Rabbi Yehudah says: They proclaimed in Sodom, "Anyone who hands a piece of bread to a poor or needy person shall be burned in fire." Plotit, the daughter of Lot, was married to one of the prominent men of Sodom. She saw a certain poor man, wasted away, in the street of the city, and her soul grieved over him. What did she do? Every day, when she went out to draw water, she would put into her jug some of everything that was in her house and feed that poor man. They said, "From where is this poor man living?" And when they came to know the matter, they brought her out to be burned. She said, "Master of the worlds, carry out my justice and my judgment!" And her cry rose up before the Throne of Glory. At that hour the Holy One, blessed be He, said, "Let Me go down now [and see] whether the men of Sodom have done according to the cry of this young woman; [if so] I will overturn its foundations." Scripture does not say "according to their cry" (ke-tza'akatam) but "according to her cry" (ha-ke-tza'akatah) (Genesis 18:21).
Plotit Burned in Sodom for Feeding a Starving Beggar
Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 83:3
רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, הִכְרִיזוּ בִּסְדוֹם כָּל מִי שֶׁהוּא מַחֲזִיק בְּפַת לֶחֶם לֶעָנִי וְאֶבְיוֹן יִשָׂרֵף בָּאֵשׁ. פְּלוֹטִית בִּתּוֹ שֶׁל לוֹט, הָיְתָה נְשׂוּאָה לְאֶחָד מִגְּדוֹלֵי סְדוֹם, רָאֲתָה עָנִי אֶחָד מְדוּקָא בִּרְחוֹב הָעִיר, וְעָגְמָה עָלֶיהָ נַפְשָׁה. מַה הָיְתָה עוֹשָׂה, בְּכָל יוֹם כְּשֶׁהָיְתָה יוֹצְאָה לִשְׁאֹב מַיִם הָיְתָה נוֹתֶנֶת בַּכַּד שֶׁלָּהּ מִכָּל מַה שֶׁבְּבֵיתָהּ וּמַאֲכֶלֶת לְאוֹתוֹ עָנִי. אָמְרוּ, מֵאַיִן חַי הֶעָנִי הַזֶּה, וּכְשֶׁיָּדְעוּ בַּדָּבָר הוֹצִיאוּהָ לִישָׂרֵף. אָמְרָה, רִבּוֹן הָעוֹלָמִים, עֲשֵׂה מִשְׁפָּטִי וְדִינִי, וְעָלְתָה צַעֲקָתָהּ לִפְנֵי כִּסֵּא הַכָּבוֹד, בְּאוֹתָה שָׁעָה אָמַר הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא, אֵרְדָּה נָא [וְאֶרְאֶה] אִם צַעֲקַת הַנַּעֲרָה הַזֹּאת עָשׂוּ אַנְשֵׁי סְדוֹם, אֶהֱפֹךְ יְסוֹדוֹתֶיהָ לְמַעְלָה, הֲכְּצַעֲקָתָם אֵינוֹ אוֹמֵר אֶלָּא הַכְּצַעֲקָתָהּ.