Chasidut do Liczb 23:9

Numbers 23,9. “as I see them from the mountain tops, ‎etc.;” according to Rashi,, Bileam, viewing Israel’s ‎origin, understands that the creation of hills and mountains, etc., ‎was all due to G’d wanting a people such as Israel. If He had not ‎foreseen this in the future He would not have bothered with ‎creating our part of the universe. This reminds us of Tanna de ‎bey Eliyahu 14 where the opening line in the Torah reading ‎בראשית ברא אלוקים‎, is understood to mean that on account of ‎Israel, also known as ‎ראשית‎, G’d began the creation of the ‎universe. Had G’d foreseen only gentile nations in the future He ‎would not have bothered creating hills and mountains.‎