<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=571573" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Separate From Me</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Separate from me, ” said Abraham to Lot, <br>“our people cannot coexist with one another.”<br>Lot chose to live in Sodom, where it’s very hot, <br>and said to Abraham: “It really doesn’t bother<br>me that all the people there are dreadful sinners.”<br>Its nightlife influenced him to be the city’s chooser.<br>Some people do not have a knack for picking winners, <br>but do not pity Lot. Although he was a loser<br>who nearly fried to death and lay with both his daughters, <br>he ended up the ancestor of Israel’s kings, <br>when Ruth the Moabite caught up with Boaz, tortoise<br>that breaks its safety shell and flies with wifely wings.<br>This is a story that we learn in Aesop’s fables, <br>relating how the tortoise overtook the hare; <br>Boaz was a hare who didn’t care for labels, <br>thought anti-Ruth discrimination wasn’t fair.<br>In ancient Athens ostracism was ten-yearly, <br>a ritual that allowed return, recalling Lot’s<br>descendant who returned to Abraham sincerely, <br>by tying nuptial knots while cutting Gordian knots.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">3/14/06</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gershon+Hepner">Gershon Hepner</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=571573" data-title="Separate From Me de Gershon Hepner" data-description="“Separate from me, ” said Abraham to Lot, “our people cannot coexist with one another.” Lot chose to live in Sodom, where it’s very hot, and said to Abraham: “It really doesn’t bother me that all the people there are dreadful sinne..."></div> </div> </div>

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