Dies auch in Deutsch erhältlich This biography first appeared in German in the ‘Zions Freund’ of December 1934. Professor Franz Delitzsch was born in Leipzig in 1813 and, on his own testimony, of simple middle-class stock. He lost his father in 1836. The position of the young Delitzsch was quite depressing, but a Jew, Hirsch Levi, […]
Where is the Lamb?
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“And ‘ה spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying … In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house … And they shall take of the blood and strike it on […]
Rabbi Joseph Teischman
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From Rabbis meet Jesus the Messiah – a collection of 24 biographies and testimonies of Rabbis encounters with Jesus the Messiah © Messianic Good News. Joseph Teischman was born and raised the son of an Orthodox Rabbi in New York City. He followed in his father’s footsteps by also receiving smichah (ordination) as an Orthodox Rabbi. But unlike […]
Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler
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From Rabbis meet Jesus the Messiah – a collection of 24 biographies and testimonies of Rabbis encounters with Jesus the Messiah © Messianic Good News. THE SYNAGOGUE AND THE CHURCH The religious congress which was held in connection with the Chicago Fair in 1893 brought together representatives of various religious persuasions from many parts of the world, including […]
Dr. Israele Zolli – Former Chief Rabbi of Rome
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From Rabbis meet Jesus the Messiah – a collection of 24 biographies and testimonies of Rabbis encounters with Jesus the Messiah © Messianic Good News. “Zolli Israele, rabbi and philologist, born in Brody, Poland, 1881. He studied philology and rabbinics in Vienna, and in 1910 was elected rabbi in Trieste. At the end of World War 1 he […]
Rabbi George Benedict
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From Rabbis meet Jesus the Messiah – a collection of 24 biographies and testimonies of Rabbis encounters with Jesus the Messiah © Messianic Good News. George Benedict was born in Germany where his father was a Rabbi. When the Rabbi accepted a call to Sheffield the family emigrated to England. There young Benedict attended school. It was his […]
Rabbi Charles Freshman
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From Rabbis meet Jesus the Messiah – a collection of 24 biographies and testimonies of Rabbis encounters with Jesus the Messiah © Messianic Good News. Charles Freshman was born in Micklosh, a city pleasantly situated on the river Waag, in Hungary, as the oldest of thirteen children. The parents were strict adherents of Judaism and the father was […]
Dr. Bernard Jean Bettelheim (1811 – 1870)
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Bernard Jean Bettelheim was born into a noted Jewish family in Pressburg, Hungary, in 1811. He studied, from a very early age, towards the goal of becoming a rabbi. It is said that by the age of ten he could read and write in French, German, and Hebrew, though if his biographies are to be believed, […]
Rabbi Rudolf Hermann Gurland
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From Rabbis meet Jesus the Messiah – a collection of 24 biographies and testimonies of Rabbis encounters with Jesus the Messiah © Messianic Good News. “I have lived in two entirely different worlds, first as a Jew, and then as a Christian; first in a limited world of doubt and superstition under the fearful curse of the law; […]
Dr. Adolf Althausen
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Originally published in Zions Freund in September 1936. Dr. Althausen was born into a family of pious Jews in Russia. Because his father was a Rabbi, Adolf was educated for the same career. At the age of 18 years, he was already a teacher of the Talmud. Ten years later, he had to give up that […]
