Born in Sielec in the Brest Litovsk Voivodeship (today Syalyets, Belarus), the Gaon displayed extraordinary talent while still a child. By the time he was twenty years old, rabbis were submitting their most difficult halakhic problems to him for legal rulings.

Their strongest and greatest opponent was Rabbi Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman Kremer, otherwise known as the Vilna Gaon or by his Hebrew acronym, the GRA (“Gaon Rabbenu Eliyahu”). He is the father of many of the coming changes in Jewish life – yet the protector of Jewish tradition.

The word "gaon" means genius and on no person could this title be more appropriately bestowed than on Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna. Rabbi Eliyahu was probably the most influential Jewish leader in modern history.

Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman, also known as the Vilna Gaon or the Gra, was a talmudist and the greatest Torah authority of his generation. He had a photographic memory; according to legend he memorized the Torah by the age of three.

Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon Zalman Kremer — better known as the Vilna Gaon or sometimes as HaGra, an acronym for his Hebrew title, Hagaon Rabbi Elijah — was a renowned Jewish scholar who lived in Vilna (now Vilnius), the capital of Lithuania, in the 18th century.

2020年1月3日 · The Vilna Gaon – also known by the acronym G”ra (Gaon, R’ Eliyah), or simply as HaGaon, The Genius – never held an official rabbinic position, never served as the rabbi of a city or as head of...

2020年6月16日 · The Vilna Gaon died in 1797, aged 77, and was subsequently buried in the Šnipiškės cemetery in Vilna, now in the Žirmūnai elderate. The cemetery was closed by the Tsarist Russian authorities ...