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Elijah ben Solomon Zalman
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Elijah_ben_Solomon_Zalman
GPTKB entity
Statements (50)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:Talmud
gptkb:rabbi
Orthodox Judaism
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
gptkb:Vilna_Gaon
gptkbp:birthDate
1720
gptkbp:birthPlace
gptkb:Sialiec,_Polish–Lithuanian_Commonwealth
gptkbp:burialPlace
gptkb:Vilnius,_Lithuania
gptkbp:children
gptkb:Abraham
gptkb:Yisrael
gptkb:Batsheva
gptkb:Feiga
gptkb:Chaim
gptkb:Gittel
gptkb:Tzvi_Hirsch
gptkb:Yehuda_Leib
gptkbp:commemoratedBy
gptkb:Vilna_Gaon_Museum_in_Vilnius
gptkb:Vilna_Gaon_Street_in_Jerusalem
gptkbp:deathDate
1797
gptkbp:deathPlace
gptkb:Vilnius,_Polish–Lithuanian_Commonwealth
gptkbp:father
gptkb:Shlomo_Zalman
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Elijah ben Solomon Zalman
gptkbp:influenced
gptkb:Mitnagdic_Judaism
gptkb:Chaim_of_Volozhin
gptkbp:knownFor
Ascetic lifestyle
Commentaries on Jewish texts
Intellectual rigor
gptkbp:language
gptkb:Hebrew
gptkb:Yiddish
gptkbp:legacy
Major figure in Lithuanian Jewish tradition
Opposed Hasidic movement
Promoted rationalist study of Torah
gptkbp:movement
gptkb:Mitnagdim
gptkbp:nationality
Polish–Lithuanian
gptkbp:notableWork
gptkb:Commentary_on_the_Shulchan_Aruch
gptkb:Commentary_on_the_Tanakh
Commentary on the Talmud
gptkbp:opposedBy
Orthodox Judaism
gptkbp:religion
gptkb:Judaism
gptkbp:spouse
gptkb:Chana
gptkbp:studiedBy
gptkb:Halakha
gptkb:Talmud
gptkb:Tanakh
Orthodox Judaism
gptkbp:subjectOf
gptkb:Vilna_Gaon_Jewish_State_Museum
gptkb:Vilna_Gaon_Synagogue
gptkbp:teacherOf
gptkb:Chaim_of_Volozhin
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Mitnagdim_tradition
gptkb:Vilna_Gaon
gptkb:Lithuanian_Judaism
gptkbp:bfsLayer
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