the Vilna Gaon (Yiddish: דער װילנער גאון Der Vilner Goen; Polish: Gaon z Wilna, Gaon Wileński; or Elijah of Vilna, or by his Hebrew acronym Gra ("Gaon Rabbenu...

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...

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

the gaon was boundless, and after his death Chaim virtually acknowledged no superior. It was with the view of applying the methods of the Vilna Gaon that...

sage, the Vilna Gaon (Rabbi Elijah Ben Shlomo Zalman [1720–1797]), and his ashes were interred in the relocated grave of the Vilna Gaon in Vilna's new Jewish...

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...

"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...

Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History (Lithuanian: Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono Žydụ Muziejus; Yiddish: דער ווילנער גאון מלוכהשער יידישער מוז, romanized: Der...

original pieces from the Great Synagogue of Vilna survived the destruction and are now on display at the Vilna Gaon Jewish Museum: a door of the Holy Ark,...

and Pumbedita Vilna Gaon, known as the Gaon of Vilnius Gaon Music Chart, record chart in South Korea Yehoram Gaon, Israeli singer Gaon (film), a 2018...