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	Vilna Gaon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Vilna Gaon (April 23, 1720 – October 9, 1797) was a prominent Jewish rabbi, Talmud scholar, and Kabbalist.
		The Gaon was also attracted to the study of Kabbalah; his controversy with Hasidic Judaism thus stems not from a rejection of mysticism per se, but from a profoundly different understanding of its teachings, in particular regarding its relationship to halakhah and the Ashkenazic minhag.
		The Gaon then sent two of his pupils (1796) with letters to all the communities of Poland, declaring that he had not changed his attitude in the matter, and that the assertions of the Hasidim were pure inventions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vilna_Gaon (1912 words)

	Eliyahu's Branches: The First Four Generations of the Vilna Gaon and His Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Khiena of Pinsk daughter of Eliyahu Gaon of Vilna and Khana of Keidan, born 1748, Vilna, Lithuania, married (1) Zalmen Zelig Chinitz, born 1735, Vilna, Lithuania,son of Aharon Zev Abarbanel and Tova ?, died 1803, Pinsk, Byelorussia,married (2) Moshe of Pinsk, son of Yehuda Leib of Pinsk and Nekhama ?, died 1836, Pinsk, Byelorussia.
		Yehudah Leib Vilner son of Eliyahu Gaon of Vilna and Khana of Keidan, born 1764, Vilna, Lithuania, married daughter of Avraham of Serhei and Esther Jaffe, born Alinka, Lithuania,.
		Tauba of Dubrovno daughter of Eliyahu Gaon of Vilna and Khana of Keidan, born c.1768, Vilna, Lithuania, married Uri Shraga Feibush of Dubrovno, son of Shlomo ?, ABD Dubrovno.
	www.avotaynu.com /gaontree.html (3308 words)

	Gaon of Vilnius, Vilna Ga'on, Gaon mi Vilno, Vilniaus Genijus, Elijah ben Solomon
		As a kabbalist and defender of the halachic tradition, the Gaon was at the forefront of the movement against the spread of Hasidism, which he felt was too liberal with halachic strictures and was abandoning tradition in the critical areas of Torah and prayer.
		The Vilna Gaon, as a result of his opposition to hasidism, became regarded as the head of the Mitnagdim, the anti-Hasidic movement.
		The style of Torah study that was developed by the Vilna Gaon and its inclusion of secular knowledge became the predominant model of Yeshiva learning, spawning the Musar Movement, and creating the Lithuanian yeshiva model that is prominent to this day.
	www.vdu.lt /~ktv/vilnagaon (236 words)

	Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna - The Vilna Gaon
		Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna - The Vilna Gaon
		The Gaon, with his phenomenal knowledge of the entirety of the Torah literature, was possibly the only individual capable of creating authoritative corrections of these texts.
		Indeed, when after the Gaon passed away certain individual Chasidim expressed happiness at the news of his death, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, one of the most prominent leaders of Chassidus at that time, issued a public letter forbidding such statements and requiring his followers to speak of the greatness of the Gaon.
	members.aol.com /lazera/VilnaGaon.htm (1200 words)

	Welcome to the Vilna Site
		Vilna, the capital of Lithuania, is situated at the junction of the Rivers Vileika and Vilja; population 165,000 in 1910.
		The religious judges in Vilna at this point were Ephraim (1616-1678, son of Yaakov The Cohen, “Shar Efraim”), Shabtai Cohen (son of Meir The Cohen, 1622-1663) Aaron Shmuel Keidanov (known as the Ma”hrshk, 1614-1676, born in Kedainiai), and Hillel (wrote Beit Hillel, born in Galicia, religious judge in Vilna).
		The city of Vilna (Lith., Vilnius) and its environs was taken by the Red Army on September 19, 1939, and on October 10 the Soviet government transferred that area to the independent republic of Lithuania.
	www.eilatgordinlevitan.com /vilna/vilna.html (11931 words)

	Who is Buried in the Vilna Gaon's Tomb? - Jewish Action Winter 5759
		According to a report published in 1962, four or five graves aside from that of the Vilna Gaon were moved from the old cemetery to the Zaretcha cemetery and then again to the new cemetery.
		Rav Zvi Hirsch was a relative of the Vilna Gaon.
		The mistaken claim that the Gaon’s ohel today is in the Zaretcha cemetery is perpetuated in Chaim Freedman, Eliyahu’s Branches: The Descendants of the Vilna Gaon and his Family, Teaneck, 1997, pp.
	www.ou.org /publications/ja/5759winter/leiman.htm (2792 words)

	Torah Tots Midrash Maven
		One wintry Friday afternoon in the town of Vilna, the wife of a poor tailor had a halachic question concerning the chicken dish she was preparing for her family Shabbat meal.
		She quickly sent one of her older children to the Vilna Rav, (the chief rabbi of the city), to ask for his ruling whether it was permissible to eat the chicken dish.
		The Gaon of Vilna could certainly not be held suspect of agreeing to partake of a treif (non-kosher) chicken dish for whatever reason.
	www.torahtots.com /parsha/devarim/shoftim3.htm (918 words)

	Yedid Nefesh - Kol Hator
		Through his holy spirit, Rabbi Eliyahu, the Vilna Gaon, knew exactly where the name and destiny of each member of Israel were hinted at in the Torah, each man according to the flag of his forefathers, according to the root of his soul, and the merit of his forefathers.
		A major principle of the Gaon was that all activities regarding the beginning of the Redemption have to be similar to the activities during the time of Ezra and Nehemia and in the time of Cyrus.
		The Gaon said that this is hinted at also in the word “among the remnant” which in gematria equals “Mashiach ben Joseph” [566], by means of whom, according to the Gaon, the ingathering of the exiles will be accomplished.
	www.yedidnefesh.com /kaballah/kol-hator/1.htm (6603 words)

	The Great City Synagogue of Vilna
		The Great City Synagogue of Vilna was built of stone from 1630 to 1633, after permission was given to build a stone structure to replace the Old Synagogue.
		After the war the synagogue and the whole schulhof complex were destroyed by the Soviet authorities and replaced by housing blocks.
		Three original pieces from the Great Synagogue of Vilna survived the destruction quite miraculously and are now on display at the Vilna Gaon Jewish Museum: a door of the Holy Ark, a reader’s desk (Omed), and a bas-relief with the Ten Commandments.
	www.bh.org.il /Communities/Synagogue/vilna.asp (380 words)

	Gaon of Vilna - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Gaon of Vilna" at HighBeam.
		Vilna Gaon remembered as the 'pride of Lithuania'
		Vilna Gaon's grave desecrated..BY..BTX Vilna Gaon's grave desecrated
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-gaonviln.html (133 words)

	VILNA GAON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Rabbi Elyahu ben Shlomo Zalman (1720-1797): The Vilna Gaon was the leading Jewish scholar in the world of his time, and he isregarded as one of the greatest geniuses of all of Jewish history.
		It was the Vilna Gaon's influence that led to the modern yeshiva system--a constantly regenerating source of wisdom, ethical development and wholesome values.
		Toward the end of his life, the Vilna Gaon attempted, unsuccessfully, to move to the land of Israel.
	www.aish.com /seminars/tunneltour/time/l03tln01.htm (125 words)

	Eqev - Prof. Yosef Rivlin
		The Vilna Gaon contributed the idea that in addition to a heavenly Messiah son of Joseph, Metatron (archangel of the Minister of State), and the earthly Messiah son of Joseph, of whom there is one in every generation, there exists a Messiah son of Joseph in each and every Jew.
		The Vilna Gaon also ties in their initials, which tradition claims were written on the flags of the camps.
		We have already seen that the Vilna Gaon's explanation of the verse incorporates details that were not mentioned by his predecessors, both in specifying the three letters resh-het-kof (evilness, sinfulness, and stubbornness) and in joining these notions with the patriarchs and their traits.
	www.biu.ac.il /JH/Parasha/eng/ekev/riv.html (2334 words)

	The Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum
		The creative heritage of the Vilna Gaon — commentaries on Mikra, Mishnah, Talmud, Tikkunei Ha-Zohar (The Book of Splendor), Tikunim Mi-Zohar Khadash (The New Book of Splendor) - is being studied together with other works of the most famous Jewish sages in the most famous yeshivot of the world.
		This fact of Gaon’s life is mentioned in the writings of one of his most famous pupils, Hayyim of Volozhin, who established the famous Volozhin yeshivot after Gaon’s death.
		Contemporaries of the Vilna Gaon were not the only ones amazed by his extraordinary erudition and knowledge of many secular sciences.
	www.jmuseum.lt /index.asp (645 words)

	Dei'ah veDibur - Information & Insight - IN-DEPTH FEATURES
		The Gaon was so concerned about performing all the mitzvos meticulously that he was periodically stricken with anxiety over whether he had performed certain mitzvos properly, according to all the various opinions.
		He was once listening to a Torah lecture from the Gaon in the course of which the Gaon gave his assessment of the amount necessary to redeem a firstborn son.
		The Gaon was careful to avoid even a remote chance of violating a mitzvah, even when it was because he came upon an opinion of some weight that is stringent in the matter or because the circumstances gave him some reason for concern.
	chareidi.shemayisrael.com /archives5765/ACH65features.htm (4860 words)

	Eliyahu's Branches: The Descendants of the Vilna Gaon and His Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		After decades of research, a noted Israeli genealogist has produced a book about the Vilna Gaon that contains a rare portrait of the illustrious 18th-century Eastern European sage, a discussion of his substantial influence on the Jewish world and a thoroughly-documented family tree listing more than 20,000 descendants of the rabbi and his siblings.
		Freedman is an eighth-generation descendant of the Vilna Gaon who was spurred into researching his own roots after growing up hearing countless tales about his many cousins in Russia and their celebrated common ancestor who died in 1797.
		Just as Freedman continued his research even after publishing smaller previous studies on the immediate branch of the Gaon in the 1980s and early 1990s, he said that he still feels compelled to keep on with his quest to find and document more descendants of the famous rabbi.
	www.avotaynu.com /gaonbook.html (591 words)

	Mattityahu (Mathias) Strashun (1817-1885): Scholar, Leader and Book Collector (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Indeed, this was the approach of the first generation of Jewish Enlightenment in Vilna during the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries.
		Indeed, from the end of the nineteenth century and until the destruction of the Jewish community in Vilna during the Holocaust, the Strashun library was the most significant Jewish public library in the city and one of the most significant public libraries in Europe.
		Had the Jewish community in Vilna not regarded Mattityahu Strashun as one of the keepers of the tradition of "Jerusalem of Lithuania," these are gestures that could not have been purchased for all the money in the world.
	www.yivoinstitute.org /exhibits/strashun/strashunzalkin.htm (10886 words)

	Amazon.com: The Hasidic Movement and the Gaon of Vilna: Books: Elijah Judah Schochet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Later that year, the Gaon of Vilna (arguably the greatest Torah scholar of his time) and the rabbinical court of Vilna issued an edict ordering Lithuanian Jews "to extirpate, to destroy, to outlaw, and to excommunicate" the Hasidim (p.
		With regards to these improprieties, the author does not discount the possibility that the Gaon may not have had adequate contact with the Hasidim themselves, and that certain infractions may have been exagerated, fabricated or at the very least were not representative of the general population of the sect.
		The Vilna Gaon (a Lithuanian Jew) was abstemious, studious and it is claimed had an intimate knowledge of both the Talmud from Jerusalem and from Babylon that would have rivalled a modern computer.
	www.amazon.com /Hasidic-Movement-Gaon-Vilna/dp/1568211252 (1736 words)

	Vilna Gaon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		He is better known as the "Vilna Gaon" or as HaGRA, the abbrevation of haga'on rabbi 'eliyahu.
		He was the first Jewish scholar to realize the importance of exact text, and he was the founder of the internal criticism of the Talmud.
		Elijah Vilna was an opponent of Hasidism, which he denounced for its pantheistic tendencies and placed under the ban.
	www.beljews.info /Gaon.htm (573 words)

	JewishGates.Com - The Definitive Source for Talmudic Learning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Under his guidance, the Vilna community decided to close the prayer rooms of the Chasisdim, burn their works, and excommunicate them.
		On April 11, 1772 the Vilna Gaon recommended that all Chassidic Jews be placed in cherem (excommunication).
		Thus, under the leadership of Elijah, Vilna became the center of opposition to Chassidut.
	www.jewishgates.com /file.asp?File_ID=375 (710 words)

	Dei'ah veDibur - Information & Insight - IN-DEPTH FEATURES
		Since all of the Gaon's children and most of his grandchildren were born before that year, there are no official records to confirm their identities.
		The source of this mistake is the term, "from the family of the Vilna Gaon" which they found associated with their family records.
		One of the Gaon's ancestors was the rov of Vilna, HaRav Moshe Kramer zt'l.
	chareidi.shemayisrael.com /archives5766/voeiro/VRH66features.htm (3833 words)

	Graf Pototzki, The Ger-Tzedek of Vilna
		Due to the unique connections between the Vilna Gaon and the Ger Tzedek, we have devoted a short chapter on the matter in the sefer of the Gra's life story.
		They say that when the Vilna Gaon found out what was happening, he advised the Ger Tzedek not to live in a large city like Vilna, but to move to a small village where no one would recognize him.
		A wondrous phenomenon occurred at the grave of the ashes of the Ger Tzedek in the ancient cemetery in Vilna.
	www.chelseashul.org /Judaism/Pototzky.htm (3655 words)

	Vilnius Yiddish Institute > The VYI > Historic Jewish Vilna and the VYI
		Today’s city of Vilnius has been known for centuries in Yiddish as Vílne (Vilna), and lovingly called Yerusholáyim d’Líte —“the Jerusalem of Lithuania.” The name is said to have been coined by Napoleon during his 1812 encampment, when he was struck by the richness and intensity of the city’s Jewish life.
		The Vilna heritage spans the Ashkenazic universe, from the greatest Talmudic genius of the last thousand years, the Gaon of Vilna (Eyliohu ben Shloyme-Zalmen, 1720—1797), to the founding of the world’s first Yiddish academic institute, the famed YIVO, in 1925.
		The Vilnius Yiddish Institute is situated in Vilnius University’s History Faculty, where it occupies a two-level headquarters in the recently restored, four-century-old campus in the heart of the Old City, a stone’s throw from the spot where the Gaon of Vilna lived out his life immersed in his studies.
	www.judaicvilnius.com /en/main/vyi/vilna (370 words)

	>>Our Family Story <<
		Vilna served as a center for trade and industry.
		Throughout the nineteenth century, Vilna played a central role in the cultural life of the Jews of Eastern Europe, as well as being a center of Torah studies.
		The capture of Vilna by Germany on Yom Kippur of 1916 sparked the beginning of a period of shortages, hunger, unemployment and forced labor.
	www.ourfamilystory.net /Vilna.html (529 words)

	Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum
		In 1997 on the occasion of the 200h anniversary of the death of the famous Gaon of Vilnius Elijah ben Solomon Zalman (1720-1797) the museum was given his name.
		The Gaon was not only spiritual head of Lithuanian and Russian Jewry, but of all Jewish communities in Eastern and central Europe.
		He devoted his life to the study of Jewish sacral and law texts, introduced innovative methods of Talmud study and attempted to restore Jewish law to its original rational meaning with the help of critical commentaries.
	www.vilnius-hotels.net /guide/museum-vilna.htm (406 words)

	(The Nations Sample)
		BMS [14] proposed that the statement of the Vilna Gaon that "Every nation is called after their first father" should also be included in the experiment by looking for expressions of the form "X "íù ("name of X").
		I took from the Vilna Gaon only the four indicators of nationhood, not the terms by which they are designated.
		Regarding the excerpt from Isaiah in particular, it seems clear that the Gaon is merely discussing the causes of the division into nations, not the indicators of nationhood.
	www.torahcodes.co.il /nations/nat_hb.htm (6013 words)

	Torah Tots / Jewsih Press Tales From Our Gaonim
		It was wintertime and a terrible storm was raging as the Gaon set out on his long journey.
		There he visited the grave of the Vilna Gaon, and he cried bitterly to the departed saint to help him in his mission to free the philanthropist, a descendant of the Vilna Gaon.
		When he returned to his hotel, he was told that the great Gaon Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin, the talmid of the late Vilna Gaon, was in Vilna.
	www.torahtots.com /jewishpress/20060519gaonim.htm (1216 words)

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