כִּי־אָבִ֣י וְאִמִּ֣י עֲזָב֑וּנִי וַֽיהוָ֣ה יַֽאַסְפֵֽנִי׃
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Rabbeinu Bahya
הלוא הוא אביך, “is He then not your father, etc.?” Moses means that G’d made Israel His possession, bringing them out of nothing into something. Every יש, is by definition the property of the one who brought it into existence. This is also the meaning of Proverbs 8,22: ה' קנני ראשית דרכו, “the Lord acquired me at the beginning of His way.” Similarly, G’d is referred to as owning heaven and earth, seeing He created them (Genesis 14,19).
In Bereshit Rabbah 43,5 the word קנך is understood in its normal meaning, i.e. an acquisition from someone else. The Midrash answers the question from whom G’d could have acquired heaven and earth by saying: ”from the raw material they are constructed from.” I have referred to this in Genesis 14,19.
G’d is called “our father,” as He created the soul which He blew into Adam in order to make him come alive. Just as the physical father deserves this appellation vis-a-vis the body which he sires, (seeing his sperm is the first input) so G’d is described as the true and eternal father, who has provided the original input for all life. David also referred to G’d as his father when he said (Psalms 27,10) “for my father and my mother have abandoned me, only the Lord is taking me in.” Also the prophet Isaiah speaks of G’d as father when he said (Isaiah 63,16) “surely You are our Father: though Avraham regard us not, and Israel recognise us not, You, O Lord, are our Father from of old, Your name is ‘Our Redeemer.’”
In Bereshit Rabbah 43,5 the word קנך is understood in its normal meaning, i.e. an acquisition from someone else. The Midrash answers the question from whom G’d could have acquired heaven and earth by saying: ”from the raw material they are constructed from.” I have referred to this in Genesis 14,19.
G’d is called “our father,” as He created the soul which He blew into Adam in order to make him come alive. Just as the physical father deserves this appellation vis-a-vis the body which he sires, (seeing his sperm is the first input) so G’d is described as the true and eternal father, who has provided the original input for all life. David also referred to G’d as his father when he said (Psalms 27,10) “for my father and my mother have abandoned me, only the Lord is taking me in.” Also the prophet Isaiah speaks of G’d as father when he said (Isaiah 63,16) “surely You are our Father: though Avraham regard us not, and Israel recognise us not, You, O Lord, are our Father from of old, Your name is ‘Our Redeemer.’”
Malbim
And He heard: This is [along the lines of], "Though my father and mother have abandoned me, the Lord will take me in" (Psalms 27:10). "As God has heard the voice of the youth (meaning that He accepted his prayer, as that is the definition of listening which is followed by [the word,] God) there where he is" - meaning to say that in the place in which the youth was, a well of water was found there. And it can also be explained that it means to say [that] since God was found there, He was looking over him him and available to save him.