[Avodah] Ayil Meshulash

[Prof. Levine]

>Micha's response
>
>The Gra didn't write Ayil MeShulash, he pushed R' Barukh Shklover to do
>it. The book was finally completed by R' Menachem Man (R' Barukh's
>
>son) and R' Simchah Ziml (grandson). C.f. this 1833 edition title page
><http://books.google.com/books?id=LeVDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT4#v=onepage
><http://books.google.com/books?id=LeVDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT4> >. I know later
>editions attribute it to the Gra, but that's simply incorrect.

"When I was in the illustrious city of Vilna in the presence of the 
Rav, the light, the great Gaon, my master and teacher, the light of 
the eyes of the exile, the renowned pious one (may Hashem protect and 
save him) Rav Eliyahu, in the month of Teves 5538 [January 1778], I 
heard from his holy mouth that according to what a person is lacking 
in knowledge of the 'other wisdoms,' correspondingly he will be 
lacking one hundred portions in the wisdom of the Torah, because the 
Torah and the 'other wisdoms' are inextricably linked together ..."

 From the Introduction to the Hebrew translation of Euclid's book on 
geometry, Sefer Uklidos [The Hague, 1780] by R. Barukh Schick of Shklov.

R. Barukh Schick of Shklov translated Euclid's book on geometry,  he 
did not write Ayil Meshulash. YL
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