Study Shabbat folio 32B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
and they were given, among others, to commoners [amei ha'aretz] to fulfill. When they are negligent in the performance of these mitzvot, they are punished for it.
It was taught in a baraita that R' Natan says: Due to the sin of vows unfulfilled a person’s wife dies. The allusion is as it is stated: “If you have not the wherewithal to pay, why should He take away your bed from under you?” (Proverbs 22:27). R' Yehuda HaNasi says: Due to the sin of vows unfulf
In order to clarify which sins cause one’s young children to die, the Talmud cites what A baraita states: For the sin of vows, one’s children die, this is the statement of R' Elazar, son of R' Shimon. R' Yehuda HaNasi says: For the sin of dereliction in the study of Torah. The Talmud asks: Granted
On the same topic, R' Ḥiyya bar Abba and R' Yosei disagree. One said that children die due to the sin of not affixing a mezuza to one’s doorpost. And one said children die due to the sin of dereliction in the study of Torah. According to the one who said that children die because of the sin of not a
The tanna’im R' Meir and R' Yehuda also disagreed about this. One said: Children die due to the sin of mezuza, and one said children die due to the sin of not affixing tzitzit. The Talmud asks: Granted, according to the opinion of the one who said that children die due to the sin of mezuza, it i