- are frum.
Frummer can also have a
negative connotation,
similar to
chasid shoteh ('pious idiot'),
which is how the
Talmud (Sotah 21B)
describes a man who...
- or non-Jewish, and is not
aware of the
proper Jewish laws); and heresh,
shoteh,
katan (deaf-mute, insane,
minor -
people who are
presumed not to have mental...
-
Talmud (see at
Sotah 20–21)
describes one who
fails to do so as a
chasid shoteh, a
foolishly pious individual.
Similar practices are
still used in Islam...
-
stating that a man who does not save a
woman from
drowning is a
Chasid Shoteh (so to speak, a “pious fool”),
cited at "Chumrot: More Isn't
Always Better...
- the Galilean".
Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901–1906 "Gelili
shoteh";
Eruvin 53b "rabbi";
Zevahim 57a
Zevahim 82a Tosefta,
Mikvaot 7:11; Sifre...
-
inventing new prohibitions, and
denounced them as "pious fools" ('Chasid
Shoteh'). On 5 February,
progressive delegate Leo Holländer
launched another tirade...
- not
accept Rabbi Eliezer's proof, with the
counterclaim of "due to one
shoteh (fool) we
should make
liable all the
normal folk?"
Following the debated...
