It's very strange but the mount was calling my name. I felt as if
somebody had a rod and they casted it off the top of that mount and the hook went into my chest and
I get up to the mountain and I got out of the car and I ran to this covering and there was a plaque
and it said the Basilica to the Transfiguration and I heard a voice and the voice had come away
and pray with me but I didn't know how to pray so I emptied myself and closed my eyes
and I saw a vision and I saw the Eastern Sky open up and I saw somebody come out of that Eastern sky
that it came down and descended and his face shone like the sun and his clothes was white as light
Shalom my name is Greg Hershberg I live in Georgia currently born and raised in New York City,
64 years old. When I was a little boy I was raised in a very Jewish Family, I was raised Orthodox,
walked to my synagogue every Shabbat and went to Hebrew school two days a week.
It was pretty austere, my mom sat behind the curtain my dad wasn't too into it as I could
tell but he loved my mom, and my mom was Orthodox so he went along with it. I knew I was a Jew
and there's something special about being a Jew,
a Jew isn't just a religion it's a nationality. When I'd be hanging around friends and somebody
say I'm Puerto Rican or I'm Italian, I would aways say I'm Jewish. But then I got to a point there
was so much anti-Semitism in the Bronx that I didn't want to be Jewish anymore. I'm not so sure
I was ever tied into Judaism to be honest with you. So I got pulled into some Eastern Cults I
got very involved in martial arts martial arts sometimes it's just not a sport it's a religion
and I had somewhat of a cult leader and he started to teaching us about the Kundalini energy and Sun
postures and meditations and I was kind of into it but it was a little confusing. Well lo and behold
I married this swimsuit model and we were thinking about where to go on a vacation a honeymoon and
this cult leader if you will, and I don't know what else to call him because it was a cult.
He said you need to go to Israel and he was so influential in my life such a powerful influence
that I thought Israel I'm thinking Jamaica I'm thinking on the beach to be honest with you I'm
thinking about partying and getting high and just just laying out I'm not thinking Israel. I had
no desire to go to Israel. But there was such a pull on my life this is hard for you to believe,
but the next day I was on the train going to work in Manhattan and I sat next to somebody
who I never saw before and they said "have you ever thought about going to Israel?"
so I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed but I'm no bowling ball either, so I decided maybe
I should go to Israel. But I was so convinced that I was going to have a lousy time in Israel that I
put a week of the Greek Isles on the back end of the trip. We go to Israel my wife and I at the
time right get married go to Israel leave New York City on an ElAL flight get into Ben Gurion airport
and we immediately take a flight to Eilat I was scuba diving in the Red Sea we were water skiing
on top of the Red Sea we were going out to restaurants partying dancing having a great time
then we came to Jerusalem about five days later. There's an Armenian corner and a Christian corner
in the Muslim corner, and it was shocking to me and I didn't really enjoy it but we went
out to some great restaurants we just saw some sites on our own we're having a pretty good time.
But I'm thinking I gotta get to Greece, well we had one day left one day left her trip and
I said to my wife let's get a car and let's go up North and so she said, why? I said I don't know.
I don't know she goes where do you want to go I said you know I remember hearing something about
a place called Tabor a mountain with something pretty special happened let's just go there
so we drove up and we didn't know where we were going so there were hitchhikers it was 1989. so
a guy was hitchhiking and so I took him where he was hitchhiking and I look over to the left
and I see this mount and it's very strange but the mount was calling my name I felt as if
somebody had a rod and they casted it off the top of that mount and the hook went into my chest and
as I'm driving up I got a little exasperated so in reality we're looking for this Transfiguration
Mount because something happened there right and I get up to the mountain and I got out of the car
and I ran to this covering and there was a plaque and it said the Basilica to the Transfiguration
and I heard a voice and the voice said come away and pray with me but I didn't know how to pray
so I emptied myself and closed my eyes and I saw a vision.
and I know that sounds weird but people all over the Bible saw visions and I went to a trance like
state and I know that sounds new age but Balam went into a translate state in the Bible and
others have, and I saw the eastern sky open up and I saw somebody come out of that eastern sky
that had came down and descended and His face shone like the sun and his clothes was
white as light and He pressed himself up against me and the first thing He said is
I love you.
and I remember crying for a really long time my wife says maybe it was about 20 minutes
and I looked back and it wasn't tears of joy and it wasn't tears of pain
it was like a sanctification it was like a cleansing
like all the crap all the Eastern thought all the nonsense all the religion just came out of me
I didn't know anything about the Holy Spirit I didn't know that God can enter your heart
and and live in your Tabernacle so I thought God was on the mountain and I remember talking to God
and saying I'm so sorry I have to leave I don't want to leave but I hope one day I can come back
here two kids from the Bronx, Punk kids from the Bronx, go to Israel on their honeymoon to party
and we come back Born Again saved knowing Yeshua as our Messiah. I gotta tell you I
was shocked because I was taught as a young man that Jesus had nothing to do with us.
I thought He was the head of the Catholic Church and Moses if you will is the head of
the Jewish synagogue but then I turned over this New Testament expecting to see something really
Christian something hardcore Gentile and it said this is the genealogy of of Yeshua the Messiah the Son
of Abraham I'm like what? I'm in shock. the son of David. I'm in shock I'm reading this genealogy and
it's purely a Jewish genealogy I get into other parts of the gospel and I see He's circumcised on the 8th day
like me. His mother goes through purification rights tohar like my mom. He has Pidyon haben
and was dedicated like I was. Man I can't believe it. So to this day when they say to me you know Rabbi
Greg Jesus was Jewish I'm like what's with the past tense? It doesn't matter but that's a fact.
And the crazy thing is I was secular right? How did Jesus the head of "the church" bring me back to
my Judaism? so if you believe in Yeshua you don't become less Jewish, you kind of become more Jewish!
Jesus never gave up being Jewish. He was born a Jew, was raised a Jew, He was Torah observant,
He died a Jew, He was buried a Jew, He rose a Jew He ascended a Jew, and he's coming back as a Jew.
I never look back I'm so thankful for what God has done for me I feel so free I feel so
alive more than I've ever felt and you get to a place man when you meet Yeshua where He becomes
enough and I'm here to tell you if God isn't enough nothing will be enough. You'll search
and search and search the world over you'll go from one high to the next, you'll go from
one thing to the next but when you meet him all bets are off. It's done the Search is Over