The web is soon to be exposed and the spider will no longer be because every corner of the dwelling will be cleaned by its keeper. Sodom and Gomorrah was an ancient city of Syria located in the plain of Jordan. They ride out to do battle, but fall into a bunch of tar pits and get massacred. Reply, But why were "laws...changed and corrupted...behavior"? (AV) 28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace. That's why it affected even the Sodomites' children. (AU), 27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. Are all souls equally disposed and if so qhy are some souls born in comfortable surroundings but others face abject misery from birth? “This fellow came here as a foreigner,(P) and now he wants to play the judge! So, when the Germany and its Allies began a genocide against Jews and Gypsies (Roma/Sinti) the A-mighty decreed destruction. At the same time, it is not biblical to say that homosexuality was the exclusive reason why God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. Finally, Lot's visitors told him to take his wife and daughters and to flee. See Rashi to Sh'mos 13:18. 5 They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? What do these two times have in common? In Genesis 14, the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Zoar, Admah, and Zeboim all rebel against him and raise an army. That’s perhaps the most ignored but vital need of the human being: the need to be needed. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up. If, at a later date, they discovered their "roots", they need not convert, as they were born to a Jewish mother. These people were the opposite of how Abraham treated others (including the stranger). I want him out.”. Lot incurred no liability by residing near to, but not in, S'dom. What’s a healthy organism? The court says to him, “Your fellow citizen gains and you lose nothing. 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 sin of Sodom and Gomorrah wasn't independence and isolationism, it was extreme wickedness. Really need. Genesis 18:22-33 says there were not even ten righteous people in Sodom. Reply, This is another outdated assessment of Capitalism, look at what Capitalism has created, over 60 percent of the world population is impoverished and getting more so and the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) It was only after the Sodomites - who had demanded Lot hand-over his visitors to them so they could rape the visitors - that the visitors pulled Lot back inside his house. . The lesson: when persecutors - psychopaths - take charge, Jews must flee. Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Kings 12:5. 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. See also Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, Likkutei Torah, Emor 37c ff and Mattot 87a ff. Yet it would seem from the Mishnah that the worst business you could be in is no business at all. Just this past week, I discovered that she is supporting herself with prostitution. Eventually, it became heartless.have everything we need right here. !Their isolationism. Those, who did this, wanted to make "normal" ("lawful") the doing of things that should not be done. A married couple evolves over many years into a single being because they learn to need one another. by Joel Kovel. There was one person everyone respected, and that was Abraham—Lot’s uncle and brother-in-law. The story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis does not explicitly identify homosexuality as the sin for which they were destroyed. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.(BI). 29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the … He doesn’t want to engage in any commerce at all. 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. When the world was created, it was at first, as Genesis says,6 “tohu.” Tohu is generally translated as “chaos.” Rabbi Isaac Luria, however, describes tohu as a state of isolated ideals.7. Sodom and Gomorrah have come to represent the epitome of evil. This is a summary of the Biblical account of the city of Sodom and Gomorrah. Before this world was created, G‑d first created a world of tohu—a world of absolutes. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia in the past. when you will listen to His voice . Certainly there were many detestable sins in Sodom and her daughter cities. Rather, the Talmud uses the term “Sodomite attitude” to describe an extreme form of isolationism. (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 explanation, to me, seems more in line with the plain meaning of the text. 19 Your[c] servant has found favor in your[d] eyes,(AH) and you[e] have shown great kindness(AI) to me in sparing my life. Reply, The only nations suffering from Capitalism are those who don't engage in it. Lot was warned about this destruction by … . 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. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city! That 60% was impoverished before Capitalism showed up. 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. They delighted in acts of cruelty, especially to those who had done them no harm. Hashem gave Pharoh a choice. They could have ignored Lot's visitors. “Acquire yourself a friend!” our sages taught.19 People ask, “Why use the word acquire? Reply, All of us face challenges. In short, having Jewish ancestors does not make one Jewish, unless one's mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, etc., all were Jews. This is not Karaism or Protestant Reform, where every student can go back to the text and read whatever feels right to him. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.” Possibly flood waters of the Dead Sea engulfed them following an earthquake. We stand aside at our peril, because we must be our brother's keeper. This is how G‑d created the world to operate. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great(V) that he has sent us to destroy it.”(W), 14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry[a] his daughters. If, however, a person discovers that his grand-father was one of these Jewish children - brought up by Christians - and that person's mother is not Jewish, then her child is not Jewish. It doesn't seem that the people of Sodom has any choice but to die. (T) Get them out of here, 13 because we(U) are going to destroy this place. That's what makes Judaism so resilient and potent at all times, in all places.I should also note that the fate of the generation of the Flood was similarly sealed singularly on חמס —robbery: "The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth has become full of robbery because of them, and behold I am destroying them from the earth." The A-mighty sends into the World those morally deficient, to challenge us. The Sodomites were psychopaths. All have in common one thing: They all need one another for their own wholeness. Yet deeper—and even more vital—the need to need others. A counter-entropic entity united by circulation of energy. The lesson: Jews should not settle in places, wherein the inhabitants lack a moral compass. Gain a concise, fundamental grasp of what the Bible is all about with our NEW "Know the Bible" series. Reply, I love this talk, thank you. Perhaps it was the Talmudic take on Sodom that inspired David Ricardo, a great Jewish economist, to come up with his highly influential theory of competitive advantage, which explains why specializing and trading is beneficial not only for individuals but for nations as well. ‘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 Don’t surrender. While most Orthodox Jewish and Christian scholars have held the position that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because of their rampant homosexual behavior (namely, sodomy), there are others who believe that those cities were destroyed because of their pride.. Sodom and Gomorrah Are Destroyed Abraham and Sarah (as they were named by this point) were growing old, yet the Lord informed him of the growing wickedness and coming judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah. 12 The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? It’s commerce that redeems capitalism and It’s commerce that redeems capitalism and makes it good—very good. One day he discovers that some homeless individual is camping out on it. 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. Enjoyed it thoroughly A world where the weather is either hot or cold but never warm, where people are either super-friendly or hostile but never just chill, where either I run things or you run things but we can’t cooperate, where I don’t need you and you don’t need me and so no one has any business with the other. Question: "Why did Abraham bargain with God in regard to Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 18)?" There’s another description in the Talmud of the Sodomite attitude: One who says, “What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is yours.”4 Or, as Rabbi Ovadiah Bartenura reads that, “I don’t want to give you anything, and I would appreciate it if you don’t give me anything.”5, Okay, so he’s not the kind of guy you want on your baseball team, “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?but is he really the core of evil? 10 But the men(R) inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. 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