Vilna Gaon

HaGaon Elijah ben Solomon Zalman
Vilna Gaon
Elijah dari Vilna
Gra
Vilna Gaon
Penjelasan pribadi
Nama lahirElijah ben Solomon Zalman
Lahir23 April 1720
Sialiec, Persemakmuran Polandia–Lituania
Wafat9 Oktober 1797 (usia 77)
Vilnius, Kekaisaran Rusia
Yahrtzeit19 Tishrei
DimakamkanVilnius, Lituania
KewarganegaraanPolandia-Lituania
DenominasiYahudi Ortodoks

Elijah ben Solomon Zalman,[1] (bahasa Ibrani: ר' אליהו בן שלמה זלמןRabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman) known as the Vilna Gaon[2] (bahasa Yiddi: דער װילנער גאון, bahasa Polandia: Gaon z Wilna, bahasa Lituania: Vilniaus Gaonas) atau Elijah dari Vilna, atau akronim Ibrani HaGra ("HaGaon Rabbenu Eliyahu": "Sang bijaksana, guru kami, Elijah") atau Elijah Ben Solomon Zalman (23 April 1720 – 9 Oktober 1797), adalah seorang Talmudis, halakhis, kabbalis, dan pemimpin terdepan misnagdik (non-hasidik) pada beberapa abad lampau.[3][4][5] Ia lebih dikenal dalam bahasa Ibrani sebagai ha-Gaon he-Chasid mi-Vilna, "sang cerdik nan saleh dari Vilnius".[6]

Referensi

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ Yaniv, Samuel (Rabbi) (April 17, 2010). "The Vilna Gaon and his Vision of Redemption". Bar Ilan University. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2017-03-23. Diakses tanggal May 19, 2012. 
  3. ^ ETKES, IMMANUEL; GREEN, JEFFREY M. (2002). The Gaon of Vilna: The Man and His Image. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22394-3. JSTOR 10.1525/j.ctt1pnj2v. 
  4. ^ Cohn-Sherbok, Dan; Cohn-Sherbok, Lavinia (1994). Jewish & Christian Mysticism: An Introduction (dalam bahasa Inggris). Gracewing Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85244-259-3. 
  5. ^ Eisenberg, Ronald L. (2011-12-01). Dictionary of Jewish Terms: A Guide to the Language of Judaism (dalam bahasa Inggris). Taylor Trade Publications. ISBN 978-1-58979-729-1. 
  6. ^ The Threefold step of Academia Europeana: a case of Universitas Vilnensis, 2009, hlm. 24 

Sumber

  • Etkes, Immanuel, et al. The Gaon of Vilna: the man and his image (University of California Press, 2002) ISBN 0-520-22394-2
  • "The Gaon of Vilna and the Haskalah movement", by Emanuel Etkes, reprinted in Dan, Joseph (ed.). Studies in Jewish thought (Praeger, NY, 1989) ISBN 0-275-93038-6
  • "The mystical experiences of the Gaon of Vilna", in Jacobs, Louis (ed.). Jewish mystical testimonies (Schocken Books, NY, 1977) ISBN 0-8052-3641-4
  • Landau, Betzalel and Rosenblum, Yonason. The Vilna Gaon: the life and teachings of Rabbi Eliyahu, the Gaon of Vilna (Mesorah Pub., Ltd., 1994) ISBN 0-89906-441-8
  • Shulman, Yaacov Dovid. The Vilna Gaon: The story of Rabbi Eliyahu Kramer ( C.I.S. Publishers, 1994) ISBN 1-56062-278-4
  • Ackerman, C. D. (trans.) Even Sheleimah: the Vilna Gaon looks at life (Targum Press, 1994) ISBN 0-944070-96-5
  • 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). ISBN 1-57819-161-0
  • Freedman, Chaim. Eliyahu's Branches: The Descendants of the Vilna Gaon (Of Blessed and Saintly Memory) and His Family (Avotaynu, 1997) ISBN 1-886223-06-8
  • Rosenstein, Neil. The Gaon of Vilna and his Cousinhood (Center for Jewish Genealogy, 1997) ISBN 0-9610578-5-8

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