Vilna in a sentence

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.

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 Nazis started raining bombs on Vilna about sixteen hours later.

A Jewish Lithuanian partisans’ group ‘The Avengers’ on their return to Vilna at the time of the liberation of the city by the Red Army in July 1944.

Column One article about Dr. William Good, an immigrant who cheated death multiple times during World War II and was one of a relative handful of Jews in and around Vilna, Poland, to survive.

Kempner’s family history inspired her to produce her first documentary, “Partisans of Vilna” which focused on the story of Jewish Holocaust survivor Helen Ciesla and Harold Kempner, a U.S. Army officer.

His family had emigrated from Vilna, Lithuania to America in the 1890s.

Over the next two decades, David followed the trail of the Jewish books and documents that Jewish writers and thinkers smuggled out of Nazi hands to be hidden in the ghetto of Vilna (then part of Poland).

The exhibit also documents how students from the famed Lublin Yeshiva in Poland made a monthlong walk to Vilna, Lithuania, before proceeding to Shanghai.

All these works and their commentaries are printed in the Vilna and many subsequent editions of the Talmud.

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.

Each page is printed in the traditional Vilna format, and accompanied by an expanded paraphrase in English, in which the translation of the text is shown in bold and explanations are interspersed in normal type.

Her family's sole survivor, she escaped from the Vilna Ghetto with other members of the resistance movement, the FPO ( United Partisan Organization ), and joined the Soviet partisans in the Lithuanian forests to sabotage the Nazis.

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

In 1835, after an acrimonious dispute with the Szapira family, a new edition of the Talmud was printed by Menachem Romm of Vilna.

In the Vilna edition of the Talmud there are 5,894 folio pages.

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 ).

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.

Most modern editions are either copies of or closely based on the Vilna edition, and therefore still omit most of the disputed passages.