Teaching as a Communal Matter

y. Mo‘ed Katan 3:1, 81

A maidservant of Bar Pata was passing by a synagogue and she saw the teacher hit a child more than was necessary. She said to him, “Let that man be excommunicated.” He went and asked R. Aḥa. He [the rabbi] said to him, “You should fear for your life, since it is said: He who does something…