Sunday, January 22, 2012
Hashem's Decision
Hashem has to decide whether or not he should tell Avraham about destroying Sedom. He decides to tell him and Avraham attempts to bargain with Hashem to try to save them that if there are righteous people there the city should not be destroyed. Avraham goes from 40 to 30 to 20 to 10 and Hashem said that it will not be destroyed if there are 10 but Hashem could not even find 10 righteous people in that city. In class we asked the question-Why does this conversation define who Avraham is? The answer to this was that it was a universal kindness and appeals to G-d's sense of Mishpat. We also talked about why Hashem would destroy this city and the answer to that was that this was the exact opposite of what Avraham's descendants were supposed to be-his descendants were supposed to be moral and have Tzedek and Mishpat and the people of Sedom were lacking Tzedek and Mishpat and they were completely immoral people.
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I slightly disagree with Racheli's last point. I don't think that Hashem had to destroy the city because the people were the exact opposite of what Avraham's descendants were supposed to be like. Yes, they were immoral people, and I think that's why they had to be destroyed. They didn't fit into G-d's plan for what his world was supposed to be like. Like in Dor HaMabul, when all the people were killed due to their immorality, these people were just too immoral and unethical to get a place on G-d's earth.
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