7/57 116 et seq.] [Footnote 2: On the yeshibah in Volozhin, in the government of Vilna, see Vol. Mir is a townlet in the government of Minsk.] [Footnote 3: An old Hebrew expression for secular learning.] Instructive in this respect is the fate of one of the most remarkable Talmudists of his time, Rabbi Menashe Ilyer. Ilyer spent most of his life in the townlets of Smorgoni and Ilya (whence his surname), in the government of Vilna, and died of the cholera, in 1831. |