Tag: Lot
The אנשי סדום used לוט as an example of what might go wrong when they bend their rules for outsiders.
A special sort of tyranny, unfortunately not uncommon.
Read MoreHaran negated the Kiddush Hashem Avraham made in Uhr Kasdim, so Avraham had to fix it by saving Lot
Included in that negation was that Nimrod still threw Haran into the furnace despite having just seen how Avraham was miraculously saved. “מכירו ומתכוין למרוד בו” –
Read MoreWhat is the right nations have to spoils of war?
Rav Yaakov says that was what he was saying here: The מהרי”ל דיסקין writes about it a bit more at length here:
Read Moreלוט, like all people, was a complex סוגיא.
Just like תורה has פרד”ס to it, so too do all people.
Read MoreEven if מחלוקת necessitates total separation from another, it does not absolve one of his obligations to him.
Even at the cost of אברהם אבינו’s entire עולם הבא, which was the very reason he separated from לוט!
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