Vilna Gaon

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The Vilna Gaon was an 18th-century Lithuanian Jewish rabbi, Talmudist, and Kabbalist renowned for his immense scholarship and leadership of the non-Hasidic Misnagdim movement.

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Label Occurrences
Vilna Gaon canonical 11
Ha-Gaon mi-Vilna 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish religious leader
Kabbalist
Lithuanian Jew
Talmudist
Torah scholar
human
rabbi
alsoKnownAs Elijah ben Solomon Zalman
Elijah ben Solomon Zalman
surface form: Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman

Gra
Vilna Gaon
surface form: Ha-Gaon mi-Vilna
birthDate 1720-04-23
birthPlace Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Vilna
burialPlace Vilna
centuryOfActivity 18th century
countryOfCitizenship Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
deathDate 1797-10-09
deathPlace Vilna
ethnicGroup Ashkenazi Jews
fieldOfWork Biblical exegesis
Halakha
Jewish law
Jewish philosophy
Kabbalah
Talmud
hasHonorificTitle Gaon
influenced Jewish textual scholarship
Lithuanian Jewry
surface form: Lithuanian yeshiva movement

Musar movement
surface form: Misnagdic Judaism
influencedBy Safed Kabbalah
surface form: Kabbalah of the Ari

Rishonim
Talmud
surface form: Talmud Bavli
knownFor emphasis on peshat (plain meaning) in biblical exegesis
extraordinary Talmudic scholarship
integration of Talmud, Halakha, and Kabbalah in his teachings
leadership of the non-Hasidic Misnagdim movement
opposition to early Hasidic movement
languageOfWorkOrName Aramaic
Hebrew
movement Mitnagdim
surface form: Misnagdim
name Vilna Gaon self-link
notableWork Aderet Eliyahu
Biur ha-Gra on Shulchan Aruch
Commentary on Mishlei (Proverbs)
Commentary on Safra
Hassagot al Sefer Yetzirah
surface form: Commentary on Sefer Yetzirah

Commentary on Shir ha-Shirim (Song of Songs)
Commentary on Sifra de-Tzniuta
Commentary on Sifrei
Commentary on the Jerusalem Talmud
Shulchan Aruch commentaries
surface form: Commentary on the Shulchan Aruch

Commentary on the Talmud
Commentary on the Zohar
opposedMovement Hasidism
religion Judaism
residence Vilna

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Tzimtzum discussedBy Vilna Gaon
Sefer Yetzirah commentedOnBy Vilna Gaon
Acharonim hasPart Vilna Gaon
Vilna Gaon name Vilna Gaon self-link
Vilna Gaon alsoKnownAs Vilna Gaon
this entity surface form: Ha-Gaon mi-Vilna
Mitnagdim notableLeader Vilna Gaon
Gra hasAcronymFor Vilna Gaon
Gra hasHonorific Vilna Gaon
this entity surface form: Ha-Gaon mi-Vilna
Gra hasTitle Vilna Gaon
Tractate Eruvin commentedOnBy Vilna Gaon