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Rav Avigdor Miller ztz”l

Lacking a ???? can shorten another’s life, as the posuk continues ??? ???? ???? ????? (Dvorim 22:8).

Negligence in safety precautions is a form of bloodshed, but so is any deed that causes others to die before their time.

Included in this is are men and women who mistreat their marriage partners so that they fall ill and die prematurely.

In almost every instance the guilty parties consider themselves blameless. Yet these instances are considered as actual shedding of innocent blood.

(This is in direct contrast to the rav (does anyone remember who?) who said during his wife’s levaya that he does not have to ask from her mechila, as he’d never hurt her during all their years together.)