Wherever Abraham dwelt he planted an eishel, but nowhere did it flourish except in the land of Canaan. By means of this eishel, Abraham knew who adhered to God and who to idolatry. For a person cleaved to God, the tree spread its
Wherever there was a lonely widow whom no one wanted to marry, [Job] would go and lend his name to her [by declaring himself her relative or by speaking to her about marriage]. After that, men would come [asking to marry her] (Bava Basra 16a).
Job made four entrances to his house so that the poor would not have to trouble themselves to walk all around the house [in order to enter] . . . When [two poor people] met, one would say to the other, “from where are you coming?” “ From the house of
When Job harvested his field, everyone saw that there were clouds tied about his harvest so that the dry heat would not remove the moisture from [the produce] (Tanchuma, Toledot 13). I do not have any proof, but I suspect that people far and wide looked to
The Sefat Emet explains the verse in Shir Hashirim (5: 6) that says: "Nafshi ya'tzah bedabro imi." (That is, "My soul took leave of me when He spoke to me".) Chazal apply this