English: R. Shimon says: from where do you say that one who causes his fellow to sin is worse than one who kills him? For the one who kills him — in this world — still has a share in the World to Come; but the one who causes him to sin kills him in this world and in the World to Come.
Type of Learning
Comparative severity of spiritual vs physical harm.
What Is Learned
Midian’s plot to make Yisrael sin is worse than open warfare.