He came to us Shabbat.  A kind man.  A sad man.  A discouraged man. 

What could we do?  Give him money?  

That's only a temporary fix for any problem.  

Speak encouraging words to him?  Another temporary fix.  

We have been where he was ourselves. 

No self-help measures, psychotherapeutic methods, educational programs, environmental changes or resolutions to improve would give our visitor a lasting change.  

We knew we could share our Father with him. 

 We know we have a father to turn to when we are in trouble.  

He's not like our fathers here on earth that love us, but have problems of their own, but he is our Father, G-d. 

But how could our visitor have that same relationship?   

How does one become a child of a certain father?  

The child is given life by that father.

But our visitor was a grown man. 

Adoption maybe, but still he wouldn't have our heavenly Father's attributes. 

 It had to be a rebirth. 

The concept itself is Jewish.

In the Talmud, Yevamot 62a, Shim‘on Ben-Lakish said, "a proselyte is like a newborn infant". 

The idea resembles that of the "new creation", which is found in rabbinic literature in Genesis Rabbah 39:11. 

The Brit Chadasha that tells us that what is born from the flesh is flesh, and what is born from the Spirit is spirit.

I knew this man needed to be reborn from above by the Holy Spirit of the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 

He had to be born from above and that was his only chance for a real, absolute change. 

"The first man Adam, was from the earth, made of dust; the second man, Yeshua, the Moshiach was sent from our Father in heaven. 

People born of dust are like the man of dust, and people born from heaven are like Moshiach, Yeshua. 

Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, so also I knew our visitor could bear the image of the Moshiach from heaven. 

Flesh and blood cannot share in the Kingdom of God, nor can something that decays share in what does not decay.  

Rabbi Sha’ul wrote, "If anyone is united with the Moshiach, he is a new creation—the old has passed; what has come is fresh and new! " 

 I knew our visitor needed to accept the shed blood of our Moshiach, Yeshua as his atonement for sin and he needed to be united to our Moshiach to become a new creation, a fresh. new creation.  

He made a decision to receive his forgiveness, to become united with Yeshua and to become reborn from our Father, the G-d of Israel. 

Maybe you need to make that decision right now yourself. 

You too can receive  the Holy Spirit's supernatural power to have more love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, humility, self control.  Nothing in the Torah stands against such things. 

Isn't it time you asked the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob if Yeshua is the Moshiach of Israel?