VILNA GAON
(Elijah of Vilna | Elijah ben Solomon Zalman)
Elijah Ben Solomon -- Vilna Gaon. The Torah is the first 5 books of the Old Testament which the Jewish People regard as the basis of religion. For many, the interpretation is that of many Fundamentalist Christians and Jews that the Bible contains truth and all truth. However, there were those who have claimed that in addition to the words and their meaning, there is a code in the Bible that gives prophetic information, claiming that all major subsequent historical events were predicted in the Biblical code.
Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, (April 23, 1720 – Vilnius October 9, 1797), was a Lithuanian Jewish Talmudist, halakhist, kabbalist, and the foremost leader of misnagdic (non-hasidic) Jewry of the past few centuries. He is commonly referred to in Hebrew as ha-Gaon mi-Vilna, "the genius from Vilnius".
