{"id":420,"date":"2020-06-09T20:36:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T18:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/covers.postalworld.de\/?p=420"},"modified":"2020-06-09T20:36:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T18:36:57","slug":"lithuania-elijah-of-vilna-the-vilna-gaon-300th-birth-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covers.postalworld.de\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania &#8211; Elijah of Vilna, the Vilna Gaon, 300th Birth Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"716\" src=\"http:\/\/covers.postalworld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200609_00011-1024x716.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/covers.postalworld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200609_00011-1024x716.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/covers.postalworld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200609_00011-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/covers.postalworld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200609_00011-768x537.jpg 768w, https:\/\/covers.postalworld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200609_00011-1536x1075.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/covers.postalworld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200609_00011-2048x1433.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/covers.postalworld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200609_00011-130x90.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Many thanks Kestutis! Arrived June 9, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Elijah of Vilna<\/strong>, or by his Hebrew acronym <strong>HaGra<\/strong> (&#8220;<strong>H<\/strong>a<strong>G<\/strong>aon <strong>R<\/strong>abbenu <strong>E<\/strong>liyahu&#8221;: &#8220;The sage, our teacher, Elijah&#8221;) or Elijah Ben Solomon (Sialiec, April 23, 1720\u00a0\u2013 Vilnius October 9, 1797), was a 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 <em>ha-Gaon he-Chasid mi-Vilna<\/em>, &#8220;the pious genius from Vilnius&#8221;<\/li><li>My first real classical official FDC from Lithuania<\/li><li>postage for &lt;20g letters to Germany (and EU countries) 0,81 \u20ac [0,75+0,06 \u20ac for priority]<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks Kestutis! Arrived June 9, 2020. Elijah of Vilna, or by his Hebrew acronym HaGra (&#8220;HaGaon Rabbenu Eliyahu&#8221;: &#8220;The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,41,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judaism","category-lithuania","category-religion","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covers.postalworld.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covers.postalworld.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covers.postalworld.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covers.postalworld.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covers.postalworld.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/covers.postalworld.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/covers.postalworld.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covers.postalworld.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covers.postalworld.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covers.postalworld.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covers.postalworld.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}