Commentary for Kiddushin 140:4
מאי טעמא אכריז מר עליה דעבדא הוא אמר ליה דרגיל דקרי אינשי עבדי ותני כל הפוסל פסול ואינו מדבר בשבחא לעולם ואמר שמואל במומו פוסל אימר דאמר שמואל למיחש ליה לאכרוזי עליה מי אמר
- 'I dealt with him more severely.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Tosaf. in Yeb. ');"><sup>1</sup></span> 'Why did you have it proclaimed that he is a slave? ' He answered: 'Because he was wont to call [other] people slaves, and he who declares [others] unfit is [himself] unfit, and never speaks good [of anyone]; and Samuel said: With his own blemish he stigmatizes [others] as unfit.' 'But how did Samuel say this: only that one must suspect; yet did he say that he is to be [thus] proclaimed? ' At this stage his opponent said to Rab Judah, 'You call me a slave, - I who am descended from the royal house of the Hasmoneans!' - 'Thus said Samuel,' he retorted: 'Whoever says: "I am descended from the house of the Hasmoneans is a slave.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because the dynasty was wiped out by Herod, who, in spite of ascending the throne, was always regarded by the Jew's as an Idumean slave. He, to exalt his children, called them Hasmoneans, v. B.B. 3b.');"><sup>2</sup></span>