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    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...
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  • 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...
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    "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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History (Lithuanian: Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono Žydụ Muziejus; Yiddish: דער ווילנער גאון מלוכהשער יידישער מוז, romanized: Der...
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  • the Vilna Gaon of taking tzimtzum literally and not following Luria fully, though Mitnaggedic Kabbalists rejected this. It seems that the Vilna Gaon, who...
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  • 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...
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