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List of rabbis - Rabbis: Later Middle Ages

• Isaac Abendana, 17th century Sephardic scholar in England
• Jacob Abendana, 17th century Sephardic rabbi in England
• Bezalel Ashkenazi, ( Shittah Mekubetzet), 16th century Talmudist
• Yair Bacharach, (Havvot Yair), 17th century German Talmudist
• Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, (Bet Hillel), 17th century Lithuanian scholar
• Samuel Edels, (Maharsha), 16th century Talmudist
• Kalonymus Haberkasten 16th century Polish rabbi; Rosh Yeshiva of many great Rishonim
• Isaiah Horowitz (Shlah) 16th century Kabbalist and Author - Eastern Europe and Israel
• Moshe Isserles, (Rema), 16th century Polish legal scholar, author of Hamapah (component of the Shulkhan Arukh)
• Yosef Karo, (Mechaber), 16th century Spanish and Land of Israel legal codifier of the Shulkhan Arukh - code of Torah Law
• Meir Lublin, (Maharam), 16th century Posek and Talmudist
• Isaac Luria, (Ari), 16th century Holy Land mystic, founder of Lurianic Kabbalah
• Shalom Shachna, 16th century Polish Talmudist; Rosh Yeshiva of several great Rishonim
• Solomon Luria, (Maharshal), 16th century Posek and Talmudist
• 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, (Bartenura) 15th century commentator on the Mishnah
• Sforno, 15th, 16th, and 17th century family of Italian Torah scholars and philosophers
• Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz, 16th-17th century Torah commentator

List of rabbis - Rabbis: 18th Century

• Haim Isaac Carigal, rabbi in Newport, Rhode Island in 1773 who became great influence on Reverend Ezra Stiles, and therefore on Yale University
• 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
• Yechezkel Landau, (Nodah bi-Yehudah), 18th century Posek and Talmudist
• Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, (Ramchal), 18th century Italian philosopher, mystic, and moralist
• Shneur Zalman of Liadi, (Alter Rebbe, Graz), 18th century mystic and Talmudist, founder of Lubavitch Hasidism and first Lubavitcher Rebbe
• Akiva Eiger, (Chidushei Rebbi Akiva) 18th century Talmudist, and communal leader
• Elimelech of Lezhinsk, (Noam Elimelech) 18th century Polish mystic and Hasid
• Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev, (Kedushas Levi) 18th century Polish Hassidic Leader

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