Makom

And saw the place from afar... but not up close, for he saw the radiance of the Shechina (in-dwelling presence) of the Holy Blessed One who is called "The Place of the World." From afar specifically, an intense sight like looking at the sun. From a distance a person can look at it, but up close the sense of sight is not strong enough to look at the sun when it is close to a person. All the more so on top of all the more so, the brilliant radiance of the Blessed One's Shechina.

And he arrived at the place and lodged there because the sun had set. Our Sages said (Chullin 91b) that this was Mount Moriah, as it says about it “…and he saw the place from afar.” (Bereshit 22:4) That place was called ‘the place’ without any specific name. Every place has an identifying name, derived from the name of its owner or its nature, but in this it was separate from all other places – the essence and name of this place was hidden as I explained above in the portion of Vayera (22:14). Therefore it is called simply ‘the place,’ because it has not yet received the name which will distinguish it from all other places.

Another reason why it is called simply ‘the place,’ is because this is the place of the world. This is both because the foundation stone, from which the world was founded, is located there, and that even now the whole world rests on it because from there the Divine abundance pours out to the world. Ya’akov sensed that this would be the place of the Holy Temple when he saw that the sun set upon him before its proper time, because this holy place dims the sphere of the sun and does not require the sun. On the contrary - the sun needs it, as the Sages taught: R’ Avin said, we find that one who wants to make windows makes them wide on the inside and narrow on the outside in order to draw in the light from outside. But the windows of the Holy Temple were wide on the outside and narrow within – why? In order that the light would go out from the Temple and illuminate the world, as it says “…and the earth shone from His glory,” (Yehezkiel 43:2) and it is written “As a Throne of Glory, exalted from the beginning, so is the place of our Sanctuary.” (Yirmiyahu 17:12) See the version of this midrash in Yalkut parshat Tetzaveh 378. This is a proof that the sun does not light the Holy Temple, therefore the light of the sun dimmed immediately upon reaching this holy place, “…and it shall come to pass that at eventide it shall be light,” (Zechariah 14:7) because God shined the supernal light from this holy place until He appeared to Yaakov in a vision that night.

From another place... from another side or another path, and the meaning is that it is possible that relief (lit. space) will come to them but not by way of your hands. And there are those who say that this is a hint to The Blessed Name, for our predecessors of blessed memory called Him "The Place of the World," and truly these are their words, but we have not seen that name in Scripture. He is only called "abode" since He is above and if that is the case why does it say "another" [place]. And there is the question of why God's name is not written in the Megillah. Rav Saadia Gaon z"l answered that it is because the king commanded Mordechai to write the Megillah and they copied it in Persian into the book of chronicles, and if they had written God's name, the Persians would have changed it to the name of one of their gods.