Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi and scholar (born 1720)

Vilna Gaon

Polish-Lithuanian rabbi and Talmudist (1720–1797)

Elijah ben Solomon Zalman,, also known as the Vilna Gaon (Yiddish: דער װילנער גאון Der Vilner Goen; Polish: Gaon z Wilna, Gaon Wileński; or Elijah of Vilna, or by his Hebrew acronym Gr"a, was a Lithuanian Jewish Talmudist, halakhist, kabbalist, and the foremost leader of…