המכשיל את העור. א"א כגון המכה את בנו הגדול: He who causes the blind to stumble. For example, one who strikes his grown-up son.* RABD. does not criticise Maimonides in this; he merely cites an example, which is not a limitation. G.
חכם ששמועתו רעה. א"א ויש אחרים הרבה. חכם שהורה להתיר במים שאין להם סוף לינשא לכתחלה. וכן מי שעובר על נדרו כל בית דין שנזקק לו לשאלה בר שמתא הוא. ואיכא טובא: A scholar of a universally evil reputation: And there are many others. A master who decided that a woman whose husband fell in unending waters may re-marry; likewise every tribunal that would pay attention to the request for relief of one who violated his vow is ostracised, and there are many others.* This is no criticism. The laws mentioned by RABD., Maimonides mentions in their proper place; here he only enumerates the transgressions for which man and woman are excommunicated. Moreover, he was loathe to add to the number because of the universal aversion among scholars to pronounce ostracism against a scholar, even against one of a universally evil reputation, saying that one of such character long ceased to be counted in among scholars. C.G....
מי שמנדה מי שאינו חייב בנדוי. א"א דבר זה הוציא ממעשה דריש לקיש דהוה מנטר פרדיסא וכו' אמר ליה ההוא אדרבה ואמרו ליה שלו נדוי. ובחיי ראשי אין כאן פלפול כי הדברים שהוא מונה בית דין צריכין לנדותו ובכי האי גוונא לא היו בית דין נזקקין לנדות לר' שמעון בן לקיש אבל אותו שנידה והקפיד על כבודו נדויו נדוי: He who excommunicates one not guilty of an offense punishable by excommunication. This law he derived from the incident of Simeon Ben Lakish (Mo'ed Katan, 17a), who kept a vineyard etc. By the life of my head there is no Pilpulistic inference here, for the matters he enumerates, the tribunal is obliged to ostracise him, but in such instance the tribunal would not pay attention to Rabbi Simeon Ben Lakish; on the contrary, the one whom he excommunicated, in defending his honor, the excommunication should stand.* Maimonides maintains that if he had brought the man to the tribunal they would have excommunicated him. C.