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Visiting Zoar, the City Where Lot Took Refuge after the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
Blackened slopes among lush fields bring to mind the biblical story.
This coming Shabbat, synagogue-goers will read Numbers 19:1–22:1, which describes the Israelites’ journey into what is now Jordan, where they encamp near the Brook of Zered, thought to be modern-day Wadi al-Hasa. Konstantinos Politis describes the “fertile plain of vegetable fields and palm groves, which owes its prosperity to the Wadi al-Hasa, which flows from the rugged mountains of the eastern Jordanian highlands” and its “spectacular scenery.” Amid this plain is the village of Ghor al-Safi, which has long been thought to be the biblical city of Zoar—one of five cities, including Sodom and Gomorrah, that God told Abraham He wanted to destroy. God spared Zoar at Lot’s pleading. Politis writes:
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Visiting Zoar, the City Where Lot Took Refuge after the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
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