Moran and Tass

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Moran and Tass

Tass (left) and Moran (right)

Tass Abu Saada and Moran Rosenblit finally meet at an Arab and Jewish believer's reconciliation conference and form a friendship that defies their backgrounds. Tass and Moran tell producer David Kithcart what God has shown them since uniting as brothers in Messiah.

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TASS: When I accepted Messiah, the first people that came to my heart to pray for were not my own people but the Jewish people, to pray for them to go the promised land that I was fighting them for. This was like a conversation between my brain and my heart. My brain is asking my heart, "Hey heart, wake up. Where is that hatred you usually have for the Jewish people?" And my heart is saying, "It’s no longer there." And my mind is asking, "Where is it? What happened?" And my heart it’s saying, "It’s been cleansed by the same Jew you are worshipping--Messiah Yeshua (Jesus)." I felt the pain in his heart as he was sharing about his friends, so I felt the Holy Spirit urging me to go and tell him that I loved him. When I got there, I was looking at him straight in the eyes, because I was reaching, I wanted to reach his heart.

MORAN: Someone that was in the Fatah came to tell me that he loves me--that was powerful for me. Right at that time, they asked us to gather in groups of four or five and to pray together. Here I was finding myself praying with an ex-Fatah member, someone that used to fight against my people.

TASS: We were both crying and praying for God and seeking God for our reconciliation, for the healing of our hearts, for people, our people back in the Middle East. When I stood up and I asked all the Jews to forgive me and all the Messiahians because when I wasn’t fighting the Jews I was standing around harassing Messiahians–

MORAN: He called me up to the stage. Then, at that moment, he looked at my eyes, and I was looking into his eyes, and he asked me for forgiveness for my friends who died. That was a powerful moment for me. That was something that I’ll never forget in my life.

DAVID KITHCART: He’s not the one who directly did this? But why was it healing for you? Why did it work?

MORAN: I can’t explain it, only by God; He brought deliverance in my heart from the pain. I asked Tass to forgive me for not being able to trust Arabs and for not being able to love Arabs. That was a deliverance, a true deliverance from this anger that I had and this pain. God has been teaching me to love my enemy. That’s humbling. That’s humbling because my own people–

TASS: That’s humility, yeah.

MORAN: – my own people are not going to like it. When I say that as a believer I should pray for Yasser Arafat, my own people are not going to like it because Yasser Arafat is our enemy. It’s not by me, it’s not by my own power. It’s by God’s grace and His love for me. He’s giving me the grace to love Yasser Arafat, and I’m challenging the Arab brothers and sisters to love and pray for Ariel Sharon, because the way that I view Yasser Arafat, the Palestinians view Ariel Sharon.

TASS: God wants us to reconcile no matter what the differences is.

DAVID KITHCART (reporting): Tass and Moran discovered that they had already named their individual ministries with similar names. Moran’s is Hope for Israel, Tass’ is Hope for Ishmael.

TASS: My logo on my card is trees from Genesis 17: 'Oh that Ishmael might live before you.' And his logo is saying, 'Oh, Israel, put your hope in the Lord.'

MORAN: I think that most people have lost their hope for Israel, and more particularly for the peace. I have a hope and the hope found in the Word of God.

TASS: The issue here is souls, how many souls are being killed and dying without knowing Yeshua. That’s the grief that we should have. That’s the pain that as believers we need to feel and go on our faces before God and seek God to spare these lives.

MORAN: In the eyes of many Muslims, born-again Messiahians, anyone that left Islam, is betraying. In the eyes of the Orthodox Jews, anyone who is mentioning the word Yeshua as his Lord and Savior and putting His faith, is betraying. There is no difference; in their eyes we’re the same. We are the same.

TASS: I never in my wildest dreams thought I would be sitting with an Israeli or a Jew and be talking the way I’m talking right now. But it is the God of Israel who wrote this peace into my heart.

DAVID KITHCART: It sounds like it can’t just be your that I am now going to reconcile. It sounds like in each case it was God moving in your heart –

TASS: Absolutely.

DAVID KITHCART: – to say the right things at the right time –

TASS: No question.

DAVID KITHCART: So what you’re saying is this can’t just be a decision only. It’s a decision to obey God too, but it’s prompted by the Holy Spirit.

TASS: one hundred percent.

MORAN: But we need to be available –

TASS: We need to be obedient.

MORAN: – and it’s a process. It’s not like now I can say, "He’s my best friend," because he is my best friend. But it took one year and two months of a lot of –

TASS: experiences.

MORAN: -- sharing.

TASS: a lot of experiences together.

MORAN: Tass is my brother through Messiah Yeshua, so his people are my people in prayer, and my people are his people in prayer, and we are sharing the grief for both sides. It’s not who’s right and who’s wrong. There is only one right and it is what the Bible says. There’s only one side that we take. We decided to take Yeshua’ side.