Miketz 44:17 – “Go up to your father’s house in peace” – a Hint to the Ten Martyrs (Rabbeinu Bechayey)

44-17 Miketz: Go up to your father’s house in peace, a hint to the ten Martyrs.
The Rabbeinu Bechayey interprets the ten mentions of the word אנשים (men) rather than בני יעקב or אחי יוסף as an allusion to something ‘other’, and he says that it is referring to the ten Martyrs.
This class explores the idea that God made a perfect world, but HE didn’t keep it that way, and this is one of the most acute examples of this.
Various ideas are explored including the fact that ONE of the ten (Reb Akiva) died for God who was ‘the tenth man in the pact’. Why Rabbi Akiva? and why should someone die for God?