Shabbat Mikeytz: The Power of Dreams

A Torah scroll. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

Dreams play a very important part in the Biblical narrative. We have read in recent weeks about Yaakov’s dream of angels going up and down a ladder.  Yosef dreamt about his own future — as well as the dreams of the baker and the butcher and those of Pharaoh. The implication is that these dreams were all reliable messages, coming as Yosef says, from God.

The question we have to answer is to what extent dreams should be relied on. To this day...