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

ביטוי (אנגלית)

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

הגדרה (אנגלית)

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 )