Yom-Tov Lipmann ben Solomon Muhlhausen (Hebrew: יום טוב ליפמן מילהאוזן) was a controversial Talmudist, kabalist and philosopher of the 14th and 15th centuries (birth date unknown, died later than 1420).
[1] There are also responsa addressed to him by Jacob ben Moses Mölln,[2] and Israel Isserlein mentions him[3] as one of five scholars who met at Erfurt.
Lipmann was ordered to justify himself, but while he brilliantly refuted Peter's accusations, as a result of the charges seventy-seven Jews were martyred on 22 August 1400, and three more, by fire, on 11 September 1400.
He constantly quotes Maimonides, Abraham ibn Ezra, Nahmanides, Saadia, Rashi, Shemariah of Negropont, and other ancient scholars.
Lipmann must have written Sefer HaNitzachon before 1410, for he expressed a hope that the Messiah would arrive in that year[12] The work was the first to recount a Christian response to the ritual of Elijah's chair.
[14][15] Johann Christoph Wagenseil published, at the end of his Sota (Altdorf-Nuremberg, 1674), corrections of Hackspan's edition under the title of Correctiones Lipmannianæ.
(Tübingen, 1629); Stephen Gerlow, Disputatio Contra Lipmanni Nizzachon (Königsberg, 1647); Christian Schotan, Anti-Lipmanniana (Franeker, 1659), giving also the Hebrew text of Sefer HaNitzachon.
Informally, Anti-Lipmanniana came to be used also as an overall term for the entire corpus of Christian writings debating with and seeking to refute Lipmann's arguments.