While many tributes have been published to mark the 200th anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn’s birth, and orchestras everywhere are playing to renewed appreciation the works that were left to us as his enduring legacy, it was anticipated soon after his death that “there may come a day yet, when the example of Mendelssohn’s life, yet more […]
‘Song without Words’ – a short biography of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809 – 1847)
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Dr. Abraham Capadose (1795 – 1874)
October 5, 2012 by
Abraham Capadose was born on 22 August 1795 in Amsterdam. Both his parents, Isaac Haim Capadose and Esther Mendes da Costa, came from prominent Portuguese Jewish families. He qualified as physician and Leyden in 1818 and practiced in the Netherlands. This is shortened version of an auto-biography published in 1855 in ‘A VOICE FROM THE PIOUS DEAD […]
Frans Lion Cachet (1835–1899) – Jewish emissary for Christ
October 5, 2012 by
Frans Lion Cachet was born to a Jewish merchant family in Amsterdam in 1835. He met his Messiah in 1849 after his parents converted to Christianity. Sometime after this he came into contact with Pastor Witteveen of Ermelo in the Netherlands. Witteveen ran a charitable home for the “weary and heavy laden” and his humble life […]
Rabbi Philipp Philips
October 4, 2012 by
From Rabbis meet Jesus the Messiah – a collection of 24 biographies and testimonies of Rabbis encounters with Jesus the Messiah © Messianic Good News. Philipp Philips had the good fortune, like so many Jews have, to descend from a pious family, and at an early age he became acquainted with the literature of his nation. Later he […]
Rabbi Max Wertheimer D.D.
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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. Born of orthodox Jewish parents, my earliest childhood impression was of my parents rising in the morning very early in order to spend a long time reading the Hebrew prayers. Even in the […]
Rabbi Isaac Lichtenstein
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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. He was not yet twenty when he became a Rabbi, and after officiating for several years in different communities in northern Hungary, Isaac Lichtenstein finally settled as District Rabbi in Tapio Szele, where […]
Rabbi Leopold Cohn, D.D. (1862 – 1937)
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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. Life began for Leopold Cohn in the little town of Berezna, in the eastern part of Hungary. At the age of seven a great calamity befell the young lad; he lost both of […]
Rabbi Harold Vallins
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by Martin Roth – published by permission This biography is one of a collection of 24 biographies and testimonies of Rabbis encounters with Jesus the Messiah published by Messianic Good news in Rabbis meet Jesus the Messiah – © Messianic Good News. What happens when a modern-day Jewish Rabbi accepts Jesus into his life? For Rabbi Harold […]
Christian Martyrs
October 4, 2012 by
This picture is of an ivory relief which depicts the martyrdom of the forty martyrs of Sebaste A.D. 320. “They were forty Roman legionaries, Christians who could be induced neither by command nor by persuasion nor by torture to renounce their faith. They were exposed naked on a frozen lake, and on the shore great […]
Testimony of Rabbi Azriel Ben Isaac
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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. YESHUA VIA MOROCCO AND ISRAEL I was born in Morocco in 1940, into a very religious and observant family, of rabbinical descent. My father was a rabbi in Casablanca, and in 1941 he […]
