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GENESIS | 19:25 annihilated — GEN1075 The Rabbis describe the evil city of Sodo...

GEN1075 The Rabbis describe the evil city of Sodom as filled with dishonest judges.   They tell a story about Eliezer, Abraham’s righteous servant, who, while visiting Sodom, was beaten severely; his assailant even drew blood.  Yet when he brought the man into court, the judge ordered Eliezer to pay his attacker for having bled him (bleeding sometimes was performed as a medical procedure on sick patients).  In a rare Midrash with a humorous ending, the Rabbis report that the infuriated Eliezer picked up a stone, threw it at the judge, and opened a big wound.   He then said to the judge: Now, go and pay the fee you owe me for bleeding you to the man who attacked me.”   Sanhedrin 109b; Bialik and Ravnitzky, Book of Legends, 36.  TELVOL2:422

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