Nachman HaKohen Krochmal (Hebrew: נחמן קְרוֹכְמַל; born in Brody, Galicia, on 17 February 1785; died at Ternopil on 31 July 1840) was a Jewish Galician philosopher, theologian, and historian.

He became Rapoport's teacher, a collaboration that was ultimately fruitful for "Jewish science" (Wissenschaft des Judentums).

iv., v.), he wrote only one book,, Moreh Nebuke ha-Zeman (Lemberg, 1851), edited, according to the author's last will, by Leopold Zunz, whom he admired as a great scholar though they never met.

Moreh Nevukhe ha-Zeman (Guide for the Perplexed of the Time) is divided into seventeen chapters, of which the first six deal with religion in general.

vii describes Israel's spiritual gift as the desire for and faculty of seeking God.

The next three chapters contain a philosophical analysis of Jewish history, which, corresponding to Israel's attachment to the Lord, that is, to its religious development, is divided into three epochs.

xvi gives a brief sketch of the future development of Jewish religious philosophy based on the principles of Hegel.