237. Where did He find them? It is written, "He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness" (Ibid. 10), "Terah, the father of Abraham...And I took your father Abraham" (Yehoshua 24:2-3). Since then He guided Yisrael in every generation and did not separate from them, and led them with compassion, as it says, "As an eagle stirs up her nest" (Devarim 32:11).
237. בְּאָן אֲתָר אַשְׁכַּח לֵיהּ. יִמְצָאֵהוּ בְּאֶרֶץ מִדְבָּר וּבְתֺהוּ יְלֵיל יְשִׁימוֹן וְגוֹ.' דִּכְתִּיב, תֶּרַח אֲבִי אַבְרָהָם וְגוֹ.' וָאֶקַּח אֶת אֲבִיכֶם אֶת אַבְרָהָם וְגוֹ.' וּמֵהָכָא דָּבַּר לְהוּ לְיִשְׂרָאֵל בְּכָל דָּרָא וְדָרָא, וְלָא אִתְפְּרַשׁ מִנַּיְיהוּ, וְדָבַּר לְהוּ בְּרַחֲמֵי, הה"ד כְּנֶשֶׁר יָעִיר קִנּוֹ וְגוֹ.'