A vort from the Rebbe on this week's parshah is Parshas Vayechi. At the end of Parshas Vayechi, it says that after Yaakov Avinu passed away and he was buried, the shevatim were worried that maybe Yosef will take now revenge on them. And they came to Yosef, they sent shluchim first, and then they came to Yosef, and they begged him. And Yosef told them, \"Don't be afraid. אל תיראו, don't be afraid, כי התחת אלקים אני? What, I think I'm is I'm in the place of Hashem?\" And then he added, \"ואתם חשבתם עלי רעה, you meant, had in mind bad, but אלקים חשבה לטובה, the Oybershter had in mind for good.\" And this enabled that we should be able to save, as the pasuk says, להחיות עם רב, to be able to give life to so many people.

And the Rebbe asks a question: By Yosef answering this, Yosef wanted to comfort his brothers. They were worried and they were scared that who knows what he's going to do, so he tried to make them feel better. So if he wanted to make them feel better, why did he mention, \"You meant bad\"? All he should have said, \"Don't be afraid, because it turned out to be good.\" So he should have said, \"אל תיראו, don't be afraid, כי התחת אלקים אני, I am, am I instead of Hashem?\" And then he should have said, \"אלקים חשבה לטובה, the Oybershter had in mind this is good.\" In other words, it turned out to be good. Why you feel bad? It it it was a good thing that happened. Why did he mention to them that, \"You have thought bad,\" which is the opposite of giving them comfort, reminding them that they had in mind bad?

And the Rebbe explains, what he wanted to tell them that not only was it good, this was a concept of it'hapcha chashucha l'nehora. This was a concept of transforming the darkness to light. We know there says in Tanya, there are two types of things. There's two, like, for instance, food. Two types of food: there is tasty food, lechatchilah it's good, then you have food which is sour, but when you add spices and you could transform it into good, that taste even better. That's connected to teshuvah. So there is a concept of it'hapcha chashucha l'nehora, not just having something good, but transforming the bad to good, and that's a higher madregah. And that's what Yosef was telling them part of his comfort. If he would say to them, look, it's good, it turned it it became it's good. What happened, why are you worried? A good thing happened. Basically, selling me to Mitzrayim is a good thing. He didn't say that. He wanted to show them even more. That's a bigger comfort. That it's the ra that you had in mind was transformed into good. And that's it'hapcha chashucha l'nehora. And that's the teitch the Rebbe teitcht, when he said, \"ואתם חשבתם עלי רעה, you thought bad, אלקים חשבה לטובה, the Oybershter thought of it good.\" What did he think is good? Not just the maaseh that happened, the מחשבה רעה, your מחשבה רעה, the Oybershter transformed it into good. The bad turned into good, and that's a higher madregah, that's a madregah of אתהפכא. That's why Yosef, when he wanted to comfort them and say what they did is shouldn't be worried about that it's a bad thing, so he stressed, it's good that turned the bad, which is greater even than if it would be good from the beginning. And that's a lesson for us. This is an inyan of teshuvah. Teshuvah is when you take something that you did that's not good, and you transformed it good, it's greater as something that's good lechatchilah. And that's the pshat in במקום שבעלי תשובה עומדים, צדיקים גמורים אינם יכולין לעמוד, and the level of tzaddikim, in level where baalei teshuvah stand, tzaddikim cannot stand, because the level of baalei teshuvah is higher, because by him there's a transformation of the not good that turns into good.