Joseph’s Dreams Were Delayed by 22 Years, He Remained in the Night of Not Understanding as if He Was Asleep the Entire Time

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This article is excerpted and adapted from Zohar: Annotated and Explained by Daniel C. Matt.

Joseph dreamed a dream and told it to his brothers and they hated him even more because of his dreams (Genesis 37:5, 8).

At the onset, Kabbalists teach that a person should tell his or her dream only to the one(s) who loves him or her. Otherwise, the listener will interfere, and if that dream is transformed, the listener is the cause and the concern. Phileo love is the love of God expressed from one friend to another so if anyone loves you, they will listen to you and observe what you’re saying and how you’re saying it mainly because they care. YET, if they do not love you they will NOT LISTEN to you, and their effect on your circumstances will become apparently chaotic because they were only hearing you without understanding and without any compassion. These you call brothers are NOT FRIENDS.

The four types of love in the Bible are agape, phileo, eros, and storge. These types of love are described in the Bible using the Greek language of GAIA, Attic-Ga.

Attic Greek is the Greek dialect of the ancient region of Attica, including the city of Athens. Often called “classical Greek”, it was the prestigious dialect of the Greek world for centuries and remains the standard form of the language that’s taught to students of ancient Greek.