English: R’ Binyamin bar Yefet said in the name of R’ Elazar: This teaches that he spoke to them words that are accepted by the heart — “If ten lamps could not extinguish one lamp, how can one lamp extinguish ten lamps?”
On the daf / in context: Yosef’s reassurance is filled out with the image of the lamps: the brothers could not destroy him when they were many; he will not destroy them when he stands alone.
Type of Learning
Narrative expansion of the phrase “he spoke to their heart.”
What Is Learned
Yosef comforted his brothers with the argument that if ten could not extinguish one, one cannot extinguish ten.