Rabbi Aryeh Laib Heller’s Theological Introduction to his ‘Sheva Shematata’

Originally published in Modern Judaism 1.2 (Sept. 1981): 184-216. Republished in L. Jacobs, Judaism and Theology: Essays on the Jewish Religion (London; Portland, OR: Vallentine, Mitchell, 2005), 159-195.   Aryeh Laib Heller (d. 1813), [1] a pupil of R. Meshulam Igra of Pressburg, was rabbi of the Galician towns of Rozhnyatov and, from 1788 until…