Gaon of Vilnius
Also known as Rabbi Eliyahu Kramer, Eliyahu ben Shelomoh Zalman, Elia Wilna, Gaon of Vilna, Elijah ben Solomon
Polish-Lithuanian rabbi and Talmudist (1720–1797)
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- Evolution of Wearable Devices with Real-Time Disease Monitoring for Personalized Healthcare
· 2019 · cited 529x
- The neutrotime transcriptional signature defines a single continuum of neutrophils across biological compartments
· 2021 · cited 320x
- Intron retention is a major phenomenon in alternative splicing in <i>Arabidopsis</i>
· 2004 · cited 295x
- ImmGen report: sexual dimorphism in the immune system transcriptome
· 2019 · cited 225x
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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 Vilner Goen; Polish: Gaon z Wilna, Gaon Wileński; or Elijah of Vilna; Sialiec, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, April 23, 1720 – Vilnius, Russian Empire, October 9, 1797), was a Lithuanian Jewish talmudist, halakhist, kabbalist, and the foremost leader of misnagdic (non-hasidic) Jewry of the past few centuries.
He is commonly referred to or by his Hebrew acronym גר״א Gr״a Gaon Rabbenu Eliyahu "Our teacher Elijah the Genius", or in Modern Hebrew as ha-Gaon mi-Vilna "the genius from Vilnius".