The following is the second half of a summary of a fascinating shiur that R' Mansour said Thursday Night (the first half which I blogged on Friday can be found here - https://kosherbeers.blogspot.com/2020/12/fridays-bonus-parsha-vort-parshas.html) Same ground rules as always apply. Any perceived inconsistencies are the result of my efforts to transcribe the shiur and should not be attributed to R' Mansour.
After revealing his identity, Yosef asks them to come close, and he tells them that they are right - he was a shaliach mitzva and was not nizok, as his being sold down to Egypt preserved life - וְעַתָּ֣ה | אַל־תֵּעָ֣צְב֗וּ וְאַל־יִ֨חַר֙ בְּעֵ֣ינֵיכֶ֔ם כִּֽי־מְכַרְתֶּ֥ם אֹתִ֖י הֵ֑נָּה כִּ֣י לְמִחְיָ֔ה שְׁלָחַ֥נִי אֱלֹהִ֖ים לִפְנֵיכֶֽם (Bereishis 45:5).
Then he tells them - you did not send me down here as the Torah states in 45:7 וְעַתָּ֗ה לֹֽא־אַתֶּ֞ם שְׁלַחְתֶּ֤ם אֹתִי֙ הֵ֔נָּה כִּ֖י הָֽאֱלֹהִ֑ים וַיְשִׂימֵ֨נִי לְאָ֜ב לְפַרְעֹ֗ה וּלְאָדוֹן֙ לְכָל־בֵּית֔וֹ וּמשֵׁ֖ל בְּכָל־אֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם .
R' Mansour then quoted the Meshech Chachma which casts a shadow over this reassurance to Yehuda. The Torah writes that Yosef could not hold back - וְלֹֽא־יָכֹ֨ל יוֹסֵ֜ף לְהִתְאַפֵּ֗ק (Bereishis 45:2) - but he really wanted to hold back, because he knew that his dreams were prophecies and if his dreams would come true in their entirety, he needed the dreams to be fulfilled. The first dream did come true (the sheaves) as the brothers did all bow to him. But the second dream - with the sun and moon (personified by Ya'akov and Bilha) bowing to him, did not happen and the tikkun for their sin could not be complete. Throwing Shimon in the pit was a partial act, as was making Yehuda and the brothers bow, but had he not had mercy (like they did not have mercy when he cried out from the pit) then the tikkun could have been complete.
The Rambam notes that when the brothers were begging for mercy, Yosef's advisors came to Yosef and told him he should forgive Binyamin. This is why Yosef told all the others to leave, because he did not want to break. R' Mansour quoted the Sfas Emes who writes that if Yosef had held back the Beis HaMikdash would not have been destroyed as the sin would have been fixed. This is why Yosef's voice filled with crying and all of Egypt could hear. But why did Yosef cry? He knew who they were and what this was about.
R' Mansour quoted the Ben Ish Chai who tied this crying to the crying of Moshe as a baby in the basket on the water - it was the crying of all the Jewish people who were suffering. Here, Yosef was crying not only for himself - but also because there would be an Asarah Harugei Malchus which the Arizal states were gilgulim of the brothers. Yosef saw the terrible troubles that would befall the Jewish people and the crying of the Harugei Malchus were crying through him.
This also explains why only now Yosef cried when he embraced Binyamin in 45:14. Rashi explains he cried because of the future destruction of the Beis Hamikdash I & II which were in Binyamin's land. But this would not have happened if Yosef had been strong enough to prevent himself from giving in.
R' Mansour then tied this into the fast of Asarah B'Teves that took place on Friday, which the Abudraham writes if it had fallen on on Shabbos we would have fasted on Shabbos too. This is the only fast that occurs on a Friday, where others fasts which fall on Shabbos would be pushed off. Why?
According to the Chasam Sofer, on Asarah B'Teves the year that the Beis HaMikdash was destroyed, the Beis Din Shel Ma'alah sat and decided that it would be destroyed. And every year thereafter, the Beis Din sits on the 10th of Teves and judges whether it will be rebuilt. So unlike all other fasts which commemorate a past event, this fast is addressing a current crisis. Much like a person who fasts for Ta'anis Chalom does so even on a Shabbos, we fast on Asarah B'Teves because there is a judgment ongoing - will we merit a rebuilding of the Beis HaMikdash?
And all of this is because the tikkun of the sin was not made. Following this parsha we see the Jews start their galus in Egypt which spawns all of the other galuyos.
IYH we should see an end to Sinas Chinam and with it an end to the troubles and crises which we are all dealing with and then see a rebuilding of the Beis HaMikdash speedily in our days.
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