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כלי יקר — שכון בארץ אשר אמר אליך / גור בארץ הזאת

Why does Hashem first tell Yitzchak 'שכון בארץ אשר אמר אליך' (a future-tensed promise to specify the land) and then immediately specify it — 'גור בארץ הזאת'? Aren't these phrases contradictory?

והקרוב בעיני לומר בזה שמנע ממנו הליכת חוץ לארץ לפי ששם אין מקום לגילוי השכינה, ואם כן לא יוכל לאמר אליו שם בנבואה איזה דבר לפי צורך השעה, לפיכך שכון בארץ אשר שם גלוי שכינתי, ושם אומר אליך בעת אשר ארצה לאמר לך איזה דבר נבואה.

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כלי יקר על בראשית כ״ו:ב׳

Kli Yakar on Genesis 26:2

Q — Why does Hashem first tell Yitzchak 'שכון בארץ אשר אמר אליך' (a future-tensed promise to specify the land) and then immediately specify it — 'גור בארץ הזאת'? Aren't these phrases contradictory?

A — Kli Yakar reads 'אשר אמר אליך' not as referring to *which* land but as referring to *the channel of prophetic speech itself*. Hashem is telling Yitzchak: dwell in the land where I can speak to you — because outside it 'אין מקום לגילוי השכינה,' and there I cannot communicate with you 'לפי צורך השעה.' Then 'גור בארץ הזאת' specifies the only such land. Yitzchak's restriction to Eretz Yisrael is not just a sanctity matter but a communications one: leaving the land means going off the air with Hashem.

והקרוב בעיני לומר בזה שמנע ממנו הליכת חוץ לארץ לפי ששם אין מקום לגילוי השכינה, ואם כן לא יוכל לאמר אליו שם בנבואה איזה דבר לפי צורך השעה, לפיכך שכון בארץ אשר שם גלוי שכינתי, ושם אומר אליך בעת אשר ארצה לאמר לך איזה דבר נבואה.

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