Rashi - R' Shlomo Yitzchaki (1040-1105), Troyes, France. "Rabban Shel Yisrael" - The great Rishon who wrote commentary on all areas of Torah.
Paaneach Raza - R’ Yitzchak bar Yehuda HaLevi (13th century), France.
Tur HaAoch – Jacob ben Asher (1269-1343), Spain; Composer of Arba'ah Turim - basis for the Shulchan Aruch.
Sukat David - R’ Hayim David Shiriro (18th century), Greece; Served as a dayan in Saloniki. Author of Mishneh Kesef on the Rambam.
Zohar - Central work of mystical tradition of Kabbalah. Traditionally attributed to Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. First appeared in 13th-century Spain.
Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer - Composed by Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus (1st-2nd century) during times of the Mishnah.
Yalkut Shimoni - Compiled between 11th and 14th centuries in Thessaloniki. The author collected and arranged various interpretations from older midrashim. It contains more than 10,000 statements in aggadah and halakhah covering all of Torah, sourced from more than 50 works of which it is the only source for some of them (Sifrei Zuta, Yelammedenu, Midrash Esfah, Midrash Avkir, Midrash Tadshe, Devarim Zuta).
Rabbeinu Bachya - (Rabbeinu Behaye) R’ Bahya ben Asher (1255-1340), Spain. Torah commentary incorporating the literal meaning along with allegorical, Midrashic, and Kabbalistic interpretations.
Shem Mishmuel - Rav Shmuel Bornsztain (1855-1926), Poland; second Sochatchov Rebbe. A leading Chasidic thinker and a Rebbe to thousands of Chasidim in the Polish cities of Sochaczew (Sochatchov) and Łódź. Son of the first Sochatchover Rebbe, he labored over the compilation and publication of his father's manuscripts and published his father's voluminous responsa on Shulchan Aruch under the title Avnei Nezer.
Sefer HaYashar - Often attributed to Rabbeinu Tam, Zerahiah ha-Yevani, or R. Jonah Gerondi in 13th century Spain.
Midrash Aggadah – First published by Solomon Buber in 1894 based rare manuscripts from 12-13th century Aleppo
Ma’amar Mordechai - R’ Mordechai Karmi (1749-1825), France.
Rav Elchonon Wasserman - (1874-1941), Lithuania; Murdered in the Shoah. Student of the Chafetz Chaim.
Ramban - Nachmanides – R' Moshe ben Nachman (1194-1270), Girona, Spain, Akko; A leading Torah scholar of the middle-ages who authored commentaries on Torah and the Talmud. He was a posek who wrote responsa and stand-alone works on Halachic topics, as well as works on mysticism, science and philosophy. Immigrated to Israel at age 72 and settled in Akko.
