Parshas Miketz: Power and Prophecy Fulfillment

Is Yosef, In Fact, A Substitute for God?

I’m going to float an idea in this devar torah that I will hopefully shed more light on in next week’s devar Torah. So if this is a little less confident than my usual tone, it’s because I’m trying out an idea rather than confidently stating it.

Yosef’s behavior in this parsha is deeply, deeply weird, with no explicit explanation for what he is trying t…