Musar for Berakhot 20:41
אמרו לו כדי היית לחוב בעצמך שעברת על דברי ב"ה:
They said to him : Thou didst justly incur a penalty for thyself, in that thou didst transgress the view of Bet Hillel.
Mesilat Yesharim
The story involving Rabbi Tarfon illustrates this, for even though he was being stringent on himself to recline like the view of Beit Shammai, he was told by the sages: "you deserved to be liable for having caused your own death, for you transgressed the view of Beit Hillel!" (Berachot 10b).
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