Commentary for Shabbat 63:8

תנו רבנן על שלש עבירות נשים מתות יולדות רבי אלעזר אומר נשים מתות ילדות ר' אחא אומר בעון שמכבסות צואת בניהם בשבת וי"א על שקורין לארון הקודש ארנא.

The School of R. Ishmael taught: 'If any man [hanofel] fall from thence': this man was predestined to fall since the six days of Creation, for lo! he has not [yet] fallen, and the Writ [already] calls him nofel [a faller].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The lit. translation of the verse is: if the faller falls. But before he starts falling he should not be designated the faller. ');">¹⁴</span> But reward [zekut] is brought about through a person of merit [zakkai], and punishment [hobah] through a person of- guilt.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And this man who builds a house without a parapet is guilty therein, and he is used as the Divine instrument for fulfilling the other man's destiny to fall as a punishment. ');">¹⁵</span>

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