Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin (1945 – 23 December 2020), author of the responsa Benei Banim, was a Religious Zionist and Modern Orthodox posek.

After graduating from the Yeshivah of Flatbush High School in 1962, he studied five years with his grandfather, Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin, from whom he received semichah.

[2] He lived in Jerusalem, with his wife, Chana Henkin [he], founder and head of Nishmat, the Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies for Women.

[3] His son, Rabbi Eitam Henkin, and his daughter-in-law Naama were murdered by Palestinian terrorists on 1 October 2015, in front of their four young children.

[4][5] His closest student was Rabbi David Sperling, head of the Bet Midrash at Nishmat, who studied with him for over thirty years.