Commentary for Niddah 112:50

מבין ישראל ומבין הכותים טמאין דכותים גרי אמת הן

BUT THE SAGES DECLARED THEM CLEAN because, in their opinion, Samaritans are merely lion-proselytes.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. proselytes who were converted to Judaism not out of religious convictions but out of fear of the lions that attacked them (cf. II Kings XVII, 25). ');">⁴⁴</span>

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