Génesis 12:5 Cábala: Sefer Yetzirah Gra Version & Sha'arei Kedusha

When the patriarch Abraham comprehended the great truism, revolved it in his mind, conceived it perfectly, made careful investigations and profound inquiries, pondered upon it and succeeded in contemplations, the Lord of the Universe appeared to him, called him his friend, made with him a covenant between the ten fingers of his hands, which is the covenant of the tongue, and the covenant between the ten toes of his feet, which is the covenant of circumcision, and said of him : "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee." (Jer. I, 5.)

Bringing merit to the guilty: Our sages, of blessed memory, stated,⁶⁹²Tanna d’Bei Eliyahu Rabba, Ch. 8 “Elkana merited having his son Shmuel – who was equal to Moshe and Aharon⁶⁹³Talmud Bavli, Brachot 31b – because he would go up [to the Tabernacle at Shiloh] for every Festival, and would bring multitudes of people with him, thus bringing merit upon them.” His son Shmuel followed this practice, as written,⁶⁹⁴Samuel I 7:16-17 “He would travel year after year, circling to Beth-El, Gilgal and Mitzpah, and judging Israel in all these places. He then would return to Ramah, for his home was there, and there he would judge Israel. And there he built an altar to HaShem-יהו״ה.” Similarly, our forefather Avraham, peace be upon him, only merited all his exalted levels on account of what is written,⁶⁹⁵Genesis 12:5 “The souls that they made in Choran.” Similarly, it is written,⁶⁹⁶Genesis 18:18-19 “Avraham shall surely be a great and mighty nation and all the nations of the world will be blessed in him. For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, to keep the way of HaShem-יהו״ה, doing charity and justice etc.” Moreover, the leaders of every generation are either rewarded or punished only in regard to this matter.