Grandma Sasson has some interesting and educational stories to share with her children and grandchildren. This particular story is about Danit, a young girl who is 'taken away' to meet El Dio and the angel called understanding. Through her journey into a realm where God talks to her about removing negativity from her spirit and being a positive person, she learns the actual meaning of being a daughter of God. She learns that wisdom and understanding go a long way in making a huge change in life.

Rabbi Sipporah Joseph writes with strong conviction and her faith shines through in her written word. Though Spirit Tales - The Wheelwork: Don't you know you're not alone! is a very short and concise book, it surely packs a punch. The feeling of rejection that Danit faces at the end of the day is something we all have faced at some point of time and maybe some supernatural help would have helped us too. How lucky we all would be if we were swept away like Danit to the "crystal clear" beach, where a conversation with an angel of the Lord would help us to get a different perspective about our lives. God always looks out for us and keeps talking to us. It is us humans who do not listen and then blame God for abandoning us. Just like the wind blows, God is whispering to us all the time, we just have to believe and be strong in our faith and he will surely deliver our soul.

Grandma Sasson has some interesting and educational stories to share with her children and grandchildren. This particular story is about Danit, a young girl who is 'taken away' to meet El Dio and the angel called understanding. Through her journey into a realm where God talks to her about removing negativity from her spirit and being a positive person, she learns the actual meaning of being a daughter of God. She learns that wisdom and understanding go a long way in making a huge change in life.

Rabbi Sipporah Joseph writes with strong conviction and her faith shines through in her written word. Though Spirit Tales - The Wheelwork: Don't you know you're not alone! is a very short and concise book, it surely packs a punch. The feeling of rejection that Danit faces at the end of the day is something we all have faced at some point of time and maybe some supernatural help would have helped us too. How lucky we all would be if we were swept away like Danit to the "crystal clear" beach, where a conversation with an angel of the Lord would help us to get a different perspective about our lives. God always looks out for us and keeps talking to us. It is us humans who do not listen and then blame God for abandoning us. Just like the wind blows, God is whispering to us all the time, we just have to believe and be strong in our faith and he will surely deliver our soul.

Spirit Tales Spirit Tale One: The Wheelwork is a recommendation for students of Messianic Jewish studies, and provides the first in the 'Spirit Tales' series of stories: this opener centering around what influences identity.

First, an introduction: its author, Messianic Rabbi(MRav) Sipporah Joseph, is a born Jew and a Jewish religious storyteller with not just a heritage to claim, but a personal faith deeply rooted in Messianic Judaism.
Her stories thus center around and explore elements of Messianic Judaism using the storyteller mode as a user-friendly way of accessing deeper spiritual understanding, and are "…based on truth and truth and inspired by His writings. Inspired by Him whose residence is far above earth."

The Wheelwork opens this dialogue with a story most definitely not a fairytale but a 'spirit tale' which reflects a dialogue with God, and begins with a prologue that sets Grandma Sasson as a family storyteller with a message for all: "“The ruach blows wherever it pleases.
You hear its sound, but cannot tell from where it comes or where it goes. God is He, He is Ruach (Spirit) and Ruach is speaking to our ruach (spirit) revealing great mysteries, knowledge, wisdom, understanding and joy. Just like the wind blows He is whispering to us, can you hear it?
When you’re quiet on the inside you might here His gentle whispering, the still small voice. Adam and Chava (or Eve) knew the sound of His voice and Presence. We need to learn again to know and recognize the Voice, Ruach, EL Dio and let Him inspire us in our daily lives.”

The opening story in the series, The Wheelwork, is set in a faraway fictional country where a big city holds citizens actively engaged in competitions, fights, and other
self-serving activities. It centers upon young adult Danit, daughter of Lot and Zillah, and it happens on a typical day for a student expected to attain a university law degree. Despite her success and path on the fast track for further societal success, Danit "… felt an emptiness inside herself, but couldn’t find words to describe it."

When her parents seem to abandon her, Danit finds herself within a whirlwind of personal and spiritual revelation, transported to a strange new world somewhere between living and dying, where all things are possible: "“What is happening to me?!” Danit cried out. But at the same time she felt a peace that surpassed all understanding.
She was inside the whirlwind and was taken to a place she had never known before."

Her journey to uncover a previously-elusive understanding masked by the patterns of her goal-oriented world will change not only her life, but the lives around her; for
The Wheelwork is all about the process involved in setting these forces in motion, and provides the rudiments of a healing encounter that will set the winds of spiritual change in motion for Danit - and for readers.

Understanding, faith and love are facets of life that Danit has never before realized, and they sweep her away in a tide of newfound self-examination and, ultimately, understanding.

It's rare to find a religious treatise based on Jewish Biblical teachings that hold the potential to reach out to a non-devout audience; but the storyteller form holds within it a greater power than plainer writing. All this is reinforced by a concluding section of 'questions' by Grandma Sasson's young listeners which further clarify points presented in the story.

The result is a powerful vision of redemption, recovery, and spiritual awakening filled with moral, ethical and religious insights especially recommended for Jewish readers looking for Messianic parables that are both different and highly accessible. It's deserving of five stars for its unique focus and insights, highly recommended for any who enjoy parables with Jewish roots.