When the Jews left Mitzraim, Torah relates that the Jewish people took the bones of Yosef with them. In Hebrew the word bones can also mean essence. This refers to the fact that they took the essence, the core of who Yosef was, what he stood for and what was important to him with them in the desert. His name Yosef signifies taking somebody who is “other“ and adding or making him a child of G-d. Since it is both physically and spiritually very dangerous in the desert, and the Jewish people were becoming children of Hashem, it’s possible for some of them to fall away and become disconnected. In actuality, at the end of the Parsha, we learn that Amalek comes to fight with the few Jewish people that were spit out of the clouds because they misbehaved, and yet Moshe tells the holy people to stop learning and go out to help them. Interestingly, this Shabbos is Yud Shvat and the core and essence of what the Rebbe taught was the same idea; to bring all Jews close and make them all children of Hashem.

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