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Abraham ibn Ezra

Abraham Isaac Kook

First Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandatory Palestine

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi

Jewish mystical rabbi from Poland, founder of Hasidic Judaism

Chaim Yosef David Azulai

Rabbinical scholar

Hillel the Elder

Jewish religious leader of the 1st century

Isaac Abarbanel

Portuguese Jewish statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator, and financier

Polish-Jewish religious leader

Joel Teitelbaum

Grand Rebbe of Satmar Hasidim

Author of the last great codification of the jewish law, the Shulchan Aruch

2nd-century rabbi and editor of the Mishnah

Judah Loew ben Bezalel

12th-century Sephardic Jewish rabbi

American-Israeli far-right politician, author and rabbi

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Seventh Chabad Rebbe

Mordecai Kaplan

Lithuanian American rabbi

Sephardic rabbi and scholar

Talmudic scholar, posek and Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983

Jewish scholar and sage (c. 50 – c.135)

French rabbi and commentator

Babylonian rabbi

10th-century Rabbi and philosopher and biblical exegete

Jewish mystic and self-proclaimed Messiah (1626–1676)

Samson Raphael Hirsch

Jewish theologian and rabbi, Germany 19th century

Shneur Zalman of Liadi

Orthodox Rabbi, and the founder and first Rebbe of Chabad

Polish-Lithuanian rabbi; Mitnagdim leader in opposition to Hasidism

Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog

First Chief Rabbi of Israeli

Yohanan ben Zakkai

1st-century rabbi and Jewish leader

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

American writer and activist, Jewish Renewal movement pioneer