Excerpt from The Gaon, R. Elijah Wilna Address Delivered in Commemoration, of the Two Hundredth Anniversary, of His Birth
We are assembled here tonight to commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Gaon, R. Elijah Wilna. We wish to do honor to the memory of the scholar with whom a new epoch began in the study of Rabbinic literature, to pay our tribute of admiration to the last great theologian of classical Rabbinism and to draw inspiration from the contemplation of the life of a saint, a life of most rare spiritual depth.
R. Elijah Wilna, called the Gaon par excellence, came of a family celebrated for the learning and piety of its members. Students of heredity might find it highly interesting to study the stock from which the Gaon sprang and to ascertain what it contributed to the extraordinary qualities of his soul and intellect. I shall refer to but one of his ancestors, Rabbi Moses ben David Ashkenazi, around whom a large cycle of legends arose that are told by Lithuanian Jews to this very day and were told to the young Elijah as he in turn told them to his children.
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