Vilna [2] (en lituano: Vilnius pronunciado [ˈvʲɪlʲnʲʊs] (), en polaco: Wilno, en ruso: Вильнюс o Вильно, entre 1919 y 1939 Вильна) es la capital y ciudad más poblada de Lituania, situada en la provincia homónima.Cuenta con 554,060 habitantes (838,852 con la provincia de Vilna). La ciudad se encuentra al sureste del país, a unos 30km de la frontera con Bielorrusia ...

Karl Plagge (pronounced [kaʁl ˈplaɡə] (); 10 July 1897 – 19 June 1957) was a German Army officer who rescued Jews during the Holocaust in Lithuania by issuing work permits to non-essential workers. A partially disabled veteran of World War I, Plagge studied engineering and joined the Nazi Party in 1931 in hopes of helping Germany rebuild from the economic collapse …

Function. Because the tzimtzum results in the "empty space" in which spiritual and physical Worlds and ultimately, free will can exist, God is often referred to as "Ha-Makom" (המקום ‎ lit. "the Place", "the Omnipresent") in Rabbinic literature ("He is the Place of the World, but the World is not His Place").Relatedly, Olam — the Hebrew for "World/Realm" — is derived from the root ...

Early history. The origin of the Jews of Lithuania has been a subject of much speculation. The first reliable document attesting the presence of Jews in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is the charter of 1388 granting privileges to the Jews in Trakai. The gathering together of the scattered Jewish settlers in sufficient numbers and with enough power to form communities and to obtain …

Youth and education. The Vilna Gaon was born in Sialiec, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth on April 23, 1720 as Elijah Ben Solomon Zalman to a well known rabbinical family.. According to Legend he had committed the Tanakh to memory by the age of four, and aged seven he was taught Talmud by Moses Margalit, future rabbi of Kėdainiai and the author of a commentary to …

Le développement de Vilna (Vilnius) est relativement limité dans le cadre d'une capitale provinciale russe, chef-lieu du gouvernement de Vilna. Cependant, elle conserve encore une certaine importance régionale, ce qui explique qu'au XIX e siècle encore elle est, avant Minsk, le centre de la vie nationale biélorusse. Les Biélorusses ...

Romain Gary [note 1], né le 21 mai 1914 à Vilna dans l'Empire russe (actuelle Vilnius en Lituanie) et mort le 2 décembre 1980 à Paris, est un écrivain français d'origine russe, de langues française et anglaise.Homme aux multiples activités, il a été successivement aviateur et résistant (fait compagnon de la Libération), romancier, diplomate, scénariste et réalisateur.

Maariv or Maʿariv (Hebrew: מַעֲרִיב, [maʔaˈʁiv]), also known as Arvit (Hebrew: עַרְבִית, ), is a Jewish prayer service held in the evening or night.It consists primarily of the evening Shema and Amidah.. The service will often begin with two verses from Psalms, followed by the communal recitation of Barechu.The three paragraphs of the Shema are then said, both preceded and ...

Student of the Vilna Gaon. Both Chaim and his elder brother Simcha (d. 1812) studied under Rabbi Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg, the author of the Shaagas Aryeh, who was then rabbi of Volozhin, and afterward under Rabbi Raphael ha-Kohen, (the author of the Toras Yekusiel), later of Hamburg.. Aged 25, Chaim became a disciple of Vilna Gaon. Using his new teacher's …

The incipit (/ ˈ ɪ n s ɪ p ɪ t /) of a text is the first few words of the text, employed as an identifying label. In a musical composition, an incipit is an initial sequence of notes, having the same purpose.The word incipit comes from Latin and means "it begins". Its counterpart taken from the ending of the text is the explicit.. Before the development of titles, texts were often referred ...