God visits Abraham seven times, for example: the same thing, over and over, God challenging and promising, and Abraham responding. But this repetition makes change possible. What is never the same can’t change, since there’s nothing to change from. The challenges in each successive visit, for example, become more difficult, and at one point, in fact, become interior, presenting monumental challenges for change to the inner spirit. Of course, what this change suggests is a change in Abraham, a spirit-change