The Rav draws a parallel between Chanukah and the Yosef Hatzadik narrative in the role Hakadosh Baruch Hu played in both. The Rav explains that Hashem interacts with the world either by guiding the course of events as we watch with wonder as spectators (Yitziyat Mitzrayim) or by stepping back to allow for man to steer the course of history. It is the latter approach which Hashem employs in the story of Yosef. Yosef Hatzadik must decipher the messages of Hashem found in dreams; it is up to him to execute the visions, to make them a reality. He builds himself up to a position of great power, and then masterfully orchestrates the reuniting of his family and bringing them down to Mitzrayim as the first step in the eventual geulah. The same is true of the story of the Maccabim, a family of priests who rose up on their own initiative to battle an attempt to wipe out Jewish identity. In both of these events, as the Rav puts it, "man is apparently the central figure... in such cases, G-d demands from man heroic action." And indeed, heroism is what both Yosef Hatzadik and the Chashmonaim displayed while driving the course of Jewish history.