תלמוד על שמואל א 1:15
Tractate Kallah Rabbati
BARAITHA. If others attribute to you a great evil let it be small in your eyes.
GEMARA. Even if the allegation be serious let it be small [in your eyes], and if it be slight [regard it] as if it were nothing at all. In that event a man will never clear himself of suspicion! And it is written, And Hannah answered and said: No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit, etc.991 Sam. 1, 15. Hannah defended herself against the charge of drunkenness and did not ignore it. From this [it is to be learnt] that a person under suspicion must free himself from it! [The Baraitha] uses the phrase ‘in your eyes’, but not so [in the eyes of your neighbours].100Where the suspicion is only known to him, he should either minimize or ignore it; but when it has become known to a third party, he must make an effort to clear himself.
GEMARA. Even if the allegation be serious let it be small [in your eyes], and if it be slight [regard it] as if it were nothing at all. In that event a man will never clear himself of suspicion! And it is written, And Hannah answered and said: No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit, etc.991 Sam. 1, 15. Hannah defended herself against the charge of drunkenness and did not ignore it. From this [it is to be learnt] that a person under suspicion must free himself from it! [The Baraitha] uses the phrase ‘in your eyes’, but not so [in the eyes of your neighbours].100Where the suspicion is only known to him, he should either minimize or ignore it; but when it has become known to a third party, he must make an effort to clear himself.
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