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[quote=Anonymous]What da Jews think:

Part 1.

R. Levi said: [God said]: ‘Even if I wished to keep silent, justice for a certain maiden (ribah) does not permit Me to keep silent.’
For it once happened that two girls went down to draw water from a well.
One said to the other, ‘Why are you so pale?’
‘We have no more food left and are ready to die,’ she replied.
What did she do? She filled her pitcher with flour and they exchanged [their pitchers], each taking the other’s.
When they [the Sodomites] discovered this, they took and burnt her.
Said the Holy One, blessed be He: ‘Even if I desired to be silent, justice for that young girl does not permit Me to keep silent.
Hence it does not say, WHETHER THEY HAVE DONE ACCORDING TO THEIR CRY [namely, the cry of the Sodomites]; but ACCORDING TO HER CRY ‘- the cry of that maiden.

Part 2  (from the Talmud)

" A certain maiden gave some bread to a poor man, [hiding it] in a pitcher. When the matter becoming known, they daubed her with honey and placed her on the parapet of the wall, and the bees came and consumed her. Thus it is written, And the Lord said, The cry ( ???? ) of Sodom and Gomorrah, because it is great: whereon Rab Judah commented in Rab’s name: On account of the maiden [ribah]"

Part 3

Rabbi Judah said: They issued a proclamation in Sodom, saying, “Everyone who strengthens the hand of the poor and the needy with a loaf of bread shall be burnt by fire!” Pelotit the daughter of Lot was wedded to one of the wealthy men of Sodom. She saw a certain very poor man in the street of the city and her soul was grieved on the account. What did she do? Every day when she went out to draw water, she put in her pitcher all kinds of provisions from her house and she sustained that poor man. The men of Sodom said: “How does this poor man live?” When they ascertained the facts they brought her forth to be burnt by fire. She said: Sovereign of all world! Maintain my right and my cause at the hands of the men of Sodom! And her cry ascended before the throne of glory. In that hour the Holy One Blessed be He said: “I will go down and see whether they have done altogether according to her cry which is come unto me” and if the men of Sodom have done according to the cry of the young woman, I will turn her foundation upwards and the surface downward…

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