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Gaon Of Vilna

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see Elijah ben Solomon.

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Elijah Ben Solomon - 1720–97, Jewish scholar, called the Gaon of Vilna, b. Lithuania. A leading Jewish scholar of his time, he opposed the spread of Hasidism in Lithuania and Poland because he feared that the creatio...