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The perushim (Hebrew: פרושים) were Jewish disciples of the Vilna Gaon, Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, who left Lithuania at the beginning of the 19th century to settle in the Land of Israel, which was then part of Ottoman Syria.
Gematria and other heuristic tricks of midrash could be called on, but let's save that. Still, to be called out is the source of the word "ekklesía", the church, those called from the main meeting, "sunagogē", of the faithful, as the Pharisees "Parushim" (separate[d] ones) like Yeshu' (a Hillelite for sure) called themselves.
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