{"id":37195,"date":"2018-08-07T23:58:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T20:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=37195"},"modified":"2022-03-01T10:19:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T08:19:22","slug":"looking-back-at-lots-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/looking-back-at-lots-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back at Lot&#8217;s Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[366,459,428],"acf":{"old_id":"37195","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":37187,"related_cahpter":"19","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"She was turned into salt either because God couldn\u2019t forgive her this desire . . . or because He could","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rabbi David Kimchi (a thirteenth-century exegete known by the acronym Radak) points out that in Genesis it is sulfur and fire that are said to have rained down on Sodom. But in Deuteronomy, when Moses, before dying, warns the children of Israel not to repeat the sins of the past, he speaks of sulfur and salt as having been poured onto the doomed city. In the course of explaining the discrepancy, Radak says that in fact all the people of Sodom became pillars of salt. The outcome of the physical devastation wrought upon Sodom was that the place itself became sulfur, while the people became salt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence\u2014at least if one follows Radak\u2014it seems that Lot\u2019s wife was not the spectacular aberration I had always thought. Her fate was continuous with those who had been left behind. Suddenly I felt the whole story of Lot\u2019s wife shifting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She was told not to look and she looked, says the Bible. And her punishment came swift and horrible, added my teacher, following the traditional interpretation I, too, had thought inevitable. But I read the story differently now: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She looked back to see if her two firstborn daughters were following, and she saw that they weren\u2019t and what had become of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In such a moment of grief one knows only one desire: to follow after one\u2019s child, to experience what she\u2019s experienced, to be one with her in every aspect of suffering. Only to be one with her. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And it was for this desire that she was turned into a pillar of salt. She was turned into salt either because God couldn\u2019t forgive her this desire . . . or because he could.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Excerpted and reprinted with permission from the essay \u201cLooking Back at Lot\u2019s Wife,\u201d in: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Reading-Genesis-Beginnings-Beth-Kissileff\/dp\/0567251268\/ref=pd_sim_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_i=0567251268&amp;pd_rd_r=88MHCTXN3G8429HT2XDY&amp;pd_rd_w=DxhWN&amp;pd_rd_wg=ou3xK&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=88MHCTXN3G8429HT2XDY&amp;dpID=510Tqy-DuzL&amp;preST=_SY344_BO1,204,203,200_QL70_&amp;dpSrc=detail#reader_0567251268\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reading Genesis Beginnings<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Beth Kissileff, editor, Bloomsbury, 2016, p. 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