There is not a trace of flaw in him, not a trace of...

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There is not a trace of flaw in him, not a trace of...

There is not a trace of flaw in him, not a trace of...

There is nothing flawed in him. Perfect. (Pesul means flaw, defect. Shemetz means a little, a trace, as in Job 4:12).

("A story is told of a man who would read before Rabbi Eliezer 'Declare to Jerusalem her abominations.' He said to him: Before you examine the abominations of Jerusalem, go and examine the abominations of your own mother. They investigated him and found in him a trace of flaw" - Megillah 25b; also: "The couple, that is, the man and the woman, are so pure that she is extremely pure and there is not in her any trace of flaw, and he is also very pure, and their union is in purity and holiness" - R. Nachman of Breslov, Likutei Moharan II, Torah 32; also: "In the end, he came to understand that there was a trace of flaw in him that made people dislike him" - S. Y. Agnon, Only Yesterday, p. 217; also: "And so you go out to the street/the city that is always your city,/ to see things that have/ not even a trace of novelty" - Leah Goldberg, Illuminations )

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

אֵין בּוֹ שֶׁמֶץ פְּסוּל, אֵין בּוֹ שֶׁמֶץ שֶׁל...

Definition (Hebrew)

אֵין בּוֹ כָּל דָּבָר פָּגוּם. מֻשְׁלָם (פְּסוּל מַשְׁמָע פְּגָם. שֶׁמֶץ מַשְׁמָע מְעַט, קְצָת, כְּמוֹ בְּאִיּוֹב ד יב).

("מַעֲשֶׂה בָּאָדָם אֶחָד שֶׁהָיָה קוֹרֵא לְמַעְלָה מֵרַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר 'הוֹדַע אֶת יְרוּשָׁלֵם אֶת תועבותיה'. אָמַר לוֹ: עַד שֶׁאַתָּה בּוֹדֵק בתועבות יְרוּשָׁלַיִם, צֵא וּבָדוּק בתועבות אִמֵּךְ .בִּדְקוּ אַחֲרָיו וּמָצְאוּ בּוֹ שֶׁמֶץ פָּסוּל"- מגילה כֹּה ע"ב, וְכֵן:"שהזוג,דְּהַיְנוּ הָאִישׁ והאשה,כשרים כָּל כָּךְ,שֶׁהִיא כשרה מְאוֹד וְאֵין בָּהּ שׁוּם שֶׁמֶץ פָּסוּל, וְגַם הוּא כָּשֵׁר מְאוֹד,וזיווגם בכשרות ובקדושה"- ר' נַחְמָן מברסלב/ ליקוטי מוהר"ן-תנינא, תּוֹרָה ל"ב, וְכֵן:"לְסוֹף בָּא לִכְלָל דַּעַת ששמץ פָּסוּל יֵשׁ בּוֹ שמשניאו עַל הַבְּרִיּוֹת"- עגנון/ תמול שִׁלְשׁוֹם,217, וְכֵן:"וְכָךְ אַתָּה יוֹצֵא לָרְחוֹב/הָעִיר שֶׁהִיא תָּמִיד עירך,/ לִרְאוֹת דְּבָרִים שֶׁאֵין בָּהֶם/ אַף שֶׁמֶץ שֶׁל חִדּוּשׁ"- לֵאָה גּוֹלְדְּבֵּרְג/ILLUMINATIONS )

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