The following is a brief summary of some of thoughts said over by R' Frand on the parsha this evening. I have attempted to reproduce these vorts to the best of my ability. Any perceived inconsistency is the result of my efforts to transcribe the shiur and should not be attributed to R' Frand.
R' Frand began the vort by quoting a Rashi on Bereishis 45:27 wherein the Torah states וַיַּרְא֙ אֶת־הָ֣עֲגָל֔וֹת אֲשֶׁר־שָׁלַ֥ח יוֹסֵ֖ף לָשֵׂ֣את אֹת֑וֹ וַתְּחִ֕י ר֖וּחַ יַֽעֲקֹ֥ב אֲבִיהֶֽם - that Rashi states that Ya'akov believed that Yosef was alive because he saw the wagons and remembered that the last topic they learned together was Eglah Arufa.
R' Frand then asked the famous questions asked by the Sefer Moshav Zekeinim which is a compilation of the Ba'alei HaTosafos that Eglah and Agalah are not the same words, so how could this be what caused him to believe? They answer that Ya'akov and Yosef were not learning about Eglah Arufa, they were learning about the wagons in Parshas Nasso in connection with the consecration of the Mishkan. Immediately after the dedication there were sacrifices that the Nessim brought, which included six covered wagons which were donated to carry the items. Why six wagons? Because there was a partnership among the tribes in the wagon. But there were also twelve oxen, one per tribe. The Ba'alei HaTosafos write that Yosef sent six wagons, so Ya'akov realized that there was a message.
R' Frand then quoted the Sefer Minchas Ani who explained that the six wagons vs twelve oxen show that sometimes one must act individually and other times, collectively. Certain times in life a person may need to act alone, by example if there is a non-glamorous job that no one wants to do. But other times a person can act with a group. Here, the oxen could be donated individually - because a person can give his own sacrifice, but the wagons could be the donation of a group.
R' Frand noted a deeper message - that he sent six wagons, one wagon per two tribes. Yosef was trying to tell Ya'akov - we are together now, there is a sheves achim - and this is why Ya'akov felt better.
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