A Baraita was taught in the Academy of Eliyahu: A certain scholar diligently studied Bible and Mishnah, and greatly served scholars, but nonetheless died young. His wife carried his tefillin to the synagogues and schoolhouses and asked if says, "for that is your life, and the length of your days," why her husband nonetheless died young. No one could answer her. On one occasion, Eliyahu asked her how he was to her during her days of white garments — the seven days after her menstrual period — and she reported that they ate, drank, and slept together without clothing. Eliyahu explained that God must have slain him because he did not sufficiently respect the separation that requires.Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 13a–b, in, e.g., Koren Talmud Bavli: Shabbat • Part One. Commentary by Adin Even-Israel (Steinsaltz), volume 2, page 61. Jerusalem: Koren Publishers, 2012.
