Talmud Tractate Sanhedrin - Is She Turned Into Salt?

Brent: Why salt? Because she could have been, you know, flamed out fire. So why a pillar of salt? That's an odd, an odd punishment. Wasn't just that she was skilled or something. She gave some bread to a poor man in the city of sodom. rabbis taught men of sodom were corrupted only on account of the good which god had lavished upon them. Brent: 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? Right? Thit's totally foreign to us. No, never heard anything like