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gptkbp:instanceOf
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gptkb:Talmud
gptkb:rabbi
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gptkbp:birthDate
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1720
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gptkbp:birthName
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gptkb:Elijah_ben_Solomon_Zalman
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gptkbp:birthPlace
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gptkb:Sialiec,_Polish–Lithuanian_Commonwealth
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gptkbp:burialPlace
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gptkb:Vilnius,_Lithuania
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gptkbp:children
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gptkb:Abraham
gptkb:Batsheva
gptkb:Feiga
gptkb:Zvi
gptkb:Chaim
gptkb:Gittel
gptkb:Yehuda_Leib
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gptkbp:deathDate
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1797
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gptkbp:deathPlace
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gptkb:Vilnius,_Polish–Lithuanian_Commonwealth
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gptkbp:descendedFrom
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gptkb:Rabbi_Moses_Rivkes
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gptkbp:father
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gptkb:Shlomo_Zalman
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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The Vilna Gaon
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gptkbp:influenced
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gptkb:Mitnagdic_Judaism
gptkb:Chaim_of_Volozhin
Lithuanian yeshiva movement
Jewish textual scholarship
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gptkbp:knownFor
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Opposition to Hasidism
Extraordinary Talmudic scholarship
Mathematical and scientific interests
Emphasis on peshat (plain meaning) in biblical interpretation
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gptkbp:language
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gptkb:Aramaic
gptkb:Hebrew
gptkb:Yiddish
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gptkbp:legacy
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Major figure in Jewish intellectual history
Namesake of many institutions and synagogues
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gptkbp:mother
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gptkb:Treina
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gptkbp:movement
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gptkb:Mitnagdim
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gptkbp:nationality
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Polish–Lithuanian
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gptkbp:nickname
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gptkb:Gaon_of_Vilna
gptkb:HaGra
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gptkbp:notableWork
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gptkb:Biur_HaGra
gptkb:Aderet_Eliyahu
gptkb:Commentary_on_the_Kabbalah
gptkb:Commentary_on_the_Shulchan_Aruch
gptkb:Commentary_on_the_Tanakh
Commentary on the Talmud
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gptkbp:opposedBy
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gptkb:Hasidism
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gptkbp:religion
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gptkb:Judaism
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gptkbp:spouse
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gptkb:Chana
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gptkbp:subjectOf
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gptkb:Vilna_Gaon_Jewish_State_Museum
gptkb:Vilna_Gaon_Synagogue
Numerous biographies
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Ashkenazi_Jewish_communities
gptkb:Ashkenazi_communities
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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6
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