Powers of Vilna Gaon

Vilna Gaon at the age of three was able to recite the whole Hebrew Bible.

Powers of Vilna Gaon



(Vilna Gaon (1720-1797). Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, also known as Ha-Gra, was the foremost scholar-sage of Lithuanian Jewry in the eighteenth-century. The poem was written during my recent visit to Lithuania.)


1

Meditate day and night

About Vilna Gaon

Journey of the soul

Vilna Gaon

Culmination of mystical experience

Closest to humanism

2

Vilna Goan’s ecstatic worship

No hair-splitting dialectic

No sophistry

Vilna Gaon slept only two hours a day

Interpreting Talmud

Strengthened him

2

a child prodigy

by the age of three recites Hebrew bible

at 11, entire Talmud

saintly genius

meditates upon Talmud

near an oak tree

3

Vilna Gaon guides us

As the going gets tough

Portal of spiritual discovery

Unassailable icon

Vilinus shrine

Spiritual vessel



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  1. Santosh KumarJanuary 26, 2011 at 6:55 PM

    Vilna Gaon was a child prodigy. By the age of three
    he was able to recite Hebrew Bible. He slept only two hours a day.

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