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.)
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Meditate day and night
About Vilna Gaon
Journey of the soul
Vilna Gaon
Culmination of mystical experience
Closest to humanism
Vilna Goan’s ecstatic worship
No hair-splitting dialectic
No sophistry
Vilna Gaon slept only two hours a day
Interpreting Talmud
strengthened him
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a child prodigy
by the age of three recites Hebrew bible
at 11, entire Talmud
saintly genius
meditates upon Talmud
near an oak tree
Vilna Gaon guides us
As the going gets tough
Portal of spiritual discovery
Unassailable icon
Vilinus shrine
Spiritual vessel
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