Hannah Answers Eli That He Is No Master in This Matter

Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 78:14

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"And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord" (I Samuel 1:15). Ulla said, and some say Rabbi Yosi bar Chanina: she said to him, You are no master in this matter, and the holy spirit does not rest upon you, for you judged me to the side of guilt and did not judge me to the side of merit. Do you not know that "I am a woman of grieved spirit"? "And wine and strong drink I have not drunk." Rabbi Elazar said: from here, that one who is suspected of a matter when there is nothing to it must inform the one who suspected him.

Themes

PrayerProphecyRighteousness

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