[Avodah] [Areivim] Torah Homeschooling

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:50:01 -0400 someone, on Areivim, characterized
our Hinuch system as a "Sodom bed".  My reply has been redirected here
by a moderator.

I once noted in a speech that this type of bed also appears in Greek
mythology, in the story of the bandit Procrustes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes

Serendipitously, only several days later I heard R. Breitowitz of
Silver Spring speak, and he also noted the parallel between the
Talmudic account and the Greek one.  There are at least three
possibilities:

I)  The two stories are independent.
II) The Greek version is a corruption of the original Sedom story.
III) Hazal utilized a popular Greek literary notion to illustrate the
depravity of Sedom.

Yitzhak
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