JL;DR SUMMARY In episode 14 of the podcast "GAON," Rabbi Arnie Wittenstein discusses the Vilna Gaon's unrealized ambitious projects, specifically his endeavors to write a final version of the Shulchan Aruch and to make Aliyah to Israel. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.