Phase Transitions (The Martian) - Understanding the entire parasha as a transition to Avraham, along with the transitioning away from all the issues of the first ten generations. The opening hint is central, for the simple conceptual difference of the independence level involved between את-לפני is insufficient to give us usable insight into Avraham, and it is the only hint we receive! It is also insufficient to account for the qualitative difference of the set, unless we arbitrarily define the set as the set of those who are מתהלך לפני which seems tautological. It also does not define a qualitative difference of the התהלכות per se from that of חנוך ונח, only in how powerful the התהלכות is, but that is quantitative. Unless the set is the same as the Space, and indeed the difference is the אדם and his universe per se, which means that the farming of נח has to be appreciated itself as a change in the Space of the world not just as a New Age-like tree hugging, but as an extension of Sukkot and it’s יסכ"ה which appears here. Which means that the only transition that really makes sense is the space that allows for את or לפני and that itself changes the quality of the התהלכות, much as the transition between insect and mammal would change the experience of attraction to a flower from a fact like magnetism to a satisfaction like attraction and into human as beauty or possibly romantic infatuation and in Yisrael into beauty as Love. Which would explain also the difference in quality of the חסד from אדם ובהמה וריח ניחוח into the חסד לבני אדם which becomes אברהם in the transition from אב לארם לאב לכל העולם כולו. This is why the ותנח התיבה is according to the בעל הטורים a transition into רוח הקודש as per ותנח עליהם הרוח.
In this Space transition, only a certain התהלכות can take place, for it is no longer a space that even allows for א"ת because it is not filled with האלהים, but requires construction of אלהי הארץ which is achieved only by Avraham himself. Therefore it only allows לפני whereas the space of נח is מלא כל הארץ כבודו and thus only allows for א"ת.

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