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 | | Rabbi Henoch Leibowitz, in his Chidushei Lev to our parsha, asks why it was, in \fact, necessary for God to remind Avraham, of the precise identity and character of the land he was leaving. |
 | | He answers that although it was true that Avraham knew its identity and had natural feelings for his home where he grew up, God wanted to make sure that those natural feelings should be aroused, and that Avraham leave his home with those natural thoughts in mind. |
 | | Rabbi Leibowitz goes on to cite the great student of Rabbi Yisroel Salanter, Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziev, the 'Alter' literally ' the old man,' or, more loosely, 'the sage' of Kelm, as saying that, in general. |
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