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In this chapter,\u00a0 Abraham establishes the detached, alienated identity motif of the Jewish people throughout the generations. He instructs his servant to find his son a wife who is not one of the daughters of the land of Canaan, “among whom I dwell” (Genesis 24:3), but rather “go to the land of my birth and get a wife for my son Isaac” (24:4), and “on no account may you take my son back there!” (24:6).<\/span><\/p>\n

After years in which he lived in this land to which God sent him, he still does not call it “my land,” and not only that, but he also makes sure that his son and his children afterwards will have \u00a0a similarly complex identity in which they live in one country, are even born there, but at the same time yearn for another country, another people who remained in the homeland.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is as if Abraham wants to ensure that this discomfort and insecurity will always be part of his sons’ identity, whose roots would always be “in two different landscapes” (as Leah Goldberg put it), their hearts would always be torn between their homeland and God\u2019s land, the Land of Israel. \u00a0That is, they will never feel fully as if they belong.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps Abraham understands that in order to live a full life in a complex world, in order to remain sensitive to human complexity, in order to feel God’s closeness, there is a need for something that is missing, lost, or given up.<\/span><\/p>\n

True, this may weaken us and depress us, but it also forces us to find unexpected, unpaved and very authentic ways – to ourselves, to our family, to God.<\/span><\/p>\n

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