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Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, (Hebrew: ר' אליהו בן שלמה זלמן Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman), also known as the Vilna Gaon (Yiddish: דער װילנער גאון Der...

now in the public domain: Seligsohn, M.; Kohler, Kaufmann (1903). "Elijah ben Solomon Abraham Ha-Kohen". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia...

city than the Vilna Gaon (in Yiddish, "the genius of Vilna"), Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon Zalman (1720–1797). He helped make Vilna (modern-day Vilnius) a world...

American professor Elijah Smith (disambiguation), multiple people Elijah Sogomo (born 1954), Kenyan sprinter Elijah ben Solomon Abraham ha-Kohen (??–1729)...

Isaac ben Solomon Luria Ashkenazi (Hebrew: יִצְחָק בן שלמה לוּרְיָא אשכנזי; c. 1534 – July 25, 1572), commonly known in Jewish religious circles as Ha'ari...

perushim (Hebrew: פרושים) were Jewish disciples of the Vilna Gaon, Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, who left Lithuania at the beginning of the 19th century to...

contributed one-fifth of the amount. Religious observances owe greatly to Elijah ben Solomon (1720–1797), the Vilna Gaon, who lived in Lithuania's greatest city...

Solomon ibn Gabirol or Solomon ben Judah (Hebrew: ר׳ שְׁלֹמֹה בֶּן יְהוּדָה אִבְּן גָּבִּירוֹל, romanized: Šəlomo ben Yəhūdā ʾībən Gābīrōl, pronounced...

not indicate actual gender in Hebrew. Nevertheless, according to Elijah Ben Solomon, the "Vilna Gaon" (1720–1797), Talmudist, halachist, and kabbalist...

Elijah (/ɪˈlaɪdʒə/ il-EYE-jə) or Elias was a prophet and miracle worker who lived in the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of King Ahab (9th...

American mathematician Zalman "Zal" Yanovsky, Canadian rock musician Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, a Talmudist, halakhist, kabbalist Zalmen Mlotek Zalmen Zylbercweig...

the public destruction of early Hasidic pamphlets. The Vilna Gaon, Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, a prominent rabbi, galvanized opposition to Hasidic Judaism...

Abiathar ben Elijah ha-Cohen (Hebrew: אביתר בן אליהו הכהן; c. 1040 – 1112) was the last Palestinian Gaon to occupy his position in the land of Israel....

Abarbanel (1437–1508) Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno, 16th century Italy Acharonim The Vilna Gaon, also known as Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, 18th century Lithuania...

of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants Antanas Sileika – Canadian author Elijah ben Solomon, known as the Vilna Gaon – Lithuanian-born talmudist, halachist, kabbalist...

Talmudical scholars of Shklov who were attracted to Vilna by Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, known as the Vilna Gaon (1720–97). He was one of "the last...

century. According to Arie Morgenstern, the Vilna Gaon of Lithuania, Elijah ben Solomon Zalman (1720–1797), promoted a teaching from the Zohar (book of Jewish...

the GRA, Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon, 1720–1797) of the Mitnagdim, who spoke against Hasidic Judaism and Baal Shem Tov (Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, 1700–1760)...

Solomon ben Elijah Sharbit Ha-Zahab was a Jewish astronomer, poet, and grammarian; he lived at Salonica and later at Ephesus, in the second half of the...

the centre of this opposition under the leadership of Vilna Gaon (Elijah ben Solomon Zalman), which adopted the epithets Litvishe (Yiddish word), Litvaks...