Vilna Gaon

Vilna Gaon

male, deceased (1797)
The Vilna Gaon (April 23, 1720 - October 9, 1797) was a prominent rabbi, Talmud scholar, and Kabbalist. Born Elijah (Eliyahu) ben Shlomo Zalman, he...
Nosson Tzvi Finkel

Nosson Tzvi Finkel

male, deceased (1927)
Nosson Zvi (Nota Hirsh) Finkel (1849-1927), was born in Lithuania and died in the British Mandate of Palestine. He was an influential leader of...
Isser Zalman Meltzer

Isser Zalman Meltzer

male, deceased (1953)
Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer (1870 - 1953) was a famous Lithuanian Orthodox rabbi, rosh yeshiva and posek. He is also known as the "Even HaEzel",...
Yisrael Meir Kagan

Yisrael Meir Kagan

male, deceased (1933)
Yisrael Meir (HaCohen) Kagan (Dzyatlava, February 6, 1838 - Radun, September 15, 1933) also known popularly as The Chofetz Chaim was an influential...
Chaim Ozer Grodzinski

Chaim Ozer Grodzinski

male, deceased (1940)
Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski (1863-1940) was a world renowned pre-war Dayan, Posek and Talmudic scholar in Vilna.
Avraham Danzig

Avraham Danzig

male, deceased (1820)
"Chayei Adam" deals with the laws discussed in the Orach Chayim section of the Shulchan Aruch. It is divided into 224 sections - 69 dealing with...
Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz

Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz

male, deceased (1948)
Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz (1886 - 7 September 1948) was an early leader of American Orthodoxy and founder of key institutions such as Torah Vodaath,...
Shmuel Salant

Shmuel Salant

male, deceased (1909)
Rabbi Shmuel Salant served as the Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem and was a renowned Talmudist and Torah scholar. He was born in BiaƂystok, t...

Yihhyah Qafahh

male, deceased (1932)
Yihhyah Qafahh (1853-1932) was a prominent Yemenite rabbi of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He founded the Dor Dai movement in...

Yonasan Steif

male, deceased (1958)
Rabbi Yonasan Steif (1877-1958) was a senior dayan of Budapest, Hungary, before the Second World War, a man whom Rabbi Moshe Feinstein referred to...