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Vilna Gaon

1720 CE – 1797 CE · 77 years

The greatest Talmudic scholar of the modern era — a child prodigy who mastered every branch of Torah, studied the stars to understand the Law, slept two hours a night for forty years, and led the fiercest opposition to Hasidism in Jewish history.

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