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The list Authors of books on Jewish law includes Vilna Gaon, Avraham Chaim Naeh, Akiva Eger, Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg and Yosef Qafih. The list consists of 133 members.
  • 1.

    Vilna Gaon
    Polish-Lithuanian rabbi; Mitnagdim leader in opposition to Hasidism
    Vilna Gaon
    Overview: Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, (Hebrew: ר' אליהו בן שלמה זלמן Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman) known as the Vilna Gaon (Yiddish: דער װילנער גאון Der Vilner Gaon, Polish: Gaon z Wilna, Lithuanian: Vilniaus ...
    Date of birth: 23 April 1720
    Date of death: 9 October 1797
    Age: 77 (age at death)
    Nationality: Lithuanian
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    Rabbis of Vilnius 6T
    Exponents of Jewish law 124T
    Judaism in Vilnius 10T
  • 2.

    Avraham Chaim Naeh
    Israeli rabbi
    Avraham Chaim Naeh
    Overview: Avraham Chaim Naeh (1890–1954) was a Lubavitcher chassid and major posek (halachic authority) active during the first half of twentieth century. He is most famous for his works Ketzos ha-Shulchan, Piskei ...
    Date of birth: 1890
    Date of death: 1954
    Age: 63 (age at death)
    Nationality: Israeli
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    Exponents of Jewish law 124T
    Rabbis in Ottoman Palestine 87T
    Rabbis in Jerusalem 88T
  • 3.

    Akiva Eger
    German rabbi
    Akiva Eger
    Overview: Rabbi Akiva Eger (also spelled as Akiva Eiger), or Akiva Güns, Yiddish: עקיבא אייגער‎, (Eisenstadt, 1761 – Poznań, 1837) was an outstanding Talmudic scholar, influential halakhic decisor and foremost leader ...
    Date of birth: 8 November 1761
    Date of death: 12 October 1837
    Age: 75 (age at death)
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    Polish Haredi rabbis 19T
    Oberlander Jews 10T
    Exponents of Jewish law 124T
  • 4.

    Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg
    Rosh yeshiva, posek
    Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg
    Overview: Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg (Hebrew: חיים פנחס שיינברג‎;‎ 1 October 1910 – 20 March 2012) was a Polish-born, American-raised, Israeli Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva who, from 1965, made his ...
    Date of birth: 1 October 1910
    Date of death: 20 March 2012
    Age: 101 (age at death)
    Nationality: Israeli
    Occupation: Religion
    Gender: Male
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    Polish Haredi rabbis 19T
    Rabbis that emigrated to Israel 6T
    Mir Yeshiva alumni 46T
  • 5.

    Isaac Alfasi
    Maghrebi Talmudist and posek, commonly referee to as "the Rif" (1013–1103)
    Isaac Alfasi
    Overview: Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi ha-Cohen (1013–1103) (Hebrew: ר' יצחק אלפסי‎, Arabic: إسحاق الفاسي‎) - also known as the Alfasi or by his Hebrew acronym Rif (Rabbi Isaac al-Fasi), was a Maghrebi Ta ...
    Date of birth: 1013
    Date of death: 1103
    Age: 89 (age at death)
    Nationality: Moroccan
    Occupation: Writer
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    Medieval Algerian Jews 4T
    Medieval Moroccan Jews 6T
    Exponents of Jewish law 125T
  • 6.

    Maimonides
    Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)
    Maimonides
    Overview: Moses ben Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides ( my-MON-i-deez) and also referred to by the acronym Rambam (Hebrew: רמב״ם‎), was a medieval Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one ...
    Date of birth: 1138
    Date of death: 12 December 1204
    Age: 66 (age at death)
    Nationality: Spanish
    Occupation: Astronomer
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    Philosophers of Al-Andalus 7T
    Jewish astronomers 30T
    Jewish ethicists 41T
  • 7.

    Abraham Palacci
    Grand rabbi and author of Ottoman Smyrna (now Izmir)
    Abraham Palacci
    Overview: Abraham Palacci (1809 or 1810–January 2, 1898) was a grand rabbi and author (in Ladino and Hebrew) of Izmir, was the son of grand rabbi Haim Palachi and brother of grand rabbi Rahamim Nissim Palacci and ...
    Date of birth: 1809
    Date of death: 2 January 1898
    Age: 88 (age at death)
    Occupation: Writer
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    Exponents of Jewish law 124T
    People from İzmir 221T
    Ottoman rabbis 40T
  • 8.

    Chaim Benveniste
    Ottoman rabbi
    Chaim Benveniste
    Overview: Chaim Benveniste (1603–1673) was a prominent rabbinic authority in 17th century Turkey. He was a student of Rabbi Joseph Trani and a brother of Joshua Benveniste. Born in Constantinople, he was appointed ...
    Date of birth: 1603
    Date of death: 1673
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: Turkish
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    Exponents of Jewish law 124T
    Turkish rabbis 9T
    Rabbinic legal texts and responsa 18T
  • 9.

    Ephraim Zalman Margolis
    Galician rabbi from Brody
    Overview: Ephraim Zalman Margolis (December 19, 1762 – August 24, 1828) (Hebrew: אפרים זלמן בן מנחם מרגליות‎) was a Galician rabbi born in Brody, brother of Hayyim Mordecai Margolioth.
    Date of birth: 19 December 1762
    Date of death: 24 August 1828
    Age: 65 (age at death)
    Nationality: Hungarian
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    Exponents of Jewish law 124T
    Orthodox rabbis from Galicia (Eastern Europe) 20T
    Ukrainian Orthodox rabbis 58T
  • 10.

    Hezekiah da Silva
    Jewish author (1659–1698)
    Hezekiah da Silva
    Overview: Rabbi Hezekiah da Silva (also Hezekiah Silva) (1659–1698) (Hebrew: חזקיה בן דוד די סילוא) was a Jewish author born in Livorno, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. He was the son-in-law of the dayan Mordechai Rafael ...
    Date of birth: 1659
    Date of death: 1698
    Age: 38 (age at death)
    Nationality: Italian
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    Livornese Jews 21T
    Sephardi Jews in Ottoman Palestine 39T
    17th-century Italian Jews 8T
  • 11.

    Yosef Qafih
    Rabbi
    Overview: Yosef Qafiḥ (Hebrew: יוסף קאפח‎), widely known as Rabbi Kapach (27 November 1917 – 21 July 2000), was a Yemenite-Israeli authority on Jewish religious law (halakha), a dayan of the Supreme Rabbinical Court ...
    Date of birth: 27 November 1917
    Date of death: 21 July 2000
    Age: 82 (age at death)
    Nationality: Israeli
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    Mercaz HaRav alumni 58T
    Researchers of Yemenite Jewry 10T
    Exponents of Jewish law 124T
  • 12.

    Aryeh Leib HaCohen Heller
    Galician rabbi (d. 1812)
    Overview: Aryeh Leib HaCohen Heller (c. 1745 – 1812) (Hebrew: אריה לייב בן יוסף הכהן הלר‎) was a Rabbi, Talmudist, and Halachist in Galicia. He was known as "the Ketzos" based on his magnum opus, Ketzot ...
    Date of birth: 1745
    Date of death: 1813
    Age: 67 (age at death)
    Nationality: Hungarian
    Occupation: Writer
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    Polish Haredi rabbis 19T
    Kohanim writers of Rabbinic literature 56T
    Rabbis from Galicia (Eastern Europe) 12T
  • 13.

    Moshe Feinstein
    Great Orthodox Jewish Rabbi of the 20th century
    Moshe Feinstein
    Overview: Moshe Feinstein or Moses Feinstein (Hebrew: משה פײַנשטיין‎ Moshe Faynshteyn; March 3, 1895 – March 23, 1986) was an American Orthodox rabbi, scholar, and posek (authority on halakha—Jewish ...
    Date of birth: 3 March 1895
    Date of death: 23 March 1986
    Age: 91 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
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    Belarusian Haredi rabbis 25T
    Haredi rosh yeshivas 10T
    People from Igumensky Uyezd 20T
  • 14.

    Meir Abulafia
    Spanish rabbi
    Overview: Meir ben Todros HaLevi Abulafia (c. 1170 – 1244, Burgos, Spain), also known as the Ramah (Hebrew: ???"?) (an acronym of his Hebrew name), was a major Sephardic Talmudist and Halachic authority in medieval ...
    Date of death: 1244
    Nationality: Spanish
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    13th-century Castilians 28T
    Exponents of Jewish law 124T
    1244 deaths 19T
  • 15.

    Aharon Leib Shteinman
    Israeli rabbi
    Aharon Leib Shteinman
    Overview: Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman (Hebrew: אהרון ליב שטיינמן‎), also Shtainman or Steinman (born 1912-1914) is a prominent Haredi rabbi and posek (halakhic authority) in Bnei Brak, Israel. Following the death ...
    Date of birth: 1912
    Date of death: 12 December 2017
    Age: 105 (age at death)
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    Belarusian Haredi rabbis 25T
    Rabbis in Bnei Brak 23T
    2017 deaths 9,371T
  • 16.

    J. David Bleich
    American rabbi
    Overview: J. (Judah) David Bleich (born August 24, 1936, Tarrytown, New York) is an authority on Jewish law and ethics, including Jewish medical ethics. He is rabbi of Cong. B'nei Jehuda. He is a professor of Talmud ...
    Date of birth: 24 August 1936
    Age: 88
    Nationality: American
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    Jewish ethicists 41T
    Exponents of Jewish law 124T
    Beth Medrash Elyon alumni 5T
  • 17.
    Shlomo Zalman Auerbach
    Overview: Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (Hebrew: שלמה זלמן אויערבאך‎; July 20, 1910 – February 20, 1995) was a renowned Orthodox Jewish rabbi, posek, and rosh yeshiva of the Kol Torah yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel ...
    Date of birth: 20 July 1910
    Date of death: 20 February 1995
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Nationality: Israeli
    Occupation: Writer
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    Exponents of Jewish law 124T
    Israeli Rosh yeshivas 37T
    Burials at Har HaMenuchot 81T
  • 18.

    Chaim Kanievsky
    Haredi rabbi in Israel
    Chaim Kanievsky
    Overview: Shmaryahu Yosef Chaim Kanievsky (January 8, 1928 – March 18, 2022) was an Israeli Haredi rabbi and posek. He was considered a leading authority in Haredi Jewish society.
    Date of birth: 8 January 1928
    Date of death: 18 March 2022
    Age: 94 (age at death)
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    Rabbis in Bnei Brak 23T
    Cannabis and Judaism 4T
    Exponents of Jewish law 124T
  • 19.

    Avraham Gombiner
    Polish rabbi (c.1635–1682)
    Avraham Gombiner
    Overview: Abraham Abele Gombiner (Hebrew: אברהם אבלי הלוי גומבינר) (c. 1635 – 5 October 1682), known as the Magen Avraham, born in Gąbin (Gombin), Poland, was a rabbi, Talmudist and a leading religious authority ...
    Date of birth: 1633
    Date of death: 1683
    Age: 49 (age at death)
    Nationality: Polish
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    17th-century Polish rabbis 27T
    Exponents of Jewish law 133T
    People from Gąbin 4T
  • 20.

    Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz
    Israeli rabbi
    Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz
    Overview: Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz, (7 November 1878 – 24 October 1953), popularly known by the name of his magnum opus, Chazon Ish, was a Belarusian born Orthodox rabbi who later became one of the leaders of Haredi ...
    Date of birth: 7 November 1878
    Date of death: 24 October 1953
    Age: 74 (age at death)
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    Belarusian Haredi rabbis 25T
    Rabbis in Bnei Brak 23T
    People from Slonimsky Uyezd 13T
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