Because the cry of [the victims of] Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous (18:20)This sounds way too familiar...In Sodom it was decreed: "Whoever hands a piece of bread to a pauper or stranger shall be burned at stake" Plotit the daughter of Lot was married to one of the leading citizens of Sodom. One day, she saw a pauper starving in the street, and her soul was saddened over him. What did she do? Every day, when she went to draw water from the well, she would place from all the foods of her home in her pitcher and feed the pauper. But the people of Sodom wondered, "This pauper, how is he surviving?" until the matter became known and she was taken out to be burned, and her cries rose to the Divine Throne. (Pirkei d'Rabbi Eliezer, ch. 25)
Our Rabbis taught: The men of Sodom were corrupted only on account of the good which G-d had lavished upon them... They said: Since there comes forth bread out of our earth, and it has the dust of gold, why should we suffer wayfarers, who come to us only to deplete our wealth? Come, let us abolish the practice of lodging travelers in our land...
If a person had rows of bricks the Sodomites came and each took one brick, saying, I have taken only one. If a person spread out garlic or onions to dry, each one came and took one, saying, I have taken only one.
There were four judges in Sodom: Shakrai, Shakurai, Zayyafi, and Mazle Dina. If a man assaulted his neighbor's wife and caused her to miscarry, they would say to the husband, Give her to him, that he make her pregnant for you. If one cut off the ear of his neighbor's ass, they would order, Give it to him until it grows again. If one wounded his neighbor they would say to the victim, Give him a fee for bleeding you.
They had beds upon which travelers slept. If the guest was too long, they shortened him; if too short, they stretched him out.
If a poor man happened to come there, every resident gave him a dinar, upon which he wrote his name, but no bread was sold to him. When he died, each came and took back his dinar.
A certain maiden gave some bread to a poor man, hiding it in a pitcher. When the matter becoming known, they daubed her with honey and placed her on the parapet of the wall, and the bees came and consumed her. Thus it is written: "And G-d said,: 'The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah, because it is great.'" (Talmud, Sanhedrin 108b-109a) Parsha In Depth Content
I've spliced my comments amongst your drivel. While America dispenses aid around the world, it does so with many restrictions attached, political and social.
I sure as hell hope so, good teacher! America is a good and giving nation. Israel would be dust again without our time, talent, treasure and blood.
There is after a death culture which demands that condoms, abortion and homosexuality be spread and America has been pushing that allong with the U.N.
Who are you to sit in judgement of America? You don't really know of which you speak o'torah sage! Each nation shall be judged by God Almighty. Who recieves His greatest judgement? Guess! Since when can you lump the UN in with the USA?
What do I care for the judgement of trapped Old Testament minds?.
America under President Bush has banned the use of foreign aid for the use in abortions.
Abortion is perfectly legal in the socialist enlightened State of Israel.
America also has way of dropping money with one hand and bombs with the other creating a confusing picture to the recipients
I sure hope we are confusing the assholes we drop bombs on!
If I were you partner, I would be looking for Sodom a little closer to home.Say over in Iraq. Knock off the self-righteous Jew stuff. A millstone might just wind up on your neck.