So far I hear a bunch of people claiming that “charedi” means y’rei shamayim, or a host of other virtues. This all sounds very nice until you realize this isn’t what they mean, because a yerei shomayim who doesn’t fit the other definition — which I won’t use here — won’t be counted as a yerei shamayim.
Peacemaker: What made Rav Yoshe Ber MO was that he had a degree, expected his talmidim to do the same, and valued emes over shtus.