<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">13:13 "And the people of Sodom were evil and sinful toward Hashem exceedingly." There are various explanations of why both "evil" and "sinful" are used. One explanation is that they were "evil" with respect to their money, and "sinful" in their bodies (</span></font><em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Sanhedrin 109a</span></font></em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">). </span></font></span></div></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><font face="Arial"></font> </span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Another explanation was that they were "evil" in this world; and "sinful" in respect to the next world (</span></font><em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Sanhedrin 107b</span></font></em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">). </span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><font face="Arial"></font> </span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">And yet another explanation is "evil" to each other; and "sinful" through adultery (</span></font><em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Yerushalmi, Sanhedrin 10:3</span></font></em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">).</span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "> </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">My own explanation is that they were evil toward each other and exceedingly sinful to God. Also, evil was a permanent state and sinful referred to different incidences.</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">12:1 Vayomer HaShem el Avram: "Lech L'cha," etc.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">The gematria of Lech L'cha is 100. So Avram was being told that life is a compromise: 50/50. And if he lives with give and take (50/50), he ends up with 100%.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">ri</span></font></div></span></div></blockquote></body></html>