Yosef Karo

“ Paragraph 9- One who often collapses from a disease that drives him out of his mind, is disqualified from testifying while collapsed, but is valid while healthy. This is true whether he collapses from time to time or consistently collapses without any set time, so long as his senses are not always distorted because there are those that often collapse and are out of their mind even while healthy. We must extensively evaluate the testimony of one who collapses often. ”

“ Paragraph 10- Those that are very foolish and cannot recognize contradictory matters and do not understand topics that the rest of society does, and similarly those that frighten quickly and go out of their mind or are exceedingly crazy, are all included in the category of the insane. ”

“ This is all strict law, but there are those that say that there is an ancient regulation that in a place where there are not a lot of men, such as a synagogue for women or some other temporary place that has lots of women, but not men, such as testifying that so-and-so woman wore these clothing and they belong to her and men don’t pay attention to these matters, women are believed. ”