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An Inventory to the Tehilla Lichtenstein Papers Manuscript Collection No. 22 1929-1970. 4.2 Linear ft.

The Tehilla Lichtenstein Papers are open to all users and available in the reading room fo the American Jewish Archives.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH top

Tehilla Lichtenstein was born in Jerusalem, Palestine in 1893, the daughter of Hava (Cohen) and Rabbi Haim Hirshenson. She earned her B.A. degree from Hunter College and M.A. degree from Columbia University.

Her husband, Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein, (1889-1938), founded the Jewish Science Movement in 1921. Jewish Science originated as a response to Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science Movement which, Lichtenstein felt, was making great inroads into the American Jewish Community. With the death of her husband in 1938, Ms. Lichtenstein took over the leadership of the movement, becoming editor of the Jewish Science Interpretor and head of the Congregation of Jewish Science in New York city.

Jewish Science emphasized the spiritual aspects of Judaism as well as the goodness of God and the effectiveness of prayer. The Movement's primary concern was to harmonize Judaism with modern science (notably medicine and psychology) through a program of meditation and prayer which would reveal Judaism (stripped of any historical vestiges) to be the highest of healing sciences. Tehilla Lichtenstein taught that prayer linked people to God and that that link supported the power of positive thinking, essential to psychological and physical well being.

Tehilla Lichtenstein died in 1973.

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SERIES B. Miscellaneous consists of two subseries, 1. Tehilla Lichtenstein and 2. Morris Lichtenstein. Subseries 1. consists of two folders of correspondence and nearprint relating to Jewish Science for the years 1947-1970. Subseries 2. is made up of material from Morris Lichtenstein and consists of lecture notes, sermons, and manuscripts of an essay and a novel.

BOX AND FOLDER LIST top

SERIES A. SERMONS (This is a complete listing  of sermon titles)
         
Ablutions Before The Feast (1)
Ablutions Before The Feast (II)
About Enjoying People
About Forgiving Yourself
About Ruling Others and Yielding To Others
Achieving Inner Poise
Americans In Europe
Anger Killeth a Man
Another Secret Of Healing
Antidotes For Your Fears
April 28th--A Day For Fasting And Prayer
Are We A Chosen People?
Attaining Healthful Sleep
The Attempted Marriage Between Psychiatry And Religion
Attitudes Towards Marriage And Divorce


A Balance Between Communal And Personal Religion
The Basic Principle Of Healthy Living
Be A Better Jew
"Be Not The First--Nor Yet The Last"--Counsel Of The Timorous Heart
"Be Strong And Of Good Courage"
The Beginning Of Wisdom
Believing Is Seeing
Blessed Are Those That Bless
The Blessing Of A Quiet Mind
The Book Of Job: Story Of A Great Rebel
Browning And God

Calm And Cheerful--Can You Make It?--Optimism Under Stress
Can We Prove That God Exists?
Can You Have A Good Life Without Religion?
Can't Versus I Will
The Captains And The Kings Depart--The Eternal Verities Remain
The Changing Relations Between Men And Women
A Cheerful Heart Is A Good Medicine
Choose Ye!  Choose Ye!
Choosing Your Way To Happiness
Cleansing Before Dedication
The Closed Mind And The Open Mind
Combining Religion With Medicine
The Concept Of Freedom In Existentialism
Confession Versus Penitence
Confusion Of Tongues
The Conservation And Expenditure Of Vital Energy
The Continuous Fight Between Your Self And The Self Of Others--When To
        Yield And When To Assert Your Ego
The Contract Between God And Israel
Controlling Your Nerves
A Corsage For Mother
A Course For Doctors Which Medical School Does Not Offer
The Cruse Of Oil--The Chanukah Miracle--How It Can Operate In your Own
        Life
A Cure For This Sick World
Cures For Minds In Distress
Cyclorama Of The Future

The Day On Which You Were Born--Was It A Lucky One?
Did Lincoln Have The Answer?
Discourse For Yom Kippur Eve
Do Not Treat Old People With Respect
Do Not Worry And Do Not Be Afraid
Do We Believe In A Personal God
Do We Control Our Minds Or Do Our Minds Control Us
Does Faith Mean Freedom Or Submission
Does Good Education Make Men Good?
Does It Matter To God?
Doing Something About The Weather
Don't Be Afraid
Don't Believe Everything You See
Don't Cheat Yourself
Don't Wait.  Do It Now

The Eleventh Article Of Faith In Maimonides--Does God Reward And
        Punish?
The Essential Principles Of Jewish Science
Everything Is A Nine Days' Wonder
Exercise For The Soul
Explanation Of The Second Affirmation
The Extrovert And The Introvert--Can Inherent Personality Be Changed?

The Face Of Victory
Fear Has Its Master
The Festival Of Freedom
Fifty-Six Ingredients Of Success
First Things First
Five Minutes With God-What It Can Do For You
For And Against Organized Religion
Forecast For 1940-41
The Four Chosen Peoples
Freedom From Fear
Freedom Through Automation
Freedom Through Self-Discipline
From The Peak To The Base Of Mount Sinai

Getting Rid Of Fear
The Glad And The Reluctant
A Glimpse Of The Stars
The Glory Of Life: The Glory Of Youth
The Glory Of Life: The Glory Of The Middle Years
The Glory Of Life: The Glory Of Old Age
Go See "The Well"
The God Consciousness As An Instrument For Power
God Loves Laughter
The God Of Nature And The God Of Israel
God Proposes, Man Disposes
God's Prayer To Man
Going His Way--Where Will It Lead You?
The Good Tents of Jacob
The Great Questions--Answered, Unanswered, And Unanswerable
The Grown-Up Family
A Guaranteed Harvest

Happy Art Thou, 0 Israel
Happy Birthday!  Happy Land!
Have Fun
Have You Got Enough Friends
Have You Straightened Your Accounts?--Fiscal Year 1939
Have You Tried Patience
He Who Fights And Runs Away
He Who Got Slapped
He Who Rides A Tiger Cannot Dismount At Will
Healing Is An Act Of God
Healing Of Body and Mind--Proper Religious Concepts As A Basis Of
Healing
Healing Thoughts Bring Healing
Healing Through Faith
The Healing To Be Found In The Torah Of Israel
Healing With And Without Medicine
The Healthy Conscience
Healthy Sinews For Your Soul
The High Cost Of Experience
Hillel's Golden Rule--The Psychology And Practicality Of Jewish Wisdom
Hindsight and Foresight
How And When To Find Fault--A Lesson In Human Relationships'
How Can We Control Our Emotions?
How Can We Repay Our Mothers?  How Can Our Children Repay Us?
How Do You Sleep?
How Does Faith Heal?
How Does God Answer Your Prayers?
How Does God Heal?
How Does God Speak To Man?
How It Feels To Be A Jew
How Much Do You Count?
How Never To Be Lonely
How People Throw Away Their Happiness
How Shall We Find God?
How Shall We Jews Meet Our Foes?
How To Achieve Inner Poise
How To Achieve A Quiet Mind
How To Achieve Happy Human Relationships
How To Achieve Your Goal Through Prayer
How To Acquire A Sense of Self-Vlorth
How To Acquire The Power of Selection
How To Add To Your Power
How To Ask God For Health
How To Attain Optimum Health
How To Become Master Of Your Mind @nd Your Heart
How To Become Unpopular
How To Build Up Your Personality
How To Conquor Your Greatest Enemy
How To Control The Tongue And The Temper
How To Criticize
How To Earn A Blessing Every Day And Every Hour
How To Face Life These Days
How To Face Your Troubles
How To Fight Yourself
How To Foretell The Future
How To Frighten Away Sleep, And How To Woo It Back
How To Get Along With People
How To Get Rid Of Your Temper
How To Give And How To Take Criticism
How To Give Thanks For Three Hundred Years Of Freedom
How To Grow Young
How To Heal Yourself
How To Influence Your Enemies And Make Them Your Friends
How To Keep Your Wife Happy
How To Make It A Good Year
How To Make Your Husband Successful
How To Obtain God's Forgiveness
How To Overcome Fear Of Any Kind
How To Overcome Hurtful Habits
How To Practice What You Believe
How To Pray And When To Pray
How To Pray For Health
How To Prepare Yourself For Forgiveness
How To Quiet Inner Turmoil
How To Quiet Your Nerves
How To Read The Book
How To Realize Ood's Presence
How To Retain Your Children's Love
How To Ride The Wheel Of Fortune
How To Serve God
How To Spend Your Summer
How To Take Joy And How To Take Pain
How To Tap The Source Of Help
How To Tell Truth From Untruth
How To Use The Imagination Constructively
How To Utilize Your God Conception
How To Vote At The Coming Elections
How Will You Celebrate Hanukah?
How You Can Attract Good Luck
How You Can Make America American
Husbands and Wives, Parents and Children - How To Be Happy With Those
        You LoveThe Most

I Believe With A Perfect Faith
I Do Not Hate Nor Envy--Can You Really Control Your Emotions?
I Remember Her
Ideals Are The Practical Things
If In War Time, Why Not In Peace Time?
If You Could Choose Your Faith
If You Have No Faith, Will You Be Saved?
Ignorance Is Sin
Imitation Of God--The Goal Of Personal Religion
The Immovable Rock Against The Irresistabl-e
Improve Your Personality
In The Light Of The Lord
Inching Our Way
The Influence Of Psychoanalysis On Modern Thinking
Ingredients For Happiness
Into The Heart Of Things
Inhibitions-Are They Harmful Or Dangerous?
Is Half A Loaf Better Than None?
Is A Universal Religion Possible? - The Jewish View-Point
Is It All In The Mind?
Is Mother Always Right?
Is Religion A Cure For Everything?
Is There A Judgement For The Wicked?
An Island Of Serenity In A Sea Of Turmoil
Israel And America
Israel And The World
Israel:  Land Of Problems (first of a series)
Israel:  Land Of Contrasts (second of a series)
Israel:  Hope Of The World (third of series)
It Can Happen Only Here
It Depends On How You Take It
It's Not As Late As You Think

The Jewish Science Way Of Life--How To Attain It
Joy Gives Life
The Joys Of Friendship--How To Attain Them
The Joys Of Society And The Blessings Of Solitude


Kol Nidre (Yom Kipper Eve)
Kol Nidre, 5714
Kol Nidre, 5716 (1955)

The Law And The Law-Giver
A  Lesson In Healing
Let Anger Go
Let's Start All Over Again
The Life Of The Mind
The Life Of The Spirit
Life With Family
Lifting Your Soul From The Depths
"A Loaf Of Bread, A Jug Of Wine...." A Discourse For June Brides And
        Other Married Folks
Look Younger, Live Longer
Lost Is Not Our Hope Of Yore
Love Is Not Blind
Love--On The Air And Off
The Luck Of The Irish And The Luck Of The Jews
The Lucky Middle Class

Magic In Your Voice
The Magic Properties Of Enthusiasm
The Maker Of Kings
Making Every Day A Good Day
Making Your Past Count In Your Present
Making Yourself Receptive To Healing
The Mal-Nourished Soul
The Man Who Cared-Tribute To President Roosevelt
Many-Faced Worry--How To Meet It And Defeat It
Many Kinds Of Pleasures
Marriage Manogamy
Matter and Materialism
Matter And Spirit In The Festive Of Shabuoth
The Meaning Of Dreams
The Meaning Of Passover
The Meanings In The Nineteenth Psalm
Medicine And Religion
Meeting Life Today
Mental Control Over Yourself
Mining For Gold--Within Yourself
The Miracle Of Visualization
Money Is Power: How To Make It And How To Spend It
The Morals and Manners Of Our Peoole
More Power To You
More Than The Idea
The Most Beautiful And The Most Pathetic Spectacle In Jewish History:
Are the Terrorists In Palestine The Maccabees Of Our Day?
The Most Difficult Injunction Which Our Founder Laid Upon Us
The Mother Of The Year
Mother's Prayer
The Mountain Of The Lord
Mr. and Mrs. Scuttle Face Life
Mr. President
Must There Be Psycho-Somatic Illness?
Must You Worry?
My Party, Right Or Wrong!
The Mystery Of Your Self

Nervousness Has Its Cure
New York The Beautiful
The Next Three Months
The Night Shineth As The Day
No Need To Be Lonely
The Noise Of Many Waters
Nothing Comes Easy

0 Brave New Year!
The Old Ways Are Best--Argument And Counter-Argument
On One Still Night--The Potency Of Hope In Human Destiny
One Word Leads to Another
The Only Way To Love
Our Dreams-Are They Truth Or Lies
Our Festivals--Islands Of Rememberances
Our Mental Health In War Time
Our Physical And Mental Health In War Time
Our Sense Of Duty

A Page From The Adversary's Notebook
Pain And Joy As Guidelines To Conduct
Passover Brings You Three Gifts
Patience Has Power
A Pattern For Successful Living
Peace With Others And Peace With Ourselves
People Are So Sensitive
A Perfect Day
Personal And Communal Prayer--Two Instruments For Help And Healing
The Philosophy Of Awareness
Pleasing Traits Of Personality And How To Acquire Them
A Portrait Of Your Mother
The Power Of Suggestion
The Power Of Symbolism In Man's Life
Power Over Yourself And Over Others
Power Through God Consciousness
Prayer Is Power
Prayers--Answered and Unanswered
Prayers That Heal
The Precious Jewel Of Adversity, Prelude To Joy Prerequisits For
         Prayer
Proper Methods Of Prayer, Or, How To Use The Silence
Prospect And Retrospect
Psychology And Religion
Purim Should Be Fun

Questions And Answers About Jewish Science

Rejoicing In Your Sheaves
Religion And Evolution--A Message Of Optimism For To-Day
Remedy For Despair
The Rewards Of Hospitality
The Road To Self-Conquest
Rosh  Hashanah, 5710
Rosh  Hashanah 5711
Rosh  Hashanah 5712
Rosh  Hashanah
Rosh  Hashanah Discourse
Rosh  Hashanah Morning
Rosh  Hashanah Morning, 1961

Salute To Our Great
The Second Sin Is Easier
Secrets Of Effective Prayer
Secrets Of Personality
Sense And Sensitiveness
The Senses Of Man As The Instrument Of His Spirit
The Seven Deadly Sins In Modern Living
Shakespeare's Definition Of Love--A Sermon On Fidelity In Marriage,
         Loyalty In Friendship
Shall Jewish Women Have Religious Equality?
Shall We Live By The Clock?--An Answer In The Affirmative
Shall We Prevail With Meekness Or With Valor?
Sicknesses Of Character: Can They Be Cured?
The Simple Life In Greater New York
The Sin Of Silence
Something About Love And Laughter
Something Special To Live For
Sources Of Happiness Within Your Reach
The Spirit Of Hitler Marches On--How To Combat Post-War Anti-Semitism
      In This Land
Spirit Through Matter
Stars Fell On The U.S.A.
A Street-Car Named Illusion
Stronger Than Your Fate
Stubborness And Compromise
Superstition And Religion
Supplements To Prayer
The Suppression Of The Emotions
Sweeter Than Honey And The Honeycomb

Tears And Homen-Taashen
Ten Sermons In One
Thanks Before The Feast
There Is Healing In The Torah
There's Always Something New Under The Sun
The Thieves Of Time
Thinking About Yourself--What Does It Lead To
The Third World Armistice
This Man Moses
Those Wonderful Post-War Kitchens
Thou Shalt Be Healed
Thoughts Before A Hurricane
The Three Aristocracies--You Can Belong To The Best
Three Avenues To Healing
The Three Essentials Of Life--How To Attain Them
Three Kinds Of Poverty
Three Steps To Healing
The Thirfty, The Spendthrift, The Stingy, And The Generous ---
        Four Types, And What Each Gets Out Of Life
Thunder On, Democracy!
The Tie-up Between Your Health And Your Conscience
Time Can Be Your Friend
A Time For Greatness
A Time To Speak And A Time To Be Silent
Timidity Will Get You Nowhere
To Love And To Be Loved
To The Mothers--And Fathers--Of World War 11
To Thine Own Self Be True
The Transforming Power Of Thought
A Tree Of Life
Tribute To May Feifield
Trumpet In Adversity
Turning Obstacles Into Stepping Stones
The Two Great Teachers: Pain And Joy
Two Lands I Love--Or How To Be A Good American
Two Or Three Important Words
The Two Realists
Two Requisites For Happiness
Two Selves In One
The Tyranny Of Things
The Uses Of Adversity

The Various Compartments Of The Mind--And How To Use Them
The Virtues And Dangers Of Escapism

A Way Of Life
We Look Before And After
The Weight Of The Albatross--Some Aspects Of The Human Conscience
What A Piece Of Work Is Man
What Are Our Duties In This World?
What Can God Do For The Business Man?
What Can The Years Teach Us?
What Do Others Think Of You?
What Do You Wish For Most?
What Happens To You After A Disappointment?
What Is America?  And Who Are Americans?
What Is Awaiting Business And The Businessman This Coming Year?
What Is Behind All The Strikes?
What Is Selfishness?
What Is The Meaning Of Man's Travail?
What Is This Psychosomatic Medicine?
What Is Torah?
What It Means To Be A Jewish Scientist
What It Takes To Be A Jew
What Jewish Science Has Planned For You
What Made Our Country Great, What Will Keep It Great?
What Miracles Can God Perform?
What Money Can Buy
What Not To Forget
What Not To Worry About These Days
What One Individual Can Do
What Our Children Can Teach Us
What Our Founder Sought To Do For Us
What Part Of You Is Heredity?  What Part Of You EnvironMEint?
What Personal Honesty Can Do In One's Life
What Shall We Rejoice About?
What The "Fool" Says In His Heart
What The Jew Owes To The Jew, And What He Owes To The Non-Jew
What The San Francisco Conference Can Achieve And What It Cannot
What To Remember And What To Forget
What To Tell Your Friends About Jewish Science
What Will Become Of Our Jewish People?
What You Can Accomplish Through Suggestion
What You Can Do With Words
What You Owe To Society And What Society Owes To You
What's Ahead For This Country?
When And How To Say No!
When Does A Man Stop Growing?
When Half-Gods Go, The Gods Arrive
When Is War Justified?
When They Say "Come, Be Practical" What Do They Mean?
Where Does God Come In?
Which Are Our Inalienable Rights?
Which Of Our Mistakes Can We Correct?
Who Can Stand Before Jealousy?
Who Is God That I So Trust In Him?
Why Be Angry?
Why Do The Wicked Flourish?
Why Does God Require Thankfulness On Our Part?
Why Does Pride Go Before A Fall?
Will You Keep Them This Year?--How To Make Good On Your Resolves
Wine In The Succah
Wishes, Dreams, And Prayer
A World Bereft
Worry Is A Liar

You And Your Nerves--Which Is "Boss"?
You Are What You Read
You Can Face Any Crisis
You Can Get What You Go After
You Can Live Without Anxieties
You Haven't The Time For Resentment
You Live And Learn.  Knowledge That Books Cannot Give You
Your Best Friend And Severest Critic
Your Harvest Of Health And Happiness--How To Gather It In
Your Imagination--Is It Your Master Or Your Servant?
Your Manners Are Revealing
Youth And Age, Can They Live Together?


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SERIES B. MISCELLANEOUS

Subseries 1.  Tehilla Lichtenstein

10      1               Correspondence, 1947-1962
        2               Jewish Science

Subseries 2.  Morris Lichtenstein

        3               Lecture on Psychology, n.d.
        4               Notes on Psychiatric disorders, N.D.
        5               Sermons, 1927-1938
        6               "Hearken My Son" (essay)
        7               "Hearken My Son" (fragments)
        8               Fire in Treskin (novel)

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