Musar zu Bereschit 14:12

Rabbi Tuviah interprets the words "tents" as referring to two women since the place of women is in the tents. Rabbi Yitzchak also understands the verse in that sense although he draws his inference from the word הנמצאות. Perhaps this is also the inference to be drawn from the Torah's report about the exploits of the four kings. As soon as they had captured Lot, they went on their way, i.e. 11 ,14) ויקחו את לוט … וילכו). Although the four kings had never set eyes on Ruth and Naomi they had seen through their horoscopes the role that Lot's issue would play in the history of the Jewish people, and their prime purpose became to prevent the emergence of a Jewish people and thus to frustrate the concept of the Messiah and what he represents. This is the reason why Abraham set out immediately to rescue Lot and to pursue those kings and their armies. He also rescued the king of Sodom and his people in the process, seeing that in Messianic times even the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah will be restored, something we know on the authority of Ezekiel 16,53-55.

The Arizal also comments on Genesis 14,12, when the kings with Kedarlaomer are reported as having captured Lot and his possessions. The Torah writes: ויקחו את לוט ואת רכושו בן אחי אברם וילכו. "They took Lot and his possessions, the son of Abram's brother." The grammar is totally confusing, seeing that the possessions were not Abram's. The verse has to be understood thus: רכושו בן אחי, in order to alert us to the respective first letters of these three words which total 203 in numerical value, or the same as the word באר. The message in all this is that all the dangers Abraham took upon himself by pursuing the four kings in order to save Lot were caused by his foreknowledge through the Holy Spirit that Lot would beget the forerunner of the Messiah, the Kingdom of David, and that therefore he must be saved at all costs. In other words, Abraham did all this for the sake of G–d's great name, רבא. No doubt, when the Arizal described the numerical value of the names of G–d being the same as the numerical value of the word באר, this is what he had in mind.