12/13/2023 0 Comments Story of lut sodom![]() ![]() He accordingly was punished by his daughters engaging in intercourse with him this episode became common knowledge and is read each year during the public Torah she-bi-khetav: Lit. Lot thought that if he were to dwell in Sodom, he could engage in licentious behavior without anyone’s knowledge. Consequently, these acts of incest are Lot’s punishment for his unseemly behavior.Īnother midrash ( Aggadat Bereshit 25:1) regards the daughters’ act as punishment for their father’s own sexual promiscuity. In contrast, in the second episode, which takes place after the upheaval of Sodom, Lot’s daughters engage in relations with their unwitting father. In the first event, in Sodom, Lot was ready to force his daughters, against their will, to engage in sexual relations with the townspeople. This midrash sharply focuses the reversal between these two episodes. In response to this, the Holy One, blessed be He, says to Lot: By your life, the improper act that you intended to be done to your daughters will indeed be committed, but to you. ![]() The Rabbis observe that a man usually allows himself to be killed in order to save his wife and children, while Lot was willing to allow the townspeople to abuse his daughters. His negative behavior comes to the fore when the townspeople mill about his door, demanding that he hand over the angels, and he instead offers his daughters to the mob. Midrash ( Tanhuma, Vayera 12), Lot, from the outset, decided to dwell in Sodom because he wanted to engage in the licentious behavior of its inhabitants. According to the A type of non-halakhic literary activitiy of the Rabbis for interpreting non-legal material according to special principles of interpretation (hermeneutical rules). ![]()
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