hagra

Updated: May 27, 2025

Now, this Gaon of Vilna, or Hagra, was perhaps no less dissatisfied with prevailing conditions than the Besht, but his remedy for them was as different as the two personalities were unlike. He did not desire to abolish the Talmud, but rather to render it more attractive, by making its acquisition easier and putting its study on a scientific basis.

Jacob S. (Jacob Salmon) Raisin - The Haskalah Movement in Russia