Definitions for "Perushim"
Keywords:  gaon, vilna, zalman, elijah, lithuania
The Perushim were disciples of Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon Zalman (known as the Vilna Gaon), who left Lithuania to settle in the Land of Israel, then a province of the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Keywords:  pharisees, hebrew, see
(Hebrew for "Pharisees") See Pharisees.