That's why they wanted to rape Lot's visitors and were ready to attack Lot, to force him to turn-over to them, his visitors. New International Version (NIV), “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”. Yet deeper: the need to need others. when you will listen to His voice . The two, who did so merit, were Caleb and Joshua, because they understood - as did Jewish women - that Egypt was a sewer, so were totally glad to have been freed. .”15. Reply, I refer you to 'The Enemy of Nature: the end of capitalism or the end of the world?' (AF) Flee to the mountains(AG) or you will be swept away!”, 18 But Lot said to them, “No, my lords,[b] please! God dealt with people primarily on a … Gain a concise, fundamental grasp of what the Bible is all about with our NEW "Know the Bible" series. Reply, This is another outdated assessment of Capitalism, look at what Capitalism has created, over 60 percent of the world population is impoverished and getting more so and the environment/biosphere is Destroyed because of Corporate Capitalist Culture, as an Educated Farmer how is in touch with Nature on a daily basis, not living in toxic City (Brooklyn) Cited and discussed by Philip Wexler in Social Vision (Herder & Herder, 2019), p. 114. 9 “Get out of our way,” they replied. 38 The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi[h]; he is the father of the Ammonites[i](BM) of today. Enjoyed it thoroughly The answer is "yes" but the overall answer is "cruelty" with the trigger for destruction being rape. As you know, not all can be trusted. Well, they weren’t hospitable. It’s a deep valley, and before these cities were overturned, the Jordan branched out into a delta, watering the earth well and sprouting rich, lush greenery. Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed. So, when the Germany and its Allies began a genocide against Jews and Gypsies (Roma/Sinti) the A-mighty decreed destruction. Sodom and Gomorrah are two of the Old Testament’s most infamously sinful cities. Rather, the Talmud uses the term “Sodomite attitude” to describe an extreme form of isolationism. Lessons from Sodom and Gomorrah (1) God will judge those who reject Him. Reply, I love this talk, thank you. But Sodom did not operate that way. He says, “Let me be, and I’ll let you be.”. In this way their land was isolated from all other lands, and they managed their own resources so that they didn't need to receive any goods from any foreign land. The lesson: Jews should not settle in places, wherein the inhabitants lack a moral compass. In fact, the most righteous man in Sodom was Lot—the man who offered his daughters to be gang-raped. Certainly there were many detestable sins in Sodom and her daughter cities. A married couple evolves over many years into a single being because they learn to need one another. Accordingly, they did not look back to Egypt at all, let alone with longing, as did the 603,538 of their peers. Kegon zeh. !Their isolationism. You just have to keep the incentive behind the results. We know this from Sh'mos (Exodus) 2:12. 19 The two angels(A) arrived at Sodom(B) in the evening, and Lot(C) was sitting in the gateway of the city. The Sodomites' key sin was not just hostility to newcomers. The city was destroyed by fire from heaven in the time of Abraham and Lot (Genesis 19:24). Moses killed an Egyptian, whom he saw cruelly beating a Jew. But when G‑d made the earth, He did so with wisdom, so that all the world functions in a way of tikkun—the diametric opposite of Sodom's isolationism. Withholding money from a spendthrift child is an inobvious way. It was because of this baseless hatred - sinas chinam - that S'dom and 'Amorah were destroyed. I was raised on the song, “G_d bless the child that’s got his own.” Unfortunately, our home was also a place abuse and neglect. Could have been his money. The men of Sodom and Gomorrah wanted to perform homosexual gang rape on the two angels (who were disguised as men). So, they enacted that the poor were to be left to starve to death and the charitable should be punished harshly, if they helped those in need. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up. As long as the law is righteous, there is a standard for repentance. Capitalism didn't make them poor, it just made others wealthy. That’s perhaps the most ignored but vital need of the human being: the need to be needed. Yet deeper—and even more vital—the need to need others. See more. No one has ever found the destroyed cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, but scholars believe that they stood in the Vale of Siddim across from these cliffs. A lesson is that the righteous: (a) should not allow psychopaths to take charge of public affairs and (b) if, nonetheless, psychopaths do take charge, the righteous must flee. In Lurianic terms, “the light was too great for containment.” We moderns might say that when the parts of the whole work independently of one another, they generate far more energy than the whole can contain. Thus there was no righteous standard, no point of return and thus judgment was the result. Answer: When God revealed His plan to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah due to the wickedness of those cities, Abraham asked God to spare the people. (AP) 25 Thus he overthrew those cities(AQ) and the entire plain,(AR) destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land. Corrupt the law and there is no standard for Teshuvah. Much of Germany was bombed to rubble and for 45 years, the country was divided. (Am I the only one who hears The very existence of our universe is predicated on every particle contributing its unique properties to a single whole.overtones of tohu there?). It’s commerce that redeems capitalism and It’s commerce that redeems capitalism and makes it good—very good. These saviors benefit all descendants of those saved, who will never know their benefactor. Lot was sitting there, and when he saw them, he stood up to meet them. Even if it required a "miracle" like parting the Red Sea? The mount of Sodom, a barren wasteland, rises sharply above the dead sea. Even with all the love in the world, they are only truly bonded when they find a need for one another in their hearts. Just the fact that one person sold and the other bought is good. There was one person everyone respected, and that was Abraham—Lot’s uncle and brother-in-law. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. ?In the meantime, Hassidic or Ashkenazi jehudim are the only ones to be accountable? The Talmud even discusses whether the homeless camper can ask the court to prevent Joe from throwing him out—because the Torah says, “You must do that which is good and upright.”2 What Joe is doing, in Talmudic eyes, is pure evil. God was mercifully willing to spare the cities for the sake of a few righteous people, but none lived there. The court says to him, “Your fellow citizen gains and you lose nothing. Those, who did this, wanted to make "normal" ("lawful") the doing of things that should not be done. The ancient Midrash13 describes King David asking of G‑d, “Why couldn’t You make everyone in Your world equal in means?”, G‑d replied, “If I would do so, how would kindness and truth be sustained?”. Let’s go back briefly to the story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. “This fellow came here as a foreigner,(P) and now he wants to play the judge! He desires total independence and isolation. Reply, All of us face challenges. They could have ignored Lot's visitors. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground() 2 “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s houseYou can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.” The core of the Sodomites' sin - that brought down destruction - was their gratuitous cruelty. (E) 2 “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. They said, “What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is yours.”, How do we see this among the people of Sodom? This explanation, to me, seems more in line with the plain meaning of the text. G‑d was not pleased with that world. They delighted in acts of cruelty, especially to those who had done them no harm. And we don’t want them coming here, either. The context of this verse is that two angels had visited Lot in Sodom in an effort to get him to leave the city since it was about to be destroyed. But, perhaps surprisingly, the Talmud does not associate Sodom principally with idolatry, murder, sexual impropriety, thievery, or even corrupt business practices. Even amongst themselves, each one was isolated and independent. No one would accept anything from anyone else. His being charitable to his visitors didn't cost Sodomites even a penny. A world of tohu is a world where no two things can work together. All in all, a virtual garden of Eden. The angels instructed Lot to flee to the mountains, but Lot requested to spare the town, Zoar, where he will flee from the destruction. Several time in the Bible the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were given as examples of God’s judgment on those who reject Him and rebel against His Lordship (Luke 10:12, 17:29; 2 Peter 2:6; Jude 1:7). There’s much talk today about whether capitalism is evil. Reply, But why were "laws...changed and corrupted...behavior"? (AA)”, 16 When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters(AB) and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them. This is not Karaism or Protestant Reform, where every student can go back to the text and read whatever feels right to him. (AS) 26 But Lot’s wife looked back,(AT) and she became a pillar of salt. It’s commerce that redeems capitalism and makes it good—very good. It was one Angel to confirm and make the accusation and the second to argue against or confirm and destroy the communities. Lot tried to temper Sodomites' viciousness. After all, G‑d destroyed them with fire and brimstone. Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. Is birth an accident? There should be pretty good records of births, marriages, etc. The biblical account of Sodom and Gomorrah is found in Genesis 18 and 19. 32 Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line(BD) through our father.”(BE), 33 That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him. See Rashi to Sh'mos 13:18. The gamut of opinions and explanations of this concept is presented at length by Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz in his Shnei Luchot Habrit (“Shelah ha-Kadosh”), Sha’ar ha-Gadol. The Sins of Sodom and Gomorrah (18:20-21) "Then the LORD said, 'The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. There will always be poverty and inequality. Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away(Z) when the city is punished. The Talmud tells more stories about Sodom and their nasty, even brutal, treatment of visitors. Finally, Lot's visitors told him to take his wife and daughters and to flee. 19 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. Tzedakah (charity) is an obvious way. Because people needing people is good. And that explains why the destruction was total: cruelty was do deeply embedded, that destruction was the only cure.There's a lesson for us: when comes the time to destroy a genocidal regime, all - who served that regime - must be killed. He hasn’t lied to anyone. The homeless individual takes him to a Jewish court. They simply had to embrace Jewish practices. Genesis 18:22-33 says there were not even ten righteous people in Sodom. According to the Bible, “the men of Sodom were wicked” (Genesis 13, verse 13).For its many sins, God destroyed Sodom and all the inhabitants of the “cities of the plain” in an intense conflagration, but not before allowing Abraham’s nephew Lot and his family to flee to safety. ‘dictators of Sodom, people of Gomorrah’ : ip-1 22 ‘great city called Sodom and Egypt’ : it-2 985; re 167-170 “vine of Sodom” : it-2 1156. whether inhabitants will be resurrected: pe 178-179; w88 6/1 30-31. why disinterested in warning: w88 2/1 28 Moses understood the Egyptian - and his descendants - was and would be evil-doers. Also, rather than destroying and killing these people, why didn't Hashem just teach them Tikun? This is a summary of the Biblical account of the city of Sodom and Gomorrah. Surprisingly, both appeal to Scripture to support their positions, most notably Ezekiel 16:49 and Jude 1:7. “I don’t want to give you anything, and I would appreciate it if you don’t give me anything.” Why is that the ultimate evil? The Bible tells us all the inhabitants were depraved. Each different research lab is working on a different type of vaccine -- neither we nor they know yet which will be most effective. The souls of the people of Sodom originated from the realm of tohu. And allow yourself to need that friend. Do you have a problem with that?”, Joe answers, “It’s my property. They ride out to do battle, but fall into a bunch of tar pits and get massacred. The story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis does not explicitly identify homosexuality as the sin for which they were destroyed. Reply, What?Did you understand what he brought here?It's an explanation of their wickedness.It's a little simplistic to say . “If not Now.....then When” We know because of Abraham's intercession. It was their gratuitous and egregious cruelty, to those who had done them no harm. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed. They were nations overrun with evil. Rather, the Sodomites who surrounded Lot's house wanted the visitors sent out to them, so that "we may know them", i.e., so we may abuse them sexually. (X)” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking. What do these two times have in common? The very existence of our universe is predicated on every particle contributing its unique properties to a single whole. Reply, This makes me wonder whether the great research labs, scattered among the worlds nations, would not have been better off pooling their resources in the effort to find a Covid-19 vaccine.They clearly need each other, yet seem to be motivated by profits, and so work independently and alone. Early the next morning, Abraham looked at Sodom and Gomorrah and saw smoke, knowing that God has destroyed the cities. The story of the judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah is told in Genesis 18–19.Three men come to Abraham in the plains of Mamre.After the angels received the hospitality of Abraham and Sarah, the Lord reveals to Abraham that he would confirm what he had heard against Sodom and Gomorrah, "and because their sin is very grievous.". Not only did they not take in guests, they couldn’t even allow others to have guests stay in their home. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.” In Rabbi Luria’s narrative, that eruption left fragments of tohu that fell to become our world, a world where harmony, or tikkun, is possible. middat S’dom. NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Sodom and Gomorrah have come to represent the epitome of evil. 13, p. 234. They were cruel to those, who had done them no harm. Reply, A great deal of trust is involved in this situation.much more than with individuals. You're correct. This killing saved the Jew on the spot, and those, whom the Egyptian and his progeny would also kill.Most cannot see over the time-horizon, so can't know our acts' long-term impacts. Kedorlaomer and his allies then ransack Sodom and Gomorrah, taking all their possessions, all their food, and carrying a ton of their citizens off. 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See Tosafot, Bava Batra 12b, s.v. Indeed, that is what trade is all about—that each land both receives from others and gives to others. (T) Get them out of here, 13 because we(U) are going to destroy this place. doesn't this contradict their attitude of "what is mine is mine and what is yours is yours" if they truly felt isolated from one another, why would his hospitality bother them? So he tells him to get off. And, where research lab managers see a need for collaboration with a competitor, when that's likely to benefit both, that collaboration is likely to occur. Reply, This is a typo correction: Of the 603,550 non-Levite men, who left Egypt, 603,548 did not merit to cross into Kna'an. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by Jacobz de Wet/Wikipedia/Public Domain According to archaeologists working on the site believed to include the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, they found evidence confirming the Biblical record that the two cities were destroyed by sulphur and fire: 23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came… In Genesis 14, the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Zoar, Admah, and Zeboim all rebel against him and raise an army. Someone, who is poor, seeks to better him- or herself and founds a company or a school, which benefits many others. A counter-entropic entity united by circulation of energy. Just this past week, I discovered that she is supporting herself with prostitution. It seems that the very existence of our universe is predicated on every particle contributing its unique properties to a single whole. It is a sin against nature. Now for some words from a more recent Kabbalist and chassidic master, Rabbi Sholom Dovber of Lubavitch, writing in 1914:8. Igrot Kodesh, vol. But because the Sodomites were psychopaths, they sought-out Lot's visitors, in order to rape them. In fact, he’s brutally honest. 10 But the men(R) inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. You can wash your feet(F) and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.”, “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”(G), 3 But he insisted(H) so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. 1 In both texts, the sin of homosexuality and its judgment is a primary theme. For example, when God destroyed the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, he spared the good man Lot and his two daughters. All have in common one thing: They all need one another for their own wholeness. Here too, it will be important for the laws of scientific and medical purity to not be corrupted, in order for the safest and most effective vaccine to prevail (not simply the first one). 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