Chasidut for Pirkei Avot 2:6

אַף הוּא רָאָה גֻלְגֹּלֶת אַחַת שֶׁצָּפָה עַל פְּנֵי הַמַּיִם. אָמַר לָהּ, עַל דַּאֲטֵפְתְּ, אַטְפוּךְ. וְסוֹף מְטִיפַיִךְ יְטוּפוּן:

He (Hillel), too, saw a certain skull floating on the water. He said to it: "Because you drowned (others), you were drowned." [You were an evildoer and you drowned them in the river, and measure for measure was it meted out to you], and in the end, your drowners will be drowned, [for it was not for them to drown you, but for beth-din; and the Holy One Blessed be He handed you over to them. For liability is relegated to the liable, and He is destined afterwards to demand your death of them.]

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