In the episode of Sodom in the book Genesis, Lot has been Haran's son and hence Abraham's nephew. When two Angels asked Lot and his family to flee from the city of Sodom before god would destroy the place due to it's immorality, Lot's wife looks back, although she was told not to, and therefore she was turned into a salt pillar. This is symbolically saying that if a person or society does not move on in their individual or collective evolution they can become crystallised and stuck in the past.
(Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi, Introduction to The World of Kabbalah)
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