Acim, also known as Amen, Abayas, and Na'ama is an ancient Jewish prayer book written in Hebrew that emphasizes love and God's love for us. It talks about how to make a home holy. It includes examples of Jewish families who show much love to each other throughout their days and years of existence. This prayer book also talks about how to get closer to God through faith.
Acim and the "Book of Ruth" are two great examples of how to gain a new perception on your life. The first chapter of acim explains how we gain our consciousness through our senses and how that consciousness can be transformed into a higher vibration. We have this consciousness, because we are surrounded by physical reality. Our physical world consists of things such as our bodies, houses, cars, etc., and this creates a limited perception. We may perceive things as they really are, but our soul does not yet know or believe this to be truth.
The first chapter of the book of Ruth "glows" describes how the Lord became man and raised his children after his wife died. This was a big change for Ruth, who had never known a single child without her mother's milk. When she discovered this fact, her perception changed and she began to seek out events and situations that would create changes in her life. This was the first of many miracles in the life of the mother of King David. The book of Ruth is full of great stories of how people work through issues surrounding conversion to Christianity. These issues are then converted into beautiful paintings that hang on the wall of most homes.
Chapter two of the book of Ruth introduces us to David as he sets up his mission in Bethlehem. The atonement plays a very important role in the narrative, and it provides the basis for the later miracles in the book of Ruth. The atonement occurs when an innocent person is killed by a mob, which was ordered by the high priest. Because of this wrongful killing, the mob demands that Naomi, the wife of Absalom be put to death.
It is through the actions of David and his followers that Naomi is saved, and we learn later that she was the one who performed the miracle of substitution at the cross of Jesus. Other miracles include the raising of Jockeys, healing of the mother of barley, and the casting out of flies from the window of the Temple. All of these miracles were performed as an act of God's timing to set up the perfect society for the coming Kingdom of Israel. The author of the book of Ruth, Michael Schucman, knows that he is writing in the name of God but he uses the language of a person that most people will readily accept as being inspired.
The author has divided his book of the three sections, or books, into three parts. These three sections are the history of Israel, the person of Jesus, and the purpose of the Jewish law in Israel. Schucman includes a couple pages each of the history of Israel and the person of Jesus, as well as one page each on the Jewish laws in Israel and the peculiarities of the Pentateuch. In all, this is a quick and easy to read workbook that can be used as a textbook on Jewish mysticism in the wider sense of the word. It is also very readable and the reader does not need a background in religious studies before picking this one up.
