Ketzot HaChoshen
1745 CE–1812 CE · Acharonim · Kalush
Rabbi Aryeh Leib HaKohen Heller (c. 1745–1812) was one of the most influential halachic minds of his era, remembered above all for the Ketzot HaChoshen, his analytical commentary on the monetary law of the Shulchan Aruch (Choshen Mishpat). Born in Kalush in Galicia and a student of Rabbi Meshulam Igra, he served from 1788 until his death as rabbi of Stryi. His companion works — the Avnei Miluim on marriage law and the Shev Shmatta on foundational Talmudic problems — together with the Ketzot pioneered the rigorous analytical method (lomdus) that came to define modern Talmud study; all three remain core texts in every yeshiva.
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Kalush
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Around 1745 he was born in Kalush, a town in the Galicia region that now falls within Ukraine's borders. He was the last of five sons, and his lineage ran back five generations to Rabbi Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller.
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- R. Pinchas HaLevi Horowitz (Hafla'ah)· 1731 CE–1805 CE
- Israel Hopstein of Kozhnitz· 1737 CE–1814 CE
- Chaim Tyrer of Czernowitz· 1740 CE–1817 CE
- Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev· 1740 CE–1809 CE
- Zev Wolf of Zhitomyr· 1740 CE–1798 CE
- Rabbi Nosson Adler· 1741 CE–1800 CE
- Moshe Chaim Ephraim of Sudilkov· 1742 CE–1800 CE
- Meshullam Feivush Heller· 1742 CE–1794 CE
- Rabbi Yehuda HaKohen Heller· 1743 CE–1819 CE
- Shneur Zalman of Liadi· 1745 CE–1812 CE
- Jacob Isaac Horowitz· 1745 CE–1815 CE
- Rabbi Wolf Boskowitz· 1745 CE–1818 CE
- Rabbi Yitzchak Eizik Greishaber· 1745 CE–1823 CE
- R. Dovid Biderman of Lelov· 1746 CE–1814 CE
- R. Refael Berdugo· 1747 CE–1821 CE
- Abraham Danzig· 1748 CE–1820 CE
- Avraham Yehoshua Heschel· 1748 CE–1825 CE
- Chaim of Volozhin· 1749 CE–1821 CE
- Kalonymus Kalman Epstein· 1751 CE–1823 CE
- Rabbi Meshullam Igra· 1752 CE–1801 CE
- R. Yosef Maman al-Maghribi· 1752 CE–1823 CE
- Rabbi Hertz Scheyer· 1753 CE–1822 CE
- Rabbi Elazar Fleckeles· 1754 CE–1826 CE
- David Solomon Eibeschutz· 1755 CE–1813 CE
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- George III· 1738 CE–1820 CE
- Little Turtle (Mihšihkinaahkwa)· 1747 CE–1812 CE
- Paul I· 1754 CE–1801 CE
- John Adams· 1735 CE–1826 CE
- Jeongjo of Joseon· 1752 CE–1800 CE
- Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea)· 1743 CE–1807 CE
- Bodawpaya· 1745 CE–1819 CE
- Tipu Sultan· 1751 CE–1799 CE
- Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla· 1753 CE–1811 CE
- Andrianampoinimerina· –1810 CE
- William Pitt the Younger· 1759 CE–1806 CE
- Rama I· 1737 CE–1809 CE
- Toussaint Louverture· 1743 CE–1803 CE
- Thomas Jefferson· 1743 CE–1826 CE
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