The Vilna Ghetto was a World War II Jewish ghetto established and operated by Nazi Germany in the city of Vilnius in the modern country of Lithuania,...

it by no means rejected mysticism. The movement's leaders, like the Gaon of Vilna and Chaim of Volozhin, were deeply immersed in kabbalah. Their difference...

Ezra, Rabbeinu Bachya, Rabbi Yaakov Culi (author of Me'am Lo'ez), the Vilna Gaon, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, the Ramchal, and Aryeh Kaplan. The acceptance...

under the name Gilyon ha-Shas, and textual notes by Joel Sirkes and the Vilna Gaon (see Textual emendations below), on the page together with the text. Commentaries...

Abraham ben Elijah of Vilna also known as Abraham ben HaGaon; (Lithuanian: Abraomas ben Elijas Zalmanas), was a Litvak Talmudist who lived in Lithuania...

Jerusalem by local Ashkenazi Jews during the 1700s by the followers of the Vilna Gaon, a Jewish religious scholar. Jerusalem kugel differs from other traditional...

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...

"Eliyahu ben Shelomoh Zalman (Gaon of Vilna; 1720–1797), Torah scholar, kabbalist, and communal leader. The Gaon of Vilna... was a spiritual giant, a role...

חלל‎ ḥālāl "space"), devoid of direct awareness of God's presence. The Vilna Gaon held that tzimtzum was not literal, however, the "upper unity", the fact...

recorded the practice of the sandek holding the baby on his thighs. The Vilna Gaon cites Midrash Tehillim, explaining that this is based on Psalms 35:10...

the Vilna Gaon (in Yiddish, "the genius of Vilna"), Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon Zalman (1720–1797), to give his rarely used full name, helped make Vilna (modern-day...

of Scientific Secretary for the Museum.: 40  Under her leadership, the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum with exhibits centering on the Holocaust, was established...

Mishna; Babylonian Talmud; the Vilna Gaon's commentary to Seder Zeraim of the Jerusalem Talmud; the Sheiltot of Ahai Gaon; and the gaonic responsa compilation...

Abraham with notes by the Vilna Gaon, by Abraham Witmand, and by Joshua Falk Lisser. Lisser's edition is reprinted in the Vilna Talmud. (Cashdan 1965) Berner...

the Vilna Gaon or "the saintly genius from Vilnius" (1720–1797). Rabbi Chaim Volozhin (Lithuania 1749–1821) reported in an introduction to Sifra de Tzeniuta...

(1437–1508) Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno, 16th century Italy Acharonim The Vilna Gaon, also known as Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, 18th century Lithuania The Malbim...

Good 2005, p. 179. Good 2005, pp. 187, 189. Schoeps 2008, pp. 499–500. Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum 2018. Schoeps 2008, p. 506. Priemel 2008, p. 389....

gates, paths, etc.) are now presented in the webpage created by the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum. The massacre was recorded by Polish journalist Kazimierz...

indignation by some communal leaders, who protested to Vilna Gaon and urged him to ban the classes. The Gaon refused. The controversy foreshadowed future confrontations...

Masters, and the Lithuanian Jewish Orthodox leader and Kabbalist the Vilna Gaon; and - amongst others - from the 19th/20th-century: Yosef Hayyim, author...

accepted code of Jewish law the Shulkhan Arukh, Isaac Luria (1534–1572), the Vilna Gaon (1720–1797), the Chafetz Chaim (1838–1933) and many others have shaped...

Practical Kabbalah? from www.inner.org The Vilna Gaon: The Life and Teachings of Rabbi Eliyahu the Gaon of Vilna, ArtScroll History publications, Betzalel...

Lintup sought to synthesize the schools of Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, the Vilna Gaon and Chabad. He believed that Kabbalah in general, and Tsimtsum in particular...

VIL-nee-əs, Lithuanian: [ˈvʲɪlʲnʲʊs] ), previously known in English as Vilna, is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the second-most-populous...

Shavuot). His remains are believed to have been secretly buried next to the Vilna Gaon, with a monument to that effect first erected in 1927. Though his existence...

traditional Judaism, reflecting the emphasis of prominent rabbis such as the Vilna Gaon and Maimonides on the ethical rather than factual significance of scripture...

2002) Rachel Kostanian-Danzig, "Spiritual Resistance in the Vilna Ghetto (Vilna: Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum), 112 Cantore natan Stolnitz, "Akiva Durmashkin...

rely on the Vilna Gaon. The Vilna Gaon, as cited in Bi'urei ha-Gra ("Elucidations of the Gra") §459:2, but also the opinion of Rabbi Hai Gaon and many other...

Jews from Kretinga". Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania. Vilnius, Lithuania: Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum. 2010. Retrieved 2019-11-05. "Mass Murder of Jews...

of the Tzfat (i.e. Safed) kabbalistic school in the 16th century. The Vilna Gaon authored a commentary on the Zohar. Tzvi Hirsch of Zidichov wrote a commentary...