TT points to a baraita of R. Nehorai on the relative “mildness” of Sodom among the cities of the plain (textual difficulties noted by the commentators).
English of Core Text: It was taught: R. Nehorai says, there is no person more mild in all the cities than the Sodomites, for we find that Lot surveyed all the cities of the plain and found none as mild as Sodom, as it is said “and he pitched his tent as far as Sodom.”
On the daf / in context: The baraita is difficult and the commentators note the tension with the explicit wickedness of Sodom; it may be read as relative ranking among the cities of the plain before the final verdict.
Type of Learning
Custom
What Is Learned
Lot’s choice of Sodom is the textual hinge for a baraita that ranks the cities; the moral verdict comes in the next verse.