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28 October Feast of Y’huda brother of Ya’akov (St Jude) – patron saint of lost causes #otdimjh
Bernstein’s short note: Jude is so named by Luke and Acts. Matthew and Mark call him Thaddeus. He is not mentioned elsewhere in the Gospels, except, of course, where all the apostles are mentioned. Legend has it that Jude was … Continue reading
23 October 1892 Emin Pasha murdered in Kinene, Congo Free State #otdimjh
Who was Emin Pasha? Bernstein’s short note again calls for further investigation: Emin, Pasha (Edward Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer), born at Oppeln, Prussian Silesia, in 1840; killed at Kinena Station, Congo Free State, October 23, 1892. When he was only … Continue reading
22 October 1642 Christian Gerson ben Meir Biberach dies aged 47 #otdimjh
How did Christian Gerson reconcile being Jewish with believing in Jesus, at a time when neither community really understood each other? Bernstein writes: Born at Reeklichhausen, August 1, 1567, Gerson received the usual Talmudical education, and was a teacher in … Continue reading
8 August 1859 Birth of Moses Löwen, Yiddish Apologist and Theologian #otdimjh
Löwen, Moses Gotthold (also known as Hananiah Berliner), was born August 8, 1859, just at the time when his father, dressed in mourning, was sitting on the floor in the synagogue, bewailing the destruction of Jerusalem. When the father returned … Continue reading
30 July 1709 Jonah ben Jacob Xeres affirms his faith in Yeshua #otdimjh
Xeres, Jonah ben Jacob, was a native of North Africa, where he came in contact with English Christian merchants and learned the truth as it is in Jesus from them. In 1707 he came to London and was instructed and … Continue reading
25 May 1870 Birth of Karl Kunert #otdimjh
Kunert, Rev. Karl, was born on May 25th, 1870, at Krotoschin, in Posen, one of the Prussian provinces. [Bernstein] Of his history he says:- “My father was a furrier, who, in the family of his grandfather, a rabbi at Breslau, … Continue reading
30 January 1819 Birth of Jonas Meyer, Orthodox, Reform and Messianic Jew #otdimjh #onthisday
Meyer, Rev. Jonas Theodor, was born in Crivitz, a small town in Mecklenberg, January 30, 1819, and died in New Jersey, March 14, 1896. His early Hebrew education he received from a Polish Jew in the Cheder, and then he … Continue reading
24 January 1826 Birth of Albert Isaacs, first photographer of Holy Land
Isaacs, Rev. Albert Augustus. The cause of missions to Jews possessed a very intelligent and warm-hearted advocate in the Rev. Albert Augustus [281] Isaacs, who was himself, as his name indicates, of Jewish parentage, and who throughout his long life, identified … Continue reading
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17 Janaury 1789 Birth of David Mendel (Auguste Neander) #onthisday #otdimjh
Johann August Wilhelm Neander (January 17, 1789 – July 14, 1850), was a German theologiaan and church historian. Bernstein refers to Neander 28 times, in Some Jewish Witnesses for Christ, and gives a fuller report below of this great man’s extensive thought and career: Johann … Continue reading
#Otdimjh #onthisday 24 December 1804 Birth of Raphael Hirsch – Dr Joiachim Heinrich Biesenthal aka Corvé, Karl Ignaz
Perhaps the greatest scholar of the 19th century Hebrew Christians, Biesenthal was widely known, but I have been unable to find a photograph of him. The account in Bernstein reads: Biesenthal, Dr. Joiachim Heinrich—or, to give him his birth-name, Raphael … Continue reading
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On This Day In Messianic Jewish History 