זוהר בראשית — דף קיא ע”א

The Zohar notes Abraham’s humility: he asked for no mercy for Lot, neither at the beginning nor at the end, so that no one would think the Holy One, blessed be He, was diminishing any of his merit, even though he had risked his life to rescue him from the five kings; Lot’s deeds were not upright. In a passage of the Midrash HaNe’elam, Rabbi Abahu explains that “Lot went up from Zoar” refers to the evil inclination, which rises from the anguish of Gehenna to seduce people. Lot’s two daughters are the soul of desire and the soul of the body, and wine awakens the evil inclination. A parable describes a band of robbers that sends out one of its number, soft-spoken, to lure travelers. The passage ends with words of Rav Yehuda about a person’s holiness during marital relations.