I  was born  in  Haifa,  Israel,  and  moved  at  the  age of  three  to  New  York City  when my family immigrated to  the  United  States.  I grew up in a reformed Jewish home, observing the Jewish Feasts occasionally, but not faithfully. Through my encounter with a friend from Waco, Texas, I began to read the Bible and attend church services.  I came to understand that the Bible consisted of the Old Testament—a picture book prophesying and foreshadowing a Jewish Messiah.  I also came to understand that during Old Testament times, God’s people would come to the tabernacle area with a spotless, pure sacrifice onto which the sins of the individual making the sacrifice would be symbolically placed.  The people met with a priest because individuals could not atone for sins and have fellowship with God directly.  These sacrifices were repeatedly made to atone for sin, and restore the one making the sacrifice into right fellowship with God—until the next sin.  It was never-ending.

I read how God longed for all people to humble themselves and confess their sin, and come back to Him through the required and appropriate sacrifices.  And that God, throughout the Old Testament, was planning to introduce a better and final sacrifice.  The Jews knew this person of promise as Messiah.         

I  came  to  realize  that  whoever  eventually  came  claiming  to  be  the foreshadowed Messiah would have to be right one hundred percent in regard to all Old Testament prophecy.  I was fascinated with the prophetic descriptions of where the Messiah would be born, live, and how and why He would have to die. So, after reading the Bible and New Testament all day,  every  day,  for  about  three  weeks,  I  made  a  monumental  decision  to  embrace  the  New Testament’s  teaching  concerning  the Gospel—Jesus  Christ  died  as  a  substitute for  my  sins and rose  from  the  dead  on  the  third  day.  My  eyes  were  finally  opened—Jesus  Christ  was  the fulfillment of  all of  the Old  Testament prophesies and  all things Jewish.  I concluded that Jesus Christ was who He said He was— God—the Messiah.