Someone in my synagogue asked today as follows:
Rashi notes (Vayera 18:2, q.v.) that three angels visited Avraham's tent: one was assigned to inform Sara [of her impending pregnancy], one to overturn S'dom, and one to heal Avraham [after his circumcision] and save Lot from S'dom. He further notes (18:33) that the one assigned to inform Sara was not needed afterward, so did not go with the other two angels to S'dom.
Why, then, did the one assigned to overturn S'dom, who (seemingly) was not needed at Avraham's tent, go there?
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