פָּרוּשׁ m. (פָּרַשׁ) 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. פָּרַשׁ. [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. XIX, 2) כשם שאני פ׳ כך תהיו פרושים וכ׳ as I (the Lord) am pure, so be you pure; as I am holy, so be you holy.—Pl. as ab. Sifra K’dosh. 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 &c.—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 &c., v. חָבֵר). Y. Ber. IX, 14ᵇ bot. (speaking of the various kinds of Pharisees) אין לך … פְּרוּשׁ אהבה כאברהם of all of them none is beloved except the Pharisee from love (of God) like Abraham; Y. Sot. V, 20ᶜ bot.; Bab. Sot. 22ᵇ פ׳ מאהבה a Pharisee from love (of reward, Rashi); פ׳ (מ)יראה from fear (of punishment); פ׳ שיכמי, ניקפי &c., 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) &c.—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 אשה פ׳ a sactimonious woman, expl. ib. 22ᵃ כגון יוחני וכ׳, v. יוֹחָנִי 2.