# HaKohen

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**HaKohen** (Hebrew: "The priest") is a Jewish given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:

- [Nathan HaKohen Adler](/source/Nathan_HaKohen_Adler) (1741–1800), German kabbalist
- [Meir Simcha HaKohen of Dvinsk](/source/Meir_Simcha_HaKohen_of_Dvinsk) (1843–1926), rabbi and prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in Eastern Europe
- [Shneur Chaim HaKohen Gutnick](/source/Shneur_Chaim_HaKohen_Gutnick) (1921–2003), Orthodox Jewish Chabad rabbi in Australia
- [Aaron ben Jacob ben David Hakohen](/source/Aaron_ben_Jacob_ben_David_Hakohen) Provençal rabbi, living at Narbonne, France who suffered the expulsion of the Jews in 1306
- [Abraham ben Shabbetai Hakohen](/source/Abraham_ben_Shabbetai_Hakohen) (1670–1729), Jewish physician, rabbi, religious philosopher and poet on Zante
- [Akhiyahu HaKohen](/source/Akhiyahu_HaKohen) ([fl.](/source/Floruit) 910 CE), rabbi and Hebrew-language grammarian in Tiberias
- [Alexandri HaKohen](/source/Alexandri_HaKohen) (died 1349), prominent 14th century rabbinic authority born in Erfurt, Germany
- [David Hakohen](/source/David_Hakohen), late thirteenth-century Hebrew liturgical poet from Avignon
- [Isaac Hakohen](/source/Isaac_Hakohen) (1013–1103), Moroccan Talmudist and posek
- [Ishmael ben Elisha Hakohen](/source/Ishmael_ben_Elisha_Hakohen), leader of the first generation of the Tannaim
- [Joseph Hakohen](/source/Joseph_Hakohen) (1496–1575), historian and physician of the 16th century
- [Malachi ben Jacob HaKohen](/source/Malachi_ben_Jacob_HaKohen) (1695–1772), renowned Talmudist, methodologist, Kaballists
- [Matityahu ben Yochanan HaKohen](/source/Matityahu_ben_Yochanan_HaKohen) (died 165 BC), Jewish priest with a role in the Jewish revolt against the Syrian Greeks
- [Shabbatai HaKohen](/source/Shabbatai_HaKohen) (1621–1662), 17th Century talmudist and halakhist
- [Shlomo HaKohen (Vilna)](/source/Shlomo_HaKohen_(Vilna)) (1828–1905), the famed Av Beis Din and Posek of Vilna
- [Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen](/source/Yeshivas_Rabbeinu_Yisrael_Meir_HaKohen), is a major Orthodox yeshiva in the United States based in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, New York
- [Yisroel Meir HaKohen](/source/Yisroel_Meir_HaKohen) (1839–1933), influential rabbi of the Musar movement, a Halakhist, posek, and ethicist
- [Yonatan Hakohen](/source/Yonatan_Hakohen) (1135–1210), leading French tosafist
- [Zadok HaKohen](/source/Zadok_HaKohen) of Lublin, a significant Jewish thinker and Hasidic leader
- [Abraham HaKohen Kalisker](/source/Abraham_HaKohen_Kalisker) (1741–1810), prominent Chassidic Rabbi of the 3rd generation of Chassidic leaders
- [Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin](/source/Chanokh_Heynekh_HaKohen_Levin) (1798–1870), of Aleksander, served as the rebbe of a community of thousands of Hasidim
- [Shlomo HaKohen of Lissa](/source/Shlomo_HaKohen_of_Lissa) (18th century), rabbi and biblical commentator
- [Yehuda HaKohen ben Meir](/source/Yehuda_HaKohen_ben_Meir), German rabbi and Talmudic scholar of the late tenth and early eleventh century CE from Mainz
- [Isaac HaKohen Rapoport](/source/Isaac_HaKohen_Rapoport), 18th-century rabbi who lived in Palestine; born and died at Jerusalem, a pupil of rabbi Hezekiah da Silva
- [Zvi Yosef HaKohen Resnick](/source/Zvi_Yosef_HaKohen_Resnick) (1841–1912), orthodox Russian rabbi and Rosh yeshivah
- [Mnachem Hakohen Risikoff](/source/Mnachem_Hakohen_Risikoff) (1866–1960), orthodox rabbi in Russia and the United States, prolific author of scholarly works
- [Mordechai HaKohen of Safed](/source/Mordechai_HaKohen_of_Safed) (1523–1598), scholar and kabbalist who flourished in the second half of the sixteenth century in Safed
- [Aaron HaKohen ibn Sargado](/source/Aaron_HaKohen_ibn_Sargado), tenth-century AD gaon (Jewish religious leader) in Pumbedita, Babylonia
- [Sholom HaKohen Schwadron](/source/Sholom_HaKohen_Schwadron) (1912–1997), Haredi rabbi and orator
- [Meir HaKohen Shiff](/source/Meir_HaKohen_Shiff) (1608–1644), German rabbi and Talmud scholar

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