הלכה על ישעיהו 29:21

“May, but for Thy sake are we killed all the day” (Ps. 44:23). These are people who suffer insult and shame because of the commandments. For when one tells a person it is foolish to fulfill the commandments of fringes and phylacteries and the like, his blood spills as water because of the shame. Scripture regards this as if he had been murdered because of it. One who shames another is regarded as a murderer¹Baba Metzia 58b. and it (sin) withholds him from performing a meritorious deed. This is what Scripture has said, “That make a man an offender by words” (Isa. 29:21) and it has been said, “Because for Thy sake I have borne reproach” (Ps. 69:8). “Still greater is the effect of shame,” our sages have said, “in the case of one who commits a sin and is put to shame by it, he is pardoned for all his transgressions.”²Berakoth 12b. For it is said, “That thou mayest remember and be confounded and never open thy mouth anymore because of thy shame when I have forgiven thee all that thou hast done, saith the Lord, God” (Ezek. 16:63).