Minuth
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Min, minim or minuth are terms from the Talmud to refer to those considered outside the orthodoxy of Judaism. These persons were not allowed to participate in services. Their precise identity is unclear. Scholars have suggested that they might be anything from heretics in general, Gnostics, Apostates, and Jewish Christians who until the end of the first century, CE, continued to worship in synogogues. According to the Jewish Encyclopedia article on Min: "It is variously used in the Talmud and the Midrash for the Samaritan, the Sadducee, the Gnostic, the Judæo-Christian, and other sectaries, according to the epoch to which the passage belongs. Yerushalmi states that there were, at the time of the destruction of the Temple, no less than twenty-four kinds of minim (Yer. Sanh. x. 5)."
Minim is the plural of min.
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