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Lot’s wife has a marginal but eternal role in the history of the Jews. Thanks to her, dozens of young Israeli earn a fortune every year in American shopping malls by selling \u201cAhava\u201d products of the Dead Sea. And what did she do that earned her this fame? According to the plain sense of the text, she looked back. According to a midrash quoted by Rashi on Genesis 19:26, \u201cwith salt she sinned, and with salt she was punished.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Our Sages elaborate with a story. \u00a0When the two angels arrived at Lot’s house to save his family, Lot’s wife went to her neighbors and asked for some salt to add to the salad she was preparing, and her neighbors asked her how only now did she notice that she had no salt. She replied: \u201cWe have unexpected guests who have joined us for dinner.\u201d Word got out. A few hours later, all the people of Sodom, young and old alike, gathered at the door of Lot’s house demanding that the foreigners be handed over.<\/span><\/p>\n

Salt has several properties. The most prominent of these is its preservative quality. Salt causes food to dry up, removes the moisture, and as a result, salt has been a food preservative for human society until the invention of the refrigerator. Lot’s wife who continued to look back, who went to her neighbors to let them know about the angels, is a symbol of the resistance to change. At the expense of extinction and stagnation, she chooses to hold onto the old. And she receives the appropriate punishment. Millions of cubic meters of saltwater that have been called ‘Sea of \u200b\u200bDeath’ remind us to this day that man has such a trait that makes him look back and resist change even if the old world burns with fire and brimstone.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":37167,"id":37167,"title":"lots wife","filename":"lots-wife.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/lots-wife.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/not-letting-go-even-when-the-old-world-is-going-up-in-flames\/lots-wife\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"lots-wife","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":37161,"date":"2018-08-07 19:46:40","modified":"2022-03-01 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