Word: ruach
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...Holy Spirit has always been a recondite concept. The Old Testament prophets first spoke of ruach, the "breath" or spirit of God, which manifested itself as a wind, or sometimes as fire. The New Testament mentions the Holy Spirit 88 times variously as the "spirit of truth," the bearer of "witness," and the "promise of the Father," but gives no further definition. Not until the Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople in the 4th century was Christian Trinitarianism proclaimed: one God in three persons-Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Contemporary religious thinkers do not seek to redefine the Spirit, but rather...
...many a man in the pew as well as in the pulpit. In The Holy Spirit and Modern Thought (Harper; $4.50), Anglican Canon Lindsay Dewar, a Fellow of King's College, London, concisely surveys the history of thought about the Holy Ghost from the Old Testament concept of ruach, the "breath" or spirit of God, to his own arresting hypothesis that the Holy Spirit works through the unconscious with extrasensory perception...
...Discovery. If, in the minds of some, hutzpa is the key word to Leonard Bernstein, his father uses another Jewish expression to describe his hopes for his son. It is ruach Elohim, the godly spirit...
...tried to give it to him through learning, understanding and religion," says Sam Bernstein. "With ruach Elohim a man does not become dizzy when he reaches high places. Without it he is nothing, and the food in his mouth is like straw...
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