Welcome to daily bitachon , a bitachon related thought on Chanukah . This comes from Rav Matisyahu Salomon's sefer Matnas Chaim on the topic of Shabbat . And there he discusses the concept that the readings that we read during the year match with the holidays that happen during that time. And when we read a parsha , it arouses a certain energy. We read about Yosef HaTzadik and his brothers and the lessons there, that's a certain energy. When Chanukah occurs, there's a certain energy, and it's not a coincidence. So what is the connection between the story of Yosef and the brothers and Chanukah ? Rav Matisyahu brings out a beautiful thought, and he says that when we read the story of Yosef and the brothers, he lists many events that are seemingly mistakes. Firstly, it says that Yosef was a naar , he was a lad, he was a teenager. The Sforno says the fact that he was acting the way he acted and causing jealousy with his brothers was a teenager's actions coming from someone that wasn't fully mature. Seemingly, mistake number one. Mistake number two is that the brothers are wrongly accused by Yosef for whatever sins he thought they did, which we're not going to get into, but we know that they had reasons for what they did. Yaakov Avinu favors Yosef over the other brothers, and he makes him a special coat. And the Gemara even says that we learn from Yaakov that you shouldn't single out one son over the other son, which means what Yaakov Avinu did is not something that should be done. Another seeming mistake. Furthermore, Yosef shares his dreams with his brothers. Why would you do that and further instigate them to hate you? Yaakov sends Yosef down to his brothers after he knows that the brothers don't have a particular fondness for Yosef . Why would he put Yosef in danger like that? So these are all seemingly mistakes. But says Rav Matisyahu Salomon, as we know, this is all God turning the wheels because we need to get Yosef down to Mitzrayim , and we need for there to be a viceroy there setting things up before we get there. So this is all orchestrated by God. And this, he says, is the lesson that sometimes we see what might look as a comedy of errors, but it's really being orchestrated for a specific reason to make things need to happen. And he says that is the lesson of Chanukah as well. How so? When we were going through the story of Chanukah , we see many events, many challenges, trials, tribulations, tragedies, and they're seemingly, again, just a bunch of mishaps and sad events. In the end, it produced the miracle of Chanukah , which gives us a light for generations. And he says it's a mistake to think that there's a problem and God has to save us because of the problem. He says a tremendous chiddush , that all the problems that God's making were there to create the miracle, to necessitate the miracle. The end goal was the miracle of Chanukah . Everything that happened 'til then was getting towards that miracle. It wasn't the opposite where we have all these problems that somehow we got stuck into, we don't know how, and God comes in after the fact to save us. God was the one that was setting everything up before that because he was trying to create the miracle. And that's the story with Yosef and the brothers, and that's what's going on with us right now. It's not going to be that Mashiach's going to come to save us after all that we're going through now. No, all we're going through now is to set us up for that Mashiach . And that's the correct way to look at life's events. So that's the story of Yosef and the brothers, and that's the story of Chanukah , and that's the story of the Jewish people at large, and that's the story with every individual with their own personal challenges. The situations that are happening are just setting it up for God's