List of rabbis

This is a list of prominent rabbis. Rabbis are Judaism's spiritual and religious leaders.

See also: List of Jews.

Rabbis: Pre-Mishnaic (Tannaim) (Zugot) (ca. 515 BCE – 70 CE)

See: Mishnah, Tannaim, Zugot.

Zugot

• Jose ben Joezer, Nasi of the Sanhedrin during the Maccabean wars of independence.
• Jose ben Johanan, Av Beit Din of the Sanhedrin during the Maccabean wars of independence.
• Joshua ben Perachyah, Nasi of the Sanhedrin during the reign of John Hyrcanus.
• Nittai of Arbela, Av Beit Din of the Sanhedrin during the reign of John Hyrcanus.
• Judah ben Tabbai, Nasi of the Sanhedrin during the reign of Alexander Jannæus and Queen Salome.
• Simeon ben Shetach, Av Beit Din of the Sanhedrin during the reign of Alexander Jannæus and Queen Salome.
• Shemaya, Nasi of the Sanhedrin during the reign of Hyrcanus II.
• Avtalyon, Av Beit Din of the Sanhedrin during the reign of Hyrcanus II. A convert to Judaism.
• Hillel the Elder, Nasi of the Sanhedrin during the reign of King Herod the Great.
• Shammai, Av Beit Din of the Sanhedrin during the reign of King Herod the Great.

Other

• Shimon Hatzadik
• Antigonus of Sokho

Rabbis: Mishnaic (Tannaim) (ca. 70–200 CE)

See Mishnah, Tannaim.

Akiva ben Joseph

• Akiva, (c.40–c.137) 1st-century Judea, central scholar in Mishnah
• Judah haNasi, (?–c.217) 2nd century, Judah the Prince, in Judea, redactor (editor) of the Mishnah
• Shimon bar Yochai, 1st-century mystic, reputed author of the Zohar
• Yohanan ben Zakkai, (c.30 BCE–90 CE) 1st-century sage in Judea, key to the development of the Mishnah
• Eliezer ben Jose, the son of Jose the Galilean (?-c.160), famous for Baraita of Thirty-Two mitzvoth. Father of Rabbi Hananiah.

Rabbis: Talmudic (Amoraim) (ca. 200–500 CE)

See Talmud and Amora.

• Abaye, (?–339) 3rd-century Talmudist
• Abba Arika, (175–247) known as Rav, last Tanna, first Amora. Moved from Israel to Babylon, 3rd century.
• Abbahu, (c.279–320) 4th-century Talmudist
• Hamnuna – Several rabbis in the Talmud had this name.
• Hillel, son of Gamaliel III, 3rd century, in Judea, grandson of Judah ha-Nasi, and younger brother of Judah Nesiah
• Hillel II, 4th-century creator of the Hebrew calendar, in Judea, son of Judah Nesiah, grandson of Gamaliel IV
• Judah II, 3rd-century sage, sometimes called Judah Nesi'ah and Rebbi like his grandfather
• Judah III, (?–c.320) 4th-century scholar, son of Gamaliel IV, and grandson of Judah II
• Rabbah bar Nahmani (c.270–c.330)
• Rav Ashi, (352–427) 5th-century Babylonian Talmudic sage – primary redactor of the Babylonian Talmud
• Rav Nachman (?–320)
• Rav Papa (c.300–375)
• Rava, important Amora (c.280–352)
• Ravina, (?–421) primary aide to Rav Ashi in the redaction of the Babylonian Talmud
• Ravina II (?–499)
• Resh Lakish
• Shmuel (Talmud), (c. 165–c.257) rabbi of Nehardea, physician
• Yochanan, (180–279) primary author of the Jerusalem Talmud
• Rav Jonah

Rabbis: Middle Ages (ca. 500–1500 CE)

See: Geonim and Rishonim.

Rashi

Maimonides

Nahmanides

• Abba Mari, (Minhat Kenaot), 13th-century French Talmudist
• Don Isaac Abravanel, (Abarbanel), (1437–1508) 15th-century philosopher and Torah commentator
• Jacob Berab, (1474–1546) 15th–16th-century proponent of Semichah (Ordination)
• Abraham ibn Daud, (Sefer HaKabbalah), (c. 1110–c.1180) 12th-century Spanish philosopher
• Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro, (Bartenura), (c. 1445–c.1515) 15th-century commentator on the Mishnah
• Abraham ben David of Posquières, (c. 1125–1198) 12th century, France.
• Abdullah ibn Salam, (550 - 630) Rabbi before converting to Islam. was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
• Abraham ibn Ezra, (Even Ezra), (1089–1164) 12th-century Spanish-North African Biblical commentator
• Amram Gaon, (?–875) 9th-century organizer of the siddur
• Asher ben Jehiel, (Rosh), (c. 1259–1327) 13th-century German-Spanish Talmudist
• Bahya ibn Paquda, (Hovot ha-Levavot), 11th-century Spanish philosopher and moralist
• Chananel Ben Chushiel (Rabbeinu Chananel), (990–1053) 10th-century Tunisian Talmudist
• Dunash ben Labrat, (920–990) 10th-century grammarian and poet
• Eleazar Kalir, (c.570–c.640) early Talmudic liturgist and poet
• Eliezer ben Nathan, (1090–1170) 12th-century poet and pietist
• Hasdai Crescas, (Or Hashem), (c. 1370–c.1411) 14th-century Talmudist and philosopher
• Rabbenu Gershom, (c.960–c.1040) 11th-century German Talmudist and legalist
• Gersonides, Levi ben Gershom, (Ralbag), (1288–1344) 14th-century French Talmudist and philosopher
• Hillel ben Eliakim, (Rabbeinu Hillel), 12th-century Talmudist and disciple of Rashi
• Ibn Tibbon, a family of 12th and 13th-century Spanish and French scholars, translators, and leaders
• Isaac Alfasi, (the Rif), (1013–1103) 12th-century North African and Spanish Talmudist and Halakhist; author of "Sefer Ha-halachot"
• Jacob ben Asher, (Baal ha-Turim ; Arbaah Turim), (c. 1269–c.1343) 14th-century German-Spanish Halakhist
• Joseph Albo, (Sefer Ikkarim), (c. 1380–1444) 15th-century Spain
• Joseph ibn Migash (1077–1141) 12th-century Spanish Talmudist and Rosh Yeshiva; teacher of Maimon, father of Maimonides
• Maimonides, Moshe Ben Maimon, (Rambam), (1138–1204) 12th-century Spanish-North African Talmudist, philosopher, and law codifier
• Mordecai ben Hillel, (The Mordechai), (c. 1250–1298) 13th-century German Halakhist
• Nahmanides, Moshe ben Nahman, (Ramban), (1194–1270) 13th-century Spanish and Holy Land mystic and Talmudist
• Nissim Ben Jacob (Rav Nissim Gaon), (990–1062) 10th-century Tunisian Talmudist
• Nissim of Gerona, (RaN), (1320–1376) 14th-century Halakhist and Talmudist
• Rashi, (Solomon ben Yitzchak), (1040–1105) 11th-century Talmudist, the primary commentator of Talmud
• Elazar Rokeach, (Sefer HaRokeach), (1176–1238) 12th-century German rabbinic scholar
• Saadia Gaon, (Emunoth ve-Deoth ; Siddur), (c.882–942) 10th-century Exilarch and leader of Babylonian Jewry
• Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon, (c. 1150–c.1230) 12th–13th-century French Maimonidean philosopher and translator
• Tosafists, (Tosfot) 11th, 12th and 13th-century Talmudic scholars in France and Germany
• Yehuda Halevi, (Kuzari), (c. 1175–1241) 12th-century Spanish philosopher and poet devoted to Zion

Rabbis: 16th – 18th centuries

See: Acharonim.

Rabbis: 16th – 17th centuries

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Joseph ben Ephraim Karo

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Moses Isserles

Judah Loew ben Bezalel

• Isaac Abendana (c. 1640–1699), 17th-century Sephardic scholar in England
• Jacob Abendana (c. 1630–1685), 17th-century Sephardic rabbi in England
• Isaac Aboab da Fonseca (1605–1693), 17th-century Dutch scholar and Kabbalist, first Rabbi in the Americas
• Abraham Amigo (c. 1610–c. 1683), Palestinian rabbi
• Bezalel Ashkenazi (c. 1520–c.1592), (Shittah Mekubetzet), 16th-century Talmudist
• Tzvi Ashkenazi (1656–1718), author of Chacham Tzvi
• Yair Bacharach (Havvot Yair 1639–1702), 17th-century German Talmudist
• Abraham ben Saul Broda (c. 1640–1717), Bohemian Talmudist
• Naphtali Cohen (1649–1718), Russo-German rabbi and kabalist
• Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (RaMaK, 1522–1570), 16th-century Holy Land Kabbalistic scholar
• Samuel Edels (Mahrsha, 1555–1631), 16th-century Talmudist
• Kalonymus Haberkasten, 16th-century Polish rabbi
• David HaLevi Segal, (Taz, 1586–1667, 16th-century Halakhist, major commentatry on the Shulchan Aruch
• Abraham Cohen de Herrera (RabACH, c.1570–c.1635), 16th-century Kabbalist and philosopher Spanish and Portuguese Jews
• Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi (Bet Hillel, (1615–1690), 17th-century Lithuanian scholar
• Isaiah Horowitz (Shlah, c.1565–1632) 16th-century Kabbalist and Author – Eastern Europe and Israel
• Moshe Isserles (Rema, 1520–1572), 16th-century Polish legal scholar, author of Ha-mappah (component of the Shulchan Aruch)
• Yosef Karo (Mechaber, 1488–1575), 16th-century Spanish and Land of Israel legal codifier of the Shulchan Aruch – code of Torah Law
• Meir ben Isaac (1482–1565) and his son Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen (1521–1597) of Padua
• Elijah Loans (1555–1636), 16th–17th-century German rabbi and kabbalist
• Judah Low ben Bezalel (Maharal, 1512–1609), 16th-century Prague mystic and Talmudist
• Meir of Lublin (Maharam, 1558–1616), 16th-century Posek and Talmudist
• Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz (1550–1619), 16th–17th-century Torah commentator
• Isaac Luria (1534–1572) (Ari, 1534–1572), 16th-century Holy Land mystic, founder of Lurianic Kabbalah
• Solomon Luria (Maharshal, 1510–1573), 16th-century Posek and Talmudist
• Menasseh Ben Israel (1604–1657), 17th-century Dutch rabbi and advocate of resettlement in England
• David Pardo (Dutch rabbi, born at Salonica) (1591–1657), Dutch rabbi, born at Salonica
• David Pardo (Dutch rabbi, born in Amsterdam), translator of Joseph Pardo's (his father) Shulchan Tahor into Spanish
• Joseph Pardo (rabbi) (c. 1561–1619), Italian rabbi and merchant
• Samuel Schotten (1644–1719), 17th-century rabbi of the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt
• Shalom Shachna (1495–1558), 16th-century Polish Talmudist; Rosh Yeshiva of several great Rishonim
• Sforno, 15th, 16th, and 17th-century family of Italian Torah scholars and philosophers
  • Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno (Sforno, 1475–1550), 16th-century Italian scholar and rationalist
• Hayyim ben Joseph Vital (1542–1620), 16th-century Kabbalist
• Mordecai Yoffe ("Levush", c.1530–1612), 16th–17th-century Polish rabbi, codifier of halakha

Rabbis: 18th century

Vilna Gaon

Shneur Zalman of Liadi

• Aharon of Karlin (I) (1736–1772), Hassidic leader
• Chaim Joseph David Azulai (Hida, 1724–1806), Sephardi rabbi and bibliographer
• Raphael Berdugo (1747–1821), rabbi in Meknes
• Haim Isaac Carigal (1733–1777), rabbi in Newport, Rhode Island in 1773 who became great influence on Reverend Ezra Stiles, and therefore on Yale University
• Dovber of Mezritch (c. 1710–1772), (Maggid), Eastern European mystic, primary disciple of the Baal Shem Tov
• Akiva Eiger (1761–1837), Talmudist, and communal leader
• Elijah ben Solomon (the Vilna Gaon or Gra, 1720–1797), Talmudist and mystic, Lithuanian leader of the Mitnagdim, opponent of Hasidism
• Elimelech of Lizhensk, (Noam Elimelech, 1717–1787), Polish mystic and Hasid
• Jacob Emden (1697–1776), German Talmudist and mystic
• Aaron Hart (1670–1756), Chief rabbi of Great Britain
• David Hassine (1727–1792), Moroccan Jewish poet
• Israel ben Eliezer (Baal Shem Tov, c.1700–1760), mystic, founder of Hasidic Judaism
• Yechezkel Landau (Noda Bihudah, 1713–1793), Posek and Talmudist
• Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev (Kedushas Leivi, 1740–1809) Polish Hassidic Leader
• Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Ramchal, 1707–1746), Italian ethicist, philosopher, and mystic
• Hart Lyon (1721–1800), Chief rabbi of Great Britain
• David Nieto (1654–1728), English rabbi
• Isaac Nieto (1702–1774), English rabbi
• Jacob Pardo, rabbi of Ragusa and Spalato
• Shalom Sharabi (1720–1777), Yemenite rabbi and Kabbalist
• Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745–1812), (Alter Rebbe of Chabad), mystic and Talmudist, founder of Chabad Hasidism and first Chabad Rebbe

Orthodox rabbis, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries

See Orthodox Judaism.

Orthodox rabbis: 19th century

• Aaron of Pinsk (?–1841), rabbi and author of Tosafot Aharon
• Barnett Abrahams (1831–1863), dayan, Principal of Jews' College, London
• Nathan Marcus Adler (1803–1890), Chief Rabbi of the British Empire
• Aharon of Karlin (II) (1802–1872), Hassidic leader
• Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (1847–1905), (Sfas Emes) Gerrer Rebbe
• Benjamin Artom (1835–1879), Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
• Salomon Berdugo (1854–1906), Rabbi in Meknes
• Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (1816–1893), (Netziv ; Ha'emek Davar) head of Volozhin yeshiva in Lithuania
• Avrohom Bornsztain (1838–1910), (Avnei Nezer), first Sochatchover Rebbe
• Zvi Hirsch Chajes (1805–1855), (Maharatz Chayes), Galician Talmudic scholar
• Yosef Chayim, the Ben Ish Hai (1835–1909), Iraqi halakhist and preacher
• Yehoshua Leib Diskin (1818–1898), Rabbi in Shklov, Brisk and Jerusalem
• Yechiel Michel Epstein (1829–1908), (Aruch ha-Shulchan) 19th–20th-century halakhist and posek (decisor)
• Jacob Ettlinger (1798–1871), German scholar and opponent of Reform
• Yitzchok Friedman (1850–1917), first Rebbe of Boyan
• Moshe Shmuel Glasner (1856–1924), (Dor Revi'i) 19th–20th-century talmudist, chief rabbi of Klausenburg, a founder of Mizrahi
• Chaim Yosef Gottlieb of Stropkov (1794–1867) also known as Stropkover Rov – Chief Rabbi and head of the bet din of Stropkov, Galicia
• Moshe Greenwald (1853–1910), Rav of Chust, Hungary and founder of the Puppa Hasidic dynasty
• Solomon Herschell (1762–1842), British Chief Rabbi
• Azriel Hildesheimer (1820–1899), German rabbi and philosopher
• Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808–1888), German rabbi, founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz movement
• Abraham Lichtstein, Av Beit Din of Przasnysz, Poland
• Jacob of Lissa (1760–1832), Galician Halakhist
• Malbim (1809–1879), Meir Lob ben Jehiel Michael, (The Malbim), Russian preacher and scholar
• Raphael Meldola (1754–1828), Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews in London
• Frederick de Sola Mendes (1850–1927), Sephardic rabbi in London and America
• Nachman of Breslov (1772–1810), (Rebbe Nachman), Ukrainian Hasidic Rebbe and mystic
• Nathan of Breslov (1780–1844), Known as Reb Noson was the chief disciple and scribe of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
• Pele Yoetz (1785–1828), Rabbi Eliezer Papo, Rabbi of the community of Selestria, Bulgaria
• Moses Pardo (?–1888), Jerusalem-born rabbi of Alexandria
• Zvi Yosef HaKohen Resnick, (1841–1912) rosh yeshiva and educator
• Mnachem HaKohen Risikoff (1866–1910), 19th–20th-century scholar and author
• Yisrael Lipkin Salanter (1810–1883), Lithuanian ethicist and moralist
• Dovber Schneuri (1773–1827), second Rebbe of Chabad
• Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (1789–1866), (Tzemach Tzedek), third Rebbe of Lubavitch
• Shmuel Schneersohn (1834–1882), fourth Rebbe of Lubavitch
• Moses Sofer (1762–1839), (Chatam Sofer), Hungarian rabbi
• Yaakov Chaim Sofer(1870–1939), Baghdadi rabbi, author of Kaf ha-Chaim
• Chaim Soloveitchik (1853–1918), (Father of the "Brisker Rov"), Eastern European rabbi
• Hayyim Tyrer (1740–1817), Hasidic rabbi and kabbalist

Orthodox rabbis: 20th century

Hardal

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Abraham Isaac Kook

• Yisrael Ariel (1939–), founder of the Temple Institute, from the liberators of the Western Wall in the Six-Day War.
• Shlomo Goren (1917–1994), Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi, founded and served as the first head of the Military Rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces
• Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane (1966–2000), Israeli leader of Kahane Chai party and son of Rabbi Meir Kahane
• Meir Kahane (1932–1990), founder of the Jewish Defense League and the Kach party
• Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935), first Chief Rabbi of Palestine, philosopher and mystic
• Zvi Yehuda Kook (1891–1982), head of Mercaz Harav and son of Abraham Isaac Kook
• Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994), (Lubavitcher Rebbe), 20th-century Hasidic mystic and scholar, seventh Chabad Rebbe

Haredi

• Yehezkel Abramsky (1886–1976), author of Chazon Yehezkel
• Yisrael Abuhatzeira (1889–1984), Kabbalist
• Amram Blau (1894–1974), Haredi rabbi from the Hungarian community of Jerusalem, was one of the founders of the fiercely Anti-Zionist Neturei Karta.
• Shmuel Bornsztain (1855–1926), Shem Mishmuel, Second Sochatchover Rebbe
• Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (1892–1953), (Michtav Me'Eliyahu) religious philosopher and ethicist
• Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (1867–1948), also known as the Maharitz, was the first Rebbe of Dushinsky
• Baruch Epstein (1860–1941), (Torah Temimah), Lithuanian Torah commentator
• Moshe Mordechai Epstein (1866–1933), ( Levush Mordechai), Talmudist and co-head of Slabodka Yeshiva
• Moshe Feinstein (1895–1986), (Igrot Moshe), Russian-American legal scholar and Talmudist
• Tzvi Hirsch Ferber (1879–1966), (Kerem HaTzvi), author, leader and renowned scholar
• Nosson Tzvi Finkel (1849–1927), (Alter / Sabba), early 20th-century founder of Slabodka Yeshiva, Lithuania
• Mordechai Shlomo Friedman (1891–1971), Boyaner Rebbe of New York
• Rogatchover Gaon (1858–1936), (Rav Yosef Rosen), Talmudist and Hasidic leader
• Boruch Greenfeld (1872–1956), (Reb Boruch Hermenshtater), Hasidic mystic and scholar, author of Ohel Boruch
• Ben Zion Halberstam (1874–1941), second Bobover Rebbe, killed by the Nazis in 1941
• Yitzchok Hutner (1906–1980), (Pachad Yitzchok), European-born, American and Israeli Rosh Yeshiva
• Yisrael Meir Kagan (1839–1933), (Chofetz Chaim), Polish legalist and moralist
• Yaakov Kamenetsky (1891–1986), rabbinical leader and educationalist
• Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky (1899–1985), ("Steipler Gaon"), Ukrainian-born scholar
• Aryeh Kaplan (1934–1983), (Living Torah) writer and mystic
• Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz (1878–1953), (Chazon Ish) Haredi leader in Israel
• Pinchas Kohn (1867–1941), last rabbi of Ansbach and a founder and an executive director of World Agudath Israel
• Aharon Kotler (1891–1962), Lithuanian scholar, founder of Lakewood Yeshiva in the United States
• Chaim Kreiswirth (1918–2001), long-time Chief Rabbi of Antwerp (Belgium)
• Gershon Liebman (1905–1997), leader of the Novardok Yeshiva movement in France
• Elyah Lopian(1876–1970), known as Reb Elyah, among the most prominent rabbis of the Mussar Movement
• Isser Zalman Meltzer (1870–1953), renowned Lithuanian Rosh Yeshiva
• Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz (1886–1948), (Mr. Mendlowitz) European-born head of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath in the United States
• Shulem Moshkovitz (?–1958), Hasidic rebbe in London
• Yisroel Ber Odesser (1888–1994), Breslover Hasid and Rabbi
• Chanoch Dov Padwa (1908–2000), (Cheishev Ho'ephod), rabbinical head of UOHC, London
• Eliyahu Chaim Rosen (1899–1984), respected rabbi and leader of the Breslov Hasidim in Uman, Ukraine before World War II
• Sholom Dovber Schneersohn (1860–1920), fifth Rebbe of Lubavitch
• Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn (1880–1950), sixth Rebbe of Lubavitch
• Joseph ben Yehuda Leib Shapotshnick (1882–1937), British rabbi
• Shimon Shkop (1860–1939), famed Rosh Yeshiva in Telz and Grodno
• Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (1843–1926), (Ohr Somayach ; Meshech Chochmah) Lithuanian-Latvian Talmudist and communal leader
• Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld (1848–1932), Rabbi and co-founder of the Edah HaChareidis, Haredi Jewish community in Jerusalem, during the years of the British Mandate of Palestine.
• Abraham Sternhartz (1862–1955), Orthodox rabbi in Ukraine and a unique and unsurpassed figure in the chain of transmission of Breslover teachings
• Joel Teitelbaum (1887–1979), (Satmar Rebbe), Hasidic Hungarian-American rebbe known for anti-Zionism
• Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl (1903–1957), (Min HaMeitzar) European scholar involved in rescue efforts during the Holocaust

Modern Orthodox

• Hermann Adler (1839–1911), Chief Rabbi of the British Empire
• Meir Berlin (1880–1949), (Bar Ilan) religious Zionist leader
• Eliezer Berkovits (1908–1992) Talmudic scholar and philosopher
• Israel Brodie (1895–1979), Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth
• Isidore Epstein (1894–1962), Principal of Jews' College, London
• Moses Gaster (1856–1939), Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Britain
• Sir Hermann Gollancz (1852–1930), British rabbi and professor
• Joseph H. Hertz (1872–1946), Chief Rabbi of the British Empire
• Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman (1868–1953), British rabbi and dayan
• Moses Hyamson (1862–1949), British rabbi
• Immanuel Jakobovits (1921–1999), Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, medical ethicist
• Moses Mescheloff (1909–2008), Miami Beach and Chicago, Modern Orthodox Religious Zionist Rabbi
• Chalom Messas (1913–2003), Chief Rabbi of Morocco and Jerusalem
• David Messas (1934–2011), Chief Rabbi of Paris
• Solomon Mestel (1886–1966), British rabbi
• Jonathan Sacks (1948–), Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth
• Simeon Singer (1846–1906), editor of the United Synagogue prayer book
• Joseph Soloveitchik (1903–1993), 20th-century European-born Talmudist and philosopher
• Selig Starr (1893–1989), Chicago rabbi

Orthodox rabbis: Contemporary (ca. 21st century)

Hardal

Yisrael Meir Lau

• Shlomo Amar (1948–), Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel
• Mordechai Eliyahu (1929–2010), former Sephardic Chief Rabbi
• Yitzchak Ginsburgh (1944), American-born Israeli rabbi, currently president of the Od Yosef Chai Yeshivah in the settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank
• David Bar Hayim (1960–), founder of Machon Shilo, proponent of Nusach Eretz Yisrael
• Israel Meir Lau (1937–), former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel and current Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv
• Dov Lior (1933–), Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Arba and Hebron
• Zalman Melamed (1937–), rabbi of Beit El
• Avigdor Nebenzahl (1935–), Chief Rabbi of the Old City of Jerusalem
• Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto (1973–), Israeli Orthodox rabbi who leads a global organization called Mosdot Shuva Israel. Based in Ashdod and New York
• Menachem Porush (1916–2010), Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael
• Avraham Shapira (1914–2007), former Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi, the head of Mercaz haRav yeshiva
• Adin Steinsaltz (1937–), 21st-century Israeli Talmud scholar and philosopher
• Ovadia Yosef (1920–2013), 21st-century Iraqi-Israeli former Israel Sephardic Chief Rabbi, legal scholar, "de facto" leader of Sephardic Jewry

Haredi

Ovadia Yosef

• Elazar Abuhatzeira (1948–2011), Orthodox Sefardi rabbi and kabbalist, known among his followers as the "Baba Elazar
• Yaakov Aryeh Alter (1939), eighth and current Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger
• Shalom Arush (1952), Israeli Breslov rabbi and founder of the Chut Shel Chessed Institutions
• Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi (1943–2015), Orthodox rabbi and a member of the Chabad Hasidic movement
• Yisroel Belsky (1938–2016), Dean, Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, Senior Rabbi of the Orthodox Union, and recognized world authority of Jewish law
• Moshe Ber Beck (1934–), Orthodox rabbi and a chief rabbi of the Neturei Karta movement in United States.
• Eliezer Berland (1937), Israeli Orthodox Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Shuvu Bonim affiliated with the Breslov Hasidic movement.
• Avrohom Blumenkrantz (1944–2007), posek and kashrut authority
• Meir Brandsdorfer (1934–2009), member of the Badatz (rabbinical court) of the Edah HaChareidis
• Nachum Dov Brayer (1959–), present Rebbe of the Boyan
• Uriel Davidi (1922–2006), Hacham Uriel Davidi served as the chief rabbi of Iran from 1980 to 1994
• Michel Dorfman (1913–2006), de facto head of the Breslover Hasidim living in post-Stalinist Russia
• Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky Rebbe of the Dushinsky of Jerusalem
• Yosef Sholom Eliashiv (1910–2012), Israeli rabbi and a rabbinical leader of the haredi world
• Gerrer Rebbes, Polish Hasidic dynasty now in Israel, followers also in the United States and UK
• Menachem Froman (1945–2013), Israeli Orthodox Jewish rabbi and a peacemaker and negotiator with close ties to Palestinian religious leaders
• Shlomo Goldman, Sanz-Klausenburger Grand Rabbi
• Shmuel Dovid Halberstam, Sanz-Klausenberger Rebbe of Borough Park
• Zvi Elimelech Halberstam (1952–), Sanz-Klausenburger Rebbe of Netanya, Israel
• Yosef Hamadani Cohen (1916–2014), Chief Rabbi of Iran and spiritual leader for the Jewish community of Iran
• Shlomo Helbrans (1962–), Rebbe of the Lev Tahor community
• Moshe Hirsch (1923 or 1924–2010), Leader of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta group in Jerusalem
• Chaim Avrohom Horowitz, Grand Rabbi of the Boston Jewish Hasidic dynasty
• Mayer Alter Horowitz, Bostoner Rebbe of Jerusalem
• Naftali Yehuda Horowitz, Bostoner Rebbe
• Yitzchak Kadouri (1898–2006), leading 20th-century Kabbalist (Mekubal)
• Chaim Kanievsky (1928–), Israeli rabbi and posek, living in Bnei Brak, Israel
• Nissim Karelitz (1926–), Israeli haredi leader
• Meir Kessler, rabbi of Modi'in Illit
• Yitzhak Aharon Korff, Rebbe of Zvhil – Mezhbizh.
• Dov Landau, Israeli rosh yeshiva
• Berel Lazar (1964–), Chief Rabbi of Russia
• Yosef Yechiel Mechel Lebovits Rebbe of Nikolsburg
• Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam (1955–), current leader of the Bobov
• Meshulim Feish Lowy (1921–2015), Grand Rebbe of the Tosh hasidic dynasty
• Yona Metzger (1953–), former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel
• Avigdor Miller (1908–2001), author and renowned lecturer
• Shlomo Miller, head of the Toronto Kollel and recognized authority of Jewish law
• Naftali Asher Yeshayahu Moscowitz, Rebbe of Ropshitz
• Yaakov Perlow, Hasidic rebbe and rosh yeshiva living in Boro Park, Brooklyn
• Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, Rebbe of Skulen
• Moshe Leib Rabinovich (1940–), current rebbe of Munkacs
• Yehoshua Rokeach of Machnovka (1949–), Machnovka Rebbe of Bnei Brak
• Yissachar Dov Rokeach (1948–), Belzer Rebbe
• Yechezkel Roth, Karlsburger Rav
• Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg (1910–2012), dean of Torah Ohr Yeshiva, Jerusalem
• Yitzchok Scheiner, Israeli rosh yeshiva
• Eliezer Shlomo Schick (1940–2015), Hasidic rabbi and prolific author and publisher of Breslov teachings
• Aharon Leib Shteinman (1912), prominent Haredi rabbi and posek (halakhic authority)
• Ahron Soloveichik (1917–2001), Renowned scholar of Talmud, Halakha and a Rosh Yeshiva
• Aaron Teitelbaum (1947–), Grand Rebbes of Satmar, and the Ruv of the Satmar community in Kiryas Joel, New York
• Moshe Teitelbaum (1914–2006), Satmar Rebbe
• Zalman Teitelbaum (1951–), Grand Rebbes of Satmar, and the third son of Grand Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum
• David Twersky (1940–), Grand Rabbi and spiritual leader of the village of New Square, New York
• Mordechai Dovid Unger (1954–), currently Bobover Rebbe
• Vizhnitzer Rebbes, (Vizhnitzer), Romanian dynasty of Hasidic rebbes in Israel and the United States
• Yisroel Dovid Weiss (1956–), United States Haredi rabbi, is an activist and spokesman for Neturei Karta
• Shmuel Wosner (1913–2015), prominent Haredi rabbi and posek
• Amnon Yitzhak (1953–), Yemenite "ba'al teshuva Rabbi" in Israel
• Amram Zaks (1926–2012), rosh yeshiva of the Slabodka yeshiva of Bnei Brak

Modern Orthodox

• Raymond Apple, Australian Jewish spokesman, writer and lecturer on Jewish, interfaith and freemasonic issues
• Benjamin Blech, American modern Orthodox thinker, Professor of Talmud and Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University, noted author and speaker
• Levi Brackman, British-born rabbi
• Mordechai Breuer, Israeli rabbi, descendant of Samson Raphael Hirsch
• Shlomo Carlebach (1925–1994), Jewish rabbi, religious teacher, composer, singer and pioneer in Baal Teshuvah Movement
• Mark Dratch, Instructor of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University and founder of JSafe
• Barry Freundel, former rabbi of Kesher Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C., convicted of voyeurism
• Manis Friedman, a noted biblical scholar, author, counselor and speaker
• Menachem Genack, OU
• Moshe Gottesman Rabbi, Educator and community leader.
• Irving Greenberg, American rabbi and writer on the relationship between Christianity and Judaism
• David Hartman, philosopher, author, and founder of Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem
• David Bar Hayim, founder of Machon Shilo, proponent of Nusach Eretz Yisrael [1]
• Sara Hurwitz, Rabba. Assistant Rabbi of Hebrew Institute of Riverdale and dean of Yeshivat Maharat. Second female ordained as Orthodox rabbi in modern times after Mimi Feigelson.
• Norman Lamm, 20th-century American modern Orthodox thinker, head of Yeshiva University
• Aharon Lichtenstein, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion, and Rosh Kollel of Yeshiva University's Gruss Kollel
• Shlomo Riskin, Chief Rabbi of Efrat
• Hershel Schachter, leading posek for the Modern Orthodox Jewish community.
• Arthur Schneier, prominent rabbi in the secular world and rabbi at Park East Synagogue, which hosted Pope Benedict.
• Zvi Sobolofsky, Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University and rabbi of Ohr Hatorah in Bergenfield, New Jersey
• Yerachmiel Swift, Rabbi of Congregation Kehilas Khal in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Moshe David Tendler, son-in-law of Moshe Feinstein, and noted bioethist.
• Steven Weil, Executive-Vice President of the Orthodox Union
• Avi Weiss, Founder, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, and rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale
• Mordechai Willig, Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University, prominent posek for the Modern Orthodox community.
• Benjamin Yudin, rabbi of Shomrei Torah in Fair Lawn, New Jersey

See also article Modern Orthodox for a list of rabbis.

Conservative rabbis, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries

See: Conservative Judaism.

Conservative rabbis: 19th century

• Zecharias Frankel, 19th-century critical historian, founder of the "Positive Historical" school, the progenitor of Conservative Judaism.
• Levi Herzfeld, 19th-century German rabbi, proponent of moderate reform
• Nachman Krochmal, 19th-century Austrian philosopher and historian

Conservative rabbis: 20th century

• Philip R. Alstat, 20th-century rabbi
• Louis Finkelstein, 20th-century Conservative Talmud scholar
• Louis Ginzberg (1873–1953), 20th-century American Conservative Talmud scholar
• Robert Gordis, 20th-century leader in Conservative Judaism
• Jules Harlow, 20th-century Conservative Judaism liturgist
• Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972), 20th-century Conservative Judaism philosopher and scholar of Hasidism
• Isaac Klein, 20th-century American Conservative rabbi and scholar
• Albert L. Lewis, 20th-century Conservative rabbi
• Saul Lieberman, 20th-century rabbi and scholar
• Marshall Meyer, 20th-century American Conservative rabbi and human rights activist, founded a Rabbinical school and synagogue in Argentina
• Samuel Schafler, 20th-century American Conservative rabbi and historian
• Solomon Schechter, 20th-century scholar and a founder of Conservative Judaism
• Morris Silverman, 20th-century American Conservative rabbi and liturgist

Conservative rabbis: Contemporary (ca. 21st century)

• Ronald Androphy, Conservative rabbi of East Meadow Jewish Center, President of the Long Island Board of Rabbis and the East Meadow Clergy Association, member of the Board of Governors of the New York Board of Rabbis, past Chairman of the Rabbinic Advisory Committee of the UJA Federation of Long Island, and past President of the Rabbinical Assembly of Nassau-Suffolk.
• Bradley Shavit Artson, Conservative rabbi, Dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University,
• Menachem Creditor, Conservative rabbi, activist, and founder of the Shefa Network
• Elliot N. Dorff, Conservative rabbi, bioethicist, and professor of Jewish Theology at the American Jewish University
• Amy Eilberg, Conservative rabbi, author and co-founded the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center in San Francisco
• Neil Gillman, Conservative philosopher and theologian
• David Golinkin, Masorti rabbi and halakhist
• Reuven Hammer, Masorti rabbi, author, and siddur commentator
• Louis Jacobs, founder of the Masorti movement in the United Kingdom, theologian
• William E. Kaufman, advocate of process theology
• Harold Kushner, 21st-century American Conservative rabbi, theologian, and popular writer
• William H. Lebeau, Conservative rabbi and Dean of Rabbinical School at Jewish Theological Seminary of America
• Aaron L. Mackler, Conservative rabbi and bioethicist
• Jason Miller (rabbi), Conservative rabbi, entrepreneur and technology blogger
• Jacob Neusner (1932–), Conservative trained scholar and writer
• Daniel Nevins, Dean of JTS Rabbinical School and author of inclusive teshuvah on homosexuality in Judaism
• Einat Ramon, first Israeli-born woman rabbi
• Paula Reimers
• Arnold Resnicoff, Navy Chaplain, AJC National Director of Interreligious Affairs, Special Assistant (Values and Vision) to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
• Joel Roth, Conservative scholar and rabbi
• Ismar Schorsch, Conservative educator and leader
• Harold M. Schulweis, Conservative rabbi of Valley Beth Shalom, Encino, California and founder of the Jewish World Watch
• Alan Silverstein, Conservative rabbi of Congregation Agudath Israel in Caldwell, New Jersey, and former President of the Rabbinical Assembly
• Gordon Tucker, Conservative rabbi
• Zvi Dershowitz (1928–), Conservative rabbi of Sinai Temple, Los Angeles, California
• Stuart Weinblatt, Conservative rabbi and founder of Congregation B'nai Tzedek in Potomac, Maryland; President of the Rabbinic Cabinet of the Jewish Federations of North America
• David Wolpe (1958–), Conservative rabbi of Sinai Temple, Los Angeles, California

Conservative rabbinical organizations

• Rabbinical Assembly
• United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
• Committee on Jewish Law and Standards

Union for Traditional Judaism

• David Weiss Halivni, Hungarian-American Talmudist of Union for Traditional Judaism (UTJ)

Reform rabbis, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries

See Reform Judaism.

Reform rabbis: 19th century

• Samuel Adler, 19th-century German-American rabbi of Temple Emanu-El
• Moses Berlin, 19th-century British Reform rabbi
• Emil Hirsch, 19th-century American Reform rabbi and scholar
• David Einhorn, 19th-century American Reform rabbi
• Samuel Hirsch, 19th-century German-American philosopher of the Reform Movement
• Abraham Geiger, 19th-century German Reform ideologist
• Samuel Holdheim, 19th-century German rabbi and founder of classic German Reform Judaism
• Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy, 19th-century Hungarian-English Reform rabbi in Eperies and Manchester, first Jewish professor in Cambridge
• Leopold Zunz, 19th-century German scholar, founded Science of Judaism school
• Isaac Mayer Wise (1819–1900), American Reform rabbi

Reform rabbis: 20th century

• Paula Ackerman, first woman to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, not ordained
• Leo Baeck (1873–1956), 20th-century Reform rabbi
• Pauline Bebe, first women rabbi in France
• Laszlo Berkowitz, 20th-century Reform rabbi, Temple Rodef Shalom
• Lionel Blue, British rabbi, writer and broadcaster
• Abraham Cronbach, 20th-century Reform rabbi & educator
• Maurice Davis, 20th-century Reform rabbi, past Chairman, President's Commission on Equal Opportunity
• David Max Eichhorn (Jan. 6, 1906–July 16, 1986) was Reform Jewish rabbi, author, and chaplain in the Army who was among the troops that liberated Dachau. He founded Merritt Island's Temple Israel.
• Elyse Goldstein, first woman Rabbi in Canada, educator and writer
• Regina Jonas, first female rabbi in the world
• Julia Neuberger, British Reform rabbi
• Gunther Plaut (1912–2012), 20th-century Reform rabbi and author, Holy Blossom Temple
• Sally Priesand, 20th-century Reform rabbi, first female rabbi in the United States
• Abba Hillel Silver, 20th-century Reform rabbi and Zionist leader
• Stephen S. Wise (1874–1949), 20th-century Reform rabbi and Zionist activist
• Murray Saltzman (1929–2010), 20th-century Reform rabbi

Reform rabbis: contemporary (ca. 21st century)

• Arik Ascherman, American-born Reform rabbi and Palestinian human rights activist in Israel
• Denise Eger, former rabbi of Beth Chayim Chadashim world's first LGBT Synagogue and founder of Temple Kol Ami in West Hollywood CA. First female and openly lesbian person to serve as president of Southern California Board of Rabbis and officiated at the first legal same sex wedding between two women in California.
• Alysa Stanton, 21st-century Reform rabbi, first ordained Black female rabbi in America

Reconstructionist rabbis, 20th and 21st centuries

See: Reconstructionist Judaism.

Reconstructionist rabbis: 20th century

• Mordecai Kaplan (1881–1983), 20th-century founder of the Reconstructionist movement in America
• Ira Eisenstein (1906-2001), founding president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
• Deborah Brin, first openly gay rabbi in Judaism

Reconstructionist rabbis: Contemporary (ca. 21st century)

• Dan Ehrenkrantz, president of Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
• Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, children's book author
• Tina Grimberg, leader in the inter-religious dialog
• Carol Harris-Shapiro, modern author

Karaite rabbis

See: Karaite Judaism.

See: Karaite Hakhamim.

Other rabbis

See Jewish Renewal ; Humanistic Judaism

• Steven Blane, American Jewish Universalist rabbi
• Capers C. Funnye Jr., first African-American member of the Chicago Board of Rabbis
• Michael Lerner (1943–), founder/editor of Tikkun magazine
• Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924–), leader of the Jewish Renewal movement
• Arthur Waskow (1933–), leader of the Jewish Renewal movement
• Sherwin Wine, U.S. founder of Society for Humanistic Judaism
• Tamara Kolton, first rabbi in Humanistic Judaism

See also

• List of people called Rabbi
• List of rabbis known by acronyms

External links

Orthodox

• List of leaders, Orthodox Union
• Famous Rabbis, famousrabbis.com
• Gallery of Our Great, chabad.org
• Biographies of Gedolim, tzemachdovid.org
• Mini-Biographies of Gedolim , chaburas.org
• Cross-referenced Notes on Rishonim and Acharonim (PDF)

Conservative

• Benson Skoff, 20th century Conservative rabbi

Pan-denominational

• Torah Commentator Biographies, kolel.org
• List of Commentators, torahproductions.com
• E-Lectures Glossary
• RavSIG (Genealogy of Rabbinic families)