Where Scripture Itself Shows the Righteous Are Blessed and the Wicked Rot

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 70:4

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Rav Hamnuna said to one of the rabbis who was arranging aggadah before him: From where do we learn the matter that the Rabbis said, "The memory of the righteous is for a blessing" (Proverbs 10:7)? From the Torah, from where? As it is written, "And the LORD said: Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing?" (Genesis 18:17) [the righteous Abraham is named with blessing]. And from where do we learn the matter, "but the name of the wicked shall rot" (Proverbs 10:7)? As it is written, "and he pitched his tent toward Sodom, and the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners" (Genesis 13:12-13).

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AbrahamRighteousWisdom

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