Jacob lay down in one place, and the whole land came under him.
Keter Shem Tov 1:8:1 takes the Talmudic image of God folding the Land of Israel beneath Jacob at Bethel and turns it into a teaching about holy work. The promise in (Genesis 28:13) is not only about land. It is about the hidden sparks scattered through that land and the grace that lets a person raise them from where he already stands.
The Baal Shem Tov refuses the fantasy that holiness is always somewhere else. Jacob does not have to run from place to place to gather what belongs to his soul. God gathers the work beneath him. The place he is lying on becomes wide enough to hold a whole country.
That changes the meaning of place. A town, a room, a difficult assignment, the exact ground under a person's body, can contain the sparks meant for him. The journey may be real, but holiness is not always hiding at the far edge of the map.
That is why the teaching also hears (Genesis 6:8) differently: Noah found favor in his place. A person may be sent far, but sometimes the entire labor of repair is folded into the ground under his feet.