About 1995, Ruti had an impression while reading the Scriptures that she would one day be making priestly or biblical garments and that I, as well as others, would be wearing them. In spite of many years of thinking that I never would, on Oct. 9th, 2006, the first day of Sukote (the Feast of Tabernacles), I began wearing biblical garments as my everyday clothes. It’s amazing what a wife’s prayer will do : ) It’s been a long process but now it just feels so right for me.

What kind of biblical clothes? If you look at most any ‘Jesus’ movie you’ll have an idea. Wherever I go now I attract attention. I’m not wearing the clothes to attract attention. It’s not a gimmick to draw attention to me but the fact is that it’s an asset to evangelism. Enosh is a case in point. On Thursday, Oct. 26th, 2006, Ruti and I were walking in the street and as Enosh walked by us, he asked why I wore the clothes. We stopped and I told him it was so the tzit-tziot (tassels of Num. 15:37-41), could be part of the clothes, like the ancient Hebrews wore. It’s also for modesty as it isn’t tight fitting and revealing as western clothes are. And that we were led of Messiah to dress this way (shades of Hudson Taylor; Glory to God!).

As I shared that we were Jews who believed in Yeshua as the Messiah, he said that he thought Yeshua was a prophet but that there were things that contradicted itself in the Bible. I told him that I could probably explain many of the seemingly contradictory things to him and that there probably would be some that I couldn’t but the reason for our meeting was so he could come to know the Lord of Life. I told him it was his day to hear from a living witness that Yeshua was our Messiah. Enosh was about 28 years old and into humanism and New Age, not an uncommon thing in Israel.

I shared a little of my testimony and told him that Yeshua is Life. He just doesn’t give Life to us but He who is Life comes to dwell in us (1st Jn. 1:1-3). As I spoke I gently placed my hands on his front shoulders and ran them down his side to emphasize my point and to allow the Holy Spirit to minister to him.

I told him of the sacrificial system and how it pointed to the Messiah as our sacrifice via Isaiah 53. And how Rashi re-interpreted Is. 53 to mean that the Servant of Yahveh spoken of there was Israel but that most of the ancient Jewish authorities spoke of the Servant as being our Messiah. I showed him my card with the Scriptures and Jewish authorities backing that up so he could look them up for himself.

Enosh listened intently as I spoke of how the Messiah had to come before the Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D. He was interested in that and in Life. He commented on my strong faith and I told him that it was due to knowing Messiah Yeshua, not just mentally believing in Him, and that he could come to know Him also. I continued to share about the Life that Yeshua wanted to bring him, telling him that Yeshua’s death and resurrection meant Life for him now with the knowledge of God through the Holy Spirit, and eternal life after Judgment Day.

A beggar came up to us and asked for money. A professional beggar. I asked him, ‘Do you want money or Life?’ And he said, ‘Life’ so I told him to listen to my words. He fidgeted and left after 30 seconds.

As we stood there on the sidewalk, many Israelis passed us by, each looking to see who this man dressed as Moses or Elijah was, and what he was speaking about. There was no mistaking that it was something important. Some religious Jews walked by quickly, looked and kept on walking across the street. They stopped, turned around and began to whisper among themselves. Ruti would later recount to me that it reminded her of what the Pharisees must have done as Yeshua taught, taking up their place some distance from Him and eye-balling Him up and down. I had momentarily seen them across the street but paid them no attention as I was concentrating on Enosh.

We must have been standing on the sidewalk with Enosh for half an hour. It was the Lord. He’s looking for God in all the wrong places but now he’s got a living witness of Messiah Yeshua. Immediately after we parted, Ruti and I prayed for him and against the spirits of darkness and deception that bound him. We also asked the Holy Spirit to minister to him and draw him to his Messiah.

On Wednesday, Oct. 25th, we spoke of Messiah Yeshua to Rotem. She was only 20 years old but already enslaved to the lusts of this world. Ruti and I told her about Messiah and her heart yearned for Him. She had never heard anything like that before and we could see that the Holy Spirit was making an impact on her. But we could also see that she was allowing her carnal nature to decide for her.

After sharing some of our testimony with her and some of the Scriptures in the Tanach relating to Messiah, Ruti sensed the Lord leading her to speak of death, and that we didn’t know the day of our departure. Rotem told us that she had a friend that was killed in a car accident a couple of years ago and Ruti shared about her sister dying the same way in 1973 when Ruti was twenty and her sister seventeen. Ruti spoke of how it led her to the brink of devastation but that God in His mercy brought her to His Son, Yeshua. She found Life, Joy, Love and eternity in Him. God Himself had loved her and she wanted Rotem to know Him too.

On Monday, Oct. 23rd, Shalom (his name means, ‘peace’), a waiter in a restaurant, heard about his Messiah for about 20 minutes. He was able to stand by the table as there wasn’t anyone in the place except for Ruti and me. He stood there because he was interested. He could have easily excused himself. Shalom was about 27 years old and heavily into New Age (Rainbow Connection, spirits, etc.). He’d heard of Jesus before and read the New Testament and told us basically that Jesus wasn’t for him. But I told him that he’d never heard about Yeshua from us. He realized the implication, that God might be doing something special for him ‘today’ and accepted it. I spoke of many things to him and ended by saying that Yeshua wanted to give Shalom, true Shalom : ) He liked that. We gave him the prophecy card and also Acts 2-4. The biblical clothes were making an impact on people.

I wanted Israelis to see not only Acts 2, where forgiveness of sins and the Holy Spirit came in the Name of Yeshua, but also Acts 3 where Peter and John heal the man born lame. And also Acts 4, where the Jewish authorities told them never to speak ‘in that Name’ again, but Peter told them that they were to decide if obeying the Sanhedrin was more important than obeying God. But Peter was still going to preach in that Name.

Peter, who was deathly afraid of this Sanhedrin on the night of Yeshua’s betrayal, stood up to the highest authority in the Land that condemned Yeshua to death and told them that Yeshua was the Messiah.

I wrote up Acts 2-4 in Hebrew on my computer, copying it from a Hebrew New Covenant. I’ve made it so it’s on a single sheet of paper, front and back. It’s very convenient to carry a number of them and hand them out to Israelis.

On Sunday, Oct. 22nd, Avner (his name means, Father is Light), a 40 year old Tel Aviv taxi driver, listened and interacted with me for about 20 minutes concerning Yeshua being Messiah. He spoke of the Orthodox in Bnai Barak (a city not far from here made up of very ‘religious’ Jews), not believing in Yeshua. But I told him that they don’t know everything. He acknowledged that and smiled.

I said that God knew we Jews would reject the Messiah as a nation. King David, a thousand years before Messiah Yeshua came, wrote that the Builders of Israel (which the Rabbis proudly tell us they are, teaching Israel the ways of God), would reject the Stone (the Messiah), but God would make it the Cornerstone of our salvation (Ps. 118:22). I also told him that Isaiah prophesied of Messiah dying for our sins (Is. 53:4-5), and how Yeshua did exactly that.

Thank you for your prayers for Enosh, Rotem, Shalom and Avner, that Yeshua would take away all the obstacles that kept them away from Him and that He would draw them to Himself and fill them with Joy Unspeakable. Thank you!