gaon

Examples

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• And the Vilna Gaon warned, in a letter to his daughters, that women should stay away from the synagogue, since they're likely to engage there in nothing more uplifting than malicious gossip, which is a fairly serious sin in Judaism.

  Fiction book (1991)

• This was also the time when the Gaon pronounced a 'Herem' (excommunication) against those who strayed from the path.

  Blog text (13)

• The Gaon would sit on this stone as he spoke to the assembled crowd.

  Blog text (13)

• The Gaon would lead the people around the Temple Mount, and then the crowd made its way to the Mount of Olives.

  Blog text (13)

• The Fatimids recognized the Israeli Gaon as the leader of all Jews in their empire.

  Blog text (13)

• The Vilna Gaon.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Vilna Gaon distinguishes between simcha and sason, two different words for joy.

  Academic text (1995)

• My father's first name is Zalman, and somehow I thought, probably from wishful thinking, through much of my childhood, that the Vilna Gaon had been one of our Lithuanian relatives.

  Fiction book (1991)

• In the nineteenth century, students of the rabbinical giant, the Vilna Gaon, arrived in Jerusalem and became the prototype of today's ultra-Orthodox haredi community.

  Academic text (2013)

• During the medieval period, the title of Gaon signified the highest authority among Jewish scholars in Babylonia.

Synonyms

R

rabban

vsgaon

• Archaic

9.9

A title given long ago to respected Jewish teachers and scholars

is specific to leading scholars in medieval Babylonia

Surface Forms

Etymology