He is illiterate / he does not know B from battledore / complete ignoramus

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He is illiterate / he does not know B from battledore / complete ignoramus

He is illiterate / he does not know B from battledore / complete ignoramus

Does not even know what ... looks like; by extension: completely ignorant of ... ; has no understanding whatsoever.

("And why was he called Rabbeinu HaKadosh? Because he never looked at his own circumcision. And why was Nachum called 'the Holy of Holies'? Because he never looked at the form of a coin in his life"—Jerusalem Talmud, Megillah 1:1; also: "Since we do not know the form of a sandal, it is nevertheless proper to be stringent"—Yam Shel Shlomo, Yevamot ch. 12; also: "And when they were troubled about the matter of reward and punishment, they would say: The matter of reward and punishment, we do not know its form nor its modes of judgment"—Chovot HaLevavot, Gate 3, The Service of God, ch. 8; also: "There were only gentiles there, who do not know the form of a letter"—Agnon, Only Yesterday, p. 432)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

אֵינוֹ יוֹדֵעַ צוּרַת ...,לֹא רָאָה צוּרַת...מִיָּמָיו

Definition (Hebrew)

לֹא יוֹדֵעַ אֲפִלּוּ כֵּיצַד נִרְאֶה..., בְּהַשְׁאָלָה: אֵינוֹ מֵבִין ב...כְּלָל וְעִקָּר.

("וְלָמָּה נִקְרָא שְׁמוֹ רַבֵּנוּ הַקָּדוֹשׁ?- שֶׁלֹּא הִבִּיט במילתו מִיָּמָיו. וְלָמָּה נִקְרָא נַחוּם אִישׁ קֹדֶשׁ הקדשים?- שֶׁלֹּא הִבִּיט בְּצוּרַת מַטְבֵּעַ מִיָּמָיו"-יְרוּשַׁלְמִי מגילה א, א, וְכֵן:"מְאַחֵר שֶׁאֵין אָנוּ יודעין צוּרַת סַנְדֵּל, מִכָּל מְקוֹם נָכוֹן להחמיר "-יָם שֶׁל שְׁלֹמֹה מַסֶּכֶת יבמות פֶּרֶק יב, וְכֵן:"וְכַאֲשֶׁר הקשו עֲלֵיהֶם בַּדֶּרֶךְ הגמול והעונש, יֹאמְרוּ עִנְיָן הגמול והעונש אֵין אָנוּ יוֹדְעִים צורתו וְלֹא מהלכי דיניו"-סֵפֶר חובות הלבבות שַׁעַר ג, שַׁעַר עֲבוֹדַת האלוקים פֶּרֶק ח, וְכֵן:"לֹא הָיוּ שָּׁם אֶלָּא גויים, שֶׁאֵין יוֹדְעִים צוּרַת אוֹת"-עַגְנוֹן/ תְּמוֹל שִׁלְשׁוֹם, 432)

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