Vilna Gaon

The Vilna Gaon ("Genius of Vilnius") or Gra (from the Hebrew acronym for Gaon Rabbi Eliyahu) are titles commonly used to refer to Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman' (1720-1797), a leading talmudic scholar from Vilnius, Lithuania who is credited with founding the yeshiva movement that gave rise to what is now known as Lithuanian Judaism.