In Genesis we find that
G-d wanted to destroy the evil city of Sodom.
Avraham, in an attempt to try
stop the destruction, enters into a plea bargain with G-d and asks; “What if
there should be fifty righteous people in
the midst of the city, would You still stamp it out?”[1]
The Kotzker gives a
fascinating interpretation to the expression ‘righteous people in the midst of the city’.
He says; “The righteous person must be in the midst
of the city, mingling together with ordinary people, and not cloistered away in
his own section.”[2]
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