EXTRA · classical (not a TT unit)

Chayei Sarah 24:7 · EXTRA

Parashas Chayei Sarah · Passuk 24:7

The Complete Passuk

יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם אֲשֶׁ֨ר לְקָחַ֜נִי מִבֵּ֣ית אָבִי֮ וּמֵאֶ֣רֶץ מֽוֹלַדְתִּי֒ וַאֲשֶׁ֨ר דִּבֶּר־לִ֜י וַאֲשֶׁ֤ר נִֽשְׁבַּֽע־לִי֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר לְזַ֨רְעֲךָ֔ אֶתֵּ֖ן אֶת־הָאָ֣רֶץ הַזֹּ֑את ה֗וּא יִשְׁלַ֤ח מַלְאָכוֹ֙ לְפָנֶ֔יךָ וְלָקַחְתָּ֥ אִשָּׁ֛ה לִבְנִ֖י מִשָּֽׁם׃

Hashem, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from my native land, who spoke to me and who swore to me, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—He will send His angel before you, and you will get a wife for my son from there.

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Source Citation

Rashi on Bereishis 24:7 (classical source on this passuk; not listed as a numbered Torah Temimah unit here).

Lemma / focus: ה' אלהי השמים.

Sefaria

Core Text of Chazal

Core Text
ה' אלהי השמים אשר לקחני מבית אבי. וְלֹא אָמַר "וֵאלֹהֵי הָאָרֶץ", וּלְמַעְלָה אָמַר וְאַשְׁבִּיעֲךָ וגו'? אָמַר לוֹ עַכְשָׁו הוּא אֱלֹהֵי הַשָּׁמַיִם וֵאלֹהֵי הָאָרֶץ, שֶׁהִרְגַּלְתִּיו בְּפִי הַבְּרִיּוֹת, אֲבָל כְּשֶׁלְּקָחַנִי מִבֵּית אָבִי הָיָה אֱלֹהֵי הַשָּׁמַיִם וְלֹא אֱלֹהֵי הָאָרֶץ, שֶׁלֹּא הָיוּ בָּאֵי עוֹלָם מַכִּירִים בּוֹ וּשְׁמוֹ לֹא הָיָה רָגִיל בָּאָרֶץ: מבית אבי. מֵחָרָן:

English: Here he did not say “and the God of the earth,” though above he did swear by both. He said to him: Now He is the God of heaven and the God of the earth, for I have already made Him known to the creatures; but when He took me from my father’s house He was the God of heaven and not yet the God of the earth, for the inhabitants of the world did not yet recognize Him and His name was not yet current in the land.

On the daf / in context: Avraham distinguishes the stage when God was known only in heaven from the stage after Avraham’s own work of making His name known on earth.

Type of Learning

Derash on the verse (Rashi) — not a formal named middah of the 13: the omission of “God of the earth” in this formulation is read against the earlier oath formula.

What Is Learned

When Avraham left his father’s house, God was known as God of heaven but not yet of the earth; through Avraham’s work His name became known on earth as well.