Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Charlap (Hebrew: יעקב משה חרל"פ, born 16 November 1882 - died 6 December 1951)[1] was an Orthodox rabbi, talmudist, kabbalist, Rosh Yeshiva of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, and a disciple of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook.

Rabbi Charlap served as rabbi of the Sha'arei Hesed neighborhood in central Jerusalem, and author of the Mei Marom series of books on Jewish thought.

[2] Rabbi Charlap was born in Jerusalem in 1882, where his father served as a rabbinic judge (dayan) in the bet din of Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin.

[2] When the State of Israel was founded in 1948, he expressed both orally and in writing that this event signified “the beginning of the redemption”.

[3] Among his notable students were rabbis Yehuda Amital, Shaul Yisraeli, Moshe-Zvi Neria, and Avraham Zuckerman.