My own response to a Questionnaire from a
student to me for College essay on Messianism

    Wellsprings of Torah is a community of souls, and there is a real sense of family among us. This is because our lives are interwoven with each other through the practice of Torah. And if you want to know the experience of others, as your questionnaire appears to lead, you also have to know the feelings that empower their days. To do that, you should attend a series of our Shabbat services, because my answers to your questions will never reveal the truth of our emotions. And that truth is revealed in the actions of brotherly compassion among ourselves, and our communal devotion to Yeshua our Messiah.

    There is no way to know us academically. You can’t look at us from the outside and know anything about the inside. To watch from the outside is like studying a bug’s life from a science book or laboratory. The book can only report data, and even in the laboratory, you might be able to watch them move, but you can’t watch every move. And you might watch them eat and work, but you wonder if they think and feel. You wonder if they are conscious of their purpose. And until you have assimilated into the bug’s domain, you never have a clue.

    Therefore Moshe (Moses) invited the people up to Mount Sinai. He said, "Come and see the wondrous presence of Hashem (the Name of God)". But the people had "seen the thundering, and heard the lightning," and they said, "No, if we go there we would die." So they entreated Moshe to go and return alone, and to later tell them about everything he experienced. And they said, "We will do what you tell us, and we will hear what Hashem says."

    They did not want to become a "Moshe bug", but they knew they still had to have a "bug" experience. So they "did", by acting out the Laws of Hashem, and that acting out produced a secondary voice among them ... by "doing" they heard the residual echo of Hashem’s voice. And their "doing" was the observance and performance of the Mitzoth (commandments) of Torah.

    So, give thought to participating with us, and thereby hearing the late echoes of Hashem’s voice.

1)   At what age did you become a Christian?

    I was 19, and the year was 1970, in late November, a little before Thanksgiving Day. I was alone in my apartment. I turned out the lights, prostrated myself on the floor, and I prayed ... "God who is God, I am a wicked person. If you have decided that I should serve you, and also serve Jesus in your honor, then you must reveal yourself to me." That night I had a dream, and in the dream, all I did was laugh. When I awoke I heard utterances and words, saying, "Today you are like Abraham."

2)   How did you come to know the Messiah?

    I had been attending a college, and there were "Jesus Freaks" witnessing and teaching on the campus grounds. It happened every day, and eventually I tried to get close to them in order to understand what they were doing, and also discover what they really were.

3)   What were the major influences in your conversion? (people, scripture)

    I did not like what they said or taught, but I did like their friendships with each other. I wanted to experience that friendship, and as I did, I realized that Jesus (whom I now call Yeshua) was the power of their affection and brotherly love.

4)   How does your Jewish upbringing affect your understanding of:

    This is where I surprise most people that are only looking at how I behave today. I am not a Jew. I am a Gentile, and my father and mother were bigots that hated Blacks, Indians and Jews. But those bigotries never made any sense to me, and the "Hippie" culture of the 60’s and 70’s provided a mechanism for escaping the influence of their beliefs.

    When I accepted Yeshua (though I called him Jesus at that time), I knew that he was a Jew, and I also knew that the Gospel, preached by these "Jesus Freaks," was the testimony and message of the Jewish God. So when I entered into Christianity I expected to encounter Jewishness, but I had no clue what Jewishness actually was. My only resource to Jewishness was the Bible itself.

    That is where 20 years of Christianity became 2 decades of spiritual frustration. The Church was not acting out the Bible. They did not observe Shabbat, nor did they revere the Festivals, and they only practiced those instructions of Torah that were convenient for them. And the worst part was that they thought Torah was disposed with, and that the Jewish people were also disposed with.

    So after 20 years I decided to learn Hebrew and practice Judaism in order to more fully comprehend the Gospel and the Way of Yeshua ... as a Jewish Way. For 14 years I worshipped with a small group of orthodox Jews called the Lubavitchers. And when I did, the Holy Spirit told me, "Watch how they love each other, and mimic their love to them." Those were the words of Yeshua to his disciples. He had told them that the Gentiles would come to them, and that they should accept them because the Father was bringing them. So they asked, "How will we know that they have been brought, and have not just wandered in as thieves?" And he said ... "They will have love for each other."

    He was not talking about worldly or Gentile love. He was talking about Jewish love. They would know them because the Ruach Hakodesh (Holy Sprit) would be provoking them to act out the commandments of Torah. And it had taken 20 years for me to get to that spiritual place where Torah had such importance, but I was finally there. And when I loved them as they love each other (with observance of Torah), they easily accepted me as one of them. In fact, occasionally the Synagogue joke to a visiting Rabbi was, "See if you can find the Goy!" And it usually took the whole service (about 5 hours), and sometimes they had to be told, but when they knew -- they also knew that I was a trustworthy soul -- I was a person becoming a Ger Tzedik, a "righteous stranger," which is a person that will adopt their ways.

    But, through the 14 years, I never converted to Judaism. When they inquired I simply responded by saying, "How does a person convert from righteousness to righteousness? There is no conversion involved. You are simply staying what you are." And they always accepted that answer. Of course sometimes they would ask, "When will you be circumcised?" And then I would ask them, "How old was Avrahom (Abraham) when he was circumcised?" The answer was 99, so I said, "I cannot embarrass the Father of my Faithfulness. I might have to wait until I am 100 years old."

    The truth is that I wasn’t there to convert. I was there to realize. I had to know the world that Yeshua preached in. I had to know the emotions of the Disciples. I had to know what it was that the Apostle Paul was always struggling with. And I had to have what I thought I was surrendering my life to 20 years earlier. I had to have Yeshua and Hashem.

    And in reflection on those 14 years I can candidly say ... there are many Jews whose Jewish experience is only a few years before they Bar Mitzvah. And after they Bar Mitzvah they leave Synagogue and never return. Likewise there are Jews that have remained, but they have never embraced the real elements of Torah ... they haven’t learned Hebrew, they don’t maintain a Kosher diet, and Synagogue is more of a Social Club than a Holy Place. And in that perspective, I can honestly say that I have a very strong Jewish orientation in comparison to many.

    Due to those 14 years, I think like a Jew, I have reactions like a Jew, I worship like a Jew, and I live my secular life like a Jew. But those facts and behaviors do not make me a Jew. What they are evidence of is the Ruach Hakodesh within me, crying out, "Abba, Abba ... Father, Father" to the true God that redeemed Avrahom (Abraham) and built the Jewish nation. With that nation I have become a member through adoption by the Father, and I have been grafted into them (as a wild branch is grafted to a domestic vine), and I do not act like the wild branch that I was before. And if I separate from them and their ways, I will not be attached to the Father any more.

    That is the extent of my Jewish upbringing. I am simply a stranger that entered in among them and stayed long enough to adopt their ways. Now I can answer your more direct questions.

4a)   ...and the trinity?

    Most of what the Church teaches as Trinity is neither Biblical nor Jewish. It is, instead, a conjecture of Christian Mysticism. But I am not saying that to dismiss the Trinity concept altogether. It is clear from the Gospels and Epistles that we submit to three entities that are the corporeal authority of God -- being the Father, Messiah and Spirit. Also, these three have a oneness that is unparalleled among men, and is greater than even the oneness of a husband and wife. Moreover, Yeshua earnestly desired that all believers would likewise possess this oneness with Himself, the Father and Spirit.

    This latter possibility of there being a unity between us and them (ourselves with the Father, Messiah and Spirit) is where I have problems with what many people espouse as Trinity Doctrines. If I were to claim that the Messiah is the Father, then I would also have to claim that I am the Father as well, because Yeshua said (John 17:21-23), we ... "would be one, just as they are one." And when I hear that -- I know -- that I have to be the creature, and the Father must be the Creator, and the Messiah and Spirit are servants to the Father in our behalf -- or -- nothing is going to happen as it has been planned!

    Nevertheless, Judaism is not without its own inferences to this peculiar unity structure, and Jewish Mysticism does have a direct parallel to the Trinity belief. It is called Kabbalah, and it describes the actions of God as being 10 Seferot (Words), with 3 of them being the dominant authorities over everything, and having preceded everything. Two of the Three emerge from the One, with the One being highest, and the other Seven descend from either the Two or each other, and cascade like the six days of creation unto the seventh (being our world). And all of these 10, the 7 with those 3 of the highest order, are all one -- and there is no real separation between them. But our own intelligence can only comprehend separations, therefore, their true unity is always invisible to us. So we see 10, and they are the actions of God, but God (who is blessed above everything) is always One.

    That is Kabbalah in contrast to Trinitarianism, and it is a little more complicated than the Trinity "Three in One" idea, yet both are promoting the Oneness of elite partners. But I do not base my faith upon any mysticisms. I base my faithfulness upon Torah. God is indeed mystical, and these teachings might explain the unseen, but God has asked me to respond to what is seen, and he does not measure my faith by my knowledge of the unseen. And the Ruach Hakodesh, who is always unseen, empowers and equips me for the performance of Torah and nothing else. So Trinity and Seferot do not come into the Gospel formula for me. I expect they are there, but I pursue the Face of Adonoi, whom those unseen powers are attempting to expose for me -- and they are not trying to reveal themselves.

4b)   ...and communion?

    Communion is Pesach (Passover). Bread and wine after our worship service is Kiddish (separations). As a separation it is the breaking away point from the more structured worship session. Kiddish then, becomes a time of fellowship and family joy.

    But Communion is the memorial of Israel’s release from slavery, and Yeshua’s last moments of life. He died in the last hours of Pesach, and the merit of his life has released us from our sins. Indeed, the merit of his life has also raised him from the dead, and his resurrection is a testimony to us that he will raise us from the dead as well.

    But we do not do Communion once a month or every week. We do Kiddish every Shabbat, and we do Pesach (Communion and Passover) once a year, and Pesach is a long dinner from twilight to midnight. It begins at twilight because that is when a Jewish day begins. It lasts to midnight because that is when the First-born of Egypt were slain by the Pesach Destroyer.

4c)   ...and Easter?

    Again, Easter is supposed to be Pesach (Passover). On Pesach you do not eat Honeyed Ham (says Sam I am), nor do you paint and hide eggs, nor chase fluffy bunnies; nor do you dress up in your stuffiest clothing, and most importantly, you do not wallow in your Messiah’s death blood. All of that is Goyish (Gentile contrivances).

    Pesach is the recollection of Avrahom and Moshe. It is the acting out of being released from a hundred years of slavery. It is the realization that Hashem saved a nation, and that he gave them the Torah as a tool for surviving afterward. We realize that this nation has birthed the Messiah for us, and that we are told how he went to Jerusalem three times during his ministry of three years. But we must understand that he had gone to Jerusalem every year before then, and that he yearned to see the fullness of Pesach for all mankind.

    Yeshua saw that day -- the appointed Day of Adonoi. And you and I believe and trust in Yeshua today, 2000 years later, due to the faithfulness of Yeshua and the power of his testimony. And very literally, as Isaiah had prophesied, the Messiah’s struggling for observance, even in the suffering and abuse of his death, has been merit enough to cleanse the nations.

4d)   ...and Yom Kippur?

    We observe all of the Festival Days of Torah, and we also observe the secondary Holy Days of Israel such as Hanukah and Purim. The first are the appointed Festivals by God, and the second are the realized days of God’s deliverances to the Jewish people. They are thereby the contact days of God with his people.

    When you enter a friend’s house, you do the things your friend wants you to do. If you do different things, your friend might tell you to just go home. I have entered the House of God, and the Appointed Festivals are the things that are done in his house. Yom Kippur is one of them.

    Hashem has a message for us in every Festival, and Shabbat is one of the Festivals. But the message of Yom Kippur is that you go to the Temple of Hashem and humble yourself before Adonoi. It is arrogant to do anything else. It is arrogant to stay home, and it is arrogant to be ambivalent. Humility is an act of subjection. You submit to Adonoi, and you humble yourself with fasting. Fasting (without food and water) is a self-denial of your most important right and need as a living creature. And in that condition of complete "undoneness", Hashem wants to meet you -- the real you.

    Yom Kippur is that kind of a day, and Yeshua and the Ruach have equipped you for that encounter. If you will humble yourself, Adonoi promises to "cover" (Kippur) your sins. And the covering occurs just 5 days before Succoth (Tabernacles), where we all realize our brotherhood.

4e)   ...and denominations?

    Denominations, as is Messianism itself, are the unfortunate symptoms of being separated from the Jewish people. Today, I feel that my Messianism is a deliberate struggle to reconnect with God’s people and his instructions to those people. But the Church, at large, has deliberately divorced themselves from the very elements I want to pursue. They want to be free from a Body of Law (the Torah) which they have never subjected themselves to at all -- so how can you be freed from something you have never been bound to at all? The Gentile nations have not had Torah, and they have not been told the righteousness of God. Therefore their separations among themselves by denominations are only further separations from something they have never had -- and that is not freedom.

    As Messianics, we have all evolved out of these denominational environments, or we have come from no environment at all, but we realize there actually is something to attach ourselves to, and our freedom is to subject ourselves to this voice of God and Torah. We have been freed from our sin, and leaving sin (as the Jews had left Egypt), we are choosing Torah and Yeshua the Messiah.

5)   What was your childhood like?

    Now you are getting personal. But I don’t mind saying that it was lousy. I was a lousy person among lousy people, and there was no lousy hope for me or them, yet God loved me in my lousiness -- and he prepared a way for my escape from utter lousiness and despair. And though I was freed from that worldliness, there was still an education that was necessary.

    Have you ever considered what the lives of the Jews were like in Egypt? How they had no property or personal rights? How they were forced to do slave labor, and how they were abused? Were their daughters raped? Were their children molested? Were any murdered because they were sick or did not work hard enough? The answer is, Yes, and Moshe (Moses) had to watch it all. Do you think he did not feel anger? Do you think he did not have a deep sense of guilt? But what did he do? He murdered an Egyptian guard that he saw beating two Hebrews. What did the two Hebrews do? In order to protect themselves, they cursed Moshe and reported him to the Egyptians. What did Moshe do? He ran. He is 40 years old, he has lost everything, and he ran into the wilderness. He ran, and how did he feel? Whatever he felt, he felt that way for another 40 years, until he is 80, when God says to him, "Return to Egypt and to your people who are still suffering."

    We are talking about lousy lives. Very lousy. And what was Hashem’s answer for these lives -- it was the Torah. What did the Torah do? It allowed Israel to survive until the appointed time -- the appointed Pesach of Yeshua. My childhood could not produce anything that was right or good, but God has provided something that is both. Should any of us ignore so great a salvation?

6)   How did you practice your Judaism?

    Our practice is the written orthodoxy of Torah with subjection to Yeshua. We carefully observe Torah statutes, but we do not maintain all of the oral statutes of Rabbinical orthodoxy. We value their Oral Traditions because they are the expressions of persons who value Torah and God, but we also realize that our personal lives must contain our own sincere expressions as well. So we are open to adopting Oral Law, but we are only bound by Written Law, and that written Law must be interpreted into our real world. Additionally, this latter interpretation can only be effective in a community. The Oral Traditions are the product of Jewish communities, and the development of our own Torah community is the only sure foundation for understanding written Torah. And Yeshua has charged us, by saying, "Your traditions must not nullify Torah."

7)   How did the Old Testament (and prophecies) affect your becoming a Christian and your understanding of the New Testament?

    Torah is the original revelation from God. It is the seed and trunk of a vine. The histories and prophets are the branches from that trunk, and the Messiah and Gospels are the foliage and flower of the whole tree. Therefore, the Epistles are the fruits produced from that body, and the Church and all who believe in Yeshua (Jesus) are the new plantings that emerge from the seed of that fruit.

    That is why Torah is so important to us. If the branches and their fruit will not remain attached to the trunk, they will no longer be part of the vine. And Yeshua has told us that he is that trunk of Torah, and that the Prophets have testified of that trunk and himself.

8)   Which prophecy has been the most important to you in your Christian walk?

    On the eight day of the Succoth (Feast of Tabernacles) celebrations, Yeshua cried out with a loud voice, (John 7:37-38), "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Torah has said, streams of living water will flow from within him."

    This is the prophecy of Isaiah 44:3 and 58:11, "'For I will pour out water on the thirsty land And streams on the dry ground; I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring And My blessing on your descendants;" ... "And the LORD will continually guide you, And satisfy your desire in scorched places, And give strength to your bones; And you will be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water whose waters do not fail."

    These waters are called Mayanoth Khaim -- Wellsprings of Life. And this is why we have named our congregation, Wellsprings of Torah -- the streams of living water that Yeshua provides.

9)   How did the Torah affect your understanding of the New Testament and your Christianity?

    Profoundly. Before I became familiar with Torah, which was a time span of 20 years, I interpreted the Prophets, Gospels and Epistles in reference to my imaginations and modern culture. Therefore all of my knowledge was self centered and erroneous. Torah is the Voice of God, and when the Gospel of John testifies that Yeshua is the Word of God, he is publicly accepting Yeshua as the Soul of Torah.

10)   How has your becoming a Christian affected your relationships with your family and Jewish friends?

    Obviously this question does not really apply to me. But I do have my social conflicts. My faith started as a Jesus Freak, and that was still removed from classic Christianity. But with time I journeyed through the major denominations. I was Charismatic, Baptist, Presbyterian, Evangelical and lastly Episcopalian. The Jewish Orthodoxy was something I interlaced while I was still among some of the Christian denominations. But now, with being totally Messianic ... my personal family, being Gentiles, do not have a clue to why I am as I am. The Jews, not being Gentiles, also do not have a clue. And lastly, I am not so sure I have a clue either, but life is a journey that you don’t want to complete. If you complete it, you may know what the clue always was, but you don’t get to enjoy it anymore.

11)   How did your family and friends react?

    Mainstream Christians are usually afraid of Messianism. The same, Jews are afraid of Messianism. But there are believers out there who are wanting what only Messianism can provide. What we provide is the missing link between Torah and Yeshua, and Yeshua is what Torah produced.

12)   Have you been able to witness to any of them?

    When in Shul (Synagogue) I was allowed many opportunities to testify of Yeshua. I say many, but that is across 14 years, and they are many in comparison to all my other years, but they were few to how many days I was actually among them. But testimony is actually more than a word exchange. Testimony, in truth, is a life behavior. It goes back to "loving others as they love". When you demonstrate something valid, an occasional verbal testimony is more acceptable, and they may not accept your words, but they will probably accept your values.

13)   How is your witnessing effective and what is their biggest resistance?

    The biggest obstacle to a testimony is to have a lack of fidelity and commitment. If you preach Yeshua and do not do Torah, the Jews wonder what your point is. Yet if you do Torah and preach Yeshua, Christians wonder what your point is. But also, if you do Torah and preach Yeshua, Jews think you are a "wolf in sheep's clothing", ie. "a Goy in a Tallith". But I have lived the 20 years (before I became Messianic) without the clothing, and I can tell you that was simply being naked. Now I am clothed, and the clothing is my equipment, and I am committed to learning how to make it work. And the reason I am committed is because it is the only clothing that is prescribed by Hashem. Everything else is just fashion flurries.

14)   What questions and doubts do you still have about Christianity stemming from your Jewish upbringing?

    Again, I wish this question actually applied to me. But Messianism, as an expression of both Christianity and Judaism, is not about Jews or Gentiles. It is about people and God. Messianism actually began in Antioch (as told in the Book of Acts), where Gentiles were becoming believers in Yeshua. We are told that "they were called Christians in Antioch first." But the word for Christian was Mishichiyim, which is a contraction of the word Moshiach, which means Messiah in the Hebrew. So they were being called Messiah People (or Messianics) in Antioch, first, and they were Gentiles that were adopting the faith of their Jewish refugees.

    At that time, that also meant the Mishichiyim were becoming Jews, or at least very much like the Jews. Nevertheless, their Jewishness was within the context of the Gospel and the Framework of the Disciples who were preaching Yeshua. Moreover, the Disciples were at that time deeply immersed in Torah and very faithful. They were Kosher, they observed Shabbat, and they maintained the Miztot (laws) of Moshe. And things remained that way until the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed 40 years later. Yet, even at that latter time, their beliefs were only modified by what they could no longer do -- because the Temple and Land was gone.

    So my problem with Christianity is not what the Gospels and Epistles present, but what it became about 300 years later. Christianity, under the influence of Rome, divorced itself from all Judaism. They changed the Sabbath, they rejected the Festivals, they created new Holidays, and they only kept those Torah commandments that would serve their private agenda.

    And what became one of their agenda needs? Past the first 300 years, and around the year 1000 AD, the Church organized Crusades that murdered Jews from England, Spain and France, and all the way to Jerusalem. And once in Jerusalem, they turned the ruins of the Temple into a literal garbage dump. They heaped trash upon the fallen stones of the Mikdash (Temple), and burned their personal rubbish and waste on that Holy site. So it is very difficult for me (if not impossible) to have any respect or trust in them (or in anything that the Christianity of those years produced).

    But since they did not know Torah, yet practiced the ways of Qayin (Cain) and Bilom (Balaam), they also had no understanding of the following ... "You shall not lift my Name in vanity." In the Hebrew it says, "You shall not raise my Name with Shoa ... meaning, Destruction." So I ask you, "What is the name of the Destroyer of Pesach (Passover)?" Is his name Crusade and Pogrom and Inquisition and Holocaust? To the Jew, and you must realize this, to the Jew the Destroyer’s name is "Christian."

15)   Do you attend church? If so, what denomination?

    Today, I am Messianic and only Messianic, and my fellowship is with everyone that will have Shalom, and say, Baruch Haba Bishem Adonoi ... "Blessed is the one that approaches in the Name of the Lord" ... and does not raise the Holy Name beside acts of Shoa, "Destruction".

16)   How did you choose the church you attend?

    The above being said, I would like to answer this question in reference to the Church that is currently housing our Congregation. I chose them because they were willing to choose us. They heard our appeal for housing, and they were willing to open their facilities for our use.

    They are the "Amazing Grace Lutheran Church" in Waxhaw, NC. Being Lutherans, they actually have a bad history with the Jews. Their denominational founder, Reverend Martin Luther, publicly slandered the Jews, incited mobs against them, and advocated their expulsions from Christian communities. But that is a history that was quickly diminished in the modern world. And today there aren’t many that are even aware of it. Nevertheless, about a decade ago, the Lutheran Church as a Holy Organization, published those sins in all the Newspapers of America and asked forgiveness for their historical trespasses to the Jews.

    They didn’t have to do that. That was generations ago, and they are nothing like that today. But today, they have done what all the generations before them had not done. Again, that is why I accepted their choice of us ... Wellsprings of Torah, a Messianic Congregation that embraces the Jewishness of the Gospel testimony that brings us our salvation.

17)   How does the teaching of the Old Testament in your church compare to the teaching in the synagogue?

    Again, my Church is "Wellsprings of Torah", a Messianic Congregation, and both our teachings and liturgies of Service are modeled after Synagogue practice. We think Yeshua has a comfortable seat among us, and that our manner of worship is an honorable legacy.

18)   What does Jesus really mean to you?

    Let me quote former President Jimmy Carter, "Jesus means everything to me." It's just that I prefer to call him by his proper Hebrew name, Yeshua.

19)   Why do you believe that Jesus is the Jewish Messiah?

    This one is simple. Because the Gentiles, with all their foibles, have gathered to him. We may not have gathered perfectly, but we have not gathered to any other. One of the earliest prophecies of the Messiah is found in Genesis 49:10, "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples."

    The "scepter" is the symbol of authority, and it will remain in Judah’s province until Shiloh (the satisfier) shall come. Shiloh is the first prophetic name of the Messiah. He shall satisfy the Father, and bring consolation to many ... "and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples." The word for "obedience" is Yiqahat, and it more literally means "gathering". The peoples will gather (be obedient) to Shiloh, the Messiah.

    Again, the Gentiles have gathered, and they have done so for 2000 years. Admittedly, some of the gathering has been perverse and without honor to Hashem, but the Mitzvah of gathering has never waned. And only the Messiah can provoke such faithfulness from those who were originally unfaithful in all their ways.

    Yet the true reason I believe is because the Ruach (Holy Spirit) came to me and allowed me to sense the presence of Yeshua within the world. Then I believed that God did actually exist, and I believed that this God had loved me and sent to me the Messiah as my hope and redeemer.

20)   What resistance did you have to the idea of Jesus as Messiah?

    My only resistance was my sin. My sin kept me from believing in God, and my sin kept me from having any hope in the Messiah. Consequently, I blamed others. I blamed Christianity, and all religion, for what I perceived as falsehoods and vanity. But the real falsehood was in myself. I did not love God. For if I had loved God, I would not have cared that everyone else was failing in their love for God.

    And that is what the Ruach (Holy Spirit) does for a person. The Ruach equips you to operate in spite of the misbehavior of others, and it allows you to overcome your own pitfalls.

    And by the Ruach, I was able to trust in Yeshua without requiring the additional trust of men. And again by the Ruach, I can become the servant of Adonoi, and I can become the help of others who are also overwhelmed by their own deceptions caused by sin. This is the action of the Gospel, and this why Yeshua was born to our world ... to produce this kind of salvation for everyone that will "gather to him" as the Shiloh (Satisfier), prophesied in Genesis 49:10.

    Baruch Hashem.