Jastrow: מִין III

מִין III m. (preced.) [a peculiar person,] sectarian, infidel. Ab. Zar. 65ᵃ הרי הוא כמ׳ שבאומות he is legally treated like an infidel of the gentiles, i.e. like a gentile that has rejected the gods of his people.—Esp. Min, a Jewish infidel, mostly applied to Jew-Christians (and in editions controlled by censors, often substituted by צדוקי, כותי &c.). Hor. 11ᵃ להכעיס הרי זה מ׳ Ms. M. (ed. צדוקי) if he eats forbidden fat in a defiant manner (v. כָּעַס), he is a Min; ib. (another opin.) איזהו מ׳ כל העובד ע"ז who is a Min? (A Jew) who worships idols.—Gitt. 45ᵇ ס"ת שכתבו מ׳ a book of the Law written by a Min, contrad. to נכרי; a. fr.—Pl. מִינִים, מִינִין. Y. Ber. IX, 12ᵈ bot. המ׳ שאלו את וכ׳ the Minin asked R. Simlai &c. Tosef. B. Mets. II, 33 המ׳ והמשומדים והמסורות the Minin, the apostates and the informers; Ab. Zar. 26ᵇ (Rashi: idolatrous priests, Jews or gentiles); a. fr.—בִּרְכַת הַמִּ׳ the (twelfth) section inserted in the Prayer of Benedictions and containing an imprecation against the Minim. Ber. 28ᵇ, sq. (ed. הצדוקים); a. fr.