Reply To: Chidushim on Daf Yomi

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Talking about interpretation of dreams. How did Yosef know that the baker supervisor should be hung? I heard a mashel. A king commissioned a painter to paint a man holding a bowl of fruit. The fruit was so lifelike that the birds were eating from it. The king said, yes the fruit is lifelike but the man is not. How is it that the birds are not afraid from the man? Yosef saw that the birds where eating from the basket of baked goods held by the baker supervisor, so he must be considered dead.
The Dubner Magid explains why the Pharaohs dream interpreters could not interpret his dream with a mashel. A king wanted his son to gain knowledge for the future becoming king. When he returned, the ministers wanted to test him to see what he learned. So, one took a ring and placed it in his hand and ask the young man, what am I holding in my hand? The boy says, according to the formula we learned it must be a round object with a hole in the middle. So the minister asked him, so what do you think it can be? He says it is millstone with a hole in the middle. The interpreters of Pharaoh had all the formulas but they lacked common sense.