He gets to Canaan, and the Pasuk (verse) says: He says, "One second, there's people living here. If you're going to send me away from my father's house, why are you sending me to a place where people are living? Why am I here?"
The answer is that you're not going here to be free. You're going here to find you, and you're going to find yourself in a difficult place. You're going to find yourself where there are people that don't believe like you, that don't think like you. You're going to find yourself in the challenge that brings the best out of you. That's how you're going to find you.
So we're going to take all of your limiting beliefs that maybe you were raised with in your father's house. We're going to put you in a new position and say, become great. We're going to put you in a new position and say, become something incredible. And the greatest place in the world to become something incredible is in Eretz Yisrael.
So many times, you have people, even today in 2026, when they feel a little lost, where their head is clouded. When they feel like they're alive, they don't know what to do. You know what they do? They get on a plane and they go to Israel. And they go to the Kotel. Why do they go to the Kotel? Because Hashem says about the Kotel, "I'm standing behind the wall. I am looking through the holes of that wall. My presence is still there."
Our nation was born in Eretz Yisrael. Humanity was taken from the dirt of Eretz Yisrael, of the place of the Beit HaMikdash. That's where humanity was created, and born from the stone that is by the place known as Bethlehem, which is the stone. It's the place that the whole world and the whole Jewish people we drink from draw from, and it's the place where Hashem's presence is still there.
Hashem says to Abraham Avinu, I'm sending you to this place. This is a place that has a wellspring of blessing. This place can bring incredible things out of you. This place can bring greatness out of you. And you know how it's going to do it? The first thing you do when you get there, you're going to be tested. Right when you get there, there's going to be a famine. And you're going to have to leave.
Because the goal wasn't to settle in a new place. The goal was to find the new you. The goal was to find the greatness inside of you, that your childhood, limited childhood, won't allow you to see. That's why Abraham Avinu was told to leave his father's house.
And almost every person is put in the same position. Almost every person has something in their childhood. It could be, or in their journey of life, it could be incredibly, terribly scarring and traumatic and really difficult. Or it could be that it's not so scarring, just having a dominating mother or having something where you had some failure a few times in a row. And what happens to all of this is your brain starts to speak and the fool inside of you starts to listen and starts to believe. And between the fact that you have negativity and the fact that you have so much untested potential, you stay within your limits. And you never ever find so much that's in you. And there's nothing sadder than this, than people that are walking around with a brain that's quivering, with a brain that's afraid because of some failure they went through.
That's why the Chatam Sofer says: you know what Lecha means? Lech Lecha means Lech Le'atzmecha. Go and find yourself. Hashem told Abraham Avinu. You're going to go and find this incredible person inside of you. And it is so sad to watch, yet so common to happen, that you see people who feel so sad, not just because of their situation, but so sad because of the beliefs that they created surrounding this situation. And now they're literally in emotional jail because they think they can't, and something happened in their life, something that they didn't expect, something that shouldn't have been, and they are now limited forever and they're now weak forever, and there's nothing sadder.
So many weak people have risen to become great people. So many limited childhoods have risen to become phenomenal givers in their life. There's so much inside of you. Don't stay stuck.
And it could be every now and then there are certain things that you realize you can't do, and you can't do it, that's okay. So you can't do it, this you can't do, but there's a hundred other things you can...