Lot's Wife Turns to a Pillar of Salt
This article examines the parallels between the story of Lot and the Exodus from Egypt. What does Pesach, which will eventually be given to Israel alone, have to do with Lot, the ancestor of the natio…
Read more ›Chapter 19 describes the destruction of Sodom and Lot’s escape. This podcast compares Avraham’s hospitality at the beginning of Parshat Vayera with the hospitality Lot shows the angels in Sodom, and a…
Read more ›R. Yosef of Orléans, (northern France) was a 12th-century exegete who has become known through the generation as Ri Bekhor Shor. He was a Tosafist, a student of Rabbeinu Tam, and he was influenced mai…
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