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Vilna (Yerushalayim d'Lita) ווילנא — ירושלים דליטא

The city of the Vilna Gaon, the Vilna Shas, and old batei medrash

Vilna, today the capital of Lithuania, was known as "Yerushalayim d'Lita", a world centre of Torah from the 18th century. The Vilna Gaon lived here, and the Vilna Shas was printed here.

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Yerushalayim d'Lita
The Vilna Shas
Today

Yerushalayim d'Lita

Vilna (today Vilnius), the capital of Lithuania, was called "Yerushalayim d'Lita", the Jerusalem of Lithuania ^[1]. From the 18th century it was a world centre of Torah with a large Jewish population ^[1]. Here lived and learned Rabbi Eliyahu, the Vilna Gaon, whose writings shaped the whole Torah world ^[1].

The Vilna Shas

In 1886 the Vilna Shas was published in the city; it remains the edition of the Gemara learned in almost every beis medrash ^[1]. When a bochur in Lakewood, a Chasid in Williamsburg or a yungerman in Bnei Brak opens a Gemara, he sees a piece of Vilna.

Today

The city has a museum named for the Vilna Gaon telling the history of Lithuanian Jewry ^[1]. The Gaon's resting place is visited by Jews from around the world.