Halakhah for Shabbat 64:1
ונמסרו לעמי הארץ
and they were entrusted to the ignorant.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' No supervisors were appointed to ensure that the ignorant observe them. Rashi: haberim (q.v. Glos.) eat the bread of the ignorant and assume that the priestly dues have been rendered. Likewise, they use their movables without fearing that they may have dedicated them as hekdesh and rendered them forbidden for secular use. ');"><sup>1</sup></span> It was taught, R. Nathan said: A man's wife dies in punishment for [his unfulfilled] vows, for it is said. If thou, hast not wherewith to pay [thy vows], why should he take away thy bed [i.e., wife]from under thee?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Prov. XXII, 27. ');"><sup>2</sup></span> Rabbi said, For the sin of [unfulfilled] vows one's children die young, for it is said, Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, neither say thou, before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Eccl. V, 5. ');"><sup>3</sup></span>