List of rabbis

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This is a list of prominent rabbis, Rabbinic Judaism's spiritual and religious leaders.

See also: List of Jews.

Mishnaic period (ca. 70–200 CE)[edit]

AcharonimRishonimGeonimSavoraimAmoraimTannaimZugot
Rabbi Akiva

Talmudic period (ca. 200–500 CE)[edit]

Middle Ages (ca. 500–1500 CE)[edit]

Rashi
  • Abba Mari, (Minhat Kenaot), 13th-century French Talmudist
  • Abraham ibn Daud, (c. 1110–c.1180), author of Sefer ha-Qabbalah
  • Abraham ben David of Posquières, (c. 1125–1198) 12th century, France
  • Abraham ibn Ezra, (Even Ezra), (1089–1164) 12th-century Spanish-North African biblical commentator
  • Abdullah ibn Saba', Rabbi convert to Islam, considered central figure in the configuration of Shia Islam.
  • Abdullah ibn Salam, (550–630) rabbi, converted to Islam and was a companion of Islam's founder, Muhammad
  • David Abudirham, 14th century rabbi in Seville. Authored the Sefer Abudarham on explanation of Sefardi liturgy and customs. Completed c. 1339
  • Amram Gaon, (?–875) 9th-century organizer of the siddur (prayer book)
  • 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
  • David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra, (1479–1573) also called Radbaz, born in Spain, was a leading posek, rosh yeshiva and chief rabbi
  • David Kimhi, (Radak), (1160–1235), born in Narbonne, was a biblical commentator, philosopher, and grammarian
  • Dunash ben Labrat, (920–990) 10th-century grammarian and poet
  • Eleazar Kalir, (c.570–c.640) early Talmudic liturgist and poet
  • Eleazar of Worms, (Sefer HaRokeach), (1176–1238) 12th-century German rabbinic scholar
  • Eliezer ben Nathan, (1090–1170) 12th-century poet and pietist
  • 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
  • Hasdai Crescas, (Or Hashem), (c. 1370–c.1411) 14th-century 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
  • Don Isaac Abravanel, (Abarbanel), (1437–1508) 15th-century philosopher, Talmudist and Torah commentator. Also a court advisor and in charge of Finance to Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain.
  • Isaac Alfasi, (the Rif), (1013–1103) 12th-century North African and Spanish Talmudist and Halakhist; author of "Sefer Ha-halachot"
  • Israel Isserlein (Terumat Hadeshen), (1390–1460) 15th-century, the most influential rabbi of the Empire in the second third of the 15th century and the last great rabbi of medieval Austria
  • Jacob ben Asher, (Baal ha-Turim; Arbaah Turim), (c. 1269–c.1343) 14th-century German-Spanish Halakhist
  • Jacob Berab, (1474–1546) 15th–16th-century proponent of Semichah (Ordination)
  • 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
  • Judah ben Joseph ibn Bulat (c. 1500–1550), Spanish Talmudist and rabbi
  • Ka'ab al-Ahbar, Iṣḥaq Ka‘b ben Mati, (?–652/653) was a prominent rabbi from Yemen who was one of the earliest important Jewish converts to Islam.
Maimonides
Nachmanides

16th–17th centuries[edit]

Joseph ben Ephraim Karo
Moses Isserles
Judah Loew ben Bezalel

18th century[edit]

Vilna Gaon
Shneur Zalman of Liadi

Orthodox rabbis[edit]

19th century[edit]

Netziv
Ben Ish Chai
Tzemach Tzedek

20th century[edit]

Religious-Zionist[edit]

Abraham Isaac Kook
Yehuda Amital
Shlomo Goren

Haredi[edit]

Alter of Slabodka
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Moshe Feinstein
Isser Zalman Meltzer

Modern Orthodox[edit]

Bernard Revel
Aharon Lichtenstein
Norman Lamm

Contemporary (ca. 21st century)[edit]

Religious-Zionist[edit]

Yisrael Meir Lau
Shlomo Amar
Avigdor Nebenzahl

Haredi[edit]

Ovadia Yosef
Yosef Shalom Elyashiv
Chaim Kanievsky
Dovid Twersky, Grand Rabbi of Skver
Yechezkel Roth of Karlsburg
Shlomo Miller

Modern Orthodox[edit]

Michael Rosensweig
Mordechai Willig
Jonathan Sacks

Conservative[edit]

Open Orthodox

19th century[edit]

20th century[edit]

Contemporary (ca. 21st century)[edit]

Union for Traditional Judaism[edit]

Reform[edit]

19th century[edit]

20th century[edit]

Contemporary (ca. 21st century)[edit]

Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl

Reconstructionists[edit]

20th century[edit]

Contemporary (ca. 21st century)[edit]

Other rabbis[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Hezser, Catherine (1997). The Social Structure of the Rabbinic Movement in Roman Palestine. Mohr Siebeck. pp. 64–. ISBN 978-3-16-146797-4. We suggest that the avoidance of the title "Rabbi" for pre-70 sages may have originated with the editors of the Mishnah. The editors attributed the title to some sages and not to others. The avoidance of the title for pre-70 sages may perhaps be seen as a deliberate program on the part of these editors who wanted to create the impression that the "rabbinic movement" began with R. Yochanan b. Zakkai and that the Yavnean "academy" was something new, a notion that is sometimes already implicitly or explicitly suggested by some of the traditions available to them. This notion is not diminished by the occasional claim to continuity with the past which was limited to individual teachers and institutions and served to legitimize rabbinic authority.
  2. ^ "YIVO | Gaster, Moses".
  3. ^ New York Times obituary, July 23, 1986.
  4. ^ "Black Rabbi Reaches Out to Mainstream of His Faith", Nikko Kopel, New York Times, March 16, 2008
  5. ^ "Home".
  6. ^ "About Us". www.sftpa.com. Retrieved Mar 9, 2022.

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