Being reared in US Christianity, Sodom and Gommorah is taught as a lesson against anything other than cisgender man and cisgender woman being involved in a sexual relationship, and even that, outside of a marriage certificate.
But Ezekiel talks about the sin of Sodom as being too materially comfortable and not helping the poor. I’ve done searches on a couple of sites about Judaism and one is vague about the actual sin, the other which I’m afraid is a hasbara opp addresses it as Ezekiel addresses it. Yet another doesn’t mention it at all, but to stop short of the account. According to Judaism, is the sin greed or miserliness or of a sexual nature? Thanks in advance.
Part of the context for this is that there is a narrative over a few chapters in Genesis of Sodom and Gomorrah being the people everybody hates, objectionable both to their peers and to the divine observer. Abraham is the figure showing mercy and haggles with God to spare them if 50 (or 20, or even 10) righteous people can be found), and it is implied that not a single one is found.
The ultimatums and threats made to Lot can more accurately be seen as sexual assault, as well as a violation of the cultural norm of hospitality to guests. Relevant to part of your question is that Lot, as the protagonist, does not see it as transgressive to give his already-betrothed (!) daughters over to his neighbors. To keep the story concise it would have made sense to give just one last particularly shocking offense before the resolution.
Like with the rest of the Torah, the story was crafted in a certain social/historical context, passed down orally for generations, and then written down by multiple people trying to portray it coherently for the ages. It works nicely as an origin and identity story, but it breaks down if you nit-pick it, especially if you’re reading it in a modern Indo-European language. And vernacular nit-picking is what a lot of Protestants have made it their business to do.
Thank you for your answer.
I’m nit-picking because I got serious about my faith and wanted to better understand it. I wrote more about that and deleted it because it’s irrelevant.