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Mitnaggedim
(Heb., ‘opponents’). Designation of the Jewish opponents to
asidism
.
Elijah
b. Solomon Zalman, the Vilna
Gaon
, led the opposition to
asidism and created an alternative pattern of Judaism which rested on intellectual discipline, study, and
Orthodox practice
. His followers, the mitnaggedim, opposed the
asidim and the
Haskalah
(Enlightenment).
asidism.
Elijah
b. Solomon Zalman, the Vilna
Gaon
, led the opposition to
asidism and created an alternative pattern of Judaism which rested on intellectual discipline, study, andOrthodox practice
. His followers, the mitnaggedim, opposed the
asidim and theHaskalah
(Enlightenment).
Mito school
.
.
A school (of Tokugawa period, 17th–19th cent.), of neo-Confucian and neo-Shinto thought in Japan. Initially inspired by the writings of the Chinese neo-Confucianist
Chu Hsi
(1130–1200 CE), the school produced an influential book called
The History of Great Japan (Dai nihon shi
) which stressed the divine origins of the nation and Japan's history as a sacred tradition.
Chu Hsi
(1130–1200 CE), the school produced an influential book called
The History of Great Japan (Dai nihon shi
) which stressed the divine origins of the nation and Japan's history as a sacred tradition.
Mitra
.
.
dityas
g Veda
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