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Eliezer Yehuda Waldenberg (December 10, 1915–November 21, 2006) was known as the Tzitz Eliezer after his monumental halachic treatise Tzitz Eliezer that covers a wide breadth of halacha, including Jewish ...
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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 ...
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Shmuel HaLevi Wosner (Hebrew: שמואל הלוי וואזנר, 4 September 1913 – 3 April 2015) was a prominent Haredi rabbi and posek ("decisor of Jewish law") living in Bnei Brak, Israel. He was known as the Shevet ...
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Zalman Nechemia Goldberg (Hebrew: זלמן נחמיה גולדברג; January 28, 1931 – August 20, 2020) was a rabbi, posek, and rosh yeshiva in Israel. The scion of a Lithuanian Jewish family, Goldberg was also ...
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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 ...
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Rabbi Yonasan Steif (Yiddish: יונתן שטייף; 1877–1958) was a senior dayan of Budapest, Hungary, before the Second World War, a man whom Rabbi Moshe Feinstein referred to as the gadol hador (spiritual ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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Yehezkel Abramsky (Hebrew: יחזקאל אברמסקי) (1886 – September 19, 1976), also affectionately referred to as 'Reb Chatzkel Abramsky', was a prominent and influential Orthodox rabbi and scholar, born and ...
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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 ...
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Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor or Isaac Elhanan Spector (Hebrew: יצחק אלחנן ספקטור; 1817 - March 6, 1896) was a Russian rabbi, posek and Talmudic sage of the 19th century.
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Yechiel Michel ha-Levi Epstein (Hebrew: יחיאל מיכל הלוי אפשטיין) (24 January 1829 – 24 February 1908), often called "the Aruch haShulchan" (after his main work, Aruch HaShulchan), was a Rabbi and ...
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Ovadia Yosef (Hebrew: עובדיה יוסף, Ovadya Yosef, Arabic: عبد الله يوسف, Abdullah Yusuf; September 24, 1920 – October 7, 2013) was an Iraqi-born Talmudic scholar, a posek, the Sephardi ...
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Aharon Kotler (1891 – November 29, 1962) was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and a prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in Lithuania, and later the United States, where he founded Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood ...
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Yitzchak Abadi (born 1933) is an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and Posek and a prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in the United States and around the world.
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Yitzhak Yosef (Hebrew: יצחק יוסף), born January 16, 1952, is the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, also known as the Rishon LeZion, the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Hazon Ovadia, and the author of a popular ...
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Simcha Bunim Cohen is an Orthodox rabbi and author who has written English-language halachic works that deal with the intricate laws of Shabbat and Jewish holidays.
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Yitzchak Berkovits (Hebrew: יצחק ברקוביץ), also spelled Yitzchak Berkowitz, (b. 1953) is a Haredi Jewish rabbi, rosh kollel and posek (halakhic decisor) in Jerusalem. Through his 16 years as mashgiach ...