Midrash su Salmi 78:54

Said Rabbi Yochanan: Once I was walking on a path and I came across a man who was collecting firewood. I spoke to him but he did not respond to me. Afterwards he approached me and said "Rabbi, I am dead and not alive", I said to him: "If you are dead - why do you need the firewood?". He responded: "Rabbi, listen carefully to what I am saying to you, when I was alive, my friend and I were doing a sin in my palace and when we came here we were sentenced to punishment by fire, when I gather wood they burn my friend, and when my friend gathers wood they burn me". I asked him: "Till when do you have to endure this punishment?" He told me: "When I came here I left my wife pregnant and I know she is pregnant with a son, therefore, please take caution with him and from the time he is born until he is five years old take him to he house of his rabbi to learn biblical verse (mikrah) because when he can say Barchu Et Hashem HaMevorach then I will be saved from the punishment of Gehenna".

(Gen. 28:17:) SO HE WAS AFRAID AND SAID: HOW AWESOME IS THIS PLACE! THIS is nothing but the Holy Temple, as stated (in Ps. 78:54): THEN HE BROUGHT THEM TO THE BORDER OF HIS SANCTUARY, THIS MOUNTAIN THAT HIS RIGHT HAND HAD PROCURED. Moreover, AWESOME can only refer to the Holy Temple. Thus it is stated (in Ps. 68:36 [35]): O GOD, YOU ARE AWESOME IN YOUR SANCTUARIES. He (Jacob) saw it destroyed, as stated (in Gen. 28:17): THIS IS NOTHING. (Ibid., cont.:) BUT THE HOUSE OF GOD, since he saw it < re >built. All the prophets also saw it built, destroyed, and < re > built. The Holy One simply said: You have seen it destroyed in this world, but in the world to come I am < re > building it myself. Then in my glory I am returning within it with you watching. Thus it is stated (in Is. 52:8): FOR EYE TO EYE THEY WILL SEE THE RETURN OF THE LORD TO ZION.³¹The midrash seems to picture Jacob’s dream ladder extending from the earthly Temple up eighteen miles to the heavenly temple. See Gen. R. 69:7.

(Exodus 15:16) "Until Your people, O L rd, pass over (the Arnon); until there pass over (the Jordan) this people whom You have acquired": For all the world is Yours, and You have no people but Israel, viz. (Isaiah 43:12) "This people have I fashioned for Myself." Four are called "acquisitions": Israel — viz. "this people whom You have acquired." Heaven and earth — viz. (Genesis 14:22) "Acquirer of heaven and earth." The Temple — viz. (Psalms 78:54) "this mountain (the Temple mount) that He acquired." The Torah — viz. (Mishlei 8:22) "The L rd acquired me (Torah) (in) the beginning of His way" (the creation). Let Israel come, who are called "acquisition," to the land, that is called "acquisition," and build the Temple, His "acquisition," in the merit of the Torah, which is called "acquisition." Thus — "this people whom You have acquired."

"your Owner (kanecha)": This (Israel) is one of the four that are called acquisitions (kinyan) of the L-rd: Torah, Israel, the Temple, and heaven and earth. Torah — (Proverbs 8:22) "The L-rd acquired me (Torah), the beginning of His way." Israel — "Your Father, your Owner." The Temple — (Psalms 78:54) "this mountain (the Temple mount), which His right hand acquired."