Be'er Sheva, when translated, means "well of sevens" or "well of oath." just as Abraham offered up 7 ewe lambs and Hashem offered up the ram in place of Isaac, so Be'er Sheva gives us hope in the future of promised eternal peace of Hashem. Like the groves planted by Abraham in Be'er Sheva, those who abide in Hashem and keep His mitzvot will blossom forth an abundance of good fruits of righteousness.

Just like when He brought the Israelites out of Egypt, Hashem chose to take me the long way home to the Jewish faith. As I dug deeper and deeper into His Tanakh, and proclaimed more adamantly the Jewishness of G-d, I was also convinced that faith in the Jewish G-d would necessitate that faith in the Messiah of the Jewish people would mean having a Jewish faith as well. This clarity of vision brought on even more vitriol and antisemitic rhetoric from the pulpits.

My faith was sealed when talking with an old Jewish grandmother one evening. She asked me why I was in Israel. After telling her I was here to learn and have questions answered about my faith, she asked me to describe my faith. At that point, I knew my theology was so mixed up with lies and truth, but the Jewish grandmother wanted to hear me out anyway. After describing to her everything I believed, the only thing she could say was, “my dear, I think you are Jewish!”