It was taught in a Baraita that four types of people are accounted as though they were dead: a poor person, a person affected by skin disease (, "metzora"), a blind person, and one who is childless. A poor person is accounted as dead, for says, "for all the men are dead who sought your life" (and the Gemara interpreted this to mean that they had been stricken with poverty). A person affected by skin disease (, "metzora") is accounted as dead, for says, "And Aaron looked upon Miriam, and behold, she was leprous (, "metzora'at"). And Aaron said to Moses . . . let her not be as one dead." The blind are accounted as dead, for says, "He has set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old." And one who is childless is accounted as dead, for in , Rachel said, "Give me children, or else I am dead."