosef asks the wine steward to remember him, and Chazal say that is why he spent two more years in jail. Why? Hashem wants us to make some effort, and asking once seems like the least a person can do. What did Yosef do wrong, and why is Parshas Miketz always read on Chanukah? The Midrash Rabbah and the Beis HaLevi shed light on both, and on the Greek way of looking at the world. A rabbi who never flies first class ends up in one, and one accidental button changes everything.