Wikipedia's first sentence called it “jewish scholar and author born at keidany”. Today it says “jewish scholar and author”.
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The opening as it read in 2015
From his father he learned the calculation of the course of the stars in their relation to the Hebrew calendar ( Ḥaṭṭot Ne'urim , i. 15). At the age of thirteen he organized a society of boys for the study of En Ya'aqob (ib. i. 14); and at the age of fifteen he married and settled at Vilkomir .1He also used the pseudonym Zelaphchad Bar-Chuschim (צלפחד בר־חושים).2A change in the fortunes of his father-in-law threw him upon his own resources, and in 1865, Lilienblum established a yeshivah in Vilna and another the following year (ib. i. 53-54).3
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Moshe Leib Lilienblum Moshe Leib Lilienblum (משה לייב לילינבלום) was a Jewish scholar and author born at Keidany , Kovno , October 22, 1843. From his father he learned the calculation of the course of the stars in their relation to the Hebrew calendar ( Ḥaṭṭot Ne'urim , i. 15). At the age of thirteen he organized a society of boys for the study of En Ya'aqob (ib. i. 14); and at the age of fifteen he married and settled at Vilkomir . He also used the pseudonym Zelaphchad Bar-Chuschim (צלפחד בר־חושים). A change in the fortunes of his father-in-law threw him upon his own resources, and in 1865, Lilienblum established a yeshivah in Vilna and another the following year (ib. i. 53-54).
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He also used the pseudonym Zelaphchad Bar-Chuschim ( ).
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He also used the pseudonym Zelophehad Bar-Hushim ( ).Lilienbloom was one of the leaders of the early Zionist movement Hovevei Zion .
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Jewish scholar (1843–1910) Moshe Leib Lilienblum Moshe Leib Lilienblum ( Yiddish : משה לייב לילינבלום ; October 22, 1843, in Keidany , Kovno Governorate – February 12, 1910, in Odessa ) was a Jewish scholar and author.He also used the pseudonym Zelophehad Bar-Hushim ( Hebrew : צלפחד בר־חושים ). Lilienbloom was one of the leaders of the early Zionist movement Hovevei Zion .
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jewish scholar and author born at keidany
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jewish scholar and author
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