Gaon of Vilna - translation to γερμανικά
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Gaon of Vilna - translation to γερμανικά

POLISH-LITHUANIAN RABBI AND TALMUDIST (1720–1797)
Wilna Gaon; Elijah of Vilna; Gaon mi Vilno; Elijah ben Solomon; Elijah Wilna; Gaon Elijah; Elijah Ben Soloman; Eliyahu ben Shelomo Zalman; Elijah of Wilna; Elijah Gaon; Gaon of Vilna; Elijah, Gaon of Vilna; Vilniaus Gaonas; The Vilna Gaon; Elijah Ben Solomon; Rav Elijah Ben Solomon; Gr"a; Elijah ben Solomon Zalman; Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman; HaGra; Vilna Goan; Gaon of Vilnius; Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna; Eliyahu of Vilna

Gaon of Vilna         
n. der Weise aus Wilna (jüdischer Gelehrter der religiösen Schriften, religiöser Führer im 18. Jahrhundert und Gegner der Hassiden)
Elijah ben Solomon         
n. Elijah ben Solomon, Gaon von Wien (1720-1797), einer der prominenten jüdischen Religions-Anführer und Gelehrter während des 18. Jahrhunderts, einer der Gegner des Chassidismus
Yehoram Gaon         
ISRAELI ACTOR AND SINGER
Yoram Gaon; Yoram gaon; יהורם גאון
Yehoram Gaon (israelischer Sänger)

Ορισμός

Companion of Honour
¦ noun a member of an order of knighthood founded in 1917.

Βικιπαίδεια

Vilna Gaon

Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, (Hebrew: ר' אליהו בן שלמה זלמן Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman) known as the Vilna Gaon (Yiddish: דער װילנער גאון Der Vilner Gaon, Polish: Gaon z Wilna, Lithuanian: Vilniaus Gaonas) or Elijah of Vilna, or by his Hebrew acronym HaGra ("HaGaon Rabbenu Eliyahu": "The sage, our teacher, Elijah"; Sialiec, April 23, 1720 – Vilnius October 9, 1797), was a Lithuanian Jewish Talmudist, halakhist, kabbalist, and the foremost leader of misnagdic (non-hasidic) Jewry of the past few centuries. He is commonly referred to in Hebrew as ha-Gaon he-Chasid mi-Vilna, "the pious genius from Vilnius".

Through his annotations and emendations of Talmudic and other texts, he became one of the most familiar and influential figures in rabbinic study since the Middle Ages. He is considered as one of the Acharonim, and by some as one of the Rishonim. Large groups of people, including many yeshivas, uphold the set of Jewish customs and rites (minhag), the "minhag ha-Gra", named after him, and which is also considered by many to be the prevailing Ashkenazi minhag in Jerusalem.

Born in Sielec in the Brest Litovsk Voivodeship (today Sialiec, 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. He was a prolific author, writing such works as glosses on the Babylonian Talmud and Shulchan Aruch known as Bi'urei ha-Gra ("Elaborations by the Gra"), a running commentary on the Mishnah, Shenoth Eliyahu ("The Years of Elijah"), and insights on the Pentateuch entitled Adereth Eliyahu ("The Cloak of Elijah"), published by his son. Various Kabbalistic works have commentaries in his name, and he wrote commentaries on the Proverbs and other books of the Tanakh later on in his life. None of his manuscripts were published in his lifetime.

When Hasidic Judaism became influential in his native town, the Vilna Gaon joined the "opposers" or Misnagdim, rabbis and heads of the Polish communities, to curb Hasidic influence.

He encouraged his students to study natural sciences, and translated geometry books to Yiddish and Hebrew.