iluy

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A form of illui — A young Talmudic prodigy or genius.

Scrabble 7

Meanings

nouniluy (plural illuim)

plural illuim

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of illui

    2003, Jeremy I Pfeffer, Malbim’s Job http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=FxZMxRgn4igC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&sig=MovJhTBQMd2qCAru0aDS7--5-ic His first stop was Warsaw, where he was acclaimed as the Iluy (prodigy) from Volhynia.

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    2000, Peter Ochs, “Wounded Word, Wounded Interpreter,” in Humanity at the Limit, Michael A Signer ed. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=6z21Nkb1S-8C&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&sig=eRNHRgasoOckzRY61ZG--Vp3IYU He was an iluy, a natural genius in textual study.

    In his five years at Pressburg, the young iluy mastered the text of the Babylonian Talmud..

    2004, Shalom Goldman, God's Sacred Tongue http://print.google.com/print?id=jP37RacndTgC&pg=PA164&lpg=PA164&sig=uvZsdf4nDofqNyWR078a6pNjGqY&pli=1

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