Ignatz Lichtenstein

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Ignatz Lichtenstein

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Ignatz Lichtenstein^[1] (1824 - October 16, 1909) was an Hungarian Orthodox rabbi who wrote "pamplets advocating conversion to Christianity while still officiating as a rabbi."^[2] Though he refused to be baptized into the Christian faith his whole life,^[3] he ultimately resigned his rabbinate in 1892.^[4] A biography of him appeared in the Methodist Episcopal missionary magazine The Gospel in All Lands in 1894;^[4] the Jewish historian Gotthard Deutsch, an editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia, in an essay published 3 February 1916, mentions him in the course of refuting a claim by the Chief Rabbi of London that no rabbi had ever become a convert to Christianity.^[2] Messianic Jews later mention him as an example of a turn of the 19th century "Jewish believer in Jesus." Speaking of his first contact with the gospel, he said: "I looked for thorns and gathered roses."^[3]

Contents 1 Life 2 Bibliography (German and English) 3 Notes 4 External Links

[edit] Life

Ordained as a rabbi at the age of 20, he eventually became the district rabbi for the Hungarian village of Tápiószele and served in this post for over 35 years. In 1883, after reading the New Testament, he became to believe that Jesus was the awaited Messiah of Israel. He kept his belief secret, but eventually made it known in a Sabbath sermon. In 1892, he voluntarily resigned his position and, until his death on October 16, 1909 at the age of 85, he traveled throughout Europe and continued to write. Lichtenstein was a friend of another important name in early Messianic Judaism, David Baron.

[edit] Bibliography (German and English)

• An Appeal to the Jewish People. (Translated by Mrs. Baron). [London]: The Hebrew Christian Testimony to Israel [H. C. T. I.] (1894).
• Eine Bitte an die geehrten Leser. Budapest (1880).
• Der Talmud auf der Anklagebank durch einen begeisterten Berehrer des Judenthums. Heft I. Budapest (1886).
• Mein Zeugnis. Heft II. Budapest: Hornyánszky (1886).
• Die Liebe und die Bekehrung. Heft III. Budapest (1886).
• Judaism and Christianity. (Translated from the German by Margaret M. Alison). Elliot (1893).
• Judenthum und Christenthum. Hamburg: A. Scheibenhuber [1891].^[3]
• Two Letter, or, What I Really Wish. (Translated by Mrs. Baron). London: H. C. T. I. (1887).
• “Zwei Briefe oder was ich eigentlich will” in Saat auf Hoffnung 30 (1893), 9-36. [Reprinted London: H. C. T. I. (1902)].
• The Blood of Christ. H. C. T. I. (1903).
• “Das Blut Christi, ein Nachklang aus dem Midrasch Echa” in Saat auf Hoffnung 30 (1893), 229-232.
• “Welche Anknüpfungspunkte findet die evangelische Berkündigung bei den Juden?” in Gustaf Dalman (editor). Die allgemeine Konferenz für Judenmission in Leipzig, abgehalten vom 6. bis 8. Juni 1895. Leipzig (1896). [Schriften des Institutum Judaicum in Leipzig, No. 44-46.]
• “Letter from Rabbi Lichtenstein” in The Scattered Nation 7 (July 1896), 175-176.
• “How to Approach the Jews” in The Scattered Nation 8 (October 1896), 193-195.
• The Jewish Mirror. London: H. C. T. I. [1897].
• Judenspiegel. [Vienna: L. Scnberger (1896)].
• The Points of Contact between Evangelical and Jewish Doctrine: An Address, Delivered at Leipsic. (Translated from the German by Mrs. Baron). Northfield, England: H. C. T. I. (1897).
• Begegnungspunkte zwischen Juden und Christen: Gesetz und Evangelium. London (1902).
• “Ein Weihnachts: und Neujahrsgrutz an alle Neugeborenen im Herrn” in Saat auf Hoffnung 36 (1899), 5-9.
• “Ein Weihnachts: und Neujahrsgrutz für die auserwählten Kinder des Lichtes” in Saat auf Hoffnung 37 (1900), 35-40.
• Ein Geheimniss aus dem Talmud. [Vienna, L. Scnberger, (1900)].
• “Ein Neujahrsgrutz für die Neugebornen im Herrn zum Heilsjahre 1902” in Saat auf Hoffnung 39 (1902), 5-8.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ also called Isaac Lichtenstein, due to a misunderstanding of his pen name, I. Lichtenstein.
2. ^ ^{a b} Deutsch, Gotthard (2005). Scrolls: Essays on Jewish History and Literature and Kindred Subjects V1 and V2. Kessinger Publishing, 118-119. ISBN 1417952172.
3. ^ ^{a b c} Gillet, Lev (2002). Communion in the Messiah: Studies in the Relationship Between Judaism and Christianity. James Clarke & Co., 206. ISBN 0227172256.
4. ^ ^{a b} Smith, Eugene R. (1894). The Gospel in All Lands. New York: Hunt & Nation, 507-508.

[edit] External Links

• "Why I Believe that Yeshua is the Jewish Messiah: The Story of Rabbi Isaac Lichtenstein" Online Biography
• Online Biography
• Profiles In Faith: Rabbi Isaac Lichtenstein
• Introduction to The Collected Writings of Rabbi Isaac Lichtenstein
• "An Appeal to the Jewish People" Online