From the Rebbe's Talks

Enjoy four short thoughts and a video adapted from the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe on Parshat Vayigash.

When is it appropriate to cry, and when one must roll up one’s sleeves and take action?

When Yosef wanted to assure his father that he was alive, he sent wagons hinting at the passage of "eglah arufah", the decapitated calf, the last subject Yaakov and Yosef had studied together. Yaakov understood the full depth of the communication Yosef had sent him and rejoiced. Yosef was not only informing Yaakov that he was alive; he was clarifying to him that he was still firmly adhering to his righteousness and Torah knowledge. He was spiritually alive.