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Much of this seems to come straight from the Jrwish Encyclopedia and needs a serious re writePngeditor (talk) 20:47, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Possible OR.

This sentence may contain unsourced OR. The disciples of the Vilna Gaon, known as Perushim due to how they isolated themselves from worldly concerns to study Torah, originally settled in Safed because the Muslim authorities in Jerusalem prevented Ashkenazi Jews from settling there. I am referring to the text in bold. I can't find an RS that states that this was specific to Ashkenazi Jews. I found the below which makes no reference to this claim. In the early 19th century, the disciples of the Vilna Gaon, a prominent rabbi in Eastern Europe, who were known as the Perushim, settled in the land of Israel. They came almost a decade after the arrival of two of his pupils, R. Hayim of Vilna and R. Israel ben Samuel of Shklov. In all there were three groups of the Gaon's students which emigrated to the land of Israel. They formed the basis of the Ashkenazi communities of Jerusalem and Safed. Their arrival encouraged an Ashkenazi revival in Jerusalem, whose Jewish community was mostly Sephardi following the expulsion of the Ashkenazim nearly a century earlier. Many of the descendants of the disciples became leading figures in modern Israeli society. The Gaon himself also set forth with his pupils to the Land, but for an unknown reason he turned back and returned to Vilna, where he died soon after. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_and_Judaism_in_the_Land_of_Israel

I suggest that this part of the sentence should be deleted if it cannot be sourced.Pngeditor (talk) 09:53, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This may be referring to "the expulsion of the Ashkenazim nearly a century earlier," as it appears in your text. It needs to be checked. The first place I would check for improving this article is the related entries in the 2007 (2nd edition) Encyclopaedia Judaica. Thank you, warshy ^(¥¥) 17:24, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I saw that the article so far was missing not only the EJ (Encyclopaedia Judaica - 2007, 2nd edition) link, but also the basic JE (Jewish Encyclopedia - 1906) link. I've added the two missing links to the "External Links" section of the article at the bottom. Enjoy your editing! 17:49, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

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I am interested in improving this article, can anyone point me to a few good books/articles about him?

I am aware of Dov Eliach's book Hagaon and The Genius by Eliyahu Stern. A list of reliable books would be helpful FergusArgyll (talk) 22:06, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Looking for others who want to help this article keep to sourcing standards. Add any important refs below.

I made the changes about his stance on secular studies based on the refs I cited. Anything I'm missing?

Added some refs for people who considered him one of the rishonim based on 3 sources I cited.

FergusArgyll (talk) 23:48, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Methods of study section is going to be hard, here is one source I found, anyone have others? FergusArgyll (talk) 00:00, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

another academic article discussing his methods of study FergusArgyll (talk) 19:34, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

another resource (full book, hebrew) FergusArgyll (talk) 19:35, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

and this, not a RS by itself but points to some good ones. FergusArgyll (talk) 19:40, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

more sources

Should be enough to rewrite/source the 'methods of study' section FergusArgyll (talk) 19:43, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Rabbi Eybshutz controversey

[1] seems like this episode is more complicated than the article would lead one to believe. Any other sources anyone? FergusArgyll (talk) 23:43, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]