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Solomon ben Moses Chelm
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “rabbinical scholar”. Today it says “polish rabbi”.
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Solomon ben Moses Chelm ( Hebrew : שְׁלֹמֹה בֵּן מֹשֶׁה מִחֶלְמָא , romanized : Shlomo ben Moshe mi-Ḥelma ; c. 1717 – 14 July 1781) was a Polish rabbi, best known for his multi-volume work Merkevet ha-mishneh . Alongside his expertise in rabbinics , he was distinguished as a grammarian and mathematician. He is considered one of the first Maskilim in Poland.
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rabbinical scholar
Now
polish rabbi
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