Friday, May 30, 2008

Lying in מיטת סדום

ק קט קטג קטגור קטגוריות
נמיין את כולם, נכניס לתיבות
הנה מטתו של סדום
כולנו עומדים סביב לה
כולנו אחוזי מידות, מלומדי אוניברסיטה
איש לשונו על חרצובו מפחד להיות


A long time ago I read a series of midrashim about S'dom, a Rabbinic effort to understand what exactly was their sin. One of them says there was one "guest bed" in s'dom; if the guest was too long, he was trimmed to fit, and if he was too short, he was stretched to fit. The image of the guest bed of S'dom has haunted me ever since. How often do you feel you are being invited to lie in it? How often do you try to invite someone else to have a go?

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