Avram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their property that they had acquired, and the souls they had made in Charan; and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they came to the land of Canaan.
English of Core Text: The school of Eliyahu taught: the world endures six thousand years — two thousand of chaos, two thousand of Torah, two thousand of the Messianic era. The two thousand years of Torah begin from “the souls they made in Charan.”
On the daf / in context: Onkelos renders “the souls they made” as souls they brought under the wings of the Shechinah (conversion / teaching). That moment is taken as the start of the era of Torah.
Type of Learning
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What Is Learned
Avram and Sarai’s work of drawing people to Heaven is treated as the historical opening of the “two thousand years of Torah.”