Lot's daughters

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1. Survival and Revival - On the Righteousness of Noah

   Rabbi Chanoch Waxman

   Noah is introduced as a wholly righteous man, but ends his life drunk and humiliated. How does such a tragedy occur? A comparative read of the stories of the Flood and the destruction of Sodom reveals that Noah's failure stems from the fact that he didn't seek to help those around him, in contrast with Avraham, who attempts to help even the sinners of Sodom.

2. The Roots of Megillat Ruth: Lot and Avraham

   Dr. Yael Ziegler

   Ruth the Moabite if s descendant of Lot, who chose to separate from Abraham and move to Sodom. While he escaped the fate of Sodom, his family adopted the faulty Sodomite sexual and moral culture. While Ruth is a descendant of Moab, she chooses to join the nation of Israel, offering a tikkun to Lot’s actions, and to the rampant immorality of the Israeli nation in the era of Judges.

3. Creation Anew

   Rabbi Zeev Weitman

   After mankind was corrupted, God regrets creating man, and destroys every living thing. The renewal of the world after the flood is described as a re-creation of the world. Is the new world more successful than the first? What is the relationship between Noah's drunkenness and Adam's sin? Is there a relationship between Lot's drunkenness after the destruction of Sodom and Noah's drunkenness after the destruction of the world?

4. Naomi, Tamar, and Lot's Daughters: Continuity at All Cost

   Dr. Yael Ziegler

   God - through Boaz - is the provider of food and children. Naomi's plan to seduce Boaz is beneficial for Ruth and for herself. The immodest plan that Naomi develops is based on the biblical precedents of the daughters of Lot with Lot - the progenitors of Ruth - and Tamar with Yehuda - the progenitors of Boaz.

5. An Immodest Proposal

   Dr. Yael Ziegler

   Naomi crafts a plan for Ruth to seduce Boaz in contrast with the reputation that Ruth is attempting to develop for herself. Despite the temptation, Boaz chooses to control his desires and asks "Who are you?" thereby identifying Ruth as a person, and thus acting differently than Lot and Yehudah.

6. Lot's Daughters: Real Fears and Drastic Measures

7. Noach – To Be A Man of the Earth

   Rabbi Yaakov Beasley

   How did Noah, filled with the hopes of his generation, descend so rapidly to the state of shame and dishonor that marks his final appearance in the Torah? In order to answer our questions, we will rely on literary allusions and connections to other stories to decipher the cryptic answers encoded within the text in front of us. 

   In direct opposition to God's wish to repopulate the desolate earth, Noach chooses to refrain from bringing new life forth. Instead, he chose to avoid his destiny, to drown himself in his own handiwork. 

8. Parshat Vayera Part 3: Escape from Sedom

   Rabbi Alex Israel | 32 minutes

   Chapter 19 describes the destruction of Sodom and Lot’s escape. This podcast compares Avraham’s hospitality at the beginning of Parshat Vayera with the hospitality Lot shows the angels in Sodom, and attempts to analyze Lot’s character through a close examination of the text and classical commentaries.  

   Courtesy of www.tanachstudy.com

9. The Rescue of Lot and His Daughters

   Rabbi Yaakov Medan

   This article examines the parallels between the story of Lot and the Exodus from Egypt. What does Pesach, which will eventually be given to Israel alone, have to do with Lot, the ancestor of the nations of Moav and Ammon? A close analysis of these texts and the story of Lot and his daughters attempts to answer this question.