That’s one version.
The one I heard is that she was to remain, like salt, unchanged, as salt does not really break down much, it mixes in things but becomes part of them, not changing itself.
Lot’s wife could not accept the change that G-d demanded of her family - to leave Sodom and never look back. She’d liked their properous life in Sodom and hated to leave, hated to change; and as they journeyed she was “looking back”, not “changing”, just like a pillar of salt.
Lots wife could not accept the change that G-d demanded of her family - to leave Sodom and never look back. Shed liked their properous life in Sodom and hated to leave,
Ot, there are pillars of salt all around the place. And it makes for a great ending. (Which it is.)