Commentary for Sanhedrin 190:1

דכתיב (בראשית כח, י) ויצא יעקב מבאר שבע וילך חרנה וכתיב ויפגע במקום וילן שם כי בא השמש כי מטא לחרן אמר אפשר עברתי על מקום שהתפללו בו אבותי ואני לא התפללתי בו בעי למיהדר כיון דהרהר בדעתיה למיהדר קפצה ליה ארעא מיד ויפגע במקום

as it is written, And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went to Haran;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. XXVIII, 10. ');">¹</span> which is followed by and he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 11. The first verse implies that he had reached Haran, the second that he had not. The Talmud therefore proceeds to reconcile the discrepancy. ');">²</span> For when he reached Haran, he said [to himself], 'Shall I have passed through a place in which my fathers prayed, without doing so likewise!' He wished therefore to return, but no sooner had he thought of this than the earth contracted, and immediately he lighted upon a place [the objective of his journey]. An alternative exegesis is this: Pegi'ah<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H], the root idea of [H] 'he lighted upon'. ');">³</span>

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