Midrash su Genesi 21:22
וַֽיְהִי֙ בָּעֵ֣ת הַהִ֔וא וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲבִימֶ֗לֶךְ וּפִיכֹל֙ שַׂר־צְבָא֔וֹ אֶל־אַבְרָהָ֖ם לֵאמֹ֑ר אֱלֹהִ֣ים עִמְּךָ֔ בְּכֹ֥ל אֲשֶׁר־אַתָּ֖ה עֹשֶֽׂה׃
In quel tempo Abimèlech, accompagnato da Pichòl, capo del suo esercito, disse ad Abramo: Iddio è con te in tutto ciò che tu fai.
Sefer HaYashar (midrash)
And after the death of Abimelech the people of Gerar took his son Benmelech, who was then only twelve years of age, and they made him king in his father's place; and they called his name Abimelech after his father, for such was their way of doing in Gerar. And Abimelech ruled in the place of his father and he sat upon his throne. And Lot the son of Haran died also in these days, in the thirty-ninth year of Isaac's life; and all the days that Lot lived were one hundred and forty years when he died. And these are the sons of Lot, born unto him by his daughters. The name of the first-born was Moab and the name of the second was Benamy. And the two sons of Lot took unto themselves wives from the land of Canaan, and they bare unto them children. And these were the children of Moab: Ed, and Majon, and Tarsus, and Canvil, four sons, and they are the fathers of the children of Moab even unto this day. And all the families of the children of Lot went forth to dwell wherever they should find a suitable place, for they were very fruitful and they increased greatly. And they went out and built cities unto themselves in the land of their habitation, calling the names of the cities which they built after their own names. And Nahor son of Terah, Abraham's brother, died in those days, in the fortieth year of the life of Isaac; and all the days of Nahor were one hundred and seventy-two years, and when he died he was buried in Haran. And when Abraham heard of his brother's death he was full of grief and sorrow and he mourned over him many days. And Abraham called Eliezer, his head-servant, to give him orders concerning his house, and he came and stood before him, and Abraham said unto him: Behold I am old, I do not know the day I may die, for verily I am advanced in years. And now arise and go forth and do not take a wife for my son from this place, nor from this land, from the midst of the daughters of the Canaanites among whom we are dwelling. But go thou to my land and to my native place and take from there a wife for my son. And the Lord God of heaven and earth who hath taken me from the house of my father and brought me to this place; and who hath said unto me: To thy seed I will give this land for an inheritance forever, he will send his angel before thee and give thee success on thy way that thou mayest procure a wife for my son from my family and from the house of my father. And the servant answered unto Abraham his master saying: Behold I will go to thy birth-place and to thy father's house to take a wife for thy son from there. But per adventure the woman will not be willing to follow me into this land; must I need bring thy son again unto the land whence thou camest?
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Bereishit Rabbah
"And Avraham called the name of the place "Ad-nai Yireh" [Ad-nai will see] (Gen. 22:14). Rabbi Yochanan said "he said to Him: 'Master of Worlds, at the hour that you said to me "Take please your son, your only son" (Gen. 22:2), I had what to respond. Yesterday You said "For through Itzchak [will I make your line great]" (Gen. 21:22) but now "Take please your son"!? And God forbid that I don't do as you've asked me; instead, I conquered my mercy to do Your will. May it be your will, Ad-nai our God, that in the hour when the sons of Itzchak come to do transgressions and bad deeds, that this very Binding [Akeidah] be remembered for them, and may You be filled with Mercy on them!' Avraham called it "Yireh", as it says "and Avraham called the name of the place Ad-nai Yireh." Shem called it Shalem, as it says "And Malchitzedek, the king of Shalem..."(Genesis 14:18) The Holy One of Blessing said "If I call it Yireh, as Avraham called it, then Shem, who was a righteous man, will become angry; and if I call it Shalem, Abraham, who was a righteous man, will be angry. Instead, I call it Yerushalayim [Jerusalem], as they called it together: Yireh Shalem. Jerusalem. Rabbi Berechiah said in Rabbi Helbo’s name: While it was Shalem, the Holy One of Blessing made for Godself a sukkah [booth] and prayed in it, since it says "In Shalem is set His tabernacle, and His dwelling-place in Tzion" (Psalms 76:3). And what did He say? ‘May it happen that I see the building of My house." Another interpretation: It [this verse] teaches that the Holy One of Blessing showed him the Temple destroyed and built, destroyed and build [a second time], since it says: "the name of that place Ad-nai Yireh" (Ad-nai sees): this is it built, as you say [the verse] "Three times in a year shall all your males be seen [yira'eh] (Deut. 16:16). "As it is said to this day in the Mountain of Ad-nai [is seen, Heb. yira'eh]" (Gen.22:14) This is it destroyed, as in the verse "on the mountain of Tzion, which is desolate" (Lam. 5:18). "Ad-nai is seen" this is it built and perfected in the future to come as the topic [in the verse] that is said: "When Ad-nai built Tzion, He will be seen in His glory" (Psalms 102:17).
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