DEFEATING DEPRESSION PART 2
Depression- from Webster’s New Unabridged Dictionary
Low spirits, gloominess, dejection, sadness, a decrease in force, activity, amount, and a decrease in functional activity. An emotional condition either normal or pathological characterized by discouragement, a feeling of inadequacy, the act of humbling abasement as a depression of pride. Abasement, reduction, sinking, fall, humiliation, dejection, melancholy
FEAR AND DEPRESSION
“For God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind” 2 Timothy 1:7
Shabbat Shalom dearly beloved:
As I write this series on Defeating Depression, I am basing my approach on the assumption that Elohim-God is the Creator of Man and therefore His Word has the final say about His creation. The Bible or the Word of God as manifested through The Hebrew Holy Scriptures known as TANACH or by some as the “Old Covenant” and through The Apostolic Writings or also called the New Covenant, is the Manufacturer’s Manual of Instruction. It contains all the information for man’s right functioning and wellbeing. In the same way that if we violate the instructions given in the manual of any expensive machine, we could cause the malfunctioning of that machine and eventually its total breakdown and loss, if we violate God’s instructions it can cause the total breakdown of Man. Man is a much more intricate creation than man made cars and other machines. Man is a unique creation and ONLY the Creator knows all about the Crown of His Creation- ADAM. Fortunately for us He left us the manual of instruction- The Bible.
“He sent His word and healed them and delivered them from their destructions.” Psalms 107:20
I am fully aware that conventional Psychiatry’s approach is different than mine. Psychiatry sees as the root cause of most mental illness a factor called “chemical imbalance”. I see “chemical imbalance” not as root cause per se but as an outcome of a deeper root cause. Psychiatry would prescribe medication to solve the situation and I see medication as a possible “life boat” when people do not respond to reason, prayer and spiritual treatment. But even so it needs to be followed by a retraining of the mind that would prevent such occurrences in the future. I see a mind transformation as the KEY for most if not all mental diseases.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Romans 12:2
Fear and all its derivatives such as stress and anxiety are one of the major causes for depression.
“Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, but a good word makes it glad” Proverbs 12:25
Fear and all its derivatives causes torment,
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. 1 John 4:18
What is fear?
1. Fear is a demonic spirit that makes people crazy- This is a very tormenting fear based upon tormenting lies inspired by spirits of darkness that plague the mind with “scary scenarios”. This demonic spirit can come in through watching horror movies, involvement in witchcraft activities and especially traumas.
2. Fear is also a “fight or flight” reflex when in danger- this is a normal or even a “healthy fear” that can keep you from trouble, for example it will make you function quickly if a car is about to run you over and thus save your life!
3. The healthy “fight or flight” reaction activates the adrenal gland to secrete a large quantity of adrenalin and in some cases due to trauma, it does not “shut off” and it keeps working over time, thus causing terrible distress and a constant state of ANXIETY. Some times it is triggered by “push buttons” related to the trauma in completely unrelated situations. For example a person that suffered financial collapse might become anxious in subsequent years whenever there is even a minor financial challenge that poses no real danger.
4. Fear is also an emotion that can be caused by a real situation or by demonic spirits. Demonic spirits can work through trauma and past experience in order to create a vicious circle of negative thoughts. The more that the person thinks negatively, the more that the fear and the anxiety grow, thus affecting the chemical balance of the brain and causing a psychiatric disorder termed “Psychosis” which is characterized by terrible dread and by taking things out of proportion, imagining some devastating scenarios that do not exist or even feeling physical discomforts with no evidence of disease at all. Depression can very often be accompanied with symptoms of Psychosis
5. The Fear of God is the healthy spirit, emotion and attitude that heals people from all other unhealthy fears. Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear Yahveh and depart from evil. It will be health to your flesh, And strength to your bones. Proverbs 3:7,8, The fear of Yahveh leads to life, And he who has it will abide in satisfaction; He will not be visited with evil. Proverbs 19:23
HOW TO TREAT DEPRESSION CAUSED BY FEAR?
In order to treat depression that is caused by fear, stress and anxiety there is a need to treat both the external symptoms of anxiety and dread and the root cause of the fear. In many cases people develop a harmful fear and anxiety because they are worried about their daily sustenance-what shall we eat? What shall we wear? How will we pay? What will my future be?
Y’shua warned us about that in Matthew 6:25-34 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
So the best antidote against anxiety is faith and trust in God’s provision, His perfect plan for our future and of course obedience to God and to His commandments- “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness (His right way of doing things) and all these things shall be added unto you.”
Miraculous healings of depression and all mental healing still needs to be followed by a complete program for mind Transformation!
Mind Transformation begins with salvation:
PLEASE PRAY THE FOLLOWING PRAYER
Dear Father in Heaven, I choose to put all my trust in You and in Your Word and Plan for me. Thank you for sending your Son Y’shua the Messiah to take my place as a sinner. Thank you Y’shua for dying for me that I may live! I believe in you and that you rose from the dead on the 3rd day, and I invite you to be my Master, Savior and Healer, please forgive me of all my disobedience and rebellion and teach me to walk with you. Thank you for making me free and whole to serve you all the days of my life. Amen
Congratulations! This is the first step to come out of depression, put your trust in God’s provision of salvation for you, salvation includes healing and deliverance from depression, it is all “in the package”!
Practical Steps to Follow:
1. Build yourself up in faith-Since faith and trust in God’s provision is essential in order to maintain a healthy emotional life it is necessary to build yourself up in faith.
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God Romans 10:17
It is necessary that you constantly hear the Word, which is the truth about God’s faithfulness to provide for you in every way. Begin with making for yourself “Word Prayers” of at least 5-7 scriptures that talk about YAH’S (God’s) unfailing provision for your situation. Read, meditate, melodize, think and declare those scriptures day and night until you believe them. You will experience anxiety leaving you and your faith will be built up! If you suffer from depression due to the fear of death or of sickness, then make sure that you have given your life to God through Y’shua and begin to meditate on scriptures concerning healing and/or eternal life.
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Joshua 1:8
Since during depression your mind goes in vicious circles of negative thoughts, then changing the meditation of your mind will eventually turn around your situation!
Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. Philippians 4:8
2. Another way of building up faith is by prayer,
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Y’shua the Messiah. Philippians 4:6-7
This kind of prayer has the element of,
Petition b) Supplication c) Thanksgiving
When you have “prayed through” you will experience a great relief and His peace, shalom, wellbeing will flood your soul! The best way to make a petition prayer is by quoting His word and promises to Him and then pleading with Him to manifest His promises (that apply to your situation) in your life, finishing with thanksgiving and praise for His Grace and Mercy! Remember, He does not ‘owe” us anything but He is committed to keep His word. We are in constant need of His mercy.
This kind of prayer should be prayed as often as you feel anxiety creeping back, after you have “prayed through” leave everything in YAH’S (God’s) able hands!
3. Prayer in Tongues or in the Spirit.
But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit Jude 20
This is one of the main reasons of why it is essential to receive the Baptism in The Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues, because it builds us up in our most holy faith. This is a SURE ANTIDOTE against depression!
4. Repentance from any selfishness, self-centeredness and any known sin in your life. Remember that He said that if you put Him and His Kingdom FIRST everything else that you need will be added unto you with no stress, nor striving.
5. Contentment and thankfulness,
Now godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. 1 Timothy 6:6-8
Selfish ambition, covetousness and jealousy can cause terrible distress and unnecessary stress to run after things because “others have them”. Of course the end result of this would be depression. A life of praise to YAH (God) and thanksgiving is essential for mental health.
6. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE- Since fear is the OPPOSITE of LOVE and GOD IS LOVE, your choice to love God and others, (including your enemies!) at all times will keep you emotionally healthy all of your life!
And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him. “So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.” Matthew 18:34,35
A lot of the fears and torments are connected with bitterness and unforgiveness. Forgive EVERYONE at ALL TIMES and for EVERY REASON and you will have a very healthy soul! When we forgive, we humble ourselves to be like Y’shua who forgave us when we did not deserve it. Unforgiveness is a form of pride and He said that He resists the proud,
But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “ God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.” James 4:6
When you walk in forgiveness you walk in love and when you walk in love, fear flees and so does depression!
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. 1 John 4:18
7. Vitamins and nutrition: Fear and stress cause the body to be depleted of vital nutrients such as vitamin B, vitamin C and Calcium. I strongly suggest taking a higher quantity of those during stressful times and to improve you nutrition with healthy foods, again ask your nutrition expert about these.
WHEN FEAR IS CAUSED DUE TO DEMON SPIRITS
Though all unhealthy fears are connected with the operation of evil spirits as well as the coping with some realistic problems, there are some situations of fear that are plainly demonic, such as fears caused due to the watching of horror movies and/or due to idolatry or witchcraft activities such as Ouija board séances, the contacting of the dead and other spirits of deceased people and of course all satanic worship. In these cases it is imperative that you go through a proper prayer of DELIVERANCE from demons by a qualified and trusted minister.
When a person is an unbeliever or is in a non receptive state, the only treatment available against this kind of depression will be psychiatric treatment with some tranquilizing drugs, and even anti-psychotic dugs, accompanied with psychological treatment. As I said in my previous issue, I do not discard this kind of treatment, when it is needed and nothing else works. This is a necessary “life boat” in some instances. However I believe that most of the fear related depressions can be overcome with the spiritual instructions given in this chapter.
In the next issue, we will talk about Depression due to Lies that cause soul pain.
In order to finish I would like to bless you with the prayer of 3 John 2,
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
In Y’shua’s Love that casts out ALL fear!
We care for you!
Bishop Dominiquae and Rabbi Baruch Bierman
Your friends in Israel
© Bishop Dr Dominiquae Bierman 2006 - Permission is granted (and we encourage you) to distribute these writings.
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DEFEATING DEPRESSION PART 3
Depression- from Webster’s New Unabridged Dictionary
Low spirits, gloominess, dejection, sadness, a decrease in force, activity, amount, and a decrease in functional activity. An emotional condition either normal or pathological characterized by discouragement, a feeling of inadequacy, the act of humbling abasement as a depression of pride. Abasement, reduction, sinking, fall, humiliation, dejection, melancholy.
Freedom from Pain, Lies and Depression
“Y’shua spoke to the Jews who had believed him. “If you obey my teaching,” he said, “you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth. And the truth will set you free.” John 8: 31-32
Shabbat Shalom dearly beloved:
MY TESTIMONY
The more that I write about the subject of DEPRESSION, the more people that are “coming out of hiding”. It is quite amazing to find out how many in the Body of Y’shua are suffering from depression and are afraid of letting anyone know for fear of being judged by others. Many of those that suffer greatly are actually pastors and leaders and those are even more afraid and ashamed to let others know, so they suffer in secret and some times even come to the verge of suicide! I fully understand, one time I suffered from depression for an entire year and hid it so well that even my husband didn’t know. I would cry myself to sleep every night and only me and Y’shua knew of my loneliness and pain. Of course I had real good reasons for my depression, my daughter had been sick for three solid years, coming and going from hospitals and the last report of the doctor was ‘ that there was no hope’. Everyone would agree with me that this was enough cause for depression and sadness, however I was regarded as so strong and full of faith by all that no one doubted my ability to stand under all pressure! However I was falling apart and no one knew it! Fortunately for me, I have a really good relationship with Y’shua and so I decided to retreat myself in my pastoral office for three days and three nights in order to find an answer from Him. The contents of this chapter are the result of my three day prayer retreat from the 9-11 of November of 2001. What The Holy Spirit showed me during those three critical days has changed my life, my ministry and my daughter who is alive and well FOREVER! My prayer is that it will also change yours!
What hurts you, Dominiquae?
When I entered the three day retreat as I mentioned above, I sat before YAH (God) unable to do anything, let alone really pray! I just sat there and He asked me the question that has changed my life! “What hurts you, Dominiquae?” This question took me by surprise since I was not there to talk about my pain, but rather to get an answer of why was my daughter not healed if I had been solidly believing, never faltered in declaring His Word and was, in my eyes, obeying His will and serving Him? It did not make any sense to me to be ‘punished’ with loosing my daughter to this terrible illness! However God decided not to answer my question but rather ask me one, about my condition, about my pain! No one has asked me that question before, everyone was praying for Adi and for her situation and pain but not for mine. It took me a few seconds to react to this surprising question! But when I did, boy I did!!! “My motherhood is hurting me Lord!” to which He answered, “write it all down, write all your pain, all your feelings down and do not try to be ‘prim and proper’, write from your guts even if it’s ugly!”
Uuhhh, I am not used to this, I only speak faith, who knows what will come out of my heart? This was scary, nevertheless I obeyed my Master and Healer and I wrote. I must have written a scroll or a small book, but I do not remember as I was crying too hard as I was writing, I was crying and screaming! Once it was all written, I felt an amazing peace, like 1000 tons had fallen off my chest, I could breathe again. But I was peacefully sad as I detected that on these pages I had written what I TRULY felt about me, my daughter and God and it was not pretty! Neither did it line up with His Word, in other words in spite of my courageous faith stand I had believed many lies and thus was in tremendous emotional pain!
Emotional Pain
“My soul melts from heaviness, strengthen me according to your Word” Psalms 119:28
What is emotional pain? I would say that it is the hurt or pain that we feel inside because of what we believe about ourselves or about some traumatic situations that have happened in life. For the most part our emotional pain lingers and becomes DEPRESSION and other forms of mental illness due to our erroneous interpretation of traumas or hard circumstances. In other words IF we would get the true interpretation, then pain would leave and with it depression also!
DENIAL is a ‘safety mechanism’ that its purpose is to keep the pain “hidden” pretending that it does not exist.
However this works for a while allowing the victim of that traumatic pain to live a border line bearable life, however all of a sudden like in a pressure cooker, pressure builds up and it begins to want to come out and erupt! It normally erupts in the form of depression, mental breakdown, psychosis etc…Most people live in one or another level of denial. What The Holy Spirit did with me during my life changing retreat was to challenge my denial by asking me the surprising question, “what hurts you?”, and then instructing me to “write it down” honestly. In other words, He had me blowing off my built up steam in the security of His Loving and Accepting Presence! Anyone that would take time off in His Presence and do the exact same things will get the exact same results! You will feel like tons of pressure have fallen off you and you will detect that you have been believing some lies that are contrary to His Word and Will for you! The good news is that nothing is hidden from Him, so though this will be ‘news’ for you, it’s OLD HISTORY for Him, He knows you inside out!
“O Yahveh, you has searched me, and known me .You know my down sitting and my uprising, you understand my thought afar off. You compass my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.” Psalms 139:1-3
If you can believe this, then you will have the courage to be what I call “brutally honest” when you express your pain on paper!
LIES AND ERRONEOUS INTERPRETATIONS
I am going to make a statement here:
“The more lies that you believe, the more pain that you will have. The less lies, the less pain. No lies, no pain”
“Y’shua spoke to the Jews who had believed him. “If you obey my teaching,” he said, “you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth. And the truth will set you free.” John 8: 31-32
When we know the truth intimately then we are free, freedom means no pain at all. Pain is an outcome of SIN, our own sin and the sins of others against us. The BEST NEWS that I ever heard in my life came to me during this retreat when YAH Himself said to me: “ Dominiquae, I did not design you for PAIN!”. My answer was: “You could have fooled me Lord! I thought that pain was my middle name!”. Do you feel like I did? I have GREAT NEWS for you! The Creator did NOT DESIGN YOU FOR PAIN! Now, go ahead and say it to yourself out loud! “I AM NOT DESIGNED FOR PAIN!”
I did not say that we will not suffer, I only said that when the suffering comes we are not supposed to hold onto and absorb the pain in order to carry it inside. He said clearly in Isaiah 53:4a
“Surely He has borne our grief and carried our sorrows”
He has already done it, and is ready to do it every day, so how come we carry so much pain, grief and sorrow?
The answer was given to me during my retreat: I had been believing LIES about myself, God and my daughter’s situation. I had interpreted some traumatic events in my life in a wrong way. I had come to the conclusion that I was the worst mother in the world and I was trying to prove myself as a good mother by standing in faith for the healing of my daughter. Since Elohim did not answer me that proved the point that I was the worst mother and on top of it He hated me! Did I know all this in my conscious mind??? NOOOOOO, I was a woman of faith, I only believed and proclaimed the Word! I did not acknowledge my pain or my suffering, I loved and worshipped God all the time, I was in DENIAL! Deep within me I had pushed all these feelings of worthlessness and had put the ‘lid’ on them, The result of this denial was DEPRESSION!
Does this sound familiar to you? Maybe you have gone through some traumatic events such as death of loved ones, divorce, rape, abortions, bankruptcies or others and you have pushed the pain down instead of acknowledging it and allowing The Holy Spirit to truly interpret them for you, The precious, awesome, all healing Word of God give you the correct perspective? Do not despair, you are not alone, you can begin today!
“My soul clings to the dust, revive me according to your Word”
Psalms 119:25
The Threshold of Forgiveness
As I was writing “the book of my pain” down, I felt terrible grief and terrible anger, but when I detected all the lies that I had believed, I moved from ANGER to REPENTANCE. I began to ask YAH’S forgiveness and I began to forgive myself, God and others that I thought I held nothing against. I had uncovered all the pain and grief in my heart and the lies that I believed were exposed to the light. My wellbeing was at hand!
“He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confess and forsake them shall have mercy.” Proverbs 28:13
Declare Truth over the Lies!
Once I finished doing that, The Holy Spirit told me to take a marker and highlight all the lies that I detected on the paper! That was a very relieving activity, the lies were now highlighted and IN THE OPEN! They could not hide as snakes in the darkness any more and they could not “bite me”. I did this with GUSTO! Then He told me to find a Scripture that opposed that lie and to declare it one time over the lie! The Word of YAHVEH is SO POWERFUL that it works better than a laser beam! Only one time of declaring His Eternal Word over the painful lies caused them to be DISMANTLED in my mind and to leave me forever! And with it, PAIN ALSO LEFT!
“Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” Psalms 119:105
Remember my previous statement?
“The more lies that you believe, the more pain that you will have. The les lies, the less pain. No lies, no pain”
I will add one more thing: Pain functions inside of you as a BLOCK to the flow of the Holy Spirit and His Glory, so:
“The more pain, the less Glory, the less pain, the more Glory. No PAIN, ALL GLORY!
So, this is the secret to an unhindered flow of anointing:
Get rid of the lies, get rid of the pain and get filled with His Glory!
After these three days retreat, DEPRESSION LEFT ME and the Glory of Elohim began to flow unhindered in me. My external circumstances did not change, my daughter was still as sick as ever, but I had changed! I also understood that I was to do MAINTENANCE every month. And so every month I go on a 3-7 day retreat in order to maintain myself FREE FROM LIES, FREE FROM PAIN and FREE FROM DEPRESSION! Maybe you only need one day where I needed three days, but by all means do not delay to retreat yourself with Y’shua and follow the instructions of this chapter. You will thank Him and me forever! YOU ARE NOT DESIGNED FOR PAIN! While my daughter was not instantly healed but rather her condition grew worse, I had the inner fortitude now to keep going and one and a half years later, she was released from the hospital in FULL REMISSION! Today she is a blooming flower. To our marvelous Heavenly Father be ALL the glory!
Redirecting my course
On the following morning I came out to our morning prayer meeting, where The Holy Spirit showed me that I had broken my vow to be traveling to the nations. I had made that vow right after my salvation, but because of Adi’s illness I broke the vow for I was trying to rescue her, so in my mind I couldn’t possibly travel anymore. As I said above, I could not heal her not even after three years of standing by faith and declaring the Word. I had tried everything and nothing worked! But when I got rid of the lies, the pain and the depression , my ears were open to hear the rebuke of The Lord. I had forsaken Apostolic Ministry trying to ‘save’ my daughter. My husband told me later that no one could talk to me about this prior to my life changing retreat! I was too full of pain to LISTEN! Now, after you are free from pain and depression, LISTEN to His direction for your life. He will probably REDIRECT YOUR COURSE. Be prompt to obey and live to the fullest of what He has designed you to do! I immediately began to travel again, in spite of my daughter’s strong objection! Had I not obeyed Elohim’s instruction, I doubt that she would have been alive today, had I not rid myself of lies, guilt and worthlessness, I would have not been able to go in spite of all opposition from my daughter’s side. Once you are free from lies, you will have new strength to stand and to obey. Once you obey, you will experience His back up, support and blessing. Remember to maintain yourself free from lies and pain at all times! The enemy will throw you ‘curb balls’ often but if you are free from lies and pai n, you will come out on top at all times!
“And it shall come to pass, if you hear diligently unto the voice of Yahveh thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that the Yahveh your God will set you on high above all nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if you hear unto the voice of Yhaveh your God.” Deuteronomy 28:1,2
FREEDOM FROM PAIN WILL BE FREEDOM FROM DEPRESSION AND AN UNHINDERED FLOW OF HIS ABUNDANT LIFE AND GLORY!
Remember the steps to follow:
Take time to have a prayer retreat, disconnect all phones and allow NO ONE to interrupt you!
When you are in, dedicate it to The Lord and ask The Holy Spirit to help you find what hurts you.
Ask yourself what hurts you?
Write your pain down in full honesty
Weep and shout if you need to! Make sure that you are in a private place so no one tries to ‘rescue you’.
Once you realize that you have been believing lies about yourself, God and your situation go into repentance and forgiveness. Highlight the lies that you have detected
Match Scripture against EVERY lie and declare it once by saying: Example- “The following is a LIE: ‘God hates me’, the TRUTH is that ‘God so loved ME that He sent His only son…”. Remember that His Word works better than a laser beam so use it against each lie, please be thorough!
You are FREE. Now praise Him for His deliverance!
Hide his Word in your heart and meditate on it ALWAYS! “Your Word I have hidden in my heart that I might not sin against you” Psalms 119:11
Take time to LISTEN to His instruction.
Rededicate your life to Truth and Freedom and to do His Will at all times!
“The entirety of Your Word is truth” “And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free” Psalms 119:160, John 8:32
We love you and care for you!
Your friends in Israel
Bishop Dominiquae and Rabbi Baruch Bierman
© Bishop Dr Dominiquae Bierman 2006 - Permission is granted (and we encourage you) to distribute these writings.
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