Vilna Gaon

Elijah ben Solomon Zalman,Within recent decades he has been given the surname Kremer. However neither the Vilna Gaon nor his descendants apparently used this surname, which means shopkeeper. It was possibly mistakenly derived from a nickname of his ancestor Rabbi Moshe Kremer. "The Vilna Gaon, part 3 (Review of Eliyahu Stern, The Genius)". Marc B. Shapiro ( Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman) known as the Vilna Gaon (, , ) atau Elijah dari Vilna, atau akronim Ibrani HaGra ("HaGaon Rabbenu Eliyahu": "Sang bijaksana, guru kami, Elijah") atau Elijah Ben Solomon Zalman (), adalah seorang Talmudis, halakhis, kabbalis, dan pemimpin terdepan  misnagdik (non-hasidik) pada beberapa abad lampau. Ia lebih dikenal dalam bahasa Ibrani sebagai ha-Gaon he-Chasid mi-Vilna, "sang cerdik nan saleh dari Vilnius".

Referensi

Sumber
 Etkes, Immanuel, et al. The Gaon of Vilna: the man and his image (University of California Press, 2002) 
 "The Gaon of Vilna and the Haskalah movement", by Emanuel Etkes, reprinted in Dan, Joseph (ed.). Studies in Jewish thought (Praeger, NY, 1989) 
 "The mystical experiences of the Gaon of Vilna", in Jacobs, Louis (ed.). Jewish mystical testimonies (Schocken Books, NY, 1977) 
 Landau, Betzalel and Rosenblum, Yonason. The Vilna Gaon: the life and teachings of Rabbi Eliyahu, the Gaon of Vilna (Mesorah Pub., Ltd., 1994) 
 Shulman, Yaacov Dovid. The Vilna Gaon: The story of Rabbi Eliyahu Kramer ( C.I.S. Publishers, 1994) 
 Ackerman, C. D. (trans.) Even Sheleimah: the Vilna Gaon looks at life (Targum Press, 1994) 
 Schapiro, Moshe. Journey of the Soul: The Vilna Gaon on Yonah/Johan: an allegorical commentary adapted from the Vilna Gaon's Aderes Eliyahu (Mesorah Pub., Ltd., 1997). 
 Freedman, Chaim. Eliyahu's Branches: The Descendants of the Vilna Gaon (Of Blessed and Saintly Memory) and His Family (Avotaynu, 1997) 
 Rosenstein, Neil. The Gaon of Vilna and his Cousinhood (Center for Jewish Genealogy, 1997) 

Pranala luar

 A Precious Legacy Works of the Vilner Gaon Eliyahu b. Zalman
 Biography from the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum

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