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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Tzimtzum (section Vilna Gaon's view)
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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History of the Jews in Lithuania (section Vilna Gaon)
"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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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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Misnagdim (section Opposition by the Vilna Gaon)
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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Chaim of Volozhin (section Student of the Vilna Gaon)
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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Year 6000 (section Vilna Gaon)
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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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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