Everyone must be in isolation. Everyone. Isolated. Do you catch that counter-intuitive dual dynamic? Isolation does not work unless everyone is unified in separating. Nor does isolation work if an individual decides to "do his own thing". So we can only operate as individuals if we join common cause to do so. We can only be alone if we are together and we can only be together if we are alone.
Those who follow the weekly Parsha rhythm are amused, or amazed, that this dynamic is accentuated in this week's double-Parsha, the last two Parsha of exodus. Vayakhel, as the penultimate parsha is called, means to assemble, that Moses must gather the people together before addressing them, not simply for the practical aspect of 'hear ye! hear ye!' but because when we gather as one we are more sensitive to the message. And the last Parsha (the ultimate one) Pequdei, speaks of the detail, the individual.
We are viable individuals only if we are of the same purpose, in our totality. We are only together if we maintain our individuality. And with this message, the Rebbe reminds us, we conclude the Exodus -- from Egypt certainly, but the ultimate Exodus too, when all mankind will be of one mind and heart. He will gather us in. One by one. Together.