Reference for Shabbat 65:14
ת"ר אסכרה באה לעולם
than the victims<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit.,'swollen'. ');"><sup>51</sup></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. ');"><sup>52</sup></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. ');"><sup>53</sup></span> croup<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H], or perhaps 'Diphtheria'. ');"><sup>54</sup></span> is a sign of slander.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Each is the punishment for the other. ');"><sup>55</sup></span> Our Rabbis taught: Croup comes to the world