Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely YHVH is in this place, and I did not know it.”
#genesis 28:16 #vayetsei

The land of #israel is the center of the world and the center of God's interaction with the world. Abraham could not have established his posterity in Ur nor Jacob in Egypt. God's people belong in the land of Israel.

Abraham's, Isaac's, and Jacob's encounters with God are like narrowing concentric circles. Abraham met God on a mountain. Isaac prayed and meditated in a field. Jacob encountered God at a house. (Beth-El means "house of God".)