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Definition of 'Gaon'English
Noun
(en-noun)
Honorary title for a Jewish scholar who is noted for his wisdom and knowledge of the Talmud.
In modern usage, a genius.
Quotations
* 1991, Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=5mR5jX70oqwC&pg=PA230&lpg=PA230&sig=efbu3LMM7kVUrIzfWghTlqOeIXQ]
*: The Gaon' also was distressed by the veneration the Hasidim accorded their rabbinic leaders, men whom the ' Gaon generally regarded as ignoramuses.
* 1996, Roger Friedland, Richard Hecht, To Rule Jerusalem [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=h27UQhGY9nwC&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77&sig=f-awfG-HhWgq48JD6okq8b_8Vp8]
*: Like the hasidim, he too refused the title of rabbi, adopting the ancient title of Gaon.
* 1997, Moshe Gil, A History of Palestine [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=M0wUKoMJeccC&pg=PA531&lpg=PA531&sig=ffm2drYu_SPO-Cgn9eM32oW2rhM]
*: The Gaon' also mentions a letter he has received from ?asan as-??q?l? (al-??q?la, the ancient Aramaic name for K?fa) undoubtedly one of the emigrants from Iraq to Egypt whom the ' Gaon knew.
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