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"At the end of two years, it happened that Pharoah was dreaming....." [Miketz 41:1]
Pharoah's dream is the very beginning of the story of Egyptian exile. The dream predicted a famine which eventually caused Yaakov and his family to settle in Egypt where, a generation later, they were enslaved.
In the times of exile, the Jewish people are forced to withstand the fluctuation between two contradictory modes of life: love of G-d at the time of prayer, and then total immersion into the physical world during one's business and private affairs the rest of the day.
Chassidic teachings compare this situation to a dream, because in a dream two opposite, contradictory phenomena can co-exist simultaneously.
In order to hint to this idea, the precursor of the Egyptian exile - our current story - was recorded in the Torah as a dream.
Based on Likutei Sichos of the Lubavitcher Rebbe vol 15 p.346
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