• WORD STUDY – WILLING Willing – Hebrew: ‘avah – willing, incline, desirous, wishing. Isaiah 1:19: “If you be willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land. “One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.”  Dietrich Bonhoffer The word for “willing” is “’avah” which is spelled “Alep, Beth, Hei.”  Jewish literature