A Rabbinic description of Avraham’s early quest.
In the first of his essays on Parashat Lech Lecha, “Yehudi—LeAn Ata Holech?” (Etnachta: Kriyot BeParashat HaShavua, Vol. 1, Yediot Acharonot—Sifrei Chemed, Tel-Aviv, 2009, pp. 38-40), R. Binyamin Lau notes that at the outset of the Midrash Rabba on this section of the Tora, a verse from Tehillim is quoted, followed by a well-known parable describing a realization that Avraham comes to early on: