The Mishnah states: “Attention leads to cleanliness, and cleanliness leads to purity, and purity leads to abstinence, and abstinence leads to holiness, and holiness leads to humility, and humility leads to shunning sin, and shunning sin leads to the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit leads to the resurrection of the dead” (Sotah 9:15). It seemed that the Holy Spirit was given to those who were in right standing before God. This is seen further in t. Sotah 13:2-4, where the Holy Spirit was present in Israel only through a righteous follower named Hillel. The spirit of God was not given to those who did evil in the sight of the Lord, but they proved faithful and righteous before them