In chronological order, by the year of birth, and if needed, secondarily, by year of death and surname.
Poskim of past years 1600–1900 •
Yoel Sirkis (1561–1640),
Bach •
David HaLevi Segal (1586–1667),
Turei Zahav •
Sabbatai ha-Kohen (1621–1662),
Shach •
Avraham Gombiner (1633–1683),
Magen Avraham •
Tzvi Ashkenazi (1668–1718),
Chacham Tzvi •
Jacob Emden (1797–1776) •
Yechezkel Landau (1713–1793),
Noda Bihudah •
Vilna Gaon (1720–1797),
Gra •
Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745–1812),
Shulchan Aruch HaRav •
Aryeh Leib Heller (1745–1812),
Ketzos HaChoshen •
Avraham Danzig (1748–1820),
Chayei Adam •
Yaakov Lorberbaum (1762–1830),
Nesivos HaMishpat •
Moses Sofer (1762–1839),
Chasam Sofer •
Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (1789–1866),
Tzemach Tzedek •
Shlomo Ganzfried (1804–1886),
Kitzur Shulchan Aruch •
Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor (1817–1896) •
Yehoshua Leib Diskin (1818–1898),
Maharil Diskin Orthodox •
Yechiel Michel Epstein (1829–1907),
Aruch HaShulchan •
Yoseph Chaim of Bagdad (1832–1909),
Ben Ish Chai,
Rav Pealim •
Yisrael Meir Kagan (1838–1933),
Mishnah Berurah,
Chafetz Chaim •
Moshe Greenwald (1853–1910),
Arugath HaBosem •
Chaim Ozer Grodzinski (1863–1940),
Achiezer •
Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935) •
Eliezer David Greenwald (1867–1928), ''Keren L'Dovid'' •
Yaakov Chaim Sofer (1870–1939),
Kaf HaChaim •
Avraham Duber Kahana Shapiro (1870–1943) •
Yonasan Steif, (1877–1958) •
Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz (1878–1953),
Chazon Ish •
Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg (1878–1966),
Seridei Eish •
Yosef Eliyahu Henkin (1881–1973) •
Eliezer Silver (1882–1968) •
Yehezkel Abramsky (1886–1976) •
Yoel Teitelbaum (1887–1979),
Vayoel Moshe,
Divrei Yoel •
Avraham Chaim Naeh (1890–1954)
Ketzos HaShulchan,
Shiurei Mikveh,
Shiurei Torah •
Zvi Yehuda Kook (1891–1982) •
Yaakov Kamenetsky (1891–1986) •
Aharon Kotler (1892–1962) •
Moshe Feinstein (1895–1986),
Igrot Moshe •
Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss (1902–1989),
Minchas Yitzchak •
Yosef Greenwald (1903–1984),
Vayaan Yosef •
Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903–1993) •
Yitzchok Hutner (1906–1980) •
Chanoch Dov Padwa (1908–2000), ''Cheishev Ho'Ephod'' •
Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (1910–1995),
Minchat Shlomo •
Yosef Shalom Eliashiv (1910–2012) •
Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg (1910–2012) •
Pinhas Hirschprung (1912–1998) •
Shmuel Wosner (1913–2015),
Shevet HaLevi •
Aharon Leib Shteinman (1913–2017) •
Ephraim Oshry (1914–2003) •
Avraham Shapira (1914–2007) •
Eliezer Waldenberg (1917–2006),
Tzitz Eliezer •
Shlomo Goren (1918–1994) •
Chaim Kreiswirth (1918–2001) •
Yaakov Yitzhak Neumann (1920–2007), ''Ogiro Be'Oholcho'' •
Ovadia Yosef (1920–2013),
Yabbia Omer •
Baruch Ben Haim (1921–2005) •
Fishel Hershkowitz (1922–2017),
Klausenburger dayan in
Williamsburg, Brooklyn,
New York •
Hayim David HaLevi (1924–1998), Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, author of the set of halakha
Mekor Hayim •
Menashe Klein (1924–2011),
Ungvarer Rav;
Mishneh Halachos •
Gedalia Dov Schwartz (1925–2020),
av beit din of
Beth Din of America and the
Chicago Rabbinical Council •
Nissim Karelitz (1926–2019) •
Nahum Rabinovitch (1928–2020), rosh yeshiva of
Yeshivat Birkat Moshe •
Chaim Kanievsky (1928–2022) •
Mordechai Eliyahu (1929–2010) •
Dovid Feinstein (1929–2020) •
Ephraim Greenblatt (1932–2014),
Rivivos Efraim •
Zalman Nechemia Goldberg (1932–2020), av beit din, rosh yeshiva of
Machon Lev, editor-in-chief of the
Encyclopedia Talmudit •
Aharon Lichtenstein (1933–2015),
rosh yeshiva of
Yeshivat Har Etzion •
Meir Brandsdorfer (1934–2009),
Kaneh Bosem •
Yechezkel Roth (1936–2021) Karlsburger Rav, author of
Emek HaTeshuvah •
Shimon Eider (1938–2007) •
Yisroel Belsky (1938–2016) •
Yehuda Henkin (1945–2020) •
Haim Drukman (1932–2022) •
Yitzchak Abadi (1933–2025)
Conservative and Reform •
Jacob Zallel Lauterbach (1873–1942) •
Louis Ginzberg (1873–1953),
The Responsa of Professor Louis Ginzberg •
Solomon Freehof (1892–1990),
Reform Jewish Practice and its Rabbinic Background •
Isaac Klein (1905–1979),
A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice •
Jacob Agus (1911–1986),
Dialogue and Tradition Living poskim •
Shmuel Kamenetsky (1924– ), rosh yeshiva,
Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia •
Dov Lior (1933– ) •
Avigdor Nebenzahl (1935– ) •
Yaakov Ariel (1937– ) •
Zephaniah Drori (1937– ) •
Zalman Baruch Melamed (1937– ) •
Yisrael Ariel (1939– ) •
Eliyahu Ben Haim (1940– ) •
Ephraim Padwa (1940-) rabbi of
Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations •
Hershel Schachter (1941– ), rosh yeshiva at
RIETS •
Shlomo Aviner (1943– ) •
Mordechai Willig (1947– ), rosh yeshiva at
RIETS •
Yitzhak Yosef (1952– ), Chief Sephardic Rabbi of the State of Israel, author of the set
Yalkut Yosef •
Yitzchak Berkovits (1953– ), rosh kollel
The Jerusalem Kollel •
Osher Weiss (1953– ), Minchas Osher •
Yitzchak Breitowitz (1954– ), Rav, Kehilas Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem •
Eliezer Melamed (1961– ) •
Simcha Bunim Cohen (1957– ), prolific author and pulpit rabbi in Lakewood, New Jersey • Yisroel Dovid Harfenes author of
Yisroel Vehazmanim,
Mekadesh Yisroel and
Nishmas Shabos •
Pinchas Toledano,
hakham of the
Spanish and Portuguese Jews of the Netherlands •
Shraga Feivel Zimmerman, av beis din of
Kehillas Federation, London •
Gavriel Zinner author of the
Nitei Gavriel series on halakha == See also ==