In both cases, this is the severe punishment for looking back when one has been expressly told, by a god, not to look back. As with the story of Adam and Eve and the Fall of Man , where Adam is told not to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, the point is to obey these rules without question. This salt mass is some five miles long and three miles wide, and feet high.
You can see a smaller example of this structure in the photograph above. This vast structure is crystallised rock salt covered with chalky limestone and gypsum. Image: Yair Aronshtam via Wikimedia Commons. Enter your email address to subscribe to this site and receive notifications of new posts by email.
Email Address. Interesting Literature is a participant in the Amazon EU Associates Programme, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by linking to Amazon. Share this: Tweet. Like this: Like Loading Subscribe via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this site and receive notifications of new posts by email. If we turn from the beggar on the street, if we avert our eyes from the person with a disability or a disfigurement, if we fail to look at the wounded person lying in the hospital bed, then how can we ever truly hope to make a difference to those who are suffering in our midst?
We'll never know what motivated Lot's wife to turn around and look. Affiliate Hat ReformJudaism. Vayeira, Genesis — To what does the phrase "from behind him" refer? We begin our study with a text from the Zohar , a mystical, thirteenth-century Spanish commentary: "But his wife looked back from behind him. How does this inform your evaluation of Lot's wife's action and her punishment?
Based on the teaching of the Zohar , how can the Sh'chinah be a form of protection for us? Who sinned? Lot's wife? Both of them? Was Lot's sin that he was hospitable? Why was Lot's wife wrong for informing the neighbors? How does this "punishment fit the crime"? An Ethic of Observation. Daver Acher By: Betsy Torop. Genesis For lack of a minyan of righteous people, God resolves to annihilate Sodom and Gomorrah. Reference Materials. When do we read Vayeira.
D'var Torah Author Michael Torop. View All Posts From Author. Daver Acher Author Betsy Torop. The men of Sodom persisted, trying to reach the angels, who looked like men. The outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it. Lot warned his sons-in-law, but they mocked him and refused the warning. As the dawn was approaching, the angels again told Lot that judgment was immediate, and he needed to take his wife and daughters out of the city.
Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away! Lot and his two daughters fled to the nearby mountains in the city of Zoar. The oldest daughter realized the agedness of her father and the absence of her mother. Because of his drunken condition, Lot did not realize what was happening as his daughters each slept with him in succession.
Each daughter conceived a son in this way, who became fathers of the Moabites and the Ammonites Genesis His wife told Lot it was bad custom to offer the salt from their household, so she went house to house in the neighborhood informing the men of the houses of the two travelers while she looked for salt. This idea is not expressed in the Bible, only in Jewish teachings. Her action suggests that she identified with the people of Sodom.
We are not told the specific reason she looked back to the city as it was being destroyed. The story warns believers of the consequences of looking back on their previous life of sin before salvation. Such pondering will usually return us to past sins.
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