The Haftorah for Parshas Metzora (which we aren't reading this week, as it is Rosh Chodesh) tells the story of the attendant at the gates of Shomron. There was starvation in Shomron due to a siege, and the Navi Elisha said that the following day the price of grain would drop to a very low price. The attendant responded that even if God would make windows (ארובות) in the heavens, such a thing could never happen. The Navi told him that he would see it, and not benefit from it. Sure enough, the following day the enemy suddenly ran away leaving huge stores of food behind. As the people rushed out of the city to plunder the food they trampled the attendant and the propechy of the Navi came true.
Conventionally we understand that the reason for his punishment was his lack of belief. The RAMA of Paano gives a different interpretation. He says that the statement about God making windows in the heavens was an allusion to the statement by the flood (מבול) where God opened the windows of heaven to bring floodwaters. The attendant was indicating that it was his opinion that the people were wicked and worthy of a flood, not of a miracle like Elisha was predicting. His punishment was due to his speaking ill of the Jewish nation.
In the same manner we can understand the story in Pesachim 64b about a man who was crushed on Erev Pesach during the bringing of the Korban Pesach in the Bais HaMikdosh. He came from the same school of thought as the attendant in Shomron. He stood there watching the millions of Jews bringing their sacrifices and looked at them with jaundiced and critical eyes. He was therefore trampled as well.
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