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As you study the Hebrew and Greek, this covering with the garment is expressed as "the HOVERING or BROODING of the Spirit of God over the face of the waters" in Genesis 1:2 and "the hovering over and spreading out of the wings of the eagle" in Deut. 32:11, and the overshadowing that came upon Peter, John and James as they went with Yeshua the Messiah to the Mt. of Transfiguration to pray in Luke 9:28, and also when Peter's shadow became the overshadowing as people were healed when his shadow (filled with the overshadowing presence of YEHOVAH) fell upon them in Acts 5:14. The Prophet Elijah passed his mantle on to Elisha in II Kings 2. Many believe that this mantle was actually his Talis and was symbolic of the power of prayer that Elijah had saturated that mantle with. This mantle that Elijah left behind as he was taken up by a whirlwind into the atmosphere, was what Elisha struck and parted the waters with. In Luke 8:43 the woman with the issue of blood for twelve years, came and touched THE BORDER OF the Messiah's garment and was healed. What did she touch? The twisted coils on the border of the garment (his Prayer Shawl) that Yeshua, being Jewish, would have been wearing!! Mark 5:41 "Then He took the child by the hand and said to her, 'Talitha cumi',which is translated, "Little girl, I say to you arise." Some scholars believe that her name comes from the old word "Talith" and that the literal translation of this is, "Little girl who is now in my tabernacle (tent), arise!" and the power of the intimacy that Yeshua the Messiah had with YEHOVAH God caused her to rise.