Isaac Lichtenstein
Isaac (Ignatz) Lichtenstein (1824 – October 16, 1909) was a Hungarian Orthodox rabbi who became a believer in Yeshua yet did not renounce Judaism nor his post as district rabbi. He wrote several pamphlets arguing that faith in Yeshua is compatible with Judaism. Eventually community pressure forced him out of his position as district rabbi, but he never accepted Christian baptism, nor did he join a church.
Talmud auf der Anklagebank
Issac Lichtenstein wrote Talmud auf der Anklagebank ("Talmud in the Docket") as a response to missionary literature which criticized Rabbinic Judaism. It is a defense of traditional Judaism against these prejudices.
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Mein Zeugnis
Mein Zeugnis ("My Testimony") is another one of Isaac Lichtenstein's pleas to his own people to see Yeshua as the promised Messiah of Israel.
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Judaism and Christianity
Judaism and Christianity is a discourse by Isaac Lichtenstein comparing Judaism and Christianity in an attempt to show the parallels between the two religious expressions. His desire was to show that Christianity was a natural flowering out of Judaism. This English translation was published by Andrew Elliot in 1893.
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Die Liebe und die Bekehrung
Die Liebe und die Bekehrung ("Love and Conversion") was released prior Lichtenstein coming out publicly as a as believer. In the book he gives his observations on the decline of observance and hence faith in the Orthodox Judaism of his day and the possible positive aspects traditional Christianity had to offer.
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An Appeal to the Jewish People
An Appeal to the Jewish People is Isaac Lichtenstein's petition to his own people to look at the claims of Yeshua being the Messiah with unbiased eyes. This English translation was published by The Hebrew Christian Testimony to Israel in 1894.
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A Jewish Mirror
In The Jewish Mirror, Rabbi Lichtenstein recounts how Christians defending the Jewish people during the Tápiószele blood accusation first led him to read the New Testament. He describes his convictions about Yeshua of Nazareth, contrasting against insincere conversions. He describes Yeshua as the "Jewish Mirror," "Jacob's Ladder" to Heaven, the continual Menorah of the Holy Place, and several other biblical and Jewish metaphors, while praising the virtues of Christian social efforts.
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