”Hashem said to Avraham ‘Go forth from your land.’$$$SEPERATE QUOTES$$$” (Bereishis 12:1)
“Rabbi Yitzchak began ‘Hear my daughter and see and forget your nation and the house of your father.’ (Bereishis Rabbah 39:1)
“Rabbi Yochanan [expounded the pasuk]: ‘Go forth from your land’ — this means your kingdom. ‘From your birthplace’ — this means your neighborhood. ‘And from your father’s home’ — this refers to your father’s [actual] home.” (Yalkut Shimoni ibid.) “$$$SEPERATE QUOTES$$$ ‘To the land that I will show you’ — Why did He not reveal [the destination] to him? To make it precious in his eyes and to give him reward for every single step.”
Rashi similarly states “[Hashem] did not reveal the land to him right away in order to make it precious in his eyes and to give him reward for every command.”
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