Shabbat Service Tonight, but NOT Tomorrow

This week in Parshat Vayigash, the Joseph story reaches its dramatic conclusion.  Joseph reveals himself to his brothers, and brings his family down to Egypt, saving them from famine.  The divine plan that was foreshadowed by Joseph’s boyhood dreams, and set in motion by his sale into slavery, has now come to its culmination.  What started as a crime became the agency by which a large family (and indeed a whole nation) was saved, and eventually a nation was born.  We never know what can come of any action-even evil can turn into good.