It is said, SHALL ONE MAN
SIN, AND WILT THOU BE WROTH WITH ALL THE
CONGREGATION? (Num 16:22). R Simeon b Yohai taught: A parable. It is like men who were
sitting in a ship. One took a borer and began boring beneath his own place. His fellow travellers said to him: What are you doing?
He said to them: What does that matter to you, am I not boring under my own place? They said: Because the water will come
up and flood the ship for us all. Lev R 4:6