Iluy

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Noun 1.4 Quotations 1.5 See also

English

Alternative spellings

• ilooy

Etymology

Yiddish עילוי, from Hebrew עִילּוּי (‘ilúi, "prodigy").

Noun

iluy

1. A Talmudic prodigy.
2. A boy wonder.

Quotations

• 2000, Peter Ochs, “Wounded Word, Wounded Interpreter,” in Humanity at the Limit, Michael A Signer ed. [1]

  He was an iluy, a natural genius in textual study.

• 2003, Jeremy I Pfeffer, Malbim’s Job [2]

  His first stop was Warsaw, where he was acclaimed as the Iluy (prodigy) from Volhynia.

• 2004, Shalom Goldman, God's Sacred Tongue [3]

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

See also

• Gaon