TT #25 · Parashas Vayeishev · Passuk 38:01
Parashas Vayeishev · Passuk 38:1
About that time Judah left his brothers and camped near a certain Adullamite whose name was Hirah.
Torah Temimah points to Sotah 13b (continuation).
Sefaria — Sotah 13b (continuation)
Whoever begins a mitzvah and does not complete it, and another comes and completes it — he buries his wife and his children.
Derash on the verse (Bavli sugya) — not a formal named middah of the 13. Narrative descent is paired with a general rule about unfinished mitzvos.
Leaving a mitzvah incomplete so that another must finish it is associated with the loss of wife and children.