עקידת יצחק — ויגש אליו יהודה / בי אדני

Q — Why does Yehudah's plea move Yosef to reveal himself now, after all that preceded? Why does the Torah record the long speech nearly verbatim? Why does Yosef frame the whole descent as God's doing — "לא אתם שלחתם אותי הנה כי האלהים"?

A — The entire arc is staged to reveal that the descent to Egypt unfolded by hashgachah to fulfill what was decreed at the Bris Bein HaBesarim, while leaving every human act free. Yehudah's self-sacrificing plea brings the brothers to teshuvah for the sale, and only then does Yosef disclose that their free choices and God's decree were one weave — locating the cause in Providence ("כי האלהים") without erasing their responsibility, so the reconciliation rests on truth rather than mere forgiveness.