has found out [, mazah] the iniquity of your servants", Rabbi Isaac taught that the Creditor – God – had found (, mazah) the opportunity to exact His debt. Rabbi Levi said like one who drains (, mizuy) a barrel of wine, leaving only its lees (God punished them to the last drop). As reports that "Joseph died, and all his brethren", the Rabbis concluded that Joseph died before his brothers. Rabbi Judah haNasi taught that Joseph died before his brothers because Joseph "commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father" (as reports). But the Rabbis taught that Jacob had directed his sons to embalm him, as reports that "his sons did to him as he commanded them". According to the Rabbis, Joseph died before his brothers because nearly five times Judah said to Joseph, "Your servant my father, your servant my father" (four times himself in , 27, 30, and 31, and once together with his brothers in ), yet Joseph heard it and kept silent (not correcting Judah to show humility to their father). In medieval Jewish interpretation The parashah is discussed in these medieval Jewish sources: Genesis chapter 41 The Zohar taught that a dream is a sixtieth part of prophecy, and so forms the sixth grade removed from prophecy, which is the grade of Gabriel, the supervisor of dreams. The Zohar taught that as a normal dream proceeds from that grade, there is not a dream that is not intermingled with it some spurious matter, so that it is a mixture of truth and falsehood. Hence, all dreams follow their interpretation, as says, "And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was", for since the dream contains both truth and falsehood, the word has power over it, and therefore it is advisable that every dream should be interpreted sensibly. Reading the account of Pharaoh's dream in , Naḥmanides taught that the cows symbolized plowing, and the ears of corn symbolized the harvest, as Joseph said in , "there shall be neither plowing nor harvest". Thus he saw that the river would rise so slightly that there would be no plowing, and the little that would be planted would be burned because (in the words of ) "an east wind shall come, the wind of the Lord coming up from the wilderness", and thus he saw (in the words of ) "ears