Likutei Moharan 54:8/ליקוטי מוהר"ן נ״ד:ח׳

18. This is the explanation [of the opening verse]: {“It was mikeitz (after) two years’ time, and Pharaoh dreamed he was standing near the river, when suddenly out of the river seven cows came up.”} It was mikeitz two years’ time—“Two years’ time” is the aspect of those who speak slander, of whom it is said (Numbers 14:34), “one year for each day, one year for each day.” Because of them the aspect of a love for holiness was corrupted and blemished, this being the aspect of “and the priest shall kamatz (scoop up),” as explained above. And this is MiKeiTZ—the aspect of a blemish of the KaMaTZ .

2and Pharaoh dreamed—That is, the imagination, as explained above.

3he was standing near the river—The “river” is PiShoN, i.e., the aspect of Pi ShoNeh Jewish law which the imagination overpowers, as explained above.

4when suddenly out of the river…—That is, because of them there is seven years of contentment and seven years of famine, good and bad, as explained above. The bad gains strength and overpowers the good, in the aspect of “but there was no way of knowing that they were inside them.”

5And the rectification is YoSeF, in the aspect of “The Lord has aSaF (gathered away) my humiliation” (Genesis 30:23). He mitigates the bad, which is the aspect of famine, in the aspect of (Ezekiel 36:30), “so that you will never again be humiliated before the nations because of famine.” He is the aspect of “gathered the ruach,” corresponding to “a man in whom there is the ruach of the Lord” (Genesis 41:38). And this is what was said of him: “Yosef will place his hand on your eyes” (ibid. 46:4)—by means of the hand, the eye is protected from the imagination, as explained above.

6See how the Sava d’Mishpatim (p.98a) explains the verse “YHVH, Elohay (God, my Lord), You are very great….”