פרוש

פָּרוּשm. (פָּרַש) 1) seceder.Pl. פְּרוּשִׁים, פְּרוּשִׁין Pes.70b ואנן טעמא דפ׳וכ׳ must we follow up the argument of seceders (that left the college and established a school of their own)?, v. פָּרַש. Tosef.Ber.III, 25 כולל של מינים בשל פ׳ combines the prayer against the heretics with that against the renegades; Y. ib. II, 5a top רשעים. 2) discreet, abstemious, saintly, pure. Lev. R. s. 24 (ref. to Lev. 19:2) כשם שאני פ׳ כך תהיו פרושיםוכ׳ as I (the Lord) am pure, so be you pure; as I am holy, so be you holy.Pl. as ab. Sifra Kdosh. beg. (expl. קדשים, Lev. l. c.) פ׳ היו be self-restraining. Tosef.Sot.XV, 11; B. Bath.60b כשחרב … רבו פ׳וכ׳ after the destruction of the Temple the abstemious in Israel who refused to eat meat increased Esp. Parush, Pharisee, a strict observer of the Mosaic Law and the Rabbinical regulations. Tosef.Sabb.I, 15; Sabb.13a לא יאכל זב פ׳ עם זב עם הארץ an observant gonorrhœist should not dine with an ignorant gonorrhœist (who is suspected of disregarding the laws concerning tithes, levitical cleanness , v. חָבֵר). Y.Ber.IX, 14b bot. (speaking of the various kinds of Pharisees) אין לך … פְּרוּש אהבה כאברהם of all of them none is beloved except the Pharisee from love (of God) like Abraham; Y.Sot.V, 20c bot.; Bab. ib. 22b פ׳ מאהבה a Pharisee from love (of reward, Rashi); פ׳ (מ)יראה from fear (of punishment); פ׳ שיכמי, ניקפי , v. respective determinants.Pl. as ab. Ib. אל תתיראי מן הפ׳וכ׳ be not afraid of the Pharisees or of the non-Pharisees, but of the painted (the hypocrites) מכת פ׳, v. מַכָּה.Kidd.66a לבם של פ׳ עליך the Pharisees are opposed to thee in their hearts; a. fr.Fem. פְּרוּשָׁה. Sot.III, 4 אשהִ פ׳ a sactimonious woman, expl. ib. 22a כגין יוחניוכ׳, v. יוֹחָנִי 2.