Vilna Gaon

GPTKB entity

Statements (50)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Talmud
gptkb:rabbi
gptkbp:birthDate 1720-04-23
gptkbp:birthName gptkb:Elijah_ben_Solomon_Zalman
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Sialiec,_Polish–Lithuanian_Commonwealth
gptkbp:burialPlace gptkb:Vilnius,_Lithuania
gptkbp:children gptkb:Batsheva
gptkb:Abraham_ben_Elijah
gptkb:Chaim
gptkb:Gittel
gptkb:Tzvi_Hirsch
gptkb:Yehuda_Leib
gptkbp:commemoratedBy gptkb:Vilna_Gaon_Museum,_Vilnius
gptkb:Vilna_Gaon_Street,_Jerusalem
gptkb:Vilna_Gaon_Synagogue,_Vilnius
gptkbp:deathDate 1797-10-09
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Vilnius,_Polish–Lithuanian_Commonwealth
gptkbp:fieldOfWork gptkb:Halakha
Orthodox Judaism
theologian
Talmudic studies
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Vilna Gaon
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Chaim_of_Volozhin
gptkb:Mitnagdim_movement
Lithuanian yeshiva tradition
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Talmud
Orthodox Judaism
gptkbp:knownFor Jewish legal and mystical scholarship
Leader of the Mitnagdim
Opposition to Hasidism
gptkbp:language gptkb:Aramaic
gptkb:Hebrew
gptkb:Yiddish
gptkbp:movement gptkb:Mitnagdim
gptkbp:nationality Polish–Lithuanian
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Commentary_on_the_Kabbalah
gptkb:Commentary_on_the_Shulchan_Aruch
gptkb:Commentary_on_the_Tanakh
Commentary on the Talmud
gptkbp:opposedBy gptkb:Hasidism
gptkbp:otherName gptkb:Elijah_of_Vilna
gptkb:HaGaon
Gra
gptkbp:religion gptkb:Judaism
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Chana
gptkbp:subjectOf gptkb:Vilna_Gaon_Jewish_State_Museum
gptkb:Vilna_Gaon_Synagogue
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Judaism
gptkb:Talmud
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4