page_title: List of rabbis
section_title: Rabbis: 18th century
hierarchical_section_title: List of rabbis / Rabbis: 16th – 18th centuries / Rabbis: 18th century
caption_attribution_description: A portrait purportedly displaying Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, in fact painted by Boris Schatz 66 years after he died.
context_page_description: This is a list of prominent rabbis. Rabbis are Judaism's spiritual and religious leaders.
  See also: List of Jews.
context_section_description: Aharon of Karlin (I) (1736–1772), Hassidic leader
  Chaim Joseph David Azulai (Hida, 1724–1806), Sephardi rabbi and bibliographer
  Raphael Berdugo (1747–1821), rabbi in Meknes
  Haim Isaac Carigal (1733–1777), rabbi in Newport, Rhode Island in 1773 who became great influence on Reverend Ezra Stiles, and therefore on Yale University
  Dovber of Mezritch (c. 1710–1772), (Maggid), Eastern European mystic, primary disciple of the Baal Shem Tov
  Akiva Eiger (1761–1837), Talmudist, and communal leader
  Elijah ben Solomon (the Vilna Gaon or Gra, 1720–1797), Talmudist and mystic, Lithuanian leader of the Mitnagdim, opponent of Hasidism
  Elimelech of Lizhensk, (Noam Elimelech, 1717–1787), Polish mystic and Hasid
  Jacob Emden (1697–1776), German Talmudist and mystic
  Hayyim Samuel Jacob Falk (1708 – 1782) rabbi, Practical Kabbalist and alchemist
  Aaron Hart (1670–1756), Chief Rabbi of Great Britain
  David Hassine (1727–1792), Moroccan Jewish poet
  Israel ben Eliezer (Baal Shem Tov, c.1700–1760), mystic, founder of Hasidic Judaism
  Yechezkel Landau (Noda Bihudah, 1713–1793), Posek and Talmudist
  Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev (Kedushas Leivi, 1740–1809) Polish Hassidic Leader
  Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Ramchal, 1707–1746), Italian ethicist, philosopher, and mystic
  Hart Lyon (1721–1800), Chief Rabbi of Great Britain
  Nachman of Horodenka (?–1765), Hasidic leader
  David Nieto (1654–1728), English rabbi
  Isaac Nieto (1702–1774), English rabbi
  Jacob Pardo, rabbi of Ragusa and Spalato
  Shalom Sharabi (1720–1777), Yemenite rabbi and Kabbalist
  Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745–1812), (Alter Rebbe of Chabad), mystic and Talmudist, founder of Chabad Hasidism and first Chabad Rebbe
caption: Shneur Zalman of Liadi
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