Pre-Mishnaic Rabbis (Zugot) [515 BCE – 70 CE]
Avtalyon | Judah ben Tabbai |
Gamaliel | Nittai of Arbela |
Hillel the Elder | Shammai |
Jose ben Joezer | Shemaya |
Jose ben Johanan | Simeon ben Shetach |
Joshua ben Perachyah |
Mishnaic Rabbis (Tannaim) [70 CE – 200 CE]
Akiva | Shimon bar Yochai |
Eliezer ben Jose | Shimon HaTzadik |
Judah haNasi | Rabbi Tarfon |
Rabbi Meir | Yohanan ben Zakkai |
Talmudic Rabbis (Amoraim) [200 CE – 500 CE]
Abaye | Rav Jonah |
Abba Arika | Rav Nachman |
Abbahu | Rav Papa |
Hamnuna | Rava |
Hillel, son of Gamaliel III | Ravina |
Hillel II | Ravina II |
Judah II | Resh Lakish |
Judah III | Shmuel (Talmud) |
Rabbah bar Nahmani | Yochanan |
Rav Ashi |
Middle Ages Rabbis (Geonim/Rishonim) [500 CE – 1500 CE]
Abba Mari | Joseph Albo, (Sefer Ikkarim) |
Abraham ben David of Posquières | Joseph ibn Migash |
Abraham ibn Ezra, (Even Ezra) | Maimonides, Moshe Ben Maimon, (Rambam) |
Amram Gaon | Meir ben Samuel (RaM) |
Asher ben Jehiel, (Rosh) | Mordecai ben Hillel, (The Mordechai) |
Chananel Ben Chushiel (Rabbeinu Chananel) | Nahmanides, Moshe ben Nahman, (Ramban) |
David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra (Radbaz) | Nissim Ben Jacob (Rav Nissim Gaon) |
Eleazar of Worms, (Sefer HaRokeach) | Nissim of Gerona, (RaN) |
Rabbenu Gershom | Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro, (Bartenura) |
Gersonides, Levi ben Gershom, (Ralbag) | Samuel ben Meri (Rashbam) |
Hasdai Crescas, (Or Hashem) | Solomon ben Yitzchak (Rashi) |
Hillel ben Eliakim, (Rabbeinu Hillel) | Saadia Gaon |
Don Isaac Abravanel, (Abarbanel) | Tosafists, (Tosfot) |
Isaac Alfasi, (the Rif) | Yehuda Halevi, (Kuzari) |
Jacob ben Asher, (Baal ha-Turim ; Arbaah Turim) |
16th through 17th Century Rabbis (Achraronim) [1500 CE – 1700 CE]
Isaac Abendana | Judah Low ben Bezalel (Maharal) |
Jacob Abendana | Meir of Lublin (Maharam) |
Isaac Aboab da Fonseca | Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz |
Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (RaMaK) | Isaac Luria (Ari) |
Samuel Edels (Mahrsha) | Solomon Luria (Maharshal) |
David HaLevi Segal, (Taz) | Shalom Shachna |
Abraham Cohen de Herrera (RabACH) | Sforno |
Isaiah Horowitz (Shlah) | Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno (Sforno) |
Moshe Isserles (Rema) | Mordecai Yoffe (Levush) |
Yosef Karo (Mechaber) |
18th Century Rabbis (Achraronim) [1700 CE – 1800 CE]
Aharon of Karlin (I) | Hart Lyon |
Chaim Joseph David Azulai (Hida) | Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Ramchal) |
Haim Isaac Carigal | Shalom Sharabi |
Dovber of Mezritch (Maggid) | Shneur Zalman of Liadi (Alter Rebbe of Chabad) |
Aaron Hart | Yechezkel Landau (Noda Bihudah) |
Israel ben Eliezer (Baal Shem Tov) | Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev (Kedushas Leivi) |
19th Century Rabbis (Achraronim) [1800 CE – 1900 CE]
Nathan Marcus Adler | Emil Hirsch |
Samuel Adler | Samson Raphael Hirsch |
Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (Gerrer Rebbe) | Samuel Hirsch |
Moses Berlin | Samuel Holdheim |
Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (Netziv) | Nachman Krochmal |
Avrohom Bornsztain (Avnei Nezer) | Malbim (The Malbim) |
Zvi Hirsch Chajes (Maharatz Chayes) | Nachman of Breslov (Rebbe Nachman) |
Yosef Chayim (Ben Ish Hai) | Nathan of Breslov (Reb Noson) |
David Einhorn | Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy |
Yechiel Michel Epstein (Arukh ha-Shulkhan) | Dovber Schneuri |
Jacob Ettlinger | Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (Tzemach Tzedek) |
Zecharias Frankel | Shmuel Schneersohn |
Abraham Geiger | Moses Sofer (Chatam Sofer) |
Moshe Shmuel Glasner (Dor Revi’i) | Chaim Soloveitchik |
Chaim Yosef Gottlieb of Stropkov (Stropkover Rov) | Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, (Beis Halevi) |
Moshe Greenwald | Isaac Mayer Wise |
Levi Herzfeld | Leopold Zunz |
20th Century Rabbis (Achraronim) [1900 CE – 2000 CE]
Paula Ackerman | Mordecai Kaplan |
Hermann Adler | Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz |
Philip R. Alstat | Isaac Klein |
Yisrael Ariel | Abraham Isaac Kook |
Leo Baeck | Albert L. Lewis |
Meir Berlin | Saul Lieberman |
Shmuel Bornsztain | Marshall Meyer |
Deborah Brin | Julia Neuberger |
David Max Eichhorn | Gunther Plaut |
Ira Eisenstein | Sally Priesand |
Baruch Epstein | Jonathan Sacks |
Moshe Feinstein | Murray Saltzman |
Nosson Tzvi Finkel | Samuel Schafler |
Louis Finkelstein | Solomon Schechter |
Louis Ginzberg | Sholom Dovber Schneersohn |
Elyse Goldstein | Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn |
Robert Gordis | Menachem Mendel Schneerson |
Shlomo Goren | Abba Hillel Silver |
David Weiss Halivni | Morris Silverman |
Jules Harlow | Simeon Singer |
Joseph H. Hertz | Joseph Bar Soloveitchik |
Abraham Joshua Heschel | Stephen S. Wise |
Regina Jonas | Ovadia Yosef |
Aryeh Kaplan |
21st Century Rabbis (Achraronim) [2000 CE – Present]
Shlomo Amar | Norman Lamm |
Arik Ascherman | Dov Landau |
Bradley Shavit Artson | Israel Meir Lau |
Yaakov Aryeh Alter | William H. Lebeau |
Benjamin Blech | Dov Lior |
Shlomo Carlebach | Zalman Melamed |
Menachem Creditor | Yona Metzger |
Elliot N. Dorff | Avigdor Nebenzahl |
Michel Dorfman | Jacob Neusner |
Denise Eger | Daniel Nevins |
Dan Ehrenkrantz | Abraham Nissan |
Amy Eilberg | Einat Ramon |
Sandy Eisenberg Sasso | Shlomo Riskin |
Mordechai Eliyahu | Joel Roth |
Yaffa Epstein (Rabba) | Hershel Schachter |
Mimi Feigelsohn (Rabba) | Ismar Schorsch |
Neil Gillman | Avraham Shapira |
Tina Grimberg | Ahron Soloveichik |
Irving Greenberg | Alysa Stanton |
Reuven Hammer | Adin Steinsaltz |
Carol Harris-Shapiro | Moshe David Tendler |
David Hartman | Avi Weiss |
Sara Hurwitz (Rabba) | Yisroel Dovid Weiss |
Louis Jacobs | David Wolpe |
Harold Kushner | Ovadia Yosef |