Parshat Vayeishev: The Two Dreams of Yosef  “And his brothers
were jealous of him. And his father studied the issue.”
(Bersheit 37:11)  Yosef had two dreams. In the first dream he
and his brothers were in a field. They were binding grain into
sheaves. Yosef’s sheaf arose and stood. The brothers’ sheaves
surrounded Yosef’s sheaf and bowed to it. Yosef told his
brothers of his dream. The Torah tells us that the brothers’
hatred for Yosef was heightened by this dream. Yosef’s second
dream involved the sun, moon and eleven stars. Yosef envisioned
these bodies bowing to him. Again, he related the dream to his
brothers. He also retold the dream to his father. The Torah
tells us that after hearing this second dream the brothers were
jealous of Yosef. Apparently, the brothers had different
reactions to the two dreams. They hated Yosef after the first
dream. After hearing the second dream, they were also jealous.
Why did the dreams evoke these different reactions?  Rabbaynu
Avraham ben HaRambam addresses this issue. T