Gaon in a sentence

The court also mentioned that no proposal of the Gaon Sabha to file the petition on behalf of the Gaon Sabha is attached to the petition.

Also important are practical abridgments of Jewish law such as Yehudai Gaon 's Halachot Pesukot, Achai Gaon 's Sheeltot and Simeon Kayyara 's Halachot Gedolot.

Davis had glowing praise for the ladies of halfpipe, whose final ran on Saturday, with 14-year-old Gaon Choi taking first place and 11-year-old Patti Zhou coming in second.

The Circle Album Chart, formerly known as the Gaon chart, released its weekly rankings recently, and it is clear that there was no real competition facing IVE's first full-length album.

The police said Kumar had gone missing from his house in Naya Gaon village early on Tuesday.

The Vilna Gaon explains, among various other commentators, that although cunning is typically a negative attribute, a wise and righteous individual can use even this attribute for good.

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Later, the mother of the Vilna Gaon brought him a ladder by which he descended to the back of the house and left the town.

The Askenazic view based upon the view of Rav Hai Gaon( cited in the Rosh on Rosh Hashana 40a) is that the Avodah of Elul lies in preparing for Teshuvah, because Teshuvah is often unsuccessful if one does not prepare for it.

He was a ‘gaon’ – a giant of Jewish spirit.

As part of their nationwide stir ‘Gaon bandh’ from June 1-10, farmers in parts of Punjab on Friday dumped their vegetables, milk and other farms produce on roads.

It may be mentioned that the Ama Gaon Ama Vikash Yojana was launched in the state on March 5 this year.

Perhaps it is time municipal bodies beginning with Bhubaneswar undertook participatory budgeting at least in a form similar to Ama Gaon Ama Bikas, involving people at the ground level.

Although the Vilna Gaon did not look with favor on the Hasidic movement, he did not prohibit the study and engagement in the Kabbalah.

Ashkenazim outside of Israel (except Chabad-Lubavitch and followers of the Vilna Gaon ) then add another blessing (Baruch Adonai le-Olam), which is made from a tapestry of biblical verses.

However, followers of Rambam or the Gaon of Vilna do recite a blessing.

It is therefore absent in traditions and prayer books less influenced by the Kabbalah (such as the Yemenite Baladi tradition), or those that opposed adding additional readings to the siddur based upon the Kabbalah (such as the Vilna Gaon ).

Later writers, such as Nachmanides, explained Hai Gaon's words to mean that the entire computed calendar was due to Hillel b. Yehuda in response to persecution of Jews.

Most editions of the Talmud include brief marginal notes by Akiva Eger under the name Gilyonot ha-Shas, and textual notes by Joel Sirkes and the Vilna Gaon (see Textual emendations below), on the page together with the text.

Rabbi Jacob Emden (d. 1776) elaborated on the story in a book published in 1748: "As an aside, I'll mention here what I heard from my father's holy mouth regarding the Golem created by his ancestor, the Gaon R. Eliyahu Ba'al Shem of blessed memory.