Hannah's Vow and the Vine of Psalm 128 in Midrash Shmuel

"And she vowed a vow and said" (1 Samuel 1:11). It is written: "Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine in the recesses of your house" (Psalms 128:3). There we learned in a Mishnah: Women in their virginity are like vines. There is a vine whose wine is black, and there is a vine whose wine is red; there is a vine whose wine is abundant, and there is a vine whose wine is scant. Rabbi Yudah said: Every vine has wine in it, and the one that has no wine in it is the torkti (a barren vine). It once happened that a certain woman came before Rabbi Yishmael bar Rabbi Yose, and no signs of virginity were found in her except like the appearance of a mustard seed. He said to her: May the like of you multiply in Israel. Rabbi Zevadyah, son-in-law of Rabbi Levi, said in the name of Rabbi Levi: It was like a man who cries out to a blind man, "O you of plentiful light!" But his colleagues said to him: He said it to her in disparagement. They said to her: every woman whose blood is scant, her offspring are few. Rabbi Yose said: He said it in praise. They said: every woman whose blood is scant is not apt to render the pure things impure.