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 Read more: http://authspot.com/poetry/powers-of-vilna-gaon/#ixzz0yi4agBY0