Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach (1883 – 26 September 1954) was a haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean) of Shaar Hashamayim Yeshiva in Jerusalem, which he helped found in 1906.

He was the father of the posek (decider of Jewish legal issues) Shlomo Zalman Auerbach.

His father was Avraham Dov Auerbach, the rebbe of Chernowitz in Poland.

[1] Auerbach married Tzivya, the daughter of Shlomo Zalman Porush, a rabbi who founded the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sha'arei Hesed.

[2] Their first son, the authority on Jewish law Shlomo Zalman Auerbach,[3] was the first child born in Sha'arei Hesed.