ויאמר ה' אל אברם לך לך מארצך וממולדתך ומבית אביך אל הארץ אשר אראך

It is difficult to understand why the Pasuk menƟons three different things — '' מארצך וממולדתך '' and “ומבית אביך.” Since all three refer to the same place, why was it necessary to menƟon each one separately? Once Hashem told אברהםto leave his land, it should have been understood that he must also leave his birthplace and his father’s house.

Rashi addresses this quesƟon and explains that אברם had already leŌ his original home in אור כשדים together with his father and had traveled as far as חרן. Hashem was now telling him to distance himself even further from his original home and to leave his father’s house in חרן as well. Thus, אברם land and birthplace were in אור כדשים, while his father’s house was in חרן.

We can explain further based on the words of the נצי''ב - He asks why the Pasuk does not first say “מבית אביך,” then “וממלודתך,” and finally “מארצך.” AŌer all, when a person leaves a place, he first leaves his house, then separates from his family, and only aŌerward leaves the country?

The נצי''ב explains that Hashem was commanding אברם not only to leave these places physically, but also to remove them from his thoughts and heart. This was a gradual process: first, he had to forget his land; aŌerward, his birthplace; and finally, his father’s house, which was the most difficult of all to leave behind. This is the meaning of the מדרש רבה reference to the Pasuk ( ושכחי עמך ובית אביך), “תהלים מ''ה ” — “Forget your naƟon and your father’s house.”

According to this, we can explain that the command to leave could have been fulfilled simply by saying “מארצך.” The reason Hashem also menƟoned “מבית אביך” was to teach אברם that it was not enough to leave physically; he also had to remove these places from his thoughts and heart and forget them.

According to this, we can understand why the Torah concludes פרשת נח by staƟng וימת תרח בח רון'' ” even though תרח sƟll had many years leŌ to live, as Rashi points out. The Torah is teaching us that when אברם leŌ חרן, he considered his father as if he had already died. In other words, אברם completely removed his father from his thoughts and heart, fulfilling Hashem’s command to leave behind not only his former home physically, but also emoƟonally and mentally.