Tanach · Rishonim on Tanach · Ramban · Torah
Ramban on Genesis 37:20/רמב"ן על בראשית ל״ז:כ׳
אוְנִרְאֶה מַה יִּהְיוּ חֲלֹמֹתָיו מְלִיצָה דֶּרֶךְ לַעַג, נִרְאֶה אַחֲרֵי מוֹתוֹ אִם נִשְׁתַּחֲוֶה לוֹ. וְהַנָּכוֹן בְּעֵינַי כִּי אָמְרוּ עַתָּה נִרְאֶה מָה יִהְיוּ חֲלֹמֹתָיו, כִּי אִם יַצִּילוּהוּ מִיָּדֵינוּ מָלֹךְ יִמְלֹךְ עָלֵינוּ. אֲבָל רַבּוֹתֵינוּ אָמְרוּ (שם), רוּחַ הַקֹּדֶשׁ אוֹמֶרֶת, נִרְאֶה מַה יִּהְיוּ חֲלֹמֹתָיו, כְּלוֹמַר דְּבַר מִי יָקוּם מִמֶּנִּי וּמֵהֶם:
1AND WE SHALL SEE WHAT WILL BECOME OF HIS DREAMS. This is a derisive metaphor: “We shall see after his death if we shall prostrate ourselves before him.”The correct interpretation appears to me to be that they said, “Now we shall see what will become of his dreams, for if he shall be rescued from our hands he will surely reign over us.” But our Rabbis said:66 “It is the Ruach Hakodesh67, Note 90. that says, We shall see what will become of his dreams,68 which completes the sentence, and not Joseph’s brothers. as if to say; ‘We shall see whose words shall stand, Mine or theirs.’”69