Quoting%20commentary for Shabbat 65:14

ת"ר אסכרה באה לעולם

than the victims<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit.,'swollen'. ');">⁵¹</span> of starvation?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Now, Raba evidently disapproved of Abaye's fasting; also, he himself warned against trifling with nature's calls. How then did he come to dropsy — sin being ruled out? — Presumably its symptoms precluded the assumption that he was a victim of witchcraft. ');">⁵²</span> — Raba was different, because the scholars compelled him [to practise restraint] at the set times [for lectures]. Our Rabbis taught: There are four signs: — [i] Dropsy is a sign of sin; [ii] jaundice is a sign of causeless hatred; [iii] poverty is a sign of conceit;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In Kid. 49b it is explained that this refers to poverty of knowledge, which results when one is too conceited to learn from others. ');">⁵³</span> croup<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H], or perhaps 'Diphtheria'. ');">⁵⁴</span> is a sign of slander.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Each is the punishment for the other. ');">⁵⁵</span> Our Rabbis taught: Croup comes to the world

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