At the very beginning of Parshas Vayeishev, Yosef is referred to as a 'Na'ar', a lad, an immature boy, in comparison to all his older brothers. And yet, we are told in the next pasuk that his father Yaakov loved him because he was a "Ben zekunim". One of the meanings of that phrase is that Yosef was sagely, he was wise in the way that the old are. How could Yosef be both young and old? How could his brothers see him as an immature boy trying to take what was rightfully theirs while his father saw him as sagely? One of the meanings of Avrech, the name that he is hailed by in Egypt, is young in years but a father in wisdom. That's still the term we use for a young married man who learns Torah in an academic setting. How could Yosef be both old and young, wise and immature at the same time? And what can we learn from him? Why did Yosef's brothers hate him so much? It was his dreams that infuriated them. And they refer to him only sourly as the "