EXTRA · Parashas Vayeishev · Passuk 37:15 · not a Torah Temimah citation on this passuk
a man came upon him wandering in the fields. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?”
Classical source (EXTRA side-ring): Bereshis Rabbah 84:14.
Sefaria — Bereshis Rabbah 84:14
English: “And a man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field” — R’ Yannai said: three angels met him — “a man found him,” “the man asked him,” “the man said.”
Derash on the verse (Bereshis Rabbah) — not a formal named middah of the 13. Repeated noun is counted as multiple agents.
Yosef’s meeting with “the man” is read as a series of angelic interventions that steer him to his brothers’ path.