The Vilna Ghetto was a World War II Jewish ghetto established and operated by Nazi Germany in the city of Vilnius in the modern country of Lithuania,...

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...

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...

Abraham ben Elijah of Vilna also known as Abraham ben HaGaon; (Lithuanian: Abraomas ben Elijas Zalmanas), was a Litvak Talmudist who lived in Lithuania...

under the name Gilyon ha-Shas, and textual notes by Joel Sirkes and the Vilna Gaon (see Textual emendations below), on the page together with the text. Commentaries...

The perushim (Hebrew: פרושים) were Jewish disciples of the Vilna Gaon, Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, who left Lithuania at the beginning of the 19th century...

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 Vilna Gaon (in Yiddish, "the genius of Vilna"), Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon Zalman (1720–1797), to give his rarely used full name, helped make Vilna (modern-day...

recorded the practice of the sandek holding the baby on his thighs. The Vilna Gaon cites Midrash Tehillim, explaining that this is based on Psalms 35:10...

Masters, and the Lithuanian Jewish Orthodox leader and Kabbalist the Vilna Gaon; and - amongst others - from the 19th/20th-century: Yosef Hayyim author...