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daf bit: Gittin 6
Rabbi Chisda said: a man should never terrorize his household.
[Ed: you would think this would go without saying, nu? :-) ]
The concubine of Gibea (Judges 19) was terrorized by her husband
[and fled], and on her account many thousands were slaughtered
in Israel. Rav Yehudah said in the name of Rav: if a man
terrorizes his household, he will eventually commit three sins:
unchastity (having relations with his wife at the wrong time because
she is afraid to tell him), blood-shedding (people run away from
him and meet with violence), and violation of Shabbat (because his
wife, through fear of him, lights the lamp late). (6b)
The parenthetical explanations in that last part were in footnotes (presumably from other talmudic commentaries). Before I chased those notes I was a little puzzled by the combination of sins listed here -- particularly wondering what Shabbat had to do with the previous two.
Interesting: two of the sins are indirect; he bears the fault if these things happen as consequences, even if he did not directly attack someone or break Shabbat. I've seen that before for sins against people (e.g. you're liable for your ox that gores or the pit you dug that someone fell into), but less so for sins against God.
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Once again, I am reminded of why I like Judaism (from my vantage point of an interested but not exhaustively scholarly outsider). When I was growing up I remember the ongoing debate in my church over whether a woman *should* leave a man who beat/abused/terrorized her; my father was seen as pretty radical for unequivocally saying 'yes'.
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