There was a famine in the land—aside from the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Avraham—and Yitzchak went to Avimelech, king of the Philistines, in Gerar.
English: Ramban explains that the earlier famine was remembered because it had caused Avraham to descend to Egypt, where God greatly honored him.
On the daf / in context: Ramban reads the reference to the earlier famine as part of the remembered precedent that shaped Yitzchak’s response to the new famine.
Type of Learning
Classical commentary on the verse’s historical framing; not a formal named middah of the 13.
What Is Learned
Ramban emphasizes why the Torah recalls Avraham’s earlier famine: it was remembered as the event that led him to Egypt and to great divine honor there.