stillsmallvoice wrote:Hi all!
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While our Sages certainly do not downplay either the attempted homosexual gang-rape of Lot's angelic visitors (the people of Sodom could hardly have known that they were angels) or the Torah's ban on homosexual acts (the Torah does not refer to "homosexuality" per se; the wording of Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 is very precise - it is homosexual
acts which are a banned abomination) most of our Sages agree that the "sin of Sodom" was a combination of extreme stinginess, inhospitality and uncharitableness; our Sages cite Ezekiel 16:49
Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and careless ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy