Okay so is turning back to look at the destruction and getting turned into salt supposed to be an allegory for refusing to let go of toxic shit in the past and being damned for the refusal to only look forward? Jewish chapos, help me out.
Maybe it’s just that God will fuck you up if you do the one thing he told you not to do. It seems to be a recurring theme of his in the Torah, what with Adam and Eve, Lot’s wife, and the dude who touched the Ark all getting smited.
As far as I learned growing up, the Reformed Judaism conclusion is that early chapters torah god is just kind of a massive dick, lets not worry about it much and make new acoustic guitar versions of old hymns instead.
I think the commentators say that it was a natural event from the sulphur/salt that was falling everywhere, rather than being a miracle. The miracle was that anyone got out alive at all, she just fucked up the instructions.
Rashi says she sinned by not being hospitable enough to the visiting angels (denying them salt for their food) and therefore got an ironic punishment in keeping with the idea that Sodom was destroyed for its violations of hospitality.
(But that's just Rashi's opinion, I like the idea that it's about letting go of the past. I think Gabriel Marcel says something similar about the gorgon myth, that the irrevocability of the past has a petrifying effect.)
The very horny Christian interpretation notwithstanding, the Jewish position is stated pretty clearly in Ezekiel: "Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom your sister: pride, abundance of bread, and careless ease were hers and her daughters', and she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy."
(But that’s just Rashi’s opinion, I like the idea that it’s about letting go of the past. I think Gabriel Marcel says something similar about the gorgon myth, that the irrevocability of the past has a petrifying effect.)
Couldn't they just put the cliffsnotes in a box? Maybe wouldn't have so many religion flavors
Okay so is turning back to look at the destruction and getting turned into salt supposed to be an allegory for refusing to let go of toxic shit in the past and being damned for the refusal to only look forward? Jewish chapos, help me out.
Maybe it’s just that God will fuck you up if you do the one thing he told you not to do. It seems to be a recurring theme of his in the Torah, what with Adam and Eve, Lot’s wife, and the dude who touched the Ark all getting smited.
As far as I learned growing up, the Reformed Judaism conclusion is that early chapters torah god is just kind of a massive dick, lets not worry about it much and make new acoustic guitar versions of old hymns instead.
I think the commentators say that it was a natural event from the sulphur/salt that was falling everywhere, rather than being a miracle. The miracle was that anyone got out alive at all, she just fucked up the instructions.
Rashi says she sinned by not being hospitable enough to the visiting angels (denying them salt for their food) and therefore got an ironic punishment in keeping with the idea that Sodom was destroyed for its violations of hospitality.
(But that's just Rashi's opinion, I like the idea that it's about letting go of the past. I think Gabriel Marcel says something similar about the gorgon myth, that the irrevocability of the past has a petrifying effect.)
Wasn't Sodom nuked for all the cool shit going on there?
There's actually a verse much later in scriptures that says this was the reason
Ezekiel 16:49 - KJV
Which uuhhh, if true, would not bode well for the USA lol
Religious scholars disagree on whether Sodom was totally based or in fact quite the opposite
What do religious scholars have to say about the pornhub worthy content this scene plays prelude to?
The very horny Christian interpretation notwithstanding, the Jewish position is stated pretty clearly in Ezekiel: "Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom your sister: pride, abundance of bread, and careless ease were hers and her daughters', and she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy."
Couldn't they just put the cliffsnotes in a box? Maybe wouldn't have so many religion flavors
Cool guys don't look at explosions