List of rabbis

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Table of contents

1 Rabbis: Pre-Mishnaic
2 Rabbis: Mishnaic (Tanna)
3 Rabbis: Talmudic (Amora)
4 Rabbis: Middle Ages (Rishonim)
5 Rabbis: Rennaissance Period (Acharonim)
6 Rabbis: Recent - Orthodox (Late Acharonim)

6.1 18th Century
6.2 19th Century
6.3 20th Century
6.4 Contemporary

7 Conservative

7.5 19th Century
7.6 20th Century
7.7 Contemporary

8 Reform
9 Reconstructionist
10 Other
11 See also

Rabbis: Pre-Mishnaic

Shimon ben Shetach
Ben Sira, 2nd century BCE, Egypt, ethics and wisdom teacher - Apocryphal
Shemaya
Avtalyon

Rabbis: Mishnaic (Tanna)

Hillel the Elder, 1st century BCE, in Judea, considered the greatest sage of the Second Temple period.
Shammai, 1st century BCE, in Judea, key scholar in Mishnah
Yohanan ben Zakkai, 1st century sage in Judea, key to the development of the Mishnah
Rabbi Akiva, 1st century Judea, central scholar in Mishnah
Simeon bar Yohai, 1st century mystic, reputed author of the Zohar
Judah haNasi, 2nd century, Judah the Prince, in Judea, redactor (editor) of the Mishnah

Rabbis: Talmudic (Amora)

Rav (Abba Arichta) - Last Tanna, first Amora. Moved from Israel to Babylon

Rabbi Yochanan - Primary author of the Jerusalem Talmud

Shmuel - Rabbi of Nehardea, Physician

Rabbah

Rav Yosef

Rava - Important Amora

Abaye - Important Amora
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
Ravina - Primary aide to Rav Ashi in the redaction of the Babylonian Talmud
Rav Ashi, 5th century Babylonian Talmudic sage - primary redactor of the Babylonian Talmud

Rabbis: Middle Ages (Rishonim)

Rabbenu Gershom, 11th century German Talmudist and legalist
Solomon ben Isaac, (Rashi), 11th century Talmudist used as the main teacher of Talmud to this day
Tosafists, 11th, 12th and 13th century Talmudic scholars, France and Germany, parallel Rashi in importance* Bahya ibn Paquda, (Hovot ha-Levavot), 11th century Spanish philosopher and moralist
Hillel ben Eliakim, (Rabbeinu Hillel), 12the century Talmudist and disciple of Rashi
Abraham ibn Daud, (Sefer HaKabbalah), 12th century Spanish philospher
Abraham ibn Ezra, (Even Ezra), 12th century Spanish-North African Biblical commentator
Yehuda Halevi, (Kuzari), 12th century Spanish-Zionist philosopher and poet, lover of Zion
Maimonides, Moshe Ben Maimon, (Rambam), 13th century Spanish-North African Talmudist, philosopher, and law codifier
Nahmanides, Moshe ben Nahman, (Ramban), 13th century Spanish and Holy Land mystic and Talmudist
Abba Mari, (Minhat Kenaot), 13th Century French Talmudist
Asher ben Jehiel, (Rosh), 13th century German-Spanish Talmudist
Gersonides, Levi ben Gershom, (Ralbag), 14th century French Talmudist and philosopher
Jacob ben Asher, (Baal ha-Turim), 14th century German-Spanish legal scholar, wrote Arbaah Turim codes
Joseph Albo, 15th century Spain

Rabbis: Rennaissance Period (Acharonim)

Yosef Karo, (Mechaber), 16th century Spanish and Land of Israel legal codifier of the Shulkhan Arukh code of Torah Law
Isaac Luria, (Ari), 16th century Holy Land mystic, founder of Lurianic Kabbalah
Judah Low ben Bezalel, (Maharal), 16th century Prague mystic and Talmudist
Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno, (Sforno), 16th century Italian scholar and rationalist
Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro, commentator on the Mishnah
Sforno, 15th, 16th, and 17th century family of Italian Torah scholars and philosophers
Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, (Bet Hillel), 17th century Lithuanian scholar
Isaac Abendana, 17th century Sephardic scholar in England
Jacob Abendana, 17th century Sephardic rabbi in England
Yair Bacharach, (Havvot Yair), 17th century German Talmudist

Rabbis: Recent - Orthodox (Late Acharonim)

18th Century

Dovber of Mezeritch, (Maggid), 18th century Eastern European mystic, primary disciple of the Baal Shem Tov
Elijah ben Solomon, (Gra), 18th century Talmudist and mystic, Lithuanian leader of the Mitnagdim, opponent of Hasidim
Jacob Emden, 18th century German Talmudist and mystic
Israel ben Eliezer, (Baal Shem Tov), 18th century mystic, founder of Hasidic Judaism
Moses Chaim Luzzato, (Ramchal), 18th century Italian philosopher, mystic, and moralist
Shneur Zalman of Liadi, (Alter Rebbe), 18th century mystic and Talmudist, founder of Lubavitch Hasidism and first Lubavitcher \Rebbe

19th Century

Rabbi Shmuel, 19th century Russian fourth Rebbe of Lubavitch
Nachman of Breslav, (Reb Nachman), 19th century Ukrainian Hasidic rebbe and mystic
Meir Lob ben Jehiel Michel, (Malbim), 19th century Russian preacher and scholar
Rabbi Menachem Mendel, (Tzemach Tzedek), 19th century Russian third Rebbe of Lubavitch
Yisrael Lipkin Salanter, 19th century Lithuanian ethicist and moralist
Elimelech of Lezhinsk(Lizensk), (Noam Elimelech) 18th century Polish mystic and Hasid
Dovber, 19th century Russian second Rebbe of Lubavitch
Yechiel Michel Epstein, 19th and 20th century halakhist and posek
Jacob Ettlinger, 19th century German scholar and opponent of Reform
Azriel Hildesheimer, 19th century German rabbi and philosopher
Samson Raphael Hirsch, 19th century German rabbi, founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz movement;

20th Century

Nosson Zvi Finkel, (Alter/Sabba), early 20th century founder of Slabodka Yeshiva, Lithuania. Disciples opened major yeshivas in US and Israel
Meir Simcha of Dvinsk, community rabbi and leader
Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, 20th century religious philosopher and ethicist
Moshe Feinstein, (Igrot Moshe), 20th century Russian-American legal scholar and Talmudist
Ger Rebbes, (Gerrer), Polish Hasidic dynasty in Israel
Yitzchok Hutner, (Pachad Yitzchok), 20th century European born, American and Israeli Rosh Yeshiva
Yisrael Meir Kagan, (Chofetz Chaim), 20th century Polish legalist and moralist
Aryeh Kaplan, Othodox 20th century writer and mystic
Abraham Isaac Kook, 20th century philosopher and mystic, first chief rabbi of Palestine
Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, 20th century European-born head of US Yeshiva Torah Vodaath
Sholom Dovber, 20th century Russian fifth Rebbe of Lubavitch
Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, 20th century sixth Rebbe of Lubavitch
Meir Kahane, 20th century founder of the American Jewish Defense League and the Israeli Kach party
Menachem Mendel Schneerson, (Lubavitcher Rebbe), 20th century Hasidic mystic and scholar, seventh Chabad Rebbe
Joel Teitelbaum, (Satmar Rebbe), 20th century Hasidic Hungarian-American rebbe known for anti-Zionism
Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl, 20th century European scholar; was involved in rescue efforts during the Holocaust

Contemporary

Ovadia Yosef, 21st century Iraqi-Israeli former Israel Sephardic Chief Rabbi, legal scholar
Vizhnitz Rebbes, (Vizhnitzer), Polish dynasty of Hasidic rebbes in Israel
Israel Kirzner, economist and authority on writings of Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner
Norman Lamm, 21st century American modern Othodox thinker, head of Yeshiva University
Joseph Soloveitchik, 20th century European-born Talmudist and philosopher, leading figure in American Modern Orthodoxy
Adin Steinsaltz, 21st century Israeli Talmud scholar and philosopher

Conservative

19th Century

Zecharias Frankel, 19th century critical historian, founder of the positive-historical (Conservative) school of Judaism
Nachman Krochmal, 19th century Austrian philosopher and historian

20th Century

Elliot N. Dorff, 20th century Conservative rabbi and bioethicist
Louis Finkelstein, 20th century Conservative Talmud scholar
Louis Ginzberg, 20th century American Conservative Talmud scholar
Robert Gordis, 20th century leader in Conservative Judaism
Jules Harlow, 20th century Conservative Judaism liturgist
Abraham Joshua Heschel, 20th century Conservative scholar of Hasidism
Isaac Klein, 20th century American Conservative rabbi and scholar

Contemporary

Neil Gillman, 21st century American Conservative philosopher
David Weiss Halivni, 21st century Hungarian-American Talmudist of Union for Traditional Judaism (UTJ)
Harold Kushner, 20th century American Conservative rabbi and popular writer
Saul Lieberman, 20th century Lithuanian-American Conservative-Orthodox Talmud scholar
Jacob Neusner, 20th century Conservative trained scholar and prolific writer
Joel Roth, 20th century Conservative scholar and rabbi
Mathilde Roth Schechter, 20th century American Conservative scholar
Solomon Schechter, 20th century scholar and a founder of Conservative Judaism
Ismar Schorsch, 21st century American Conservative educator and leader

Reform

Emil Hirsch, 19th century American Reform rabbi and scholar
Samuel Hirsch, 19th century German-American philosopher of the Reform Movement
Samuel Holdheim, 19th century German rabbi and founder of classic German Reform Judaism

Reconstructionist

Mordecai Kaplan, 20th century founder of the Reconstructionist movement in America
Michael Lerner, 21st century American Jewish Renewal, Reconstructionist political activist

Other

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, 20th century leader of the Jewish Renewal movement
Leopold Zunz, 19th century German scholar, founded Science of Judaism school