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MATTITYAHU
§PEREK ALEPH (CHAPTER ONE)
This is the sefer toldot of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua Ben Dovid, Ben Avraham.
|2| Avraham, then Yitzchak, Yaakov, Yehudah and his brothers;
|3| then, through Yehudah, Peretz and Zerach by Tamar; then Chetzron, Ram;
|4| then Amminadav, Nachshon, Salmon;
|5| then Boaz by Rachav; then Oved by Ruth, then Yishai;
|6| then Yishai fathered Dovid HaMelech; then Shlomo by the wife of Uriyah;
|7| then Rechavam, Aviyah, Asa,
|8| then Yehoshafat, Yoram, Uziyahu;
|9| then Yotam, Achaz, Chizkiyahu,
|10| then Mnasheh, Amon, Yoshiyahu,
|11| then Ykhanyahu and his achim from the days of the Golus in Babylon.
|12| After Ykhanyahu, then Shaltiel, then Zrubavel,
|13| then Avichud, then Elyakim, then Azur;
|14| then Tzadok, then Yakhin, then Elichud;
|15| then Elazar, then Mattan, then Yaakov.
|16| Yaakov fathered Yosef, the baal (husband) of Miryam, from whom was born Yehoshua, who
is called Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. [Yochanan 1:49]
|17| So then, there were arbaa asar (fourteen) dorot (generations) from Avraham to Dovid [trans.
note: Dovid= DVD in Hebrew = [d = 4, v = 6, d = 4] = (4 + 6 + 4 = 14)], and there were arbaa
asar dorot from Dovid to the Golus (Exile) in Babylon, and there were arbaa asar dorot from the
Golus in Babylon to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|18| The huledet (birth) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was as follows. When Moshiach's Em,
Miryam, had been given in erusin to Yosef [ben Dovid], but before they came together, she was
found with child through the Ruach Hakodesh.
|19| Her shidduch, Yosef [ben Dovid], being a tzaddik and not wanting to humiliate her publicly,
planned to deal with the get (divorce) in a private arrangement.
|20| Now just when Yosef [ben Dovid] had thought through to this tachlis (purpose)--hinei!--a
malach Hashem appeared to him in a cholom (dream), and said, Yosef ben Dovid, do not shrink
from taking Miryam in nisuim (marriage) as your [basherte (destined mate) eishes chayil
(virtuous woman)] kallah (bride), because what has been conceived in her is through the Ruach
Hakodesh.
|21| And she shall bear BEN (Son) and you will call SHMO (his name, ZECHARYAH 6:12)
"YEHOSHUA" (ZECHARYAH 6:11-12) because he will bring his people yeshuah (rescue,
salvation, deliverance) from their peyshaim (rebellions, transgressions).
|22| Now all this occurred so that which was spoken by Hashem through the Navi (prophet) might be fulfilled,
|23| HINEI, HAALMAH HARAH VYOLEDET BEN VKARAT SHMO IMMANU-EL (Behold,
the Virgin will be with child and will bear Son and will call his name Immanu-El--YESHAYAH
7:14; cf SHIR HASHIRIM 6:8), which translated means G-d is with us.
|24| Then Yosef [ben Dovid], rising up from sleep, did as the malach Hashem commanded him
and he took his kallah.
|25| And Yosef [ben Dovid] did not know her until she bore BEN and Yosef [Ben Dovid] called
him by the name Yehoshua [Ben Dovid].
[See Baba Bathra 8:6]
§PEREK BEIT (CHAPTER TWO)
Now after Yehoshua was born in Beit-Lechem Yehudah, in the days of Herod [the Great, the
Roman client] king --hinei!-- chachamim (wise men) from eretz Mizrach (the land of the
East) arrived in Yerushalayim,
|2| saying, Where is he that is born Melech HaYehudim? For we have seen his KOCHAV (star,
BAMIDBAR 24:17) in the Mizrach (East) and have come to fall down before him.
|3| Because Herod the king heard this, he was terribly shaken, and all Yerushalayim with him.
|4| And assembling all the Rashei Hakohanim (Chief Priests) and Sofrim (Scribes,
Torah-teachers, Rabbonim) of the people, he inquired of them the place where Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach was to be born.
|5| They told him, In Beit-Lechem Yehudah; because so it stands written by the Navi:
|6| And YOU, BEIT-LECHEM, (Bethlehem, MICHOH 5:1[2]) in eretz Yehudah are by no means
least among the shtetlach (towns) or ruling [clans] of Yehudah; because out of you will come a
Moshel (Governor) who will be the Roeh Ami Yisroel (Shepherd of my People Israel).
|7| Then Herod secretly summoned the chachamim and ascertained
from them the exact date of the manifestation of the KOCHAV.
|8| Then he sent them to Beth-Lechem, saying, Go and make a thorough search for the yeled
(child); as soon as you have found him, report to me, so that I, as you, may come and fall down
before him.
|9| After they heard the king, they departed, and--hinei!--the KOCHAV they had seen in the
Mizrach (East) was going ahead of them until it came and stood above the place where the yeled
was.
|10| When they saw the KOCHAV, they rejoiced with exceedingly great nachas (joy).
|11| And, entering the bais (house), they beheld the yeled with Miryam, his Em, and prostrated
themselves before him. Then, opening their treasure chests, they offered gifts of gold,
frankincense, and myrrh.
|12| And having been warned in a cholom (dream) not to return to Herod, they took refuge in
their own country by another way.
|13| And when they'd gone-- hinei! -- a malach Hashem appeared to Yosef [Ben Dovid] in a
cholom (dream), saying, Arise, and take the yeled and his Em, and flee to Eretz Mitzrayim
(Egypt), and stay there until I tell you, for Herod is about to seek the yeled to destroy him.
|14| So, having got up, Yosef [ben Dovid] took the yeled, and his Em by night and departed for
Eretz Mitzrayim.
|15| And Yosef [ben Dovid] was there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what had been
spoken by Hashem through the Navi, UMIMITZRAYIM KARATI LIVNI (Out of Egypt have I
called my Son, HOSHEA 11:1).
THE SHOAH OF THE INNOCENTS
|16| When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the chachamim, he was greatly enraged, and
he ordered the slaughter of all the yeladim in Beit-Lechem and its vicinity who were two years
old or under, in accordance with the time that he had learned from the chachamim.
|17| Then came the fulfillment of what was spoken through Yirmeyah HaNavi:
|18| KOL BRAMAH NISHMAH (A voice was heard in Ramah, YIRMEYAH 31:14[15]), a
voice
of bitter weeping and mourning. Rachel is crying for her yeladim; she refuses to be comforted,
because they are no more.
MOSHIACH'S LITZIAT MITZRAYIM (GOING OUT FROM EGYPT) AND HIS RETURN
TO A FIRST CENTURY "SHTETL" (JEWISH VILLAGE)
|19| When Herod died, hinei, in Eretz Mitzrayim a malach Hashem appeared to Yosef [ben
Dovid] in a cholom (dream),
|20| saying, Arise, and take the yeled and his Em and go to Eretz-Yisroel, for those seeking the
life of the yeled are dead.
|21| And Yosef [ben Dovid] arose and took the yeled and his Em, and entered Eretz Yisroel.
|22| And when Yosef [ben Dovid] heard that Archelaus had succeeded his father Herod as king of
Yehudah, Yosef [ben Dovid] was afraid to go there. And, having been warned in a cholom, he
departed into the districts of the Galil.
|23| And Yosef [ben Dovid] made his home in the shtetl (Jewish village) called Natzeret, so that
which was spoke by the Neviim might be fulfilled: He will be called a Natzri [i.e. Moshiach the
Netzer/Tzemach, YESHAYAH 11:1; YIRMEYAH 23:5; ZECHARYAH 3:8; YESHAYAH
53:2; ZECHARYAH 6:11-12].
§PEREK GIMEL (CHAPTER THREE)
Now in those days Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva appears, preaching, crying out as a
maggid (preacher) [for the Moshiach] in the midbar (wilderness) of Yehudah,
|2| saying, Make teshuva, for the Malchut HaShomayim has come near.
|3| For this [Yochanan] is the one spoken of through Yeshayah the Navi, saying, KOL KOREY
BAMIDBAR (A voice of one shouting in the wilderness, YESHAYAH 40:3): Prepare the
Derech Hashem (the way of the L-rd). Make his paths straight!
|4| Now Yochanan himself had camel-hair clothing and a leather belt around his waist, and his
food was arbe (locusts) and devash (wild honey).
|5| Then all Yerushalayim and all Yehudah and the whole region of the Yarden were going out to
him.
|6| Making vidduy (confession of sin) [to Hashem] of their averos (sins), they were submitted to a
tevilah (immersion) by him, using the Yarden River as a mikveh mayim (gathering of water).
|7| But when he saw many of the Perushim and Tzedukim coming to where he was using the
Yarden as a mikveh mayim, Yochanan said to them, You banim (sons) of nachashim (snakes)!
Who warned you to flee from the charon af [Hashem] habah (the coming burning wrath of
Hashem)?
|8| Produce pri tov l'teshuva (fruit worthy of repentance)!
|9| Do not presume to say to yourselves, We have the yichus (proud lineage), we have
the zechut Avot (merit of the Fathers) of Avraham Avinu (our father Abraham). For I say to you
that Hashem is able to raise up from these avanim (stones) banim (sons) of Avraham.
10| And already the ax is laid at the shoresh haetzim (the root of the trees); therefore, every etz
not producing pri tov (good fruit) is cut down and thrown into the eish (fire).
|11| I give you a tevilah (immersion) in a mikveh mayim for teshuva, but Hu Habah (He who
Comes, trans. note: i.e. Moshiach) after me has more khosen (strength) than me. I am not worthy
to remove his sandals. He will give you a tevilah (immersion) with the Ruach Hakodesh and eish (fire).
|12| The winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear out his threshing floor, and he will
gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable eish (fire).
|13| Then Yehoshua comes from the Galil to the Yarden to Yochanan, to submit to Yochanan's
tevilah.
|14| But Yochanan would have deterred him, saying, I have need to submit to your tevilah [trans.
note: Moshiach's tevilah], and yet you come to me?
|15| But answering him, Yehoshua said, Permit it now, for thus it is proper to fulfill all Tzidkat
Hashem [DANIEL 9:24].
|16| And having received the tevilah in the Yarden's mikveh mayim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach
immediately came up. And, hinei! The Shomayim were opened to him, and he saw the Ruach
Hakodesh of Hashem descending like a yonah (dove) and coming upon him.
|17| And, hinei, a bat kol (a voice from heaven) came out of Shomayim, saying, ZEH BNI
AHUVI ASHER BO CHAFATZTI (This is my Son, the beloved, with whom I am well
pleased).
§PEREK DALET (CHAPTER FOUR)
Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was led up into the midbar by the Ruach Hakodesh of
Hashem to undergo nisyonos (temptations) by Hasatan.
|2| And, having undergone a tzom (fast) for arbaim yom varbaim lailah (forty days and forty
nights), afterward Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was famished.
|3| And the tempter came to him and said to him, If you are the Ben HaElohim, then speak the
command that these avanim (stones) become lechem (bread).
|4| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach answered, Katuv (It is written), LO AL HALECHEM
LVADOH YCHE-YEH HAADAM, KI AL KOL MOTZAH FI HASHEM. (Man does not live
on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of Hashem, DEVARIM 8:3).
|5| Then Hasatan takes Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to the Ir Hakodesh (the Holy City) and set
him atop the pinnacle of the Beis Hamikdash,
|6| and says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, If you are the Ben HaElohim, then throw yourself
down, for katuv (it is written), MALACHAV YTZAV-VEH LACH (His angels he will command concerning you) and upon their hands they will lift you up lest you strike your foot against a stone, TEHILLIM 91:11-12.)
|7| Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to Hasatan, Again, it is written, LO TENASSU ES
HASHEM ELOHEICHEM (Do not test Hashem your G-d DEVARIM 6:16).
|8| Again, Hasatan takes Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to a very high mountain and shows him all
the mamlechot (kingdoms) of the Olam Hazeh and the kavod (glory) of them.
|9| And Hasatan said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, All these things I will give to you, if you
will fall down VTISHTACHAVEH (and you will bow down to [DEVARIM 5:9]) me.
|10| Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, Depart, Hasatan! For katuv (it is written), ES
HASHEM ELOHEICHA TIRA VOTO TAAVOD (The L-rd your G-d you shall fear and Him
you shall worship, DEVARIM 6:13).
|11| Then Hasatan leaves him, and, hinei, malachim came and attended to Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach.
|12| Now, having heard that Yochanan was arrested, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach departed
into the Galil.
|13| And having left behind Natzeret, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach headquartered in
Kfar-Nachum by the sea, in the environs of Zvulun and Naftali.
|14| This was to fulfill what was spoken through Yeshayah HaNavi,
|15| ARTZAH ZVULUN VARTZAH NAFTALI (To the land of Zvulun and to the land of
Naftali, YESHAYAH 8:23-9:1 [9:1-2]), the way to the sea beyond the Yarden, Galil haGoyim,
|16| the people sitting in CHOSHECH RAU OHR GADOL (darkness saw a great light),
YOSHVEI V'ERETZ TZALMAVET (the ones living in the land of the shadow of death), a light
has dawned among them.
|17| From then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, began to proclaim, saying, LAlter LiTeshuvah
(Immediate Repentance ), for the Malchut HaShomayim has come near.
|18| And walking beside Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach saw two
achim, Shimon, the one being called Kefa (Petros), and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the
sea, for they were daiyagim (fishermen).
|19| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says, Come, follow me, and I will make you daiyagei adam
(fishers of men).
|20| And immediately, leaving their nets, they followed Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|21| And having gone on from there, he saw two other achim, Yaakov Ben-Zavdai and Yochanan
his brother, in the sirah (boat) with Zavdai their father, repairing their nets, and he summoned
them.
|22| Immediately, leaving the sirah (boat) and their father, they followed Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach.
|23| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went about in all the Galil, exercising the ministry of
moreh (teacher) in their shuls and of darshan (preacher) of the Besuroh Tovoh (Good Tiding of a
Joyous Event), the Besuras HaGeulah (the Good News of Redemption) of the Malchut Hashem,
and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went about bringing refuah (healing) to every disease and every
illness of the people.
|24| And the report went out about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach throughout all Syria; and they
brought to him all the cholim (sick) with various illnesses and machalot, demoniacs, epileptics,
and paralytics; and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach brought them refuah.
|25| And from the Galil, the Decapolis, Yerushalayim, Yehudah, and Ever-HaYarden --from all
these places great multitudes followed Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach.
§PEREK HE (CHAPTER FIVE)
THE POSEK HADOR (WORLD AUTHORITY ON THE SUBJECT OF JEWISH LAW AND
OF THE ASERET HADIBROT, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS)
When Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach saw the multitudes, he ALAH HAHAR (went up the
mountain, SHEMOT 19:3) and when he sat down, his talmidim came to him.
|2| Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach began to speak, and gave them this torah (teaching), saying,
|3| Ashrey ANIYEI HARUACH (Blessed/Happy are the poor in spirit, YESHAYAH 66:2) for
theirs is the Malchut HaShomayim.
|4| Ashrey are the AVELIM (the ones mourning, YESHAYAH 61:2), for they will be comforted.
|5| Ashrey are the ANAVIM (humble, YESHAYAH 29:19; ZEFANYAH 2:3), for YIRESHU ARETZ (they will inherit the land, TEHILLIM 37:11).
|6| Ashrey are the ones hungering and thirsting for Tzidkat Hashem (Tzedek Olamim, Everlasting
Righteousness, DANIEL 9:24), for they will be satisfied.
|7| Ashrey are the merciful, for they will be shown rachamim (mercy).
|8| Ashrey are those of LEV TAHOR (pure heart, TEHILLIM 51:12 [10]), for they will see
Hashem.
|9| Ashrey are the peace makers, for they will be called bnei haElohim (sons of G-d).
|10| Ashrey are the ones being persecuted because of Tzidkat Hashem (righteousness, DANIEL
9:24), for theirs is the Malchut HaShomayim.
|11| Ashrey are you when they reproach you and persecute you and speak all kinds of lashon
horah against you, speaking sheker (falsehood, lies) because of me [Moshiach].
|12| Have simcha (joy) and lev sameach (glad heart), for your sachar (reward) is great in
Shomayim, for thus they persecuted the Neviim before you.
|13| You are the melach haaretz (salt of the earth), but if the salt becomes tasteless, in what way
will it become salty again? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled by
men.
|14| You are the Ohr HaOlam (the Light of the World). A city lying on a mountain top cannot be
nistar (hidden).
|15| No one, after lighting a menorah, places it under a measuring basket, but on the shulchan
(table), and it gives ohr (light) to kol anshei habais (all in the house).
|16| In like manner, let your light so shine before Bnei Adam, that they may see your maasim tovim (good works) and give kavod (glory) to your Av shbaShomayim (Father in Heaven).
|17| Do not think that I came to abolish the Torah or the Neviim. I did not come to abolish but to
complete.
|18| For, omein, truly I say to you, until Shomayim and haaretz pass away, not one yod, not one
tag (ornamental flourish), will pass from the Torah until everything is accomplished.
MOSHIACH'S CHEREM (BAN) AGAINST HITBOLELUT (ASSIMILATION) AND MINUT
(APOSTASY, I.E. RENUNCIATION OR ABANDONMENT OF A PREVIOUS LOYALTY)
FROM THE TORAH OF MOSHE
REBBENU;
|19| Therefore, whoever annuls one of the least of these mitzvot (divine commandments given by
Hashem to Moshe Rebbenu) and so teaches Bnei Adam, shall be called katon
(least) in the Malchut HaShomayim; but whoever practices and teaches them, this one will be
called gadol (great) in the Malchut HaShomayim.
THUS WE SEE MOSHIACH NOT AS THE FOUNDER OF A NEW RELIGION BUT AS THE
ANCHOR OF TRUE ORTHODOX JUDAISM [SEE MT CHP 23 AND AC CHP 21:21-26]; AS
WE SEE AT THE END OF THIS BOOK, IN VIEW OF THE TECHIYAS HAMOSHIACH,
WHO ARE DYING MEN TO GAINSAY?
|20| For I say unto you that unless the Tzidkat (Righteousness) of you exceeds that of the Sofrim
and Perushim, you will certainly not enter the Malchut HaShomayim.
|21| You have heard that it was said to the ancients, LO TIRTZACH (Do not murder, SHEMOT
20:13; DEVARIM 5:17), and every rotzeach (murderer) shall be liable to be the Bet Din (Court).
|22| But I say to you, that everyone who harbors kaas (anger) against his Ach [b'Moshiach], his
chaver, shall be subject to mishpat (judgment); and whoever shall say to his Ach [b'Moshiach],
Reyka! (Good for nothing!) will be subject to the Sanhedrin; and whoever shall say Shoteh!
(Fool) shall be subject to Eish Gehinnom (Fire of Hell).
|23| Therefore, if you bring your korban (sacrifice) to the Mitzbeach (altar), and there you
remember that your Ach [b'Moshiach] has something against you,
|24| leave your korban there before the Mitzbeach, and go and first be reconciled to your Ach
[b'Moshiach]; and then come offer your korban.
|25| Come to terms quickly with your ish riv (opponent in a lawsuit), while you are a fellow-
traveler on the derech eretz, lest the ish riv might deliver you to the shofet (judge), and the shofet
might deliver you to the shoter (law official), and the shoter might deliver you to the beit hasohar
(prison house).
|26| For, omein, truly I say to you, you may never come out from there until you repay the last
peruta (small coin).
|27| You have heard that it was said, LO TINAF (Do not commit adultery, SHEMOT 20:14).
|28| But I say to you that everyone looking upon a woman with taavah (lust) for her has already
committed niuf (adultery) with her in his heart.
JEWISH HYPERBOLE TEACHING RADICAL TESHUVA FOR THE BENEFIT OF
FOLLOWERS WHO DON'T SEEM TO GRASP THE NATURE OF THE REPENTANCE
NECESSARY TO PRACTICE HIS JUDAISM
|29| And if your right eye causes you to commit chet (sin), tear it out and throw it from you, for it
is better for you that one of your evarim (members) be lost and not your whole basar (body, flesh) be thrown into Gehinnom.
|30| And if your right hand causes you to commit chet, cut it off and throw it from you, for it is
better for you that one of your evarim (members) be lost and not that your whole basar may go
into Gehinnom.
|31| It was also said, Whoever divorces his wife, let him give to her a GET, a SEFER KERITUT
(bill of divorce, DEVARIM 24:1).
|32| But I say to you that everyone divorcing his wife, except for the DVAR (indecent thing,
DEVARIM 24:1) of zenut (fornication), makes her become a noefet (adulteress), and whoever
marries a gerusha (divorcee) commits niuf (adultery).
|33| Again, you have heard that it was said to the ancients, You shall not break your nederim
(vows), but you shall repay your vows to Hashem.(see VAYIKRA 19:12; BAMIDBAR 30:3;
DEVARIM 23:22)
|34| But I say to you, Do not swear shevuot (oaths) at all, neither by Shomayim, for it is the kes
malchut of Hashem (throne of G-d),
|35| nor by haaretz, for it is the hadom (footstool) of his feet, nor by Yerushalayim, for it is the
kiryat melech rav (city of the great king, TEHILLIM 48:3[2]).
|36| Neither are you to swear by your rosh, for you are not able to make one hair turn white or
black.
|37| But let your word be ken, ken (yes, yes) or lo, lo (no, no,), but anything beyond this is lashon
horah.
|38| You have heard that it was said, AYIN TACHAT AYIN, SHEN TACHAT SHEN (An eye
for an eye and a tooth for a tooth SHEMOT 21:24).
|39| But I say to you, Do not set yourself against the rasha (evil person), but whoever hits you on
your right cheek, turn to him also the other cheek.
|40| And the one wishing to sue you and take your tunic, give to him also your kaftan.
|41| And whoever will force you to go one mile, go with him two.
|42| And the one asking you to give and the one wishing to borrow from you, from these do not
turn away.
|43| You have heard that it was said, VAHAVTAH LREIACHAH (You shall love your neighbor,
VAYIKRA 19:18) and you shall hate your oyev (enemy).
|44| But I say to you, Love your enemies, and offer tefillos (prayers) for the ones bringing redifah
(persecution) upon you.
|45| Do this so that you may become banim of your Av shbaShomayim, for his shemesh (sun) he
makes to rise on the raim (evil ones) and the tovim (good ones), and he sends his geshem (rain)
upon the tzaddikim (righteous ones) and the reshaim (unrighteous ones).
|46| For if you have ahavah (love) for the ones who have ahavah for you, what sachar (reward) do
you have? Even the mochesim (tax-collectors) do that, don't they?
|47| And if you give Drishat Shalom (greetings) only to your Achim [b'Moshiach], what
extraordinary thing are you doing? Don't even the Goyim do the same?
|48| Therefore, be shlemim (complete), even as is your Av shbaShomayim.
§PEREK VAV (CHAPTER SIX)
MOSHIACH ON AVODAH SHEBALEV
Be careful that you don't practice your tzedakah (charity giving) before Bnei Adam in order
to varf (show off, flaunt) to be seen by Bnei Adam; for then you have no sachar (reward)
with your Av shbaShomayim.
|2| Therefore, whenever you contribute tzedakah, don't blow the shofar before you, as the
tzevuim (hypocrites) do in the shuls and in the streets, in order that they may receive kavod
(glory) from Bnei Adam. Omein, truly I say to you, they have their sachar (reward).
|3| But when you contribute tzedakah, do not let your left hand have da'as (knowledge) of what
your right hand is doing,
|4| so that your tzedakah may be nistar (hidden, in secret), and your Av HaRoeh b'seter (Father,
the One seeing in secret) will give you sachar (reward) b'seter (in secret).
|5| And whenever you daven (pray), do not be as the tzevuim (hypocrites); for they love to stand
and daven in the shuls and on the street corners so that they may be seen by an audience. Omein,
truly I say to you, they have their sachar.
|6| But you, whenever you daven, enter into the secret place, your secret cheder, and, having shut
your door, offer tefillos to your Av Asher bSeter (Father Who is in Secret), and your Av haRoeh
b'seter (Father the One seeing in secret) will give you sachar.
|7| But when you daven, do not babble on and on maarich (extended, long-winded) and vacuously and without kavvanah (heartfelt direction, intention) like the Goyim. For the Goyim think that in their verbosity their techinnah (prayers of supplication) will be heard.
|8| Therefore, nisht azoi (not so)! Be different, for your Av has daas (knowledge) of what things
you have need before you ask him.
|9| Therefore, when you offer tefillos, daven like this, in this manner: Avinu shbaShomayim (Our
Father in heaven), yitkadash shmecha (hallowed be your Name).
|10| Tavo malchutechah (Thy Kingdom come) Ye'aseh rtzonechah (Thy will be done) kmoh
vaShomayim ken baaretz (on earth as it is in heaven).
|11| Es lechem chukeinu ten lanu hayom (Give us today our daily bread),
|12| u-slach lanu es chovoteinu kaasher salachnu (and forgive us our debts as we forgive) gam
anachnu lachayaveinu (also our debtors).
|13| V'al tvi'einu lidey nisayon (And lead us not into temptation [Mt 26:41]) ki im chaltzeinu min
harah (but deliver us from evil [or the evil one]). [Ki l'chah hamamlachah (for thine is the
Kingdom) vhagvurah (and the power) vhatiferet (and the glory) l'olmei olamim (forever).
Omein].
14| For if you give men mechila (pardon, forgiveness) for their chattaim (sins), so also your Av
shbaShomayim will give selicha (forgiveness) to you.
|15| But if you do not give men mechila (forgiveness), neither will your chattaim receive selicha
from your Av.
|16| And whenever you undergo a tzom (fast), don't be like the sullen tzevuim (hypocrites), for
they disfigure their faces to parade their tzom (fast). Omein, truly I say to you, they have
received their sachar (reward).
|17| But when you undergo a tzom, anoint your rosh with shemen (oil) and wash your face
|18| so that your tzom is concealed from Bnei Adam but not from your Av Asher b'Seter (Father
Who is in Secret). And your Av HaRoeh b'seter (Father the One seeing in secret) will give you
sachar.
|19| Do not store up for yourselves otzarot (treasures) on haaretz, where moth and rust destroy
and where ganavim (thieves) break in and steal.
|20| But zamlet (collect) for yourselves otzarot (treasures) in Shomayim, where neither moth nor
rust destroys, neither do ganavim break in and steal.
|21| For where your otzar (treasure) is, there also will be your lev (heart).
|22| The eye is the menorah of the basar. Therefore, if your eye is unblurred, then your whole
basar will be lighted.
|23| But if yours is the ayin horo (evil eye), your whole basar will be in choshech (darkness).
|24| No one is able to serve two adonim (masters). For either he will have sinah (hatred) for the
one and ahavah (love) for the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You
cannot serve Hashem and Mammon (Money).
|25| Therefore, I say to you, Do not have a LEV ROGEZ (anxious heart, [DEVARIM 28:65])
about your life, what you might wear or what you might drink, nor for your basar, what you
might put on. Is not life more than okhel (food) and basar more than malbush (clothing)?
|26| Look to the OF HASHOMAYIM (birds of heaven, IYOV 35:11), for they do not sow nor
reap nor gather into barns, and your Av shbaShomayim feeds them. Are you yourselves not worth more than they?
|27| And who among you by a LEV ROGEZ (DEVARIM 28:65) is able to add to his life span
one cubit?
|28| And why have a LEV ROGEZ (anxious heart) about malbush (clothing)? Observe the lilies
of the field, how they grow. They do not labor nor spin.
|29| But I say to you that not even Shlomo HaMelech in all his kavod (glory) was clothed as one
of these.
|30| And if Hashem thus clothes the grass of the field that exists today and tomorrow is thrown
into a furnace, how much more will he clothe you, you ones of little emunah.
|31| Therefore, do not have a LEV ROGEZ (DEVARIM 28:65), saying, What might we eat? or
What might we drink? or With what might we clothe ourselves?
|32| For all these things the
Goyim strive. For your Av shbaShomayim bavorn (anticipates) that you need all these things.
|33| But seek first the Malchut Hashem and the Tzidkat Hashem, and all these things will be
added to you.
|34| Therefore, do not have a LEV ROGEZ (DEVARIM 28:65) for tomorrow, for makhar
(tomorrow) will care for itself. Each day has enough tzoros (troubles) of its own.
§PEREK ZAYIN (CHAPTER SEVEN)
Judge not lest you be judged.
|2| For with what gezar din (verdict) you judge, you will be judged, and with what measure
you measure, it will be measured to you.
|3| And why do you see the speck in the eye of your Ach [b'Moshiach], but you do not consider
the beam in your own eye.
|4| Or how will you say to your Ach [b'Moshiach], Let me take the speck out from your eye!
(And, hinei! The beam is in your own eye!)
|5| Tzevua (hypocrite), first take the beam out of your eye, and then you will see clearly enough to take out the speck from the eye of your Ach [b'Moshiach].
|6| Do not give the kodesh (the holy) to kelevim (dogs) nor throw your pearls before chazirim
(swine), lest they will trample them with their feet and turn around and tear you into pieces.
|7| Keep asking and it shall be given to you; keep searching and you shall find; keep knocking
and the delet shall be opened to you.
|8| For everyone asking receives, and the one searching finds, and to the one knocking the delet
will be opened.
|9| Or what man is there among you the ben of whom will ask for lechem (bread), and he will
give him a stone.
|10| Or if he asks for a dag (fish), will give him a nachash (snake)?
|11| Therefore, if you, being ra'im (evil ones), know to give matanot tovot (good gifts) to your
yeladim, how much more does your Av shbaShomayim give hatov (the good) to the ones asking
him.
|12| Therefore, everything that you wish Bnei Adam do for you, thus also you do for them. For
this is the Torah and the Neviim.
|13| Enter through the derech (way) of the shaar hatzarut (gate of narrowness), for wide is the
delet and broad is the rekhov (street) leading to Avaddon (destruction, hell, Abbadon), and
rabbim (many) are they who enter through it.
|14| But tzar (narrow) is the delet and constricted is the Derech (Way) that leads to Chayyim (life) and few are the ones finding it.
|15| Beware of the neviei hasheker (false prophets), who come to you in the malbush (clothing) of kevasim (sheep), but within are ravenous ze'evim (wolves).
|16| By their perot (fruits) you will have da'as of them. Surely grapes are not gathered from thorns nor figs from thistles, are they?
17| So every etz tov (good tree) produces pri tov (good fruit), but the etz nishchat (corrupt tree) produces pri rah.
|18| An etz tov is not able to produce pri rah nor is an etz nishchat able to produce pri tov.
|19| Kol etz (every tree) not producing pri tov is cut off and is thrown into HaEish (the Fire)
(YESHAYAH 66:24; DANIEL 12:2).
|20| Therefore, by their perot (fruits) you shall have da'as of them.
MOSHIACH'S WARNING TO MESSIANIC DARSHANIM
|21| Not all the ones saying to me, Adoneinu, Adoneinu, will enter the Malchut HaShomayim, but the one doing the ratzon Avi shbaShomayim (the will of my Father in Heaven [Mt. 26:39]).
|22| Many [messianic darshanim] will say to me [Moshiach] on that Day [the Yom HaDin, the
Day of Judgment], Adoneinu, Adoneinu, did we not speak as neviim in your Name? Did we not
cast out shedim (evil spirits, demons) in your Name? Did we not accomplish many niflaot
(miracles) in your Name?
|23| And then I will tell them to their face, I never had da'as of you. Depart from me, you
workers of mufkarut (lawlessness) [TEHILLIM 6:9(8)].
|24| Therefore, everyone who hears these dvarim (words) of mine and does them, is like a
chacham (wise man) who built his bais (house) upon the Tsur (Rock).
|25| And the geshem (rain) came down, the floods arrived, and the winds blew and beat against
that bais, and it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the Tsur (Rock).
|26| And everyone hearing these words of mine [Divrei Moshiach] and not doing them is like the
shoteh (fool), who built his bais upon the sand.
|27| And the geshem (rain) came down, and the floods arrived, and the winds blew and beat
against that bais, and it fell, and gadolah was the mapalah (fall/downfall/defeat) of it.
|28| And it came about when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach finished these divrei torah (words of
teaching), the multitudes were filled with fear and wonder at his torah.
|29| For his ministry of moreh (teacher) was as one having samchut (authority) and not as their
Sofrim (scribes/torah teachers, rabbonim).
§PEREK HET (CHAPTER EIGHT)
And when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came down from the mountain, many multitudes
followed him.
|2| And--hinei--an ish metzorah (a leper) there was who approached him and fell down before
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying, Adoneinu, if you choose, you can make me tahor (clean).
|3| And, having stretched out his hand, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach touched him, saying, I am
willing. Be made tahor.
|4| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, See that you tell no one, but go and show
yourself to the kohen and offer the korban about which Moshe gave mitzvah as an edut
(testimony) to them.
|5| Now when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach entered into Kfar-Nachum, a centurion approached
him, begging him
|6| and saying, Adoneinu, my servant has been bedridden in the house, paralyzed, in terrible tzaar
(pain and suffering).
|7| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, I am coming. I will bring him refuah
(healing).
|8| The centurion answered, Adoneinu, I am not worthy that you might come under my roof, but
only say the dvar, and my servant will receive the refuah (healing).
|9| For I also am a man under marut (authority), having soldiers subordinate to myself, and I say
to this one, Go! and he goes, and to another, Come! and he comes, and to my servant, Do this!
and he does it.
|10| And having heard this, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was amazed and said to those who
followed him, Omein, I say to you, in no one in Yisroel have I found such great emunah.
|11| And I say to you, that many from the mizrach (east) and the maarav (west) will come and
will sit bimesibba (reclining at tish) with Avraham and Yitzchak and Yaakov in the Malchut
HaShomayim.
|12| But the Bnei HaMalchut will be thrown out into the outer choshech (darkness), where there
will be weeping and grinding of teeth.
|13| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to the centurion, Go! According to your bitachon
(trust), your emunah (faith), let it be for you. And his servant was given refuah (healing) punkt
(exactly) at that hour.
|14| When Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach entered the bais (house) of Kefa, he saw the chamot
(mother-in-law, shviger) bedridden and fever-stricken.
|15| Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach touched her hand, and the fever left her. She then began
functioning as his mesharetet (servant, minister), serving Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|16| And when erev (evening) had come, they brought to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach many
possessed by shedim (evil spirits, demons), and he cast out the shedim with a dvar, and all the
cholim (sick persons) Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach healed.
|17| Thus was fulfilled what was spoken by Yeshayah the Navi, saying, ACHEN CHOLAYEINU
HU NASA UMACHOVEINU
SVALAM (Surely he took up our sicknesses and he carried away [trans. note: like the Yom
Kippur scapegoat] our sorrows, YESHAYAH 53:4).
|18| And when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach saw the crowd around him, he gave orders to go over
to the other side.
|19| A sofer (scribe, Torah-teacher) approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and said, Rebbe, I
will follow you wherever you go.
|20| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, Foxes have holes and the OF
HASHOMAYIM (birds of heaven, IYOV 35:11) have nests, but the Ben HaAdam [Moshiach,
DANIEL 7:13-14] does not have a place where he may lay his head.
|21| And another of Moshiach's talmidim said to him, Adoneinu, allow me first to go and bury
my father.
|22| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, Follow me, and permit the mesim (spiritually
dead ones without hitkhadshut, spiritually unregenerate ones) to bury their own mesim (deceased
ones, niftarim).
|23| And when he embarked into the sirah (boat), Moshiach's talmidim followed him.
|24| And--hinei!--a great storm came up on the lake, so that the sirah (boat) was about to be
covered by the waves. But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was sleeping.
|25| And Moshiach's talmidim approached and woke him, saying, Adoneinu, hoshieinu! We are
perishing!
|26| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Why are you fearful, you ones of little
emunah? Then, arising, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach rebuked the winds and the sea. And there
was a great calm.
|27| And the men were astonished, saying, What sort of man is this!? That even the winds and
the sea obey him!
|28| And when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came to the other side of the lake, in the land of the
people of Gadara, he was met by two men possessed by shedim (demons); these men were
coming out of the kevarim (tombs) of the burial caves and were so dangerous no one could pass
by on that road.
|29| And--hinei--they screamed, saying, Mah lanu valach, Ben HaElohim? (What to us and to
you, Ben HaElohim? trans. note: i.e. What business do you have with us, Ben HaElohim) Have
you come here to torture us before the time [of the Yom HaDin, the Day of Judgment]?
|30| Now there was feeding far away from them a large herd of
chazirim (swine).
|31| And the shedim (unclean spirits, demons) begged Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying, If you cast us out, send us into the herd of chazirim.
|32| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Go away! So the shedim, coming out, went
away into the chazirim. And, hinei, all the herd of chazirim rushed down the bank into the lake,
and they perished in the water.
|33| And the herdsmen of the chazirim fled, and, having gone away into the town, they told the whole story of what had happened to the men possessed by shedim.
|34| And--hinei!--the whole town came out to meet Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. And seeing
him, they begged him to depart from their area.
§PEREK TET (CHAPTER NINE)
And, having embarked into a sirah (boat), Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach crossed over [to the
other side of the lake] and came into his own shtetl.
|2| And--hinei!--they brought to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach a paralytic lying upon a mat.
Having seen their emunah, he said to the paralytic, Chazak! (Be strong!) Selicha (forgiveness) is
granted on your averos (sins)!
|3| And--hinei!--some of the Sofrim said to themselves, This one commits Chillul Hashem!
[VAYIKRA 22:32]
|4| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, reading their minds, said, Why are you thinking ra'ah (evil)
in your levavot (hearts)?
|5| For which is easier to say, Selicha is granted on your averos! or...Arise and walk!?
|6| But in order that you may have da'as that the Ben HaAdam [Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14] has
samchut (authority) on earth to pronounce selicha (forgiveness) on chattaim (sins)--Moshiach
then declared to the paralytic--Arise, take up your mat and go to your bais (house).
|7| And arising, he went away to his bais.
|8| And having witnessed this, the multitudes experienced yirat Shomayim and gave kavod to
Hashem, who had given such samchut to men.
|9| And going away from there, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach saw a man called Mattityahu sitting
in the tax office. And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, Follow me. And Mattityahu
arose and followed him.
|10| And it came about that while Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was sitting bimesibba (reclining)
at tish (table) in the bais--hinei!--many mochesim (tax collectors) and choteim (sinners) came
and were sitting bimesibba (reclining) at tish (table) with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and his
talmidim.
|11| When the Perushim saw this, they were saying to Moshiach's talmidim, Why does your
Rebbe eat with the mochesim and the choteim?
|12| But when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach heard this, he said, It is not the bariim (healthy
ones) who have need of a rofeh (physician), but the cholim.
|13| Go and learn what this means: CHESED CHAFATZTI VLO ZEVACH (I desire loving
kindness and not sacrifice HOSHEA 6:6), for I have not come to call the tzaddikim but the
choteim [to teshuva].
|14| Then Yochanan's talmidim approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying, Why do we
and
the Perushim often undergo tzomot (fasts), but your talmidim do not undergo tzomot?
MOSHIACH DESCRIBES HIS NEW WINE AND WINESKINS FOR ORTHODOX
[STRAIGHT TEACHING] JUDAISM
|15| And Moshiach said to them, Surely the Bnei HaChuppah (wedding invitees) are not able to
act as avelim (mourners) as long as the Chosson (Bridegroom, i.e. Moshiach) is with them. But
the days will come when the Chosson is taken away from them, and then they will undergo
tzomot.
|16| No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch pulls away from the
garment, and a worse tear results.
|17| Neither do men put yayin chadash (new wine) into old wineskins; otherwise, the wineskins
burst, and the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they pour yayin chadash into
new wineskins, and both are preserved.
THE REFUAH SHELEMAH MOSHIACH BRINGS TO THE LEADERS OF ORTHODOX
JUDAISM
|18| While Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was speaking these things to them--hinei--one of the
nichbadim (dignitaries) [of the shul] came and fell down before Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach,
saying, The bat (daughter) of me has just become niftar (passed away), but come lay your hand
upon her and she will live.
|19| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach got up and, with his talmidim, followed him.
|20| And--hinei!--an isha (woman) hemorrhaging twelve years approached him from behind and
touched the garment of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach's tzitzit.
|21| For she was saying to herself, If only I might touch his garment, I will receive refuah
(healing).
|22| Turning and seeing her, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Chazak, bat (daughter) of me!
Your emunah has brought you refuah. And the isha was healed from that hour.
|23| And having come into the bais (house) of the nichbad (dignitary), and having seen the flute
players and the unruly crowd,
|24| Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying, Go away! For the yaldah (girl) is not among the
mesim (dead ones)--she sleeps! And they were making leitzonus (mockery, fun) of Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach.
|25| But when the crowd had been put outside, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went in and took the
yaldah by the hand and the yaldah was made to stand up alive.
|26| And this report went out into all that region.
|27| And as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went on from there, two ivrim (blind men) followed
him, shouting loudly, Chaneinu, Ben Dovid!
|28| And when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach [Ben Dovid] entered the bais (house), the ivrim
(blind men) approached him, and he says to them, Do you have emunah that I am able to do this?
They say to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Ken, Adoneinu.
|29| Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach touched their eyes, saying, According to your emunah, let
it be done for you.
|30| And their eyes were opened. Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach sternly warned them, saying, See
to it that no one knows!
|31| But having gone out, they made Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach known in that entire district.
|32| After they had departed, the people brought to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach a mute man who
was possessed by shedim.
|33| And when the shedim had been cast out by Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, the mute man
spoke. And the multitudes marveled, saying, Never was anything like this seen in Eretz Yisroel!
|34| But the Perushim said, It was by the Sar HaShedim (the Prince of Demons) that this man
casts out shedim!
|35| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went about all the shtetlach and villages exercising the
ministry of moreh (teacher) in their shuls and of darshan (preacher) of the Besuras HaGeulah of
the Malchut Hashem and bringing refuah to all the cholim, every machla (disease) and every
illness.
|36| And looking out on the multitudes, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach felt rachmei Shomayim
(heavenly compassion and mercy) for his people, for they were distressed and weary KA-TZON
ASHER EIN LAHEM ROEH (like sheep without a shepherd, BAMIDBAR 27:17).
|37| Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to his talmidim, The katzir (harvest) is indeed great
but the kotzerim (harvesters) are few.
|38| Therefore, offer tefillos to the Adon HaKatzir (the L-rd of the Harvest) that He may send out
Kotzerim into His Katzir.
§PEREK YOD (CHAPTER TEN)
And summoning his Shneym Asar (Twelve) Talmidim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave to
them samchut (authority) over shedim (unclean spirits), so as to cast them out, and samchut
(authority) to call forth refuah for every machla and every illness.
|2| Now of the Shneym Asar Shluchim, the names are these: first, Shimon, the one being called
Kefa, and Andrew his brother, Yaakov Ben-Zavdai and Yochanan his brother,
|3| Philippos and Bar-Talmai, Toma and Mattityahu the moches, Yaakov Bar-Chalfai and Taddai,
|4| Shimon the Zealot and Yehudah from Kriot, who betrayed Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
MOSHIACH TO YEHUDIM FIRST, WITH ERETZ YISROEL AND THE YEHUDIM THE
HARD CENTER OF MESSIANIC ORTHODOX JUDAISM
|5| These Shneym Asar (Twelve) did Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach send out with the following
directives, saying: In the Derech HaGoyim (Way of the Gentiles, Gentile territory) do not go,
and do not enter into any Shomron town,
|6| but go rather to the Seh Oveid HaBeth Yisroel (the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel).
|7| And, while going, preach that the Malchut HaShomayim is imminent and miyad.
|8| Heal the cholim, raise the mesim (dead ones), cleanse the metzoraim (lepers), cast out the
shedim (demons); freely you received, freely give.
|9| Take neither gold nor silver nor copper for your money-belts,
|10| nor a schnorrer's (beggar's) bag for the road, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor a staff, for the
oseh hamelachah (the one doing the work) is worthy of his lechem.
|11| And into whichever town or shtetl you enter, inquire who in it is a ben chayil (son of
worthiness), and there remain until you leave.
|12| And when you enter into the bais (house), give that household your "Shalom!"
|13| And if indeed the bais is a bais chayil (a house of worthiness), let your shalom come upon it;
but if it is not a bais chayil, let your shalom return to you.
|14| And whoever neither receives you nor listens to your divrei [Moshiach], as you are leaving
and as you go outside of that bais (house) or city, then let it be NIER CHATZNO (shake out the
fold of the robe, i.e. wash ones hands of), shake off the dust of your feet.
|15| Omein, I say to you, it will be more tolerable on Yom HaDin (the Day of Judgment) for
Sdom and Amora than for that shtetl.
|16| Hinei! I send you as kevesim (sheep) in the midst of ze'evim; therefore, have the seichel
(intelligence) of nachashim (serpents) and be tamim (faultless) as yonim (doves).
|17| And beware of Bnei Adam, for they will deliver you up to the sanhedriyot (local councils/bet
din courts) and in their shuls they will subject you to the shot (whip).
|18| And before moshelim (governors) and also melachim (kings) you will be led for my sake [for
the sake of Moshiach], for an edut (testimony) to them and to the Goyim.
|19| But when they deliver you up, do not be of a LEV ROGEZ (anxious heart, DEVARIM
28:65) worried about how or what you are to say; for it will be given to you in that hour what you are to speak.
|20| For you are not the ones speaking, but the Ruach Avichem (the Spirit of your Father) is the
one speaking in you.
|21| And brother will deliver up to death his own brother, even an abba his own yeled. And
yeladim will stand up against their horim (parents) and put them to death.
|22| And you will be under the sinas chinom (baseless hatred) of kol Bnei Adam on account of
my Name; but the one enduring ad es HaKetz (until the End) will receive the Yeshuat Eloheinu
(the Salvation of our G-d).
|23| But when they persecute you in one shtetl, flee to the other; for, omein, I say to you, by no
means will you complete the shtetlach of Eretz-Yisroel until the Bias HaMoshiach (Coming of
the Moshiach, the Ben HaAdam, DANIEL 7:13-14).
|24| A talmid is not above his Rebbe nor an eved (servant) above his Baal Bayit (master).
|25| It is enough for the talmid that he be like his Rebbe, and the eved like his Baal Bayit. If they
called the Baal Bayit (the master of the house) Baal-zibbul, how much more the anashim (men)
in his bais.
|26| Therefore, do not fear them; for nothing has been veiled which will not be unveiled; and
nothing has been nistar (hidden) which will not be made known.
|27| What I say to you in the choshech (darkness), you declare in the ohr (light); and what you
hear whispered into your ears, shout, preach, from the rooftops.
|28| And do not fear those who kill the basar (flesh), but are unable to kill the nefesh (soul); but
rather fear the One who is able to destroy both basar and nefesh in Gehinnom.
|29| Are not two sparrows sold for the least valuable copper coin? And yet not one of them will
fall to the ground apart from Avichem!
|30| But, as far as you are concerned, even the hairs of your rosh have been inventoried.
|31| Therefore, al taarotz (do not be afraid)! You are of more value than many sparrows!
|32| Therefore, everyone who shall declare publicly the Ani Maamin hodaah of me [as
Moshiach], before Bnei HaAdam, I will make hodaah (acknowledgment) of him before Avi
shbaShomayim.
|33| But everyone who makes hakhchashah (denial) of me [as Moshiach], I also will make
hakhchashah (denial) of him before Avi shbaShomayim.
MISHPOCHAH CANNOT BE PUT ABOVE MOSHIACH
|34| Do not think that I have come to bring shalom al haaretz (peace on the earth); I have not
come to bring shalom but a cherev (sword).
|35| For I came to divide a man against his Av, and a bat against her Em, and a kallah (bride)
against her chamot (mother-in-law, shviger).
|36| And the OIYVEI ISH ANSHEI VEITOH (the enemies of a man will be the members of his
own household, MICHOH 7:6).
|37| The one who has more ahavah (love) for a tata (papa) or a mama than for me [Moshiach] is
not worthy of me [Moshiach], and the one who has more ahavah (love) for a ben or a bat than me
is not worthy of me.
|38| The one who does not take up his etz shel hakarav atzmo (tree of self-sacrifice) and follow
after me, is not worthy of me.
|39| The one who has found his nefesh will lose it; the one who has lost his nefesh for my sake
[lemaan Moshiach] will find it.
|40| The one who gives the kabbalat panim (welcome) to you gives the Baruch Habah (welcome)
to me [to Moshiach], and the one who gives the Baruch Habah to me [Moshiach] gives the
Baruch Habah to the One [Elohim HaAv] who sent me.
|41| The one who gives the Baruch Habah to a navi (prophet) in the name of a navi will receive
the sachar (reward) of a navi, and the one who gives the Baruch Habah to a tzaddik (righteous
man) in the name of a tzaddik will receive the sachar of a tzaddik.
|42| And whoever in the name of a talmid [of Moshiach] gives only a cup of cold water to one of
these little ones [the least of the talmidim of Moshiach], omein, I say to you, he will by no means
lose his sachar (reward).
§PEREK YOD ALEPH (CHAPTER ELEVEN)
And it came about when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach finished giving directives to his
Shneym Asar Talmidim, he moved on from there, exercising the ministry of moreh
(teacher) and darshan (preacher, maggid) in their shtetlach.
|2| Now when Yochanan, in the beit hasohor (prison), heard of the maasei haMoshiach (works of
Moshiach), he sent his talmidim to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|3| They asked him, Tell us. Are you Hu Habah (He who comes) or is our chikiah (wait) to be for
the Bias (Coming) of another?
|4| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach answered them, saying, Go give the report of what you see
and hear to Yochanan:
|5| the ivrim (blind people) see, the pisechim (lame people) walk, the metzoraim (lepers) are
cleansed, the chereshim (deaf people) hear, the mesim are made to stand up alive, and the aniyim
(poor) have the Besuras HaGeulah preached to them.
|6| Ashrey (Happy) is the one who does not find a cause of michshol (falling) in me [as
Moshiach].
|7| As they were leaving, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach began to speak to the multitudes about
Yochanan, What did you go out into the midbar (wilderness) to see? A reed being shaken by the
wind?
|8| What did you go out to see? Someone shtats (imposing, impressive) in appearance, attired in
soft raiment? Hinei, the ones wearing soft raiment are in houses of melachim (kings).
|9| But what did you go out to see? A Navi? Ken, I tell you. And one greater than a Navi.
|10| This is he about whom it has been written, HINNENI SHOLEIACH MALACHI (Behold, I
will send my messenger) before your face, UPINNAH DERECH LEFANAI (and he will prepare
the way before me, [SHEMOT 23:20; MALACHI 3:1]).
|11| Omein, I say to you, of those born of women, there has not appeared one greater than
Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva, yet the person with the least chashivut (importance,
prominence) in the Malchut HaShomayim is greater than he.
|12| From the days of Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva until now, the Malchut HaShomayim
has been under violent attack and the violent seize it with coercion.
|13| For all the Neviim and the Torah prophesied until Yochanan.
|14| And, if you are willing it to be mekabel (accept, receive), he is the "Eliyahu," who is to come
[MALACHI 3:23].
|15| The one having ears, let him hear.
|16| But to what will I compare this generation? It is like yeladim sitting in the marketplaces,
calling out to one another,
|17| We played the chalil (flute) for you, but you did not dance; we sang a kina (lament, funeral
dirge) for you, and you did not mourn.
|18| For Yochanan came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has a shed (demon, evil
spirit).
|19| The Ben HaAdam (Moshiach) came eating and drinking, and they say, Hinei! A zolel
(glutton) and a shikkor (drunkard), a friend of mochesim (tax-collectors) and choteim (sinners).
Yet, Chochmah (Wisdom) is vindicated by her maasim (works).
|20| Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach began to reproach the shtetlach (villages) in which were
accomplished most of his gevurot (mighty deeds), because they did not make teshuva
(repentance, turning from sin to G-d).
|21| Oy l'chah (Woe to you!), Korazin! Oy l'chah, Beit-Tzaidah! For if in Tzor and Tzidon were
accomplished the gevurot that were accomplished among you, they would have made teshuva
long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
|22| Nevertheless, I say to you, it will be more bearable for Tzor and Tzidon than for you on Yom
HaDin (the Day of Judgment).
|23| And you, Kfar-Nachum, were you lifted up as far as Shomayim? You shall be brought down
as far as Sheol [YESHAYAH 14:13,15]. For if in Sdom were accomplished the gevurot that
were accomplished among you, Sdom would have a sheerit (remnant) today!
|24| Nevertheless, I say to you, it will be more bearable for the land of Sdom on Yom HaDin than
for you.
|25| At that time, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Modeh Ani, Avi, Adon HaShomayim
vHaAretz, (I thank you, Father, L-rd of Heaven and Earth), because you hid these things from the
chachamim (wise) and those with seichel, and to them they are nistar (hidden, esoteric), and you
made a hisgalus (revelation) of them unto ollelim (infants).
|26| Ken, Avi, for thus it was pleasing in your sight.
|27| All things were given to me by Avi, and no one has daas (knowledge) of HaBen except
HaAv, nor does anyone have daas of HaAv, except HaBen, and anyone to whom HaBen chooses
to unveil him.
MOSHIACH THE BEN DOVID GO'EL SPEAKS OF MENUCHAH [RUTH 1:9]
|28| Come to me, all you who are burden-weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you Shabbos
menuchah.
|29| Take my ol (yoke) upon you and learn from me, for I am anav (humble) and have shiflut
(lowliness) in lev (heart), and you will find menuchah (rest, security [RUTH 1:9]) for your
nefashot (souls, YIRMEYAH 6:16].
|30| For my [Moshiach's] ol (yoke) is easy and my burden is light. [See Mt 23:4].
§PEREK YOD BEIT (CHAPTER TWELVE)
At that time Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went on Shabbos through the grainfields. And the
talmidim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach were hungry and began to pick the heads of wheat
and to eat them.
|2| But the Perushim, seeing this, said to Moshiach: Hinei! Your talmidim are doing what is asur
(forbidden) to do on Shabbos!
|3| But Moshiach said to them, Have you not read what Dovid HaMelech did when he and those
with him were hungry,
|4| how he entered into the Beis Hashem and ate the Lechem HaPanim (the Bread of the
Presence), which was not mutar (permissible) for him to eat nor the ones with him, but only for
the kohanim alone?
|5| Or have you not read in the Torah that on Shabbos the kohanim in the Beis Hamikdash
commit Chillul HaYom HaShabbos (desecration of the Sabbath Day) and yet are blameless?
[BAMIDBAR 28:9-10]
|6| But I say to you that something greater than the Beis Hamikdash is here.
|7| But if you'd had daas what this means, CHESED CHAFATZTI VLO ZEVACH (I desire
mercy and not sacrifice HOSHEA 6:6), you would not have condemned the innocent.
|8| For the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach) is Adon HaShabbos.
|9| And having gone from there, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went into their shul.
|10| And hinei! there was a man with a withered hand. And they questioned Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach, asking, Is it mutar (permissible) to bring refuah (healing) on Shabbos? They did
this in order to bring accusation against him.
|11| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, What man will there be among you, who owns a keves (lamb), and if it falls into a pit on Shabbos, will not take hold of it and lift it out?
|12| Therefore, how much more valuable is a man than a keves. For this reason, it is mutar
(permissible) on Shabbos to do HaTov.
|13| Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to the man, Stretch out your hand. And the man
stretched out his hand. And it was restored to health, as sound as the other hand.
|14| But the Perushim went out and took counsel against Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach so that they
might destroy him.
|15| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having da'as of this, departed from there. And many
multitudes followed Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and he brought refuah to them all.
|16| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach warned them that they should not make him manifest.
|17| This was to fulfill what was spoken through Yeshayah HaNavi, saying,
|18| HEN AVDI ETMACH BO, BECHIRI RATZTAH NAFSHI, NATATI RUCHI ALAV,
MISHPAT LAGOYIM YOTZI (Here is my Servant, whom I uphold, my Chosen One in whom
my Soul delights, I will put my Spirit on him, he will bring Justice to the Nations, YESHAYAH
42:1)
|19| LO YITZAK VLO YISSAH VLO YASHMIA BACHUTZ KOLO (He will not shout nor cry out nor raise the sound of his voice in the street.)
|20| KANEH RATZUTZ LO YISHBOR UFISHTAH CHEHAH LO YECHABENAH LE-EMET
YOTZI MISHPAT (A bruised reed he will not break nor a smoldering wick will he snuff out)
until Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach leads mishpat (justice) to victory.
|21| And in his Name, HAGOYIM will put their tikvah (hope) [YESHAYAH 42:1-4;
YESHAYAH 11:10 TARGUM HA-SHIVIM]
|22| Then a man, blind and mute, who was possessed by shedim, was brought to Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach, and he brought refuah to him, so that the mute man was able to speak and to see.
|23| And all the multitudes were amazed and they were saying, Surely this is not the Ben Dovid
(Moshiach), is he?
|24| But, having heard this, the Perushim said, This one does not cast out shedim except by
Baal-zibbul, the Sar HaShedim (the Prince of Demons).
|25| But having daas of their thoughts, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Every malchut
that is divided against itself is made desolate, and every ir (city) and bais (house) that is divided
against itself will not stand.
|26| And if Hasatan casts out Hasatan, he is divided against himself. How, therefore, will
the Malchut Hasatan stand?
|27| And if by Baal-zibbul I cast out the shedim, by whom do your banim (sons) cast them out?
Therefore, they will be your shofetim (judges).
|28| But if by the Ruach Hakodesh I [Moshiach] cast out the shedim, then upon you the Malchut
Hashem has arrived.
|29| Or how is someone able to enter the Bayit HaGibbor (the house of the strong man) and
confiscate his furnishings unless he binds the Gibbor (strong man) first. Then he will plunder the
Bayit HaGibbor.
|30| The one not with me [Moshiach] is against me [anti-Moshiach]. And the one not gathering
with me scatters.
|31| Therefore, I say to you, every chet (sin) and gidduf (blasphemy) will be forgiven men, but
whoever commits Chillul Hashem (desecration of the Name) against the Ruach Hakodesh will
not be forgiven.
|32| And whoever speaks a word against the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach) will be granted selicha
(forgiveness), but whoever speaks against the Ruach Hakodesh, selicha (forgiveness) will not be
granted him either in the Olam Hazeh (This World) or in the Olam Habah (The World To Come).
|33| Either make the etz (tree) tov (good) and its pri (fruit) will be tov, or make the etz nishchat
(corrupt) and its pri will be rah; for by its pri the etz is known.
|34| You banim of nechashim (sons of snakes), how are you able to speak tovot (good things), for
out of the abundance of the lev (heart) the mouth speaks.
|35| The ish tov (good man) out of the good otzar (treasure) brings forth good; and the ish rah out
of the evil otzar brings forth evil.
|36| But I say to you, that for every careless lashon horah (evil speech) that men speak, they will
be called to account on the Yom HaDin (the Day of Judgment).
|37| For by your dvarim you will be pronounced tzodek (righteous), and by your dvarim you will
be charged with guilt.
|38| Then some of the Sofrim and Perushim answered Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying,
Rabbi, we desire to see an ot (miraculous sign) from you.
|39| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach answered them, Dor rah umnaef (an evil and adulterous
generation) seeks for an ot (miraculous sign), but no ot will be given it except the ot of Yonah
HaNavi.
|40| For just as Yonah was in the belly of the whale SHLOSHAH YAMIM USHLOSHAH
LAILAH (three days and three nights, YONAH 1:17), so will be the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach) in
the heart of the earth SHLOSHAH YAMIM USHLOSHAH LAILOT (three days and three
nights).
|41| The men of Nineveh will stand up at the Yom HaDin with this generation and they will
condemn it, for the men of Nineveh made teshuva at the hatafah (preaching) of Yonah, and,
hinei, something much greater than Yonah is here.
|42| The Queen of the South will be made to stand up alive at the Yom HaDin with this
generation and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the chochmah
of Shlomo and, hinei, something much greater than Shlomo is here.
|43| Now when the ruach hatameh (unclean spirit) goes out from the man, it goes through dry
places seeking a manoach (resting place) and it does not find one.
|44| Then it says, Into my haunt I will return from where I came out. And having come out, it
finds the bais standing empty, having been swept and having been put beseder (in order).
|45| Then it goes and takes along with itself seven other ruchot more evil than itself and, having
entered the residence, it sets up house there, and the last state of that man has become worse than
the first. Thus it will be with this evil generation also.
MOSHIACH'S ORTHODOX JUDAISM REFUSES VENERATION OF MOSHIACH'S
MISHPOCHAH
|46| While he was still speaking to the multitudes, hinei, Moshiach's Em and achim stood
outside, seeking to speak with him.
|47| And someone said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Hinei! Your Em and your achim have
stood outside seeking to speak with you.
|48| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply to the one speaking with him, Who is my Em
and who are my achim?
|49| And stretching out his hand upon his talmidim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Hinei, my
Em and my achim.
|50| For whoever does the ratzon (will) of Avi shbaShomayim (see Mt 6:10; 26:39), he is my ach
(brother) and achot (sister) and Em (Mother).
§PEREK YOD GIMEL (CHAPTER THIRTEEN)
On that day, having gone out of the bais, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach sat beside the lake.
|2| And many multitudes gathered together to him so that he got into a sirah (boat) to sit
down, and the entire multitude stood along the shore.
|3| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach told them many things in meshalim (parables), saying Hinei! The Sower went out to sow [seeds].
|4| And while he sowed, on the one hand, this [seed] fell along the road, and, the birds having
come, devoured them.
|5| And others fell upon the rocky places, where there is not much soil, and immediately it sprouts on account of the lack of the soil's depth.
|6| And when the shemesh (sun) arose, the zera (seed) was scorched, and because it did not have
a root, it withered.
|7| And others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.
|8| But others fell on the adamah tovah (good ground), and they yielded fruit: the one, one
hundred, the other, sixty, the other, thirty.
|9| The one having oznayim (spiritual ears), let him hear!
|10| And, approaching, the talmidim said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Why in meshalim
(parables) are you speaking to them?
|11| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach answered them, Because to you it has been granted to have
daas of the razim (mysteries) of the Malchut HaShomayim, but to those it has not been granted.
|12| For whoever has, [more] will be given to him, and he will have an abundance. But whoever
does not have, even what he has will be taken from him (see Mt 25:14-29).
|13| For this reason in meshalim I am speaking to them, for while seeing they do not see, and
[while] hearing they do not hear, nor do they have binah (understanding).
|14| And in them is fulfilled the nevuah (prophecy) of Yeshayah HaNavi, saying, SHIMU
SHAMOA VAL TAVINU UREU RAO VAL TEIDAU (In hearing you will hear and by no
means understand, and seeing you will see and by no means perceive).
|15| HASHMEIN LEV HAAM HAZEH VAZNAV HACHBEID VEINAV HASHA, PEN
YIREH VEINAV UVEAZNAV YISHMAH ULEVAVO YAVIN, VSHAV NRAFAH LOH.
(For the heart of this people has been made dull, and with [their] ears are hard of hearing, and
their eyes are shut, lest they see with the their eyes and with [their] ears they hear, and with the
lev (heart) they understand and they turn and I will give them refuah [healing] YESHAYAH
6:9-10).
|16| But ashrey (happy, blessed) are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.
|17| For truly I say to you that many Neviim and tzaddikim desired to see what you see, and they
did not see [it], and to hear what you hear, and they did not hear it.
|18| You, therefore, listen to the mashal of the sower.
|19| When anyone hears the Dvar HaMalchut and does not have binah, HaRah (the Evil one)
comes and seizes that which was sown in his lev (heart). This is the zera (seed) sown along the
path.
|20| And the zera sown upon the rocky places is the person listening to the Dvar Hashem and
immediately with simcha receives it.
|21| Yet he has no root in himself but is short-lived, and when ES TZARAH comes or
persecution on account of the Dvar Hashem, immediately he ceases being a maamin Meshichi
(Messianic believer) and becomes meshummad (apostate), falling away and giving up the [true
Orthodox Jewish] faith. [YIRMEYAH 30:7]
|22| And the [zera] sown among the thorns is the one hearing the dvar (word), and the rogez
HaOlam Hazeh (the anxiety of this age, DEVARIM 28:65) and the mirmah (deceit) of riches,
choke the Dvar Hashem and it becomes unfruitful.
[YESHAYAH 53:9]
|23| And the zera sown upon the adamah tovah (the good ground), this is the one who hears the
Dvar Hashem and, understanding [it], indeed bears pri and, one produces a hundred, the other
sixty, the other thirty.
|24| Another mashal Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach placed before them, saying, The Malchut
HaShomayim is like a man sowing zera tov (good seed) in his field.
|25| But while men slept, his oyev (enemy) came and oversowed weeds in between the wheat and
went away.
|26| But when the wheat sprouted and produced pri, then the weeds also appeared.
|27| So the servants of the Baal Bayit said to him, Adoneinu, did you not sow zera tov (good
seed) in your field? How then does it have weeds?
|28| And he said to them, An oyev did this. So the servants say to him, Do you want us to go and
pull them all?
|29| But he says, No, lest gathering the weeds you should uproot the wheat together with them.
|30| Permit both to grow together until the Katzir (harvest); and in time of the Katzir, I will say to
the kotzerim (reapers), Collect first the weeds, and bind them into bundles to burn them. But the
wheat gather into my barn.
|31| Another mashal Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach placed before them, saying, The Malchut
HaShomayim is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field.
|32| This that is indeed less than all the zeraim (seeds), but when it grows, it is larger than the
garden vegetables and it becomes an etz (tree), so that the OF HASHOMAYIM (the birds of
heaven, IYOV 35:11) come and dwell in its branches.
|33| Another mashal Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach spoke to them. The Malchut HaShomayim is
like seor (leaven), which having taken, a woman hid in three satas of wheat flour until the whole
was leavened.
|34| All these things Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach spoke in meshalim to the multitudes. And apart
from meshalim Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach did not speak to them,
|35| so that might be fulfilled what was spoken through the Navi, saying, EFTCHA VMASHAL
PI AVIAH CHIDOT (I will open my mouth with parables, I will utter things having been hidden) from the foundation of the world. --TEHILLIM 78:2
|36| Then having sent away the multitudes, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came into the bais
(house). And Moshiach's talmidim approached him, saying, Explain to us the mashal of the
weeds of the field.
|37| And answering, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, The Sower of the zera tov is the Ben
HaAdam (Moshiach).
|38| The field is HaOlam Hazeh. And the zera tov, the good seed, these are the Bnei HaMalchut,
and the weeds, these are the bnei HaRah (sons of the Evil one, BERESHIT 3:15).
|39| And the Oyev (the Enemy) sowing them is Hasatan. And the Katzir (Harvest), this is the
HaKetz HaOlam (the end of the age). And the kotzerim (reapers, harvesters) are malachim
(angels).
|40| As the weeds are pulled up and gathered and are consumed with Eish (Fire), so also it will be
at the Ketz HaOlam.
|41| The Ben HaAdam (Moshiach) will send forth his malachim, and they will pull up and gather
out of the Moshiach's Malchut all the things making meshummad (apostate) and the ones who
are without Torah and antinomian.
|42| And Moshiach's malachim will throw them into the furnace of Eish; there will be weeping
and grinding of teeth.
|43| Then the tzaddikim will shine as the shemesh (sun) in the Malchut of their Father. The one
having oznayim (spiritual ears), let him hear.
|44| The Malchut HaShomayim is like otzar (treasure) hidden in the field, which, having found, a
man hid. And from the simcha he experienced, he goes away and sells everything which he has
and buys that field.
|45| Again, the Malchut HaShomayim is like a merchant searching for fine pearls.
|46| And having found one precious pearl, he went away and liquidated everything he had and
acquired it.
|47| Again, the Malchut HaShomayim is like a reshet (net) having been cast into the lake, a reshet
collecting and gathering dagim (fish) of all descriptions,
|48| which, when this reshet (net) was filled, they hoisted it upon the shore, sat down, collected
the tov (good) into a creel, and the rah (evil), they threw out.
|49| Thus it will be at HaKetz HaOlam Hazeh (The End of This World). The malachim will go
out and they will separate the reshaim from among the tzaddikim.
|50| And they will throw the reshaim into the furnace of Eish. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
|51| Did you have binah of all these things? They say to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Ken.
|52| So Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Therefore, every sofer (scribe, Torah-teacher,
rabbi) who becomes a talmid of the Malchut HaShomayim is like a man [who is] a Baal Bayit,
who takes out of his otzar (treasure), chadashot (new things) and also yeshanot (old things).
|53| And it came about when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach finished these meshalim, that he went
away from there.
|54| And having come into Moshiach's shtetl, he began ministering as a moreh (teacher) in their
shul, so that they were amazed and said, From where did this chochmah come to this one, this
chochmah and these moftim (miracles, wonders, omens)?
|55| Is this not the ben hanaggar (the carpenter's son)? Is not his Em called Miryam? And are not
his achim Yaakov, Yosef, Shimon and Yehuda?
|56| And are not his achayot (sisters) with us? From where, therefore, came to this one all these
things?
|57| And they were taking offense at Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. But Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach said to them, A Navi (prophet) is not dishonored except in his hometown and in his
bais.
|58| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach did not accomplish in that place many moftim, because of
their lack of emunah (faith) and bitachon (trust).
§PEREK YOD DALET (CHAPTER FOURTEEN)
At that time reports about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came to the oznayim (ears) of Herod
the Tetrarch.
|2| And he said to his servants, This one is Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva. He has had his
Techiyah (Resurrection) from HaMesim (the Dead) and for this reason the moftim (wonders) are
working in him.
|3| For Herod had Yochanan arrested and bound him and threw him into the beit hasohar (prison),
on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip.
|4| For Yochanan kept on saying to him, It is asur (impermissible, forbidden) for you to have her.
|5| And [although] Herod was desiring to kill Yochanan, he feared the crowd, because they
considered Yochanan a Navi.
|6| Now at the yom huledet (birthday) celebration of Herod, it came about that the daughter of
Herodias danced before them and Herod was pleased.
|7| Herod, therefore, with a shevuah (an oath), promised to give to her whatever she might ask.
|8| So she, prompted by her mother, said, Give to me here upon a serving tray the rosh (head)
Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva. |9| And, although grieving, the king commanded [it] to be
given, on account of the shevuot (oaths) and the fellow muzmanim (guests).
|10| And he sent and had Yochanan beheaded in the beit hasohar.
|11| And the rosh Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva was brought upon a serving tray, and it was
presented to the girl and she presented it to her mother.
|12| And Yochanan's talmidim approached and carried away the niftar (deceased person) and buried him. Then they went and reported [it] to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|13| And when he heard [this], he withdrew from there in a sirah (boat) to a desolate place by
himself. And when the multitudes heard [this], they followed Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach by
land from the shtetlach.
REBBE'S FARBRENGEN (INSPIRATIONAL GATHERING)
|14| And having gone out, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach saw a great multitude, and Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach felt rachmei shomayim (heavenly compassion) for them and brought refuah
(healing) to their cholim.
|15| Now when erev (evening) came, Moshiach's talmidim came to him, saying, This place is
desolate and the time is late. Dismiss the multitude, so that, having gone into the shtetlach, they
may buy for themselves okhel (food).
|16| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, They have no need to go away. You yourselves give them something to eat.
|17| But Moshiach's talmidim say to him, We do not have here anything except five loaves and of
dagim (fish), only two.
|18| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Bring them here to me.
|19| And having commanded the multitudes to recline on the grass [as at tish] and having taken
the five loaves and the two dagim, and having looked up to Shomayim, Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach said a bracha over the okhel, and having offered the betziat halechem (the breaking
of the bread), Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave the lechem to the talmidim, and Moshiach's
talmidim served the lechem to the multitudes.
|20| And everyone ate and they were satisfied, and they took away shirayim (Rebbe's remainders,
leftovers), shneym asar (twelve) baskets full.
|21| And the ones eating were about chamesh elafim (five thousand) men, apart from the nashim
and yeladim.
|22| And immediately Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach compelled the talmidim to board a sirah (boat) and to go on ahead of him to the other side until he might send away the multitudes.
|23| And having sent away the multitudes, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went up to the mountain
by himself to daven. Now when erev had come, he was alone there.
|24| Now the sirah (boat), being tossed by the waves (for the wind was against them), was by this
time many stadia distant from the land.
|25| Now in the fourth watch of the night (between three o'oclock and six o'clock in the
morning), Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came to them, walking on the lake.
|26| But Moshiach's talmidim, having seen him walking on the lake, were terribly shaken, saying,
It is a ruach refaim (an apparition)! And from pachad (terror) they cried out.
|27| And immediately Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach spoke to them, saying, Chazak! Ani Hu. (I am
he, SHEMOT 3:14) Do not be afraid.
|28| And Kefa said in reply to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Adoni, if it is really you, command
me to come to you al pnei hamayim (on the surface of the waters).
|29| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Boh! (Come!) And having gone down from the sirah (boat), Kefa walked al pnei hamayim (on the surface of the waters) and came toward Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|30| And seeing the strong wind, Kefa was afraid, and having begun to sink, Kefa cried out,
saying, Gevalt! Adoni, hoshieini!
(Help! L-rd, save me!)
|31| And immediately Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having stretched out (his) hand, took hold of
Kefa and says to him, One of little emunah, why did you doubt? |32| And as they were going up
into the sirah (boat), the wind became still.
|33| And the ones in the sirah (boat) fell down before Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying,
Beemes (Actually) you are the Ben HaElohim!
|34| And having crossed over, they came onto the land at Gennesaret.
|35| And having recognized him, the men of that place sent into all the surrounding region
around, and they brought to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach all the cholim (sick persons),
|36| and they were appealing to him that they might touch even the Moshiach's tzitzit on his
garment, and all who did, received Moshiach's refuah (healing). [YESHAYAH 53:5]
§PEREK TET VAV (CHAPTER FIFTEEN)
Then Perushim and Sofrim (rabbonim) from Yerushalayim approach Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach, saying,
|2| Why do your talmidim transgress the Masoret HaZekenim (the Tradition of the Elders)? For
they do not do the netilat yadayim (ritual of the washing of the hands) before meals.
|3| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, in reply to them, said, Why [do] also you transgress the
mitzvat Hashem for the sake of your own masoret (tradition)?
|4| For Hashem has said, KABED ES AVICHA VES IMMECHA (honor your father and your
mother, SHEMOT 20:12; DEVARIM 5:16), and MKALEL AVIV VIMMO MOT YUMAT
(literally, the one cursing to die he must die, SHEMOT 21:17; VAYIKRA 20:9).
|5| But you say, Whoever says to his abba or his em, whatever support you might have had from
me, [it is] a gift [i.e. korban, dedicated to G-d].
|6| By no means does [anyone who says this] honor his abba. And you nullify the Dvar Hashem
on account of your masoret.
|7| You tzevuim (hypocrites), well did Yeshayah give a dvar hanevuah (prophecy) concerning
you, saying,
|8| YAAN KI NIGASH HAAM HAZEH BEFIV UVISHFATAV KI-BDUNI VLIBO RICHAK
MIMENI VATEHI YIRATAM OTI MITZVAT ANASHIM MELUMADAH (This people with
their lips honor me, but their heart is far away from me,
|9| and in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the mitzvot of [mere] men,
YESHAYAH 29:13.)
|10| And having summoned the multitude, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Listen and
understand!
|11| It is not the thing entering into the mouth that makes the man tameh (unclean), but the thing
going out from the mouth--this makes the man tameh.
|12| Then Moshiach's talmidim approached and say to him, Do you know that the Perushim took
offense when they heard [this] dvar?
|13| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, in reply, said, Every plant which Avi shbaShomayim did
not plant will be uprooted.
|14| Leave them. They are blind morei derech (guides/teachers) of [the] blind. And if the ivver
(blind man) leads the ivrim (blind), both will fall into a pit.
|15| And Kefa said in reply to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Explain to us the mashal.
|16| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Are you still devoid of binah (understanding)?
|17| Do you not have daas that everything which enters into the mouth goes into the stomach
and passes into a latrine?
|18| But the things coming out from the mouth come out from the lev (heart), which makes
tameh.
IN SPEAKING TO JEWS, MOSHIACH DOES NOT ISSUE A CHEREM AGAINST
BIBLICAL KASHRUT (cf MK 7:1-23 FOR RELATED TEACHING FOR NON-JEWS);
HOWEVER, HE DOES SHOW BOTH JEWS AND NON-JEWS THAT IT IS THE
UNREGENERATE HEART WITHOUT HITKHADSHUT AND SPIRITUAL NEW BIRTH
THAT IS THE ROOT OF UNCLEANNESS AND NO AMOUNT OF HAND-WASHING OR
DIETARY CARE CAN CHANGE THAT ASPECT OF THE HUMAN CONDITION
|19| For out of the lev comes evil machshavot (thoughts): retzichot (murders), niufim (adulteries),
zenunim (fornications), genevot (thefts), eduyot sheker (false testimonies), giddufim
(revilements).
|20| These are the things making the man tameh, but eating with hands lacking the netilat
yadayim (ritual of the washing of the hands--see Mt 27:24), this does not make the man tameh.
|21| And having gone from that place, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach withdrew into the districts of
Tzor and Tzidon.
|22| And--hinei--a woman from Canaan came out from those regions, and was shouting, Have
mercy on me, Adoni, Ben Dovid! My bat (daughter) is in torment possessed by shedim.
|23| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach did not answer her a word. And Moshiach's talmidim
having approached, were asking him, saying, Send her away, for she shouts after us.
|24| But, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply, I was not sent except to the Seh Oveid
HaBeth Yisroel (the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel).
|25| But she came and fell down before Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying, Adoni, azreini
(L-rd, help me).
|26| But, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply, It is not good to take the lechem of the Banim
and throw it to the kelevim (dogs).
|27| But she said, Ken, Adoni, but even the kelevim eat the crumbs falling from the tish (table) of
their masters.
|28| Then, in reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to her, O woman, great [is] your emunah.
Let it be done for you as you wish. And the bat (daughter) of her was given refuah (healing) at
that very hour.
|29| And having passed over from that place, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came beside Lake
Kinneret, and having gone up the mountain, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was sitting there.
|30| And great multitudes approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having with them pisechim
(lame), ivrim (blind), the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they laid them at Moshiach's
feet, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave the cholim (sick persons) refuah (healing).
|31| The result was that the multitude was astounded, witnessing mute people speaking, cripples
made whole, the pisechim (lame) walking, and the ivrim (blind people) seeing, and they gave
kavod to Elohei Yisroel.
|32| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having summoned his talmidim, said, I have rachmei
shomayim for the multitudes, for already shloshah yamim (three days) they remain with me and
they do not have anything they may eat, and I do not want to send them away famished, lest they
might faint on the way.
|33| And Moshiach's talmidim say to him, From where bamidbar (in the wilderness) is there
enough lechem for us to feed such a vast multitude?
|34| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, How much lechem, how many loaves do you
have? And they said, Sheva (seven), and a few dagim (fish).
|35| And when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave the command for the multitude to recline on the
ground,
|36| Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach took the loaves numbering sheva and the dagim, and, making a
bracha, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach offered the betziat halechem (the breaking of the bread) and
served them to the talmidim, and Moshiach's talmidim served them to the multitudes.
|37| And everyone ate and they were satisfied, and the Rebbe's farbrengen shirayim were
numbering sheva baskets full.
|38| And the ones eating were arbaat elafim (four thousand) men, not counting nashim and
yeladim.
|39| And having sent away the multitudes, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach embarked in the sirah
(boat), and came to the region of Magadan.
§PEREK TET ZAYIN (CHAPTER SIXTEEN)
And the Perushim and Tzedukim approached, to test Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, asking
him to present them with an ot (sign) from Shomayim.
|2| But in reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, When it is erev, you say, It will be fair
weather, for the sky is fiery red.
|3| And in the boker (morning) you say, There will be stormy weather today, for the sky is
overcast fiery red and threatening. You have daas to distinguish the signs of the appearance of the sky, but you can't discern the signs of the times.
|4| A dor rah umnaef (an evil and adulterous generation) demands an ot (sign), and no ot will be
given it except the ot of Yonah HaNavi. And having left them, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach
went away.
|5| When the Moshiach's talmidim arrived at the other side, they had forgotten to take lechem.
REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S WARNING ABOUT ANY TEACHING THAT PUFFS
UP WITH BLINDING GA'AVAH (PRIDE)
|6| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Take special precaution against the chametz
(swelling leaven) of the Perushim and Tzedukim.
|7| But they began reasoning among themselves, saying, We took no lechem.
|8| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, aware of their machshavot (thoughts), said, You men of
little emunah, why do you reason among yourselves that you have no lechem?
|9| Do you not yet have binah or remember the five loaves of the chamesh elafim (five thousand),
and how many baskets full you took up,
|10| or the shevah loaves of the arbaat elafim (four thousand), and how many large baskets full
you took up?
|11| How is it that you do not chap (grasp mentally) that I did not speak to you concerning
lechem? But beware of the chametz (swelling [like evil, like gaavah, pride], all-permeating
leaven) of the Perushim and Tzedukim.
|12| Then Moshiach's talmidim understood that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach did not say to
beware of the chametz of the lechem, but of the chametz of the teaching of the Perushim and the
Tzedukim.
ANI MAAMIN BEEMUNAH SHELEIMAH B'REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH
YEHOSHUA BEN ELOHIM CHAYYIM
|13| Now, having arrived in the district of Caesarea Philippi, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach began
asking his talmidim, saying, Who do men say that [I] the Ben HaAdam am?
|14| And Moshiach's talmidim said, Some say Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva, and others say,
Eliyahu HaNavi, but still others say, Yirmeyah or one of the Neviim.
|15| Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, But you, who do you consider me to be?
|16| And, Shimon Kefa said in reply, You are the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, the Ben Elohim
Chayyim!
|17| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply to him, Ashrey atah (happy are you), Shimon
Bar Yonah, because basar vadahm (flesh and blood) did not give you this hisgalus (revelation),
but Avi shbaShomayim.
|18| And I also say to you that you are Shimon Kefa [Petros] and upon this TSUR I will build my
Kehillah, my Chavurah (the Community of Moshiach) and the shaarei Sheol (gates of Sheol)
shall not overpower it.
|19| I will give you the maftechot Malchut HaShomayim (keys of the Kingdom of Heaven); and
whatever you shall bind as asur (prohibited) on haaretz shall be bound as asur (prohibited) in
Shomayim, and whatever you shall loose as mutar (permitted) on haaretz shall be loosed as mutar (permitted) in Shomayim.
|20| Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave the directive to his talmidim that they should tell no
one that he was the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|21| From that point he began to explain to his talmidim that it was necessary that Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach go to Yerushalayim, and suffer many things from the Zekenim (Elders), and the
Rashei Hakohanim (the Chief Priests) and the Sofrim (Scribes) and it was necessary for
Moshiach to be killed and have his histalkus (passing), that he would undergo the Techiyas
HaMoshiach (Resurrection of Moshiach) on the Yom HaShlishi (the Third Day).
|22| And Kefa took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, Chas vshalom (G-d forbid)!
Adoni, this shall never happen to you!
|23| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach turned and said to Kefa, Get behind me, Hasatan! You are
a michshol (stumbling block) to me; for you are not setting your mind on the things of Hashem,
but the things of Bnei Adam!
|24| Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to his talmidim, If anyone wishes to come after me,
let him turn in hinnazrut (self-denial), and take up his etz shel hakarav atzmo (tree of self-
sacrifice), and follow me.
|25| For whoever wishes to save his nefesh shall lose it; but whoever loses his nefesh on account
of me [Moshiach], shall find it.
|26| For what will a man be benefited if he acquires the whole world and forfeits his neshamah, or what will a man give in exchange for his neshamah?
|27| For the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach) is about to come in the kavod of his Av with his malachim
and will then recompense every man according to his maasim (deeds).
|28| Omein, I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who shall not taste death
until they see the Bias of the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach) coming in his Malchut.
§PEREK YOD ZAYIN (CHAPTER SEVENTEEN)
A PREVIEW (PROMISED IN MT 16:28) OF THE BIAS HAMOSHIACH
And after shisha yamim (six days), Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach took Kefa and Yaakov and
Yochanan his brother, and brings them up to a high mountain privately.
|2| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was transfigured before them, and Moshiach's face shone
like the shemesh (sun), and his garments became brilliant like the ohr (light).
|3| And--hinei!--there appeared before them Moshe Rabbenu and Eliyahu HaNavi conferring with
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|4| And Kefa said in reply to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Adoni, it is good for us to be here. If
you wish, I will make shalosh succot here: one for you, and one for Moshe Rabbenu, and one for
Eliyahu HaNavi.
|5| While he was speaking --hinei!--a brightly shining anan (cloud) overshadowed them,
and--hinei!--a bat kol (a voice from heaven) out of the anan was saying, This is my Ben ahuvi
(beloved Son) with whom I am well-pleased. Listen to him.
|6| And having heard this, the talmidim fell on their faces and were filled with pachad (fear,
terror).
|7| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came to them, and touched them, and said, Arise, and do not
be afraid.
|8| And lifting their eyes, they saw no one except only Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach himself,
alone.
|9| And as Moshiach's talmidim were coming down from the mountain, Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach gave them this
directive, saying, Tell the mareh (vision) to no one until the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach) has
undergone the Techiyas HaMoshiach.
|10| And Moshiach's talmidim asked him, saying, Why then do the Sofrim say that it is necessary
for Eliyahu HaNavi to come first?
|11| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply, Eliyahu HaNavi does indeed have his
coming and will restore all things.
|12| But I say to you, that Eliyahu has come already, and they did not have daas of him, but did to
him whatever they willed (Mt 6:10). So also the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach) is about to suffer by
them.
|13| Then the Moshiach's talmidim had binah that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach spoke to them
about Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva.
|14| And when they came to the multitude, a man came up to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, falling
down before him.
|15| And the man said, Adoni, grant rachamim (mercy) on this ben (son) of mine, for he is an
epileptic, and suffers horribly; for often he falls into the eish, and often into the mayim.
|16| And I brought him to your talmidim, and they could not give him refuah.
|17| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply, O perverted generation without emunah, how
long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him here to me.
|18| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach rebuked it, and the shed (demon/evil spirit) came out of
him, and the bocher received his refuah that hour.
|19| Then the talmidim came to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach in a yechidus (private meeting with
the Rebbe), and said, Why were we not able to cast it out?
|20| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, On account of your little emunah, for, omein,
I say to you, if you have emunah as a mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Move from
here, and it shall be moved; and nothing shall be impossible for you.
|21| But this kind [i.e. kind of mazikim (malicious spirits)] do not come out except by tefillah and
tzom.
|22| And as they were gathering together in the Galil, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them,
The Ben HaAdam (Moshiach) is about to be handed over, even betrayed, into the hands of Bnei
Adam.
|23| And they will kill him, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach will have a histalkus (passing) and
will undergo the Techiyas HaMoshiach on the Yom HaShlishi. And Moshiach's talmidim were
deeply moved with agmat nefesh (grief).
|24| And when they had come to Kfar-Nachum, those who collected the two-drachma tax
approached Kefa, and said, Does your rebbe not pay the two-drachma tax?
|25| Kefa said, Ken. And when Kefa came into the bais (house), Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach
anticipated Kefa with this question, What think you, Shimon? From whom do the melechei
haaretz (kings of the earth) collect customs or poll tax, from their banim (sons) or from zarim
(strangers)?
|26| And upon Kefa's saying, From zarim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to Kefa, Veha raya
(consequently), the banim are patur (exempt, free).
|27| But, lest we give them offense, go to the yam (sea), and cast in a hook, and take the first
dag
(fish) that comes up; and when you open its mouth, you will find a stater (coin). Take that and
give it to them for you and for me.
§PEREK YOD HET (CHAPTER EIGHTEEN)
At that time, the talmidim approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach with this sheelah saying,
Who then is greatest in the Malchut HaShomayim?
|2| And having called a yeled to himself, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach set him before them,
|3| and said, Omein, I say to you, unless you change inwardly and have a complete turn-around
and become like yeladim, you shall never enter the Malchut HaShomayim.
|4| Therefore, whoever humbles himself as this yeled, he is the greatest in the Malchut
HaShomayim.
|5| And whoever receives one such yeled in my Name receives me [Moshiach].
|6| But whoever causes a michshol (stumbling block) for one of these little ones, who have
emunah in me, it is better for him that a heavy millstone be hung around his neck, and that he be
drowned in the depth of the sea.
|7| Oy lOlam (Woe to the World) because of its michsholim (stumbling blocks)! For it is
inevitable that michsholim come; but oy to that man through whom the michshol comes.
|8| And if your hand or your foot causes a michshol for you, cut it off, and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter Chayyim crippled or as one of the pisechim (lame), than, having two hands and two feet, to be cast into the Eish Olam (Eternal Fire).
|9| And if your eye causes a michshol for you, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for
you to enter Chayyim one-eyed than, having two eyes, to be cast into the Gehinnom HaEish.
|10| See to it that you do not look down on one of these little ones, for I say to you that their
malachim which are in Shomayim continually behold the face of Avi shbaShomayim (my Father
who is in Heaven).
|11| For the Ben HaAdam [Moshiach] came to save the lost.
|12| What do you think? If any man owns a hundred kevesim (sheep) and one of them has gone
astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the hillsides and go and search for the one that is
straying?
|13| And if it turns out that he finds it, beemes I say to you, he has more simcha (joy) over it than
over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.
|14| Thus it is not the ratzon Hashem, the will of your Av shbaShomayim, that one of these little
ones perish.
|15| And if your Ach b'Moshiach sins against you, go and reprove him in private, just between
the two of you; if he listens to you, you have gained your Ach b'Moshiach.
|16| But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more Achim b'Moshiach with you, so that by
the PI SHNAYIM SHLOSHAH EDIM (by the mouth of two or three witnesses, DEVARIM
19:15) every word shall be established.
|17| But if he refuses to listen to them, speak to the shtiebel kehillah, and if he even refuses to
hear the kehillah, let him be to you as the Goy and the moches (tax-collector).
|18| Omein, I say to you, whatever you bind as asur (prohibited) on haaretz will have been bound
in Shomayim, and whatever you permit as mutar on haaretz is mutar (permitted) in Shomayim.
|19| Again, omein, I say to you, that if two of you will be in agreement about anything on haaretz
that you petition for, it will be done for them by Avi shbaShomayim.
|20| For where two or three are gathered as a Chavurah and become a Kehillah in my name
[Moshiach], there I am in the midst of them.
|21| Then, having approached, Kefa said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Adoni, how often will
my brother sin against me and I will grant to him selicha (forgiveness)? As many as shevah
(seven) times?
|22| Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to Kefa, I do not say to you as many as shevah, but as many as shivim (seventy) times shevah.
|23| Therefore, the Malchut HaShomayim is like a melech, a king, who wished to settle accounts
with his servants.
|24| And having begun to settle accounts, a debtor owing ten thousand talents was brought to the
melech.
|25| And, as this debtor did not have the means to pay what was owed his adon, the king
commanded that he and his wife and children and everything he possessed be sold and the debt
repaid.
|26| Therefore, crying out for rachamim (mercy) and falling down before him, the servant said,
Have zitzfleisch (patience) with me and I will pay back to you everything!
|27| And out of rachamanut (compassion), the adon of that servant pardoned him and forgave the
choiv (debt).
|28| Then the debtor went out and found one of the other fellow servants who happened to owe
the debtor one hundred denarii. And seizing and choking the servant, the debtor said, Repay
what you owe me!
|29| And, falling down, the servant said to the debtor, Have zitzfleisch (patience) with me and I
will repay you.
|30| But the debtor was not willing. Then the debtor went and threw the servant into the beit
hasohar (prison) until he should repay the debt.
|31| Therefore, when the man's fellow servants saw what had taken place, great was their agmat
nefesh (grief), and they went and reported to their adon all that had taken place.
|32| Then having summoned the debtor, his adon said to him, Wicked servant, all that choiv
(debt) I forgave you, because you begged me.
|33| Was it not necessary also for you to have rachamim (mercy) upon your fellow servant?
|34| And in charon af (wrath), his adon handed the debtor over to the keepers of the beit hasohar
until the debtor should repay the entire choiv (debt).
|35| Thus also Avi shbaShomayim will do to you, unless you grant selicha (forgiveness), each
one
to his brother from your lev (heart).
§PEREK YOD TET (CHAPTER NINETEEN)
And it came to pass when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach finished these dvarim, he departed
from the Galil and came into the regions of Yehudah east of the Yarden River.
|2| And a great multitude followed Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, who brought refuah (healing) to
them there.
|3| And the Perushim approached him with a sheelah to test him, and they asked him, Is it mutar
(permissible) for a man to give a get (divorce) to his wife for any and every reason?
|4| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply, Have you not read that HaBoreh (The Creator,
G-d) bereshis (in the beginning) created them zachar (male) and nekevah (female) [BERESHIT
1:27, 5:2]?
|5| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Because of this, YAAZAV ISH ES AVIV VES IMMO
VDAVAK BISHTO VHAYU LVASAR ECHAD (a man will leave his father and his mother
and will be joined to his isha (wife), and the two will be one flesh, BERESHIT 2:24).
|6| So they are no longer shnayim (two) but basar echad (one flesh). Therefore, whatever Hashem joined together, let no man divide asunder.
|7| They say to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Why then did Moshe Rabbenu give the mitzvah to
give the get, the sefer keritut (bill of divorcement), and send her away |8| Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach says to them, Moshe, because of your hardness of heart, permitted you to give the
get to your wives; but from bereshis (in the beginning), however, it was not so.
|9| But I [Moshiach] say to you that whoever, the case of zenut (fornication) being excepted,
gives the get to his wife and marries another, is guilty of niuf (adultery).
|10| Moshiach's talmidim say to him, If thus is the case of the man with the wife, nikhnas
lchuppah (to be wed) is not advantageous.
|11| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Not everyone is able to accept this dvar torah,
but rather those to whom it has been given.
JUST AS WAS THE CASE WITH THAT BOCHER YIRMEYAH, NOT ALL HAVE A
BASHERTE (DESTINED MATE)
|12| For there are sarisim (eunuchs) who from the womb of their Em were born thus, and there
are sarisim who were made sarisim by men, and there are sarisim who make sarisim of
themselves for the sake of the Malchut HaShomayim. The one able to receive this, let him
receive it.
PERMIT THE YELADIM TO COME TO MOSHIACH FOR BRACHA AND CHINUCH
|13| Then yeladim were brought to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach that he might place his hands on
them and say a bracha. However, Moshiach's talmidim rebuked them.
|14| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Permit the yeladim to come to me, and forbid them
not, for of such is the Malchut HaShomayim.
|15| And having placed his hands on the yeladim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach departed from
there.
THE OISHER, RICH WITHOUT PERCEPTION OF TRUE RICHES, HAS AN ELIL HE
KEEPS THAT COSTS HIM THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECEIVE MOSHIACH'S SMICHAH
FOR MESSIANIC MINISTRY
|16| And--hinei--one, having approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, said, Rebbe, what
mitzvah, what good may I do that I may have Chayyei Olam?
|17| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Why do you ask me about the good? There is
only One who is good, nu? But if you wish to enter into Chayyim (Life), do not fail to be shomer mitzvot.
|18| He says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Which mitzvah? And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach
said, LO TIRTZACH, LO TINAF, LO TIGNOV, LO TAANEH VREIACHAH AD SHAKER,
KABEID ES AVICHA VES IMMECHAH, VAHAVTAH LREACHA KAMOCHA (You shall
not murder, commit adultery, steal, bear false witness;
|19| honor your father and your mother, and you shall love your neighbor as yourself,
SHEMOT 20:13 (13-16); DEVARIM 5:17-20; SHEMOT 20:12; DEVARIM 5:16; VAYIKRA
19:18.
|20| The bocher (bachelor, young man) says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, I was shomer
mitzvot and frum in all these things, so where do I still fall short?
|21| Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, If you wish to be tamim (perfect), if you wish to
have shelemut (perfection, completeness), then go and sell your possessions and give to the
aniyim (poor) and you will have otzar (treasure) in Shomayim. Then come and follow me.
|22| But having heard the divrei Moshiach, the young man went away with agmat nefesh (grief),
for he was having many possessions.
|23| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to his talmidim, Omein, I say to you that an ashir
(oisher, rich man) with difficulty will enter into the Malchut HaShomayim (Kingdom of
Heaven).
|24| And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for an
ashir to enter into the Malchut HaShomayim.
|25| And when Moshiach's talmidim heard this, they were exceedingly astounded, saying, Who
then is able to receive the Yeshuat Eloheinu (Salvation of our G-d)?
|26| And having looked upon them, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, With Bnei Adam it
is impossible; but with Hashem all things are possible.
|27| Then Kefa said in reply to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Hinei! We have left everything and
followed you [as Moshiach]! Where does that leave us?
|28| And Moshiach said to them, Omein, I say to you, that you, the ones having followed me,
when the Briah (Creation) becomes Chadasha (New), when the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach) sits
upon his Kisei Kavod (Throne of Glory), you also will sit upon the Shneym Asar Kisot (Twelve
Thrones) judging the Shneym Asar Shivtei Yisroel (the Twelve Tribes of Israel).
|29| And anyone who left bais or achim or achayot or Abba or Em or banim or sadot (fields) on
account of me (Moshiach) and my Name (Yehoshua), will receive a hundred times over and will
inherit Chayyei Olam.
|30| And many who are Rishonim (first ones) will be Acharonim (last ones), and the Acharonim,
Rishonim.
§PEREK KAPH (CHAPTER TWENTY)
The Malchut HaShomayim is like a man, the Baal Bayit, who went out early in the boker
(morning), to hire poalim (workers) for his kerem (vineyard).
|2| And having agreed with the poalim to salary them a denarius for their day's pay, the Baal
Bayit sent them into his kerem.
|3| And having gone out around the third hour, the Baal Bayit saw others loitering in the
marketplace,
|4| and he said to those, You go also into the kerem. And whatever is right, this is what your pay
will be.
|5| And they left. And again, having gone out around the sixth and the ninth hour, the Baal Bayit
did the same thing.
|6| And around the eleventh hour, having gone out, the Baal Bayit found others standing around,
and he says to them, Why have you been standing here all the day not working?
|7| The idle workers say to the Baal Bayit, Because no one hired us. The Baal Bayit says to them,
You go also into the kerem.
|8| And when erev had come, another man, the owner of the kerem, says to his foreman, Call the
poalim and give to them the wage, beginning with the acharonim and going to the rishonim.
|9| And the ones that came around the eleventh hour each received a denarius.
|10| And when the rishonim came, they were under the impression that they would receive a
larger sum; instead, they themselves each received a denarius.
|11| And when they received the denarius, they were complaining against the Baal Bayit,
|12| saying, These acharonim worked one hour, and you made them equal to us, the ones having
endured the burden and the heat of the whole day.
|13| But the Baal Bayit said in reply to one of them, Chaver, I am not cheating you. Did you not
agree that I would pay you the usual day's wage, a denarius?
|14| Take what belongs to you, your denarius, and go. But it is my ratzon, my good pleasure, to
give to this one who is last also what I gave to you.
|15| Or is it not allowable for me to do what I wish with the things that are mine? Or do you look
with a jealous ayin horo upon my goodness?
|16| Thus the Rishonim will be Acharonim, and the Acharonim will be Rishonim.
|17| And going up to Yerushalayim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach took the Shneym Asar
Talmidim aside in a yechidus, and, on the way, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them,
|18| Hinei! We are going up to Yerushalayim, and the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach) will be handed
over to the Rashei Hakohanim and the Sofrim (scribes, Torah-teachers, or rabbonim), and they
will condemn him to death.
|19| And they will hand Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach over to the Goyim in order to mock and to
whip and to hang him up TALUI AL HAETZ (being hanged on the Tree DEVARIM 21:23), and
after his histalkus (passing), on the Yom HaShlishi (Third Day) there will be Techiyas
HaMoshiach.
|20| Then the Em of Zavdai's banim, along with the sons, approached Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach and, prostrating herself before him, she made a bakosha (request) of him.
|21| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to her, What do you wish? She says to Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach, Say that these, my two banim, may sit, one on your right, the other on your left, in
your (the Moshiach's) Malchut (Kingdom).
|22| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply, You do not have daas of what you are asking.
Are you able to drink the Kos which I am about to drink? They say, We are able.
|23| Moshiach says to them, Indeed, you will drink my Kos, but to sit on the right and on the left
of me, this is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my
(Moshiach's) Av.
|24| And having heard this, HaAsarah (The Ten) became indignant about the two achim
(brothers).
|25| But Moshiach, having summoned them, said, You have daas that those who have the rule
over the Goyim domineer them like tyrants.
|26| But it will not be thus among you. For whoever wishes to be gadol among you will become
your mesharet (servant, minister).
|27| And whoever wishes among you to be rishon (first) will be your eved (servant).
|28| Just as the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach) did not come to be served, to be ministered to, but to
serve, to minister, and to give his neshamah, his nefesh, as a kofer (ransom, pedut) LARABBIM
(for the sake of many, for the Geulah Redemption of many, YESHAYAH 53:11).
|29| And, as they were going out from Yericho, a great multitude followed Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach.
|30| And--hinei!--two ivrim (blind men), sitting beside the road, having heard that Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach is passing by, shouted, crying out, Adoneinu, Ben Dovid, chaneinu, yhi chasedcha
aleinu (have mercy on us TEHILLIM 33:22)!
|31| However, the crowd rebuked the two ivrim, that they be silent, but they shouted even more,
saying Chaneinu, Adoneinu Ben Dovid!
|32| And having stopped, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach called to them and said, What do you wish
that I should do for you?
|33| They say to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach: Adoneinu, that our eyes may be opened!
|34| And having been filled with rachmei shomayim (heavenly mercy/compassion), Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach touched their eyes, and immediately their eyes were opened and they
followed Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
§PEREK KAPH ALEPH (CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE)
When they came near to Yerushalayim and arrived at Beit-Pagey on the Mount of Olives,
then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach sent two talmidim,
|2| saying to them, Go into the shtetl ahead of you, and immediately you will find a donkey
having been tied and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to me.
|3| And if anyone should say to you anything, you say, HaAdon has need of them. And he will
send them immediately.
|4| And this took place in order that might be fulfilled the thing spoken by the Navi (Prophet),
saying:
|5| IMRU LBAT TZIYON! (Tell the Daughter of Zion!) Hinei! Your Melech comes, ANI
VROCHEV AL CHAMOR VAL AYIR BEN ATONOT (poor/humble and riding on a donkey
and upon a colt, the foal of donkeys YESHAYAH 62:11; ZECHARYAH 9:9).
|6| And having accomplished just what Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had commanded them,
|7| they brought the donkey and the colt and they put their garments upon them, and Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach sat upon them.
|8| And the very large multitudes spread out their garments on the road, and others were cutting
lulavim from the trees, and were spreading them out on the road.
|9| And the multitudes going before Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and the multitudes following
after him were crying out, saying, HOSHAN NAH (Save now, TEHILLIM 118:25-26) to Ben
Dovid! BARUCH HABAH BSHEM ADONAI! Hoshan nah in the Highest!
|10| And when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had entered into Yerushalayim, the whole city was
stirred, saying, Who is this!?!
|11| And the multitudes were saying, This is Yehoshua HaNavi! From Natzeret in the Galil.
|12| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach arrived at the Beis Hamikdash and expelled the ones
selling and buying in the Beis Hamikdash. And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach turned over the
tishen (tables) of the machalifei hakesafim (money changers) and the chairs of those selling the
yonim (doves).
|13| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, It has been written, BEITI BEIT TEFILLAH
YIKAREI (My House shall be called a House of Prayer, YESHAYAH 56:7), but you are making
it into a MEARAT PARITZIM (den of robbers, YIRMEYAH 7:11).
|14| And ivrim (blind persons) and pisechim (lame persons) came to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach
in the Beis Hamikdash, and he brought refuah to them.
JEWISH CHILDREN SEE MOSHIACH
|15| And the Rashei Hakohanim and the Sofrim were indignant, having seen the niflaot (wonders)
which Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach accomplished and the yeladim shouting in the Beis
Hamikdash, Hoshan nah to the Ben Dovid [Moshiach].
|16| And they said to Moshiach, Do you hear what these are saying? And Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach says to them, Ken. Have you never read, MIPI OLLELIM VYONKIM
YISSADETAH OZ (From the lips of children and infants You ordained strength/ praise,
TEHILLIM 8:3[2])?
|17| And having left them, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went out of the city to Beit-Anyah
(Bethany) and spent the night there.
CONSEQUENCE OF REFUSAL TO HAVE EMUNAH: A PREVIEW OF THE
CHURBAN
|18| Now going up early into the city, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was hungry.
|19| And observing the etz teenah (fig tree) on the way, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went up to it
and found nothing on it, except leaves, and he says to it, No longer from you will there ever be
pri (fruit)! And the etz teenah (fig tree) withered then and there.
|20| And observing this, the talmidim were astounded, saying, How did the etz teenah instantly
wither?
|21| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply, Omein, I say to you, if you have emunah and
do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the etz teenah, but also if you say to this
mountain, Be lifted up and be thrown into the sea, it will happen.
|22| And, when you daven, all things whatever for which you may make techinnah (petition, supplication) with emunah, you will receive.
|23| And after Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had gone into the Beis Hamikdash, while he was
bringing forth his torah, the Rashei Hakohanim and the Zekenim of the people approached him,
saying, By what samchut (authority) do you do these things? And who granted you this
samchut?
|24| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply to them, I also will ask you a question, which,
if you will tell me, I also will tell you by what samchut I do these things...
|25| The tevilah in the mikveh mayim of Yochanan...it was from where, from Shomayim or from
Bnei Adam? And they were discussing it among themselves, saying, If we say, From Shomayim, he will say to us, Why then do you not believe him?
|26| But if we say, From Bnei Adam, we fear the multitude, for everyone considers Yochanan a
Navi.
|27| And in reply to him, they said, We do not have daas. And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said
to them, Neither will I tell you by what samchut I do these things.
|28| What do you think? A man had two banim (sons). And having approached the rishon (first),
the man said, Beni (my son), go today and work in the kerem (vineyard).
|29| But the first son said in reply, I will not. But later, having changed his mind, he went.
|30| And having approached the other son, the man spoke similarly. But the second son, in reply,
said, I will go, Adoni. Yet he did not go.
|31| Which of the two did the ratzon haAv (the will of the Father)? They say, The rishon (the
first). Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Omein, I say to you, that the mochesim
(tax-collectors) and the zonot (prostitutes) are going in ahead of you into the Malchut Hashem.
|32| For Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva came to you in the Derech Tzidkat Hashem (Way of
Righteousness), and you did not believe him. But the mochesim and the zonot believed him.
But you, even after you saw, did not change your mind [i.e. make teshuva] and believe him.
|33| Listen to another mashal. There was a man, a Baal Bayit, who planted a kerem (vineyard).
And he put a fence around it, and he dug a yekev (winepress) in it, and built a migdal (tower) and
leased it to koremim (vine-keepers) and departed.
|34| And when the time of the Katsir (Harvest) came, the Baal Bayit sent his servants to the
koremim to receive the pri (fruit).
|35| And the koremim, having seized his servants, one they beat, another they killed, and another
they stoned.
|36| And the Baal Bayit sent other servants, more than the rishonim (first ones), and the koremim
did the same thing to them.
|37| Lemaskana (finally, at last), the Baal Bayit sent to the koremim his Ben, saying, They will
respect my Ben.
|38| And when the koremim saw the Ben, they said among themselves, This is the Bechor
(Firstborn), the Yoresh (Heir). Come, let us kill him and let us take possession of his bechorah
(inheritance).
|39| And having seized the Ben, they threw the Ben out of the kerem and they killed him.
|40| Therefore, when the Baal HaKerem (Owner of the Vineyard) comes, what will he do to those
koremim (vine-keepers)?
|41| They say to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Those reshaim (evil-doers) the Baal HaKerem
will bring to a terrible mavet and the Kerem the Baal HaKerem will lease to other koremim, who
will render unto the Baal HaKerem the PRI BITO (fruit in its season, TEHILLIM 1:3).
|42| Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Have you never heard in the Kitvei Hakodesh
(Holy Scriptures), EVEN MAASU HABONIM HAYTAH LEROSH PINAH; MEIES
HASHEM HAYTAH ZOT HI NIFLAT BEINEINU (The Stone which the Builders rejected, this
one has become Head of the Corner; this came about from the L-rd, and it is marvelous in our
eyes, TEHILLIM 118:22-23)?
|43| For this reason, I say to you, the Malchut Hashem will be taken from you and it will be given
to a people that produces its pri.
|44| [And the one having fallen on this EVEN (Stone, [Moshiach] DANIEL 2:35; YESHAYAH
8:14-15) will be crushed; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.]
|45| And having heard Moshiach's mashal, the Rashei Hakohanim and the Perushim understood
that he spoke about them.
|46| And seeking to arrest him, they were afraid of the multitudes, vi-bahlt (since) the multitudes
considered him a Navi.
§PEREK KAPH BEIT (CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO)
MOSHIACH'S SEUDAH AND THE KAFTAN OF HITKHADSHUT
And, in reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach again spoke in meshalim (parables) to them,
saying,
|2| The Malchut HaShomayim is like a man, a Melech (King), who prepared a feast for the
chassuna (wedding) of his Ben.
|3| And the Melech sent out his servants to summon the Bnei HaChuppah (wedding invitees--Mt
9:15) to the chassuna, and they did not want to come.
|4| Again, the Melech sent out other servants, saying, Tell the Bnei HaChuppah, the wedding
invitees, Hinei! My Seudah I have prepared, my oxen and fattened calves have been slaughtered,
and everything is ready: Come to the chassuna!
|5| But the Bnei HaChuppah, the chassuna invitees, having treated it all as a mere trifle, departed,
one to his farmer's field, one to his business.
|6| Meanwhile, the others seized the Mesharetim HaMelech (Ministers of the King) and abused
them and killed them.
|7| So the Melech was angry and, having sent his armies, the King destroyed those ratzchaniyot
(murderers), and their city he burned.
|8| Then the King says to his ministers, The chassuna is ready, but the invited ones were not
worthy.
|9| Therefore, go to the intersections of the streets, and, whoever you find, invite as muzmanim
(guests) to the chassuna.
|10| And having gone out to the highways, those ministers congregated everyone they found, rah
and tov (evil and good), and the chassuna was filled with muzmanim (guests).
|11| And the Melech, having entered to see the ones sitting bimesibba (reclining at tish), spotted
there a man lacking the attire proper for the chassuna.
|12| And the Melech says to him, Chaver, how did you get in here, not having the attire proper for the chassuna? But the man had nothing to say.
|13| Then the King said to the servants, Bind him feet and hands and expel him into the outer
choshech, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.
|14| For the invited ones are many, but the nivcharim (chosen ones) are few.
|15| Then, having departed, the Perushim took counsel together so that they might entrap
Yehoshua in his own words.
|16| And they are sending to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach their talmidim with the Herodians,
saying, Rabbi, we know that you are an ehrliche Yid (a good Jew) and of the Derech Hashem you give Divrei Torah in Emes, and you show no deference to flesh, for you are impartial toward
Bnei Adam.
|17| Therefore, tell us what to you seems right: is it mutar (permissible) to pay Poll tax to Caesar
or not?
|18| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having known their rah (evil), said to them Why do you
test me, tzevuim (hypocrites)?
|19| Show me the coin of the Poll tax. And they brought to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach a
denarius.
|20| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Whose image is this and whose title?
|21| They say to him Caesar's. Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Give, therefore,
unto Caesar the things of Caesar, and the things of Hashem, give unto Hashem.
|22| And having heard this, they were amazed and, having left Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, they
went away.
|23| On that day some Tzedukim (Sadducees) approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying,
There is no Techiyas HaMesim! And they interrogated Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach,
|24| saying, Rabbi, Moshe Rabbenu said that if someone dies, not having banim, his brother shall
marry his isha (wife) to raise up zera (seed) for his brother.
|25| Now there were among us shiva achim (seven brothers), and the first, having married, died.
And not having zera (offspring), left his isha to his brother.
|26| Likewise, also the second brother, and the third, up to the seventh.
|27| And last of all, the isha died.
|28| In the Techiyas HaMesim, therefore, she will be the wife of which of the seven? For all had
her.
|29| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply to them, You are in error, not having known
the Kitvei Hakodesh or the gevurat Hashem.
|30| For in the Techiyas HaMesim they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like the
malachim in Shomayim.
|31| But concerning the Techiyas HaMesim, have you not read the thing spoken to you by
Hashem, saying,
|32| ANOCHI ELOHEI AVRAHAM ELOHEI YITZCHAK VEELOHEI YAAKOV (I am the
G-d of Avraham, the G-d of Yitzchak, and the G-d of Yaakov, [SHEMOT 3:6])? Hashem is not
the G-d of the Mesim (dead ones) but the G-d of the Chayyim (living).
|33| And having heard this, the multitudes were amazed at Moshiach's torah (teaching).
|34| But the Perushim, having heard that he silenced the Tzedukim, assembled together,
|35| and one of them, a Baal Torah (learned Torah scholar, a Ben Torah), tried to trip up Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach with a sheelah (question):
|36| Rabbi, which mitzvah is gedolah (great) in the Torah?
|37| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave this teshuva (answer) to the Baal Torah,
VAHAVTAH ES ADONAI ELOHECHA BCHOL LEVAVCHA UVCHOL NAFSHECHA
UVCHOL MODECHA (And thou shalt love the L-rd thy G-d with all thy heart and with all thy
soul and with all thy might [DEVARIM 6:5]).
|38| This is the gedolah and rishonah mitzvah.
|39| And the second mitzvah is like it: VAHAVTAH LREIACHA KAMOCHA (And thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself, [VAYIKRA 19:18]).
|40| On these two mitzvot hang the entire Torah and the Neviim.
|41| And, the Perushim, having been assembled, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach confronted with
this sheelah (question),
|42| saying, What do you think concerning the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach? Whose Ben is he?
The Perushim gave this teshuva (answer) to him: Ben Dovid.
|43| Moshiach says to them, How then can Dovid, in the Ruach Hakodesh, call Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach Adon?... saying
|44| NEUM HASHEM LAADONI, SHEV LIMINI AD ASHIT OYVECHA HADOM
LERAGLECHA (Utterance of Hashem to my L-rd, Sit at my right hand until I make your
enemies a footstool for your feet TEHILLIM 110:1).
|45| Therefore, if Dovid calls him Adon, how is Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach [merely] Ben
Dovid? [cf. MALACHI 3:1; ZECHARYAH 4:14]
|46| And no one was able to give an answer to him, nor did anyone dare to pose another sheelah
(question) to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach from that day on.
§PEREK KAPH GIMEL (CHAPTER TWENTY- THREE)
Then Moshiach spoke to the multitudes and to his Talmidim,
|2| saying, Upon the Kisei Moshe (Chair of Moses) sit the Sofrim and the Perushim.
|3| Therefore, everything whatever they may tell you, be frum and be shomer, but according to
their maasim (works) do not be shomer, for they do not practice what they preach.
|4| And they tie up heavy [extra-Biblical, Mt 4:4; 15:3,6-9; 22:29] loads, hard to bear, and they place them upon the shoulders of men, but they, with so much as a finger, are not willing to lift the oppressive burdens.
|5| And all their maasim hamitzvot (works of the commandments) they do in order to be seen by
Bnei Adam, for they broaden their tefillin and lengthen their tzitziyot
|6| and they love the places of honor at the seudot (banquet dinners), and the shuls,
|7| and the [obsequious] Birkat Shalom greetings in the market places, and to be called by Bnei
Adam, Rebbe.
|8| But you are not to have pretentious titles like Rebbe, for One is your Rebbe [Moshiach], and
all of you are Achim [b'Moshiach].
|9| And do not refer to anyone in the Olam Hazeh as your Abba, for One is your Av
shbaShomayim.
|10| Neither be called Moreinu, for One is your Moreh (teacher)--the Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach.
|11| And the greatest among you will be your eved mesharet (servant/ minister).
|12| But whoever will lift up himself will be humbled, and whoever will humble himself will be
lifted up.
|13| But oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevuim (hypocrites), for in front of Bnei Adam you
shut the Malchut HaShomayim. You do not go in yourselves, and the ones entering, you do not
permit to enter.
|14| Oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevuim! You devour the batim (houses) of almanot
(widows) and for the sake of chashuve (importance) appearance you make long tefillot; therefore
your gezar din (verdict) will be more severe.
|15| Oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevuim. You travel over the sea and the dry land for the
giyyur (proselytization) of one proselyte; then, when he becomes one, you make him twice as
much a son of Gehinnom as you.
|16| Oy to you, morei derech ivrim (blind guides), the, ones saying, Whoever swears by the Beis
Hamikdash, it is a worthless shevuah (oath): but whoever swears by the gold of the Beis
Hamikdash, he is obligated.
|17| Ivrim! (blind ones), for which is greater, the gold or the Beis Hamikdash which gives the
gold its kedushah (holiness, sanctity)?
|18| And whoever swears by the Mitzbeach (altar), it is worthless; but whoever swears by the
korban upon it, he is obligated.
|19| Ivrim, blind ones, for which is greater, the korban or Mitzbeach which gives the korban its
kedushah (holiness, sanctity)?
|20| Therefore, the one having sworn by the Mitzbeach swears by it and everything upon it.
|21| And the one having sworn by the Beis Hamikdash swears by it and by everything indwelling
it.
|22| And the one having sworn by Shomayim swears by the kes malchut of Hashem and by the
One sitting upon the kes malchut.
|23| Oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevuim, for you give maasros (tithe) of mint and dill and
cumin, and you have neglected the matters of the Torah of greater consequence: mishpat, chesed,
and emunah. These things it was necessary to do and those [others] not to neglect.
|24| Morei derech ivrim (blind guides), the ones that strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.
|25| Oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevuim, you cleanse the outside of the kos (cup) and the
dish, but inside they are full of chamdanut (greed) and taavanut (lust).
|26| Blind Parush, first cleanse the inside of the kos, that perhaps also the outside may become
clean.
|27| Oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevuim, for you are like kevarim (graves) having been
whitewashed, which on the outside indeed appear ois vaist (ostensibly) shein (beautiful), but on
the inside are full of the unclean bones of the mesim (dead ones) and every trayfnyak.
|28| Thus on the outside you indeed appear tzodek (righteous) to Bnei Adam, but on the inside
you are full of tzeviut (hypocrisy) and you are lawlessly against the Torah.
|29| Oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevuim, for you build kevarim of the Neviim and decorate
matsevot (gravestones) of the tzaddikim,
|30| and you say, If we were in the yamim (days) of Avoteinu (our Fathers), we would not have
been shuttafim (partners) with them in the dahm haNeviim (blood of the Prophets).
|31| Therefore, you give edut (testimony) against yourselves that you are the banim (sons) of the
ratzchaniyot (murderers) of the Neviim.
|32| And you fill up the measure of your Avot.
|33| Snakes, you banim of nachashim, how can you escape the Yom HaDin of Gehinnom?
|34| For this reason--hinei!--I send to you Neviim and Chachamim and Sofrim, some of whom
you will kill and some you will make talui al haetz (being hanged on the Tree, DEVARIM 21:23) and some you will subject to the shot (whip) in your shuls, and you will drive them out from city to city,
|35| so that upon you may come all the dahm naki (innocent blood) shed upon the earth from the
blood of Hevel to the blood of Zecharyah, whom you murdered between the Heikhal and the
Mitzbeach. [trans. note: cf. Lk 11:51 for Mt's probable original text here]
|36| Omein, I say to you, that all these things will come upon this generation.
|37| Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim, the ones that kill the Neviim and stone those having been sent
to you! How often have I wanted to gather your yeladim, as a hen gathers her chickens under her
wings, but you were not willing!
|38| Hinei! Look! KI LECHARBAHYIH YEH HABEIT HAZEH (for this House will become a
ruin (i.e. churban), YIRMEYAH 22:5).
|39| For I say to you, by no means will you see me (Moshiach) from now until you say,
BARUCH
HABAH BSHEM ADONAI (Blessed is the One who comes in the Name of Adonoi).
§PEREK KAPH DALET (CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR)
And having exited from the Beis Hamikdash, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach departed, and his
talmidim approached to show him the buildings of the Beis Hamikdash.
|2| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply to them, Do you not see all these things?
Omein, I say to you, by no means will be left here one stone upon another, for all will be
demolished.
|3| And while Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was sitting upon the Mount of Olives, his talmidim
approached him in a yechidus, saying, Tell us ad mosai (how much longer), when will these
things be and what about the ot (sign) of the Bias Moshiach, of your Coming, and the Ketz
HaOlam Hazeh?
|4| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply to them, See to it that someone does not
deceive you.
|5| For many will come in my Name, saying, I am the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. And they will
deceive many.
|6| But you are about to hear about milchamot (wars) and rumors of milchamot. See to it that you
are not alarmed, for it is necessary for this to happen, but it is not yet HaKetz (the End).
|7| For there will be an intifada of ethnic group against ethnic group, and malchut against
malchut. And there will be famines and earthquakes in place after place.
|8| But all these things are but the beginning of the Chevlei [Moshiach].
|9| Then they will hand you over to tzoros and they will kill you and you will be hated by all the
ethnic groups on account of the Name of me (Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua).
|10| And then many will be led into chet (sin), and others they will hand over and they will hate
others.
|11| And many neviei sheker (false prophets) will arise and will deceive many.
|12| And because of the increased mufkarut (lawlessness, anarchy --Mt 7:23), the agape (love) of
many will become cold.
|13| But the one having endured to HaKetz (the End), this one will receive Yeshuat Eloheinu (the
Salvation of our G-d).
|14| And this Besuras HaGeulah of the Malchut will be announced in kol haOlam (all the world)
as an edut to all the Goyim, and then will come HaKetz (the End).
|15| Therefore, when you see the SHIKUTS MESHOMEM [Mk 13:14] (Abomination of
Desolation), the thing spoken through Daniel HaNavi, having stood in the Makom Kadosh (Holy
Place, i.e. the Beis Hamikdash)--let the reader understand!
|16| Then the ones in Yehudah, let them flee to the mountains.
|17| The one upon the roof, let him not come down to carry away the things from his bais (house).
|18| And the one in the field, let him not turn back to get his kaftan.
|19| But oy to the ones who are with child and the ones with nursing infants in those days.
|20| But offer tefillos that your escape may not be in winter or on Shabbos.
|21| For then will be Tzarah Gedolah (Great Tribulation) such as has not been from Reshit
HaOlam (Beginning of the World) until now nor will it by any means happen again.
|22| And if those days were not cut short, kol basar (all flesh) would not be saved. But, on
account of the Kadoshim, the Bechirim (Chosen Ones), those days will be cut short.
|23| Then, if someone says to you, Hinei, here is the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach!, or, Hinei!
Here! do not have emunah (faith) [in that].
|24| For meshichei sheker (false Moshiachs) will arise, and neviei sheker (false prophets), and
they will give otot gedolim (great signs) and moftim (wonders), so as to deceive, if possible, even the Bechirim (Chosen ones).
|25| Hinei! I have told you beforehand!
|26| If, therefore, they say to you, Hinei! He (Moshiach) is in the desert! do not go out [there].
Hinei! [Moshiach] is in the secret cheder (room)! do not have emunah (faith) [in that].
|27| For as lightning goes out from the mizrach (east) and shines to as far as the maarav (west),
thus will be the Bias HaMoshiach (coming of the Messiah, the Ben HaAdam, the Son of
Man--DANIEL 7:13-14).
|28| Wherever the place of the Geviya (Corpse) is, there will be gathered together the nesharim
(vultures, eagles [popularly]).
|29| Immediately after the Tzarah (Tribulation--Mt 24:21) of those days, the shemesh (sun) will
be darkened, and the yareach (moon) will not give its light. And the kochavim (stars) will fall
from Shomayim, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
|30| And then will appear the Ot Ben Adam (the Sign of the Son of Man) in Shomayim. All the
tribes of kol haaretz (all the earth) will see the Ben HaAdam Moshiach and his Bias, his Coming,
on the ananim of Shomayim (clouds of glory of Heaven) with gevurah (power) and great kavod
(glory).
|31| Moshiach will send his malachim with a loud blast of the Shofar, and the malachim will
gather together Moshiach's Bechirim from the four winds, from one end of Shomayim to the
other.
THE SYMBOL OF THE CHURBAN BECOMES THE SYMBOL OF THE GEULAH
|32| And from the etz teenah (fig tree), learn its parabolic lesson: when its branch has become
tender already and sprouts leaves, you know that Kayits (Summer) is near;
|33| thus also you, when you see all these things, know that it is near, at the very doors.
|34| Omein, I say to you, that this dor (generation) will by no means pass away until all these
things come about.
|35| Shomayim vhaAretz (Heaven and Earth) will pass away, but my Dvar (Word) will by no
means pass away.
|36| But concerning that day and hour, no one has daas, neither the malachim haShomayim nor
HaBen, but only HaAv (the Father).
|37| For as in the days of Noach, thus will be the Bias HaMoshiach, the Coming of the Ben
HaAdam.
|38| For as they were in those days before HaMabbul (the Flood), eating and drinking, marrying
and being given in marriage, until the day when Noach entered the Tevah (Ark),
|39| and they did not have daas until HaMabbul came and took away everything--thus also will be the Bias HaMoshiach, the Coming of the Ben HaAdam.
|40| Then two men will be in the field, one is snatched away, and one is left behind (not retained).
|41| Two women are grinding in the mill house, one is snatched away, one is left behind.
|42| So be shomer, be on your guard, because you do not have daas on which day will be the Bias
of [Moshiach] Adoneichem (your L-rd).
|43| But understand this: if the Baal Bayit had known in which watch the ganav is coming, he
would have stayed awake and would not have allowed his bais to be dug through.
|44| For this reason also you be shomer, for in the hour when you do not think, then will be the
Bias HaMoshiach (the Coming of the Ben HaAdam, DANIEL 7:13).
|45| Who then is the faithful and wise eved (servant), whom the Adon appointed over the
household servants to give the other servants their okhel at the prescribed time?
|46| Ashrey (happy) is that eved whom, when his Adon comes, finds him so doing.
|47| Omein, I say to you, the Adon will ordain him to oversee all his possessions.
|48| But if that wicked slave says in his heart, Adoni (My Master) is dragging his feet,
|49| and that slave begins to beat his fellow avadim (slaves), and he eats and drinks with the ones
getting drunk,
|50| the Adon of that slave will come on a day which he does not expect, and at an hour of which
he does not have daas.
|51| And the Adon will cut in two that slave, and the slave's portion he will put with the tzevuim
(hypocrites). There will be weeping and grinding of teeth.
§PEREK KAPH HE (CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE)
Then the Malchut HaShomayim will be compared to ten almot (virgins), who, having taken
their menorahs, went out to meet the Chosson (Bridegroom).
|2| Now five of them were foolish and five were wise.
|3| When the foolish took their menorahs, they neglected to take shemen (oil).
|4| But the wise took shemen in containers with their menorahs.
|5| Now the Chosson, being delayed, here is what happened: all the almot became drowsy and
were sleeping.
|6| And at chatsot halailah (midnight) there was a shout, Hinei! The Chosson (Bridegroom)! Go
out to meet him!
|7| Then all the ten almot awakened and they trimmed their menorahs.
|8| But the foolish said to the wise, Give us from your shemen (oil), for our menorahs are going
out.
|9| But the wise answered, saying, Perhaps there might not be enough for us and for you. Instead,
you go to the ones selling and buy for yourselves.
|10| And as they were going away to buy, the Bias of the Chosson (Bridegroom) occurred! The
ones prepared entered with him into the Chassuna (Wedding) feast and the door was shut.
|11| And later, here comes also the other almot, saying, Adoneinu, Adoneinu, open the door for
us.
|12| But he, in reply, said, Omein, I say to you, I do not know you.
|13| Be shomer, be on the alert, therefore, for you do not have daas of the Yom or the Shaah
(hour, time).
|14| For it is as a man going on a journey, who called to his own avadim (slaves) and handed over
to them his possessions.
|15| And to this one, he gave five talents, and to this one, two, and to this one, one, each
according to his own ability. Then the man went on his journey. Immediately
|16| after the man had gone, the one having received the five talents, went to work with them, and
gained five others.
|17| Likewise, the one having received the two talents--this one gained two others.
|18| But the one, having received one, went out and dug a hole in the ground and buried the gelt
(money) of his Adon in a hiding place.
|19| And after much time, here comes the Adon of those servants. And he conducts a settling of
accounts with them.
|20| Then the one who had received five talents came forward, bringing five more talents, saying,
Adoni, five talents you gave me. Hinei! Five more talents I gained.
|21| And his Adon said to him, Shkoyach (well done), eved tov vneeman! (good and faithful
servant)! A few things you were faithful over, over many things I will ordain you. Enter into the
simcha of your Adon.
|22| And having come forward, the one having received two talents, said, You bestowed upon me
two talents. Hinei! Two more talents I gained.
|23| His Adon said to him, Shkoyach (well done), eved tov vneeman! A few things you were
faithful over, over many things I will ordain you. Enter into the simcha of your Adon.
|24| And also the one who had received one talent stepped forward. He said, Adoni, I
knew that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering from that which you
did not scatter seed.
|25| And having been afraid and having gone away, I hid your talent by burying it in the ground.
Here, see, you have that which belongs to you.
|26| And, in reply, his Adon said to him, You farbissener (mean) eved rah vatzel (wicked and lazy
slave), so you had daas that I reap where I did not sow and I gather from which I did not scatter
seed?
|27| Then why was it not necessary for you to deposit my gelt with the bankers, and having
returned, I would have received back that which was mine with interest?
|28| Take, therefore, from him the talent and give it to the one having the ten talents.
|29| For to every one having, it will be given and he will have abundance; but from the one not
having, even what he has will be taken from him.
|30| And as for the useless slave, throw him into the outer choshech, where there will be weeping
and grinding of teeth.
|31| And when the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach (Ben HaAdam) comes, in his kavod and all his
malachim with him, then he will sit upon his Kissei Kavod (Glorious Throne).
|32| And there will be assembled all the Goyim, and he will separate them from each other as the
Roeh (the Shepherd) separates the Kevasim (Sheep) from the Izzim (Goats).
|33| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach will put the Kevasim on the right of him, but the Izzim on
his left.
|34| Then Rebbe, HaMelech HaMoshiach will say to the ones on his right, Come! Baruchei Avi
(Blessed of my Father), receive the bechorah (inheritance), the Malchut prepared for you from
before Hivvased HaOlam (the establishing of the world).
|35| For I hungered and you gave me something to eat. I thirsted and you gave drink to me. I was
a sojourner, and you extended hachnosas orchim (hospitality) to me.
|36| I was naked and you gave me malbish arumim (clothing the naked). I was ill; with bikkur
cholim (visiting the sick) you ministered to me. I was in the beit hasohar (prison); you came to
me.
|37| Then the tzaddikim will answer Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Adoneinu, when did we see
you hungering and we fed you, or thirsting and we gave you drink?
|38| And when did we see you a sojourner and we extended hachnosas orchim (hospitality) to
you, or naked and we clothed you?
|39| And when did we see you ill or in the beit hasohar and we came to you?
|40| And, in reply, Rebbe HaMelech HaMoshiach will say to them, Omein, I say to you, in as
much as you did it to one of the least of these achim of mine, you did it to me.
|41| Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach will say also to the ones on his left, Depart from me, the
ones having been cursed, into the Eish Olam having been prepared for Hasatan and his
malachim.
|42| For I hungered and you did not give me something to eat; I thirsted and you did not give
drink to me.
|43| I was a sojourner and you did not extend hachnosas orchim to me; I was naked and you did
not clothe me; ill and in the beit hasohar and you did not visit me.
|44| Then, also they will answer, saying, Adoneinu, when did we see you hungering or thirsting or a sojourner or naked or sick or in the beit hasohar and we did not minister to you?
|45| Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach will answer them, saying, Omein, I say to you, in as much
as you did not do it for one of these least ones, neither did you do it for me.
|46| And these will go away into Onesh Olam (Eternal Punishment), but the tzaddikim into
Chayyei Olam (Eternal Life).[YESHAYAH 66:24; DANIEL 12:2]
§PEREK KAPH VAV (CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX)
And it came about when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach completed all these divrei torah, he
said to his talmidim,
|2| You know, that after two days, there is Pesach, and the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach (Ben
HaAdam) is handed over for talui al HaEtz (DEVARIM 21:23).
|3| Then the Rashei Hakohanim and the Ziknei haAm (Elders of the People) were assembled in
the courtyard of the residence of the Kohen Gadol (High Priest), the one being called Caiapha.
|4| And they planned to arrest Yeshoshua by a trap and kill him.
|5| But they were saying, Not during the Chag (Feast), lest a riot break out among the am haaretz.
|6| And, while Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was in Beit-Anyah in the bais of Shimon the leper,
|7| an isha (woman) approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach with an alabaster flask of costly
perfume, and she poured it out on Moshiach's rosh, as he sat bimesibba (reclining at tish [table]).
|8| And having seen this, Moshiach's talmidim were angry, saying, For what is this waste?
|9| For it would have been possible to sell this for a generous sum and give to the aniyim (poor
ones).
|10| Aware of this, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Why are you bringing about
difficulty for the isha for the maaseh tov (good deed) she does to me.
|11| For the aniyim you have with you always, but you do not always have me [Moshiach].
|12| For this isha (woman) has poured this ointment on my basar (body) in order to prepare me
for kevurah (burial). [TEHILLIM 16:9-10]
|13| Omein, I say to you, wherever this Besuras HaGeulah is preached bchol HaOlam (in all the
world), in her memory it will be spoken also what was done by her.
|14| Then, one of the Shneym Asar (Twelve), Yehudah from Kriot, went to the Rashei
Hakohanim
|15| and said, What are you willing to give me? And I will hand him over to you. And they
weighed out for him sheloshim shiklei kesef (thirty pieces of silver).
|16| And from then on he was seeking an opportunity that he might hand Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach over.
|17| But on the first day of Chag HaMatzot, Moshiach's talmidim approached him, saying, Where
do you wish we should prepare for you your Seder?
|18| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Go into the city to such-and-such person and say to
him, Our Rebbe says, My time is at hand. With you I am observing Pesach with my talmidim.
|19| And the talmidim did as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach commanded them, and they prepared
the Seder.
|20| When erev came, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was sitting bimesibba (reclining) at tish with
the Shneym Asar Talmidim.
THE BETRAYER: THE CHASID WITHOUT HISKASHRUS (DEVOTION AND
ATTACHMENT TO HIS REBBE)
|21| And as they were eating with their Rebbe, he said, Omein, I say to you that one of you will be my betrayer.
|22| And much distressed, each one began to say to him, Surely I am not the one, Adoni?
|23| But, in reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, The one having dipped the hand into the
bowl [SHEMOT 12:8] with me, this one is my betrayer.
|24| Indeed the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach (Ben HaAdam) goes as it was written concerning
him, but oy to that man through whom the Ben HaAdam (Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach) is
betrayed. It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.
|25| And, in reply, Yehudah the betrayer of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, said, Surely I am not
the
one, Rabbi? Moshiach says to Yehudah, You have said it.
MOSHIACH THE PESACH SEH OF THE BRIT CHADASHA LITZIAT (GOING OUT)
OFFERS THE AFIKOMAN AND THE CUP OF REDEMPTION AS MEMORIAL TOKENS
OF THE KORBAN OF HIS NEFESH (YESHAYAH 53:7,10)
|26| And at the Seudah, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having taken matzah, having made
ha-Motzi, he broke the middle matzah, giving the afikoman to the talmidim, and said, Take and
eat, this is my basar. |27| And having taken the Cup of Redemption and having made the bracha,
he gave it to them, saying, Drink from it, all of you.
|28| For this is my [Moshiach's] Dahm HaBrit HaChadasha, which is being shed LARABBIM
(for many YESHAYAH 53:11-12) for the selicha (forgiveness) of chattaim (sins).
|29| And I say to you, I will by no means drink from now on of this pri hagefen (fruit of the vine)
until that Day when I drink it with you chadash (new) in the Malchut Avi (Kingdom of my
Father).
|30| And having sung the Hallel, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
|31| Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, All of you will be offended at me
[Moshiach] during this night, for it has been written, HACH ES HAROEH UTEFUTSEN
HATSON (Strike the Shepherd and the sheep will be scattered ZECHARYAH 13:7).
|32| But after I undergo Techiyas HaMoshiach I will go ahead of you to the Galil. [Mt 28:7]
|33| And, in reply, Kefa said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, If everyone will be offended at you,
I never will be offended.
|34| Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Omein, I say to you that balailah hazeh (during this
night), before a tarnegol (cock) crows, you will make hakhchashah (denial) of me [as Moshiach]
shalosh paamim (three times).
|35| Kefa says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Even if it is necessary for me to die al kiddush ha-
Shem with you, by no means will I deny you. Likewise all the talmidim spoke also.
|36| Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach comes with them to a place being called Gat-Shmanim,
and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to the talmidim, Sit here until I go over there and daven.
|37| And having taken Kefa and the two sons of Zavdai, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach began to be
sorrowful and distressed with agmat nefesh (grief).
|38| Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, My nefesh is deadly grieved, even to the
point of mavet (death). Remain here and stay awake with me.
|39| And having gone forward a short distance, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach fell upon his face,
davening and saying, Avi, if it is possible, let this Kos pass from me. But not as I will, but as you will (Mt 6:10; 12:50).
|40| Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach comes to the talmidim and finds them sleeping, and
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to Kefa, So were you not strong enough to be awake for one
hour with me?
|41| Stay awake and offer tefillos, lest you enter lidey nisayon (Mt 6:13). Indeed the ruach is
willing but the basar is weak.
|42| Again, for a second time, having left, he davened, saying, Avi, if it is not possible for this to
pass by except I drink it, let yeaseh rtzonechah (your will be done). [Mt 6:10]
|43| And having come again, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach found the talmidim sleeping, for their
eyes were too heavy to stay open.
|44| And having left them again and having gone away, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was
davening for the shlishit (third) time, saying the same words.
|45| Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach comes to the talmidim and says to them, Sleep on now
and take your rest. Hinei! The hour is at hand, and the Ben HaAdam Rebbe Melech
HaMoshiach is being betrayed into the hands of choteim (sinners).
|46| Arise, and let us go. Hinei! My betrayer has drawn near.
|47| And while Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was still speaking-- hinei!-- Yehudah, one of the
Shneym Asar, came and with him came a great multitude with swords and clubs from the Rashei
Hakohanim (Chief Priests) and the Ziknei HaAm (the Elders of the People).
|48| Now the betrayer had given them a signal, saying, Whomever I may give the neshikah (kiss),
he is the one. Chap (grab) him!
|49| And immediately, he approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and said, Shalom, Rebbe.
And he gave him the neshikah.
|50| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Chaver, do what you came for. Then, having
approached, they laid hands on Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and arrested him.
|51| And--hinei!--one of the ones with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach stretched out his hand, drew
his cherev (sword), and struck the servant of the Kohen Gadol, cutting off his ear.
|52| Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, Return your cherev into its place; for all who
take the sword will die by the sword.
|53| Or do you think that I am not able to call upon Avi, and He will provide me now more than
Shneym Asar legions of malachim?
|54| But how then may the Kitvei Hakodesh be fulfilled that say it must happen thus?
|55| At that moment, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to the crowd, Do you have the chutzpah
(nerve) to come out, as against a revolutionary, with swords and clubs to arrest me? Daily in the
Beis Hamikdash I was sitting saying my shiurim and you did not arrest me.
|56| But this all happened that the Kitvei Hakodesh of the Neviim might be fulfilled. Then the
talmidim deserted Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and fled.
|57| But the ones having arrested Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach led him away to Caiapha the
Kohen Gadol, where the Sofrim and the Zekenim (Elders) were gathered together.
|58| And Kefa was following Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach from far away. He followed him as far
as the courtyard of the Kohen Gadol and, having gone inside it, Kefa was sitting down with the
servants to see the maskana (outcome).
|59| And the Rashei Hakohanim and the Sanhedrin all were seeking edut sheker (false testimony
of false witnesses) against Yehoshua so that they might put him to death.
|60| And they found none, though many shakranim (liars) came forward. At last, two came
forward
|61| and said, This one said, I am able to bring about a churban (destruction) of the Beis
Hamikdash of Hashem and within shloshah yamim to build it.
|62| And having got up, the Kohen Gadol said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Do you answer
nothing? For what do these men give edut (testimony) against you?
|63| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was silent. And the Kohen Gadol said to him, I adjure you
by Hashem, Elohim Chayyim, to tell us if you are the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Ben
HaElohim.
|64| Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, You said it. But I say to you, From now on you
will see the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach) sitting at the right hand of Gevurah (Power) and his Bias
(Coming) will be with ANENEI HASHOMAYIM (clouds of Heaven, DANIEL 7:13-14).
|65| Then the Kohen Gadol made the keriah (rending of his garments), saying, He has committed
Chillul Hashem. What further need do we have of edut? Hinei! Now you have heard the Chillul
Hashem.
|66| What does it seem to you? And, in reply, they said, He is deserving of mishpat mavet, the
death penalty.
|67| Then they spat into his face and they struck him and they slapped him,
|68| saying, Give us a dvar nevuah, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. Who is the one who hit you?
|69| Now Kefa was sitting outside in the courtyard. And one maid approached Kefa, saying, And
you were with Yehoshua of the Galil!
|70| But Kefa denied it before everyone, saying, I do not have daas of what you are saying.
|71| And having gone out to the gate, another saw Kefa and says to the bystanders, There! This
one was with Yehoshua of Natzeret!
|72| And again Kefa denied it with a shevuah (oath), I do not know the man!
|73| And after a little while the bystanders came and said to Kefa, Truly also you are one of them,
for even your accent gives you away!
|74| Then Kefa began to curse and swear, I do not know the man! And immediately a tarnegol
(cock) crowed.
|75| And Kefa remembered the word which Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had said: Before a
tarnegol (cock) crows you will deny me shalosh paamim (three times). And Kefa went out and
wept bitterly.
§PEREK KAPH ZAYIN (CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN)
Now when boker had come, all the Rashei Hakohenim and the Ziknei HaAm took counsel
together against Yehoshua to put him to death.
|2| And having performed the akedah (binding), they led him away, and delivered him up to Pilate the Governor.
|3| Then when Yehudah, who had betrayed Moshiach, saw that Yehoshua had been condemned,
he felt remorse and returned the sheloshim shiklei kesef (thirty pieces of silver) to the Rashei
Hakohanim and the Zekenim,
|4| saying Chatati (I have sinned). I have betrayed dam naki (innocent blood). But they said,
What is that to us? See to that yourself!
|5| And Yehudah threw the shiklei kesef (pieces of silver) into the Beis Hamikdash and departed;
and, having gone away, Yehudah hanged himself.
|6| And the Rashei Hakohanim took the shiklei kesef and said, It is asur (forbidden) to put these
into the Beis Hamikdash otzar (treasury), vi-bahlt (since) it is blood money.
|7| And they took counsel together and they bought the Potter's Field as a beit kevarot (cemetery)
for zarim (foreigners).
|8| For this reason that field has been called the Sadeh HaDahm (Field of Blood) to this day.
|9| Then that which was spoken through Yirmeyah HaNavi was fulfilled, saying, And they took
the SHELOSHIM KASEF (thirty pieces of silver), HAYEKAR (the price) of the one whose price had been set by the Bnei Yisroel.
|10| And they gave them for the potters field as Hashem directed ---ZECHARYAH 11:12-13.
|11| Now Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach stood before the Governor, and the Governor questioned
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying, Are you the Melech HaYehudim? And Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach said to him, It is as you say.
|12| And while Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was being accused by the Rashei Hakohanim and the
Zekenim, he answered nothing [YESHAYAH 53:7].
|13| Then Pilate said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Do you not hear how many things they give
edut against you?
|14| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach did not answer him with even one word, so that the
Governor was quite amazed.[YESHAYAH 53:7]
|15| Now at the Chag (Festival) the Governor was accustomed to release for the multitude any
one prisoner whom they wanted.
|16| And they were holding at the time a notorious prisoner, called [Yeshua] Bar-Abba [son of the father].
|17| When, therefore, they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, Whom do you want me to
release for you, Bar-Abba or Yehoshua called Moshiach?
|18| For Pilate knew that because of kinah (envy) they had delivered Yehoshua up.
|19| And while Pilate was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Have nothing
to do with that Tzaddik; for last night I suffered greatly in a cholom (dream) because of
Yehoshua.
|20| However, the Rashei Hakohanim and the Zekenim persuaded the multitudes to ask for
Bar-Abba, but Yehoshua they should destroy.
|21|But the Governor answered, saying to them, Which of the two do you want me to release for
you? And they said, Bar-Abba.
|22| In reply, Pilate says to them, What, therefore, may I do with Yehoshua, the one called the
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach? Everyone says, Let him be made TALUI AL HAETZ (being
hanged on the Tree!) Be hanged on haetz! [DEVARIM 21:23]
|23| But Pilate said, Why? What rah (evil) has he done? But they kept shouting all the more,
saying, Let him be hanged on HAETZ!
|24| And when Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather that a riot was starting,
he took water and washed his hands in front of the multitude, saying, I am innocent of this man's
blood; see to that yourselves.
|25| And, in reply, all the people said, His dahm be on us and on our yeladim.
|26| Then Pilate released Bar-Abba to them. But after having Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach
scourged, he handed him over to be hanged on HAETZ [DEVARIM 21:23].
|27| Then the soldiers of the Governor took Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach into the praetorium and
gathered the whole cohort against Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.[TEHILLIM 2:1]
|28| And they stripped him and put a royal scarlet robe on him, and,
|29| after weaving a keter of thorns, they placed it on his head and put a reed in his right hand,
and they fell down before Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and mocked him saying, Hail, Melech
HaYehudim!
|30| And they spat on Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and took the reed and began to beat him on the head.
|31| And after they had made leitzonus (mockery) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, they took off
his robe and put his garments on him, and led him away to hang him on HaEtz.
|32| And as they were coming out, they found a man from Cyrene named Shimon, whom they
pressed into service to bear Moshiach's Etz (Tree).
|33| And when they had come to a place called Gulgolta, which means place of a skull,
|34| they gave him wine to drink mingled with gall. And, after tasting it, Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach was unwilling to drink.
THE HAGBAH (LIFTING UP) OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH
|35| When they had hanged Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach on HaEtz, they divided up Moshiach's
garments among themselves, casting lots;
|36| and, sitting down, they began to keep watch over him there.
|37| They put up above his head the charge against him which read, THIS IS YEHOSHUA,
MELECH HAYEHUDIM.
|38| At that time, two shodedim (robbers) were each hanged on his own etz with Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach, one on the right and one on the left.
|39| And those passing by were hurling insults at Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, wagging their
heads,
|40| and saying, You who are going to cause the churban (destruction) of the Beis Hamikdash and
rebuild it in shloshah yamim (three days), save yourself! If you are the Ben HaElohim, come
down from HAETZ (the Tree).
|41| Likewise, also the Rashei Hakohanim along with the Sofrim and Zekenim, were mocking
him, and saying,
|42| He saved others; yet himself he is not able to save. He is Melech Yisroel? Let him now
come down from the Etz, and we shall have emunah in him.
|43| He trusts in Hashem; let Hashem be his Moshi'a (Deliverer) and deliver him now, if Hashem
takes pleasure in him, for this one said, Ben HaElohim Ani!
|44| And the shodedim (robbers), hanging, each on his etz, with him, were casting similar insults
at Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, reproaching him.
|45| Now, from the sixth hour, choshech fell upon all the land until the ninth hour.
|46| And about the ninth hour, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach cried out with a kol gadol, saying Eli,
Eli, lemah sabachthani! (that is, My G-d, my G-d, why hast thou forsaken me? TEHILLIM
22:2[1]).
|47| And some of those who were standing there, when they heard, began saying, This one calls
for Eliyahu HaNavi.
|48| And immediately one of them ran and, taking a sponge, filled it with sour wine and put it on
a reed and gave him a drink.
|49| But the rest of them said, Wait. We will see whether Eliyahu HaNavi will come to save him.
|50| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach cried out again with a loud voice, and dismissed his ruach.
|51| And--hinei!--the parochet (curtain) of the Beis Hamikdash was torn in two from top to
bottom, and the earth shook; and the rocks were split,
|52| and the kevarim (graves) were opened, and many gufot (bodies) of the kadoshim who had
fallen asleep were made to stand up alive.
|53| And coming out of the kevarim after the Techiyas HaMoshiach, they entered the Ir Hakodesh
(Holy City) and appeared to many.
|54| Now when the centurion, and those who were with him keeping shomer (guard) over Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach, saw the earthquake and the things that were happening, they became very
frightened and said, Truly this was the Ben HaElohim.
|55| And many nashim were there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach from the Galil and had ministered to him.
THE CHEVRA KADESHA WHO WILL OBSERVE AS SHOMRIM EYE-WITNESSES THE
GUFAT YEHOSHUA AND THE ACTUAL KEVURAH (BURIAL) AND THE KEVER
(GRAVE) BEFORE AND AFTER THE BURIAL
|56| Among them was Miryam of Magdala, Miryam the Em of Yaakov and Yosef, and the Em of
Zavdai's sons.
|57| And when it was erev, there came an oisher (rich man) from Ramatayim named Yosef who
himself had also become a talmid of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|58| This man went to Pilate and asked for the gufat Yehoshua [TEHILLIM 16:9-10]. Then Pilate
ordered it to be given over to Yosef.
|59| And Yosef took the gufat Yehoshua, and wrapped it in the tachrichim,
|60| and laid it in Yosef's own new kever, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a
large stone against the entrance of the kever (tomb) and went away.
|61| And Miryam of Magdala, and the other Miryam, stayed there, sitting opposite the kever.
|62| Now on the next day [trans. note: i.e. Shabbos], which is the one after the Preparation, the
Rashei Hakohanim and the Perushim gathered together with Pilate
|63| and said, Sir, we remember that when he was still alive that mateh (deceiver) said, After
shloshah yamim I am to stand up alive.
|64| Therefore, give orders for the kever to be made secure until the Yom HaShlishi (the Third
Day), lest his talmidim come and steal him away and say to the people,
He has stood up alive from the mesim. And the last deception will be worse than the first.
|65| Pilate said to them, You have a guard, go make the kever as secure as you know how.
|66| And they went and made the kever secure, and, along with the guard, they set a seal on the
(stone).
§PEREK KAPH HET (CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT)
THE EMPTY OHEL (BURIAL SITE OF THEIR REBBE)
Now after Shabbos, at the time of Shacharis on Yom Rishon (the first day of the week),
Miryam of Magdala and the other Miryam came to look at the kever.
|2| And--hinei!--a great earthquake had occurred, for a malach Adonoi (an angel of Hashem)
descended from Shomayim and came and rolled away the stone and sat upon it.
|3| And his appearance was like lightning and his garment as white as snow.
|4| And the shomrim (guards) shook for fear of him and became like dead men.
|5| And the malach, in reply, said to the nashim, Do not be afraid, for I know that you are seeking Yehoshua, who has been hanged on HaEtz.
|6| He is not here. For to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach has come the Techiyas HaMoshiach, just as
he said. Come, see the place where he was lying.
|7| And go quickly, tell his talmidim about the Techiyas HaMoshiach from HaMesim. And,
hinei! He is going ahead of you into the Galil. There you will see him. Hinei! I have told you!
|8| And they departed quickly from the kever with fear and great simcha and ran to report
everything to Moshiach's talmidim.
|9| And--hinei!--Moshiach met them, saying Shalom Aleikhem. And they came up and took hold
of his feet and fell prostrate before Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|10| Then he said to them, Do not be afraid; go and take word to my Achim that they may go
away to the Galil, and there they shall see me.
|11| Now while they were on their way--hinei!--some of the shomrim came into the city and
reported to the Rashei Hakohanim all the things that had happened.
|12| And when they had assembled with the Zekenim and counseled together, they gave a large
sum of money to the soldiers,
|13| and said, You are to say, His talmidim came by night and stole him away while we were
asleep.
|14| And if this should come to the Governor's ears, we will win him over and keep you out of
trouble.
|15| And the ones who took the kesef did as they had been instructed, and this story was widely
spread among the Yehudim to this day.
|16| But the Achad Asar Talmidim proceeded to the Galil, to the mountain which Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach had designated.
|17| And when they saw him, they prostrated themselves before Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, but
some were doubtful.
MOSHIACH'S PROGRAM OF KIRUV RECHOKIM (BRINGING NEAR THE FARAWAY
ONES) AS MOSHIACH'S SHUL OPENS TO ALL THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD WHO
MUST HAVE GEULAH PERATIT (INDIVIDUAL REDEMPTION) AND EXPERIENCE A
LITZIAT MITZRAYIM (GOING OUT OF EGYPT) HITKHADSHUT (RENEWAL) OF
TESHUVA AND EMUNAH THROUGH THE BRIT CHADASHA
|18| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came up and spoke to them, saying, All samchut
(authority) has been given to me in Shomayim and on haAretz.
|19| Go, therefore, make talmidim for Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach of all the nations, giving them
a tevilah in a mikveh mayim in Hashem, in the Name of HaAv, HaBen, and HaRuach Hakodesh,
|20| teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And--hinei!--I [Moshiach] am
with
you always, even unto the Ketz HaOlam Hazeh.
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§PEREK ALEPH (CHAPTER ONE)
The Beginning of the Besuras HaGeulah (the Good News of Redemption) of Yehoshua,
Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach [the] Ben HaElohim.
|2| Just as it has been written in Yeshayah HaNavi, HINNENI SHOLEIACH MALACHI (Behold, I send my messenger) before your face, UPINNAH DERECH LEFANAI (and he will prepare the way before me, [SHEMOT 23:20; MALACHI 3:1]), he will prepare your way.
|3| KOL KOREY BAMIDBAR (A voice of one shouting in the wilderness, TARGUM
HASHIVIM YESHAYAH 40:3): Prepare the Derech Hashem (the way of the L-rd). Make his
paths yashar (straight)!
|4| Yochanan came with a mikveh mayim in the midbar (wilderness), preaching a tevilah of
teshuva for the selichat avon.
|5| And all Yehudah and all Yerushalayim were going out to him, and they were submitted to a
tevilah using the Yarden River as a mikveh mayim, making vidduy (confession of sin) [to
Hashem] of their averos (sins).
|6| And Yochanan had camel-hair clothing and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was
arbe (locusts) and devash (wild honey). [MELACHIM BAIS 1:8; VAYIKRA 11:22]
|7| And he was preaching, crying out as a maggid (preacher) [for the Moshiach], saying, Hu
Habah (He who Comes, i.e. Moshiach) after me has more khosen (strength) than me. I am not
worthy to stoop down and remove his sandals.
|8| I give you a tevilah in a mikveh mayim, but he (Moshiach) will give you a tevilah in the Ruach Hakodesh. [YESHAYAH 44:3; YOEL 3:1 (2:28)]
|9| And it was during that period that Yehoshua from Natzeret of the Galil came and submitted to
Yochanan's tevilah in the mikveh mayim of the Yarden.
|10| And ofen ort (immediately) Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came up out of the mikveh mayim,
and he saw the Shomayim being torn open and the Ruach Hakodesh of Hashem descending like a
yonah (dove) upon him.
|11| And there was a bat kol out of Shomayim, ATAH BNI AHUVI ASHER BCHA
CHAFATSTI (You are my Son, the beloved, with whom I am well pleased). [BERESHIT 22:2;
TEHILLIM 2:7; YESHAYAH 42:1]
|12| Then the Ruach Hakodesh ofen ort (immediately) thrusts Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach out
into the midbar (wilderness).
|13| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was in the midbar arbaim yom varbaim lailah (forty days
and forty nights), undergoing nisyonos by Hasatan; and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was with
the chayyat hassadeh (wild beasts, IYOV 5:23), and the malachim were the meshartei Hashem
ministering to Moshiach (YOEL 1:9; TEHILLIM 91:11). [SHEMOT 24:18; MELACHIM ALEF
19:8]
|14| Now after Yochanan was arrested, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came to the Galil,
proclaiming the Besuras HaGeulah of Hashem,
|15| and saying, The appointed time has been fulfilled and the Malchut Hashem has come near.
Make teshuva, and have emunah in the Besuras HaGeulah.
|16| And passing along beside Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach saw
Shimon and Andrew, the brother of Shimon, casting a reshet (net) into the sea, for they were
daiyagim (fishermen).
|17| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Come, follow me [as my talmidim], and I
will make you to become daiyagei adam (fishers of men).
|18| And ofen ort (immediately), leaving their nets, they followed Moshiach.
|19| And going on a little, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach saw Yaakov Ben-Zavdai and Yochanan
his brother, who were also in the sirah (boat) repairing the nets.
|20| And ofen ort (immediately) Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach summoned them; and, leaving
Zavdai their father in the sirah (boat) with the sachirim (hired workers), they went away to follow
Moshiach [as his talmidim].
|21| And they enter into Kfar-Nachum, and ofen ort (immediately) on Shabbos, entering into the
shul, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach exercised the ministry of moreh (teacher).
|22| And they were astounded at Moshiach's torah (teaching), for he was teaching them as one
having samchut (authority), and not as the Sofrim (Scribes/Torah teachers, rabbonim).
|23| And, ofen ort (immediately), there was in their shul a man with a ruach hatameh (unclean
spirit, shed/demon/evil spirit), and he shouted,
|24| saying, Yehoshua of Natzeret, mah lanu vlach? (What to us and to you? MELACHIM ALEF
17:18) Have you come to bring us churban (destruction)? I have daas [of the raz, secret/mystery
of] who you are, HaKadosh of Hashem (the Holy One of G-d, YESHAYAH 49:7)! [SHOFETIM
13:5, YESHAYAH 41:14,16,20]
|25| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach rebuked the shed, saying, Shekit! Geitzich! And come out
of him.
|26| And, the ruach hatumah, throwing him into convulsions, let out a geshrai and came out of
him.
|27| And all were astounded so that they began to discuss with each other, saying, What is this?
Torah Chadasha with samchut? He gives orders to the shedim and they obey him?
|28| And the besuroh (news) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach ofen ort (immediately) went forth
everywhere into the surrounding region of the Galil.
|29| And ofen ort (immediately), coming out of shul, they went into the bais (house) of Shimon
and Andrew with Yaakov and Yochanan.
|30| And the chamot (shviger, mother-in-law) of Shimon was bedridden and fever-stricken, and
ofen ort (immediately) they tell Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach about her.
|31| And approaching, holding her hand, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach lifted her up, and the
kaddachat (fever, DEVARIM 28:22) left her, and she then began functioning as their mesharetet
(servant, keli kodesh, minister), waiting on them.
|32| When erev came, with the setting of the shemesh (sun), they brought to Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach all the cholim (sick persons) and all those possessed by shedim (demons).
|33| And the whole shtetl gathered together at the delet.
|34| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach administered refuah to many cholim suffering from various
machalot, and he cast out many shedim. And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach did not permit the
shedim to give utterance, for the shedim knew the raz (mystery, secret) of his identity, that he
was the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|35| And very early, while it was still dark, having got up, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went out
and away to a desolate place, and was davening shacharis there.
|36| And Shimon and those with him searched for Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|37| And they found him and they say to him, Everyone is seeking you [SHIR HASHIRIM 1:4;
CHAGGAI 2:7].
|38| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Let us go elsewhere into the neighboring
shtetlach, so that also there I may preach. For it was for this [purpose, tachlis] I came.
[YESHAYAH 61:1]
|39| And he came preaching in their shuls (synagogues) and casting out shedim in [the] whole
[region of] the Galil.
|40| And an ish metzorah (leper) comes to him begging him and kneeling down and saying, If you are willing, you are able to make me tahor (clean).
|41| And being filled with rachmei Shomayim [and] stretching out his hand, Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach touched [the man] and says to him, I am willing. Be made tahor.
|42| And ofen ort (immediately) the ish metzorah (leper) went away from him and he was made
tahor.
|43| And having sternly warned him, ofen ort (immediately) Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach sent
him away.
|44| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, See [that] you say nothing to anyone, but
rather go show yourself to the kohen and offer [the korban] for the tohorah (purification) of you
which Moshe (Rabbeinu) gave mitzvah, for an edut (testimony) to them.[VAYIKRA 13:49,
14:1-32]
|45| But the one having gone out began to preach many things and to spread the dvar, so that no
longer was Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach able to openly enter into [the] shtetl, but he was outside
in desolate places. And they were coming to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach from every
direction.
§PEREK BEIT (CHAPTER TWO)
And having entered again into Kfar-Nachum after [many] yamim, it was heard that Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach is at home.
|2| And many were gathered together so that there was no longer any room at the delet, and
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was speaking the dvar Hashem to them.
|3| And they come bringing to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach a paralytic being carried along by
arbaa anashim (four men).
|4| And not being able to bring [the paralytic] to him on account of the multitude, they removed
the roof where Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was, and having made an opening, they lowered the
mat upon which the paralytic was lying.
|5| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having seen the emunah of them, says to the paralytic, Beni, your averos are granted selicha.
|6| And there were some of the Sofrim (Scribes) sitting there and thinking about these things in
their levavot (hearts),
|7| Why is this one speaking thus? He is guilty of Chillul Hashem gidduf (Desecration of the
Name blasphemy). Who is able to grant selicha (forgiveness) to averos (sins) except Hashem?
[YESHAYAH 43:25]
|8| And, ofen ort (immediately), having had daas in his ruach that in this way they were thinking,
Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Why are you considering such things in your levavot?
|9| Which is easier? To say to the paralytic, Your averos are granted selicha, or to say, Stand and
pick up your mat and walk?
|10| But in order that you may have daas that the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14) has samchut (authority) on haaretz to grant that averos receive selicha, -- Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach says to the paralytic--
|11| To you I say, Stand, pick up your mat, and go to your bais.
|12| And the man arose, and, ofen ort (immediately), in front of everyone, taking the mat, he went
outside. So everyone was astonished and gave kavod to Hashem saying, Never have we seen
anything like this!
|13| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went out again beside the lake; and all the multitude was
coming to him, and he was teaching them Torah.
|14| And as he was passing by, he saw Levi Ben Chalfai sitting in the tax office, and Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach says to him, Follow me. And, getting up, Levi (Mattityahu) followed
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|15| And it came to pass that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach reclined at tish in Levi's house, and
many mochesim (tax collectors) and choteim (sinners) were reclining at tish with Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach and with his talmidim. For there were many, and they were following him.
|16| And the Sofrim (scribes) of the Perushim, seeing that Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach eats with
choteim (sinners) and mochesim (tax collectors), were saying to his talmidim, With mochesim
(tax collectors) and choteim (sinners) does he eat?
|17| And having heard this, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, It's not the strong ones that
have need of a rofeh (physician) but rather the cholim (sick persons). I did not come to call [the]
tzaddikim (righteous ones) but the choteim (sinners) [to teshuva].
|18| And the talmidim of Yochanan and the Perushim came with tzomot (fasts). And they come
and say to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Why [do] the talmidim of the Perushim and the
talmidim of Yochanan come with tzomot, but your talmidim do not?
|19| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, said to them, Surely the Bnei HaChuppah of the Chosson
(Bridegroom) are not able to undergo tzomot as long as they have the Chossson with them, nu?
As long as they have the Chosson with them, they are not able to undergo tzomot.
|20| But yamim (days) will come when the Chosson is taken away from them, and then they will
undergo tzomot HaYom HaHu.
MOSHIACH ALLUDES TO MESSIANIC JUDAISM
|21| No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise, the patch will pull
away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear results.
|22| And no one puts yayin chadash (new wine) into old wineskins; otherwise, the yayin will
burst the wineskins and the yayin is lost and so are the wineskins. Instead, yayin chadash (new
wine) [is put] into new wineskins.
|23| And it came about [that] on Shabbos, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was passing through the
grainfields, and his talmidim began to make [their] way picking the heads of grain. [DEVARIM
23:25]
|24| And the Perushim said to him, Look, why are they engaging in what is not mutar
(permissible) in the Torah on Shabbos?
|25| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Have you never read in the Tanakh what
Dovid HaMelech did when he was in need and he was hungry, he and the ones with him?
|26| How he entered into the Beis Hashem during the yamim of Avyator the Kohen Gadol and the
Lechem HaPanim he ate, which to be eaten it is not mutar (permissible) except by the Kohanim,
and he gave [some] also to the ones with him. [DIVREY HAYAMIM ALEF 24:6, SHMUEL
BAIS 8:17, VAYIKRA 24:5-9, SHMUEL ALEF 21:1-6]
|27| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Shabbos was created for the sake of man and
not man for the sake of Shabbos. [SHEMOT 23:12; DEVARIM 5:14]
|28| Therefore, HaBen HaAdam [Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14] is even Adon HaShabbos.
§PEREK GIMEL (CHAPTER THREE)
And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach entered again into the shul. And there was there a man
having a withered hand.
|2| And they were watching Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach [to see] if on Shabbos he will heal him,
in order that they might accuse him.
|3| And he says to the man, the one with the withered hand, Stand up here in the center.
|4| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Is it mutar (permissible) on Shabbos to do tov
or rah, to restore nefesh or to destroy [it]? But they were silent.
|5| And having looked [at] them with kaas and having agmat nefesh (grief) at the stubborn
hardness of their levavot, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to the man, Stretch out your hand.
And the man stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
|6| And ofen ort (immediately) the Perushim went out and held consultation with the party of
Herod against him, as to how they might destroy him.
|7| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach with his talmidim went away to the lake, and a great
multitude from the Galil and also from Yehudah followed Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|8| And from Yerushalayim and from Idumea and from the other side of the Yarden and from
around Tzor-Tzidon area, a great multitude [followed], hearing everything that he was doing, and
they came to Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach.
|9| And he said to his talmidim that a sirah (boat) should stand ready for him, lest the multitude
might crush him.
|10| For he had brought refuah to many, with the result that as many as had afflictions pressed in
on him in order to touch him.
|11| And the ruchot hatemeiot (unclean spirits), whenever they saw Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach,
were falling before him and were crying out, saying, You are the Ben HaElohim!
|12| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach sternly rebuked them, lest they should make him known.
|13| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach goes up to the mountain and summons those whom he
wanted, and they came to him.
|14| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach appointed and gave smichah to Shneym Asar (Twelve),
whom also he designated Shluchim, that they might be with him [be mishtatef in Moshiach's
chavurah], and that he might send them out as his Shluchim to preach,
|15| and to have samchut (authority) to cast out shedim.
|16| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach appointed the Shneym Asar: Shimon, to whom he gave the
name Kefa,
|17| and Yaakov Ben-Zavdai and Yochanan, Yaakov's brother. He gave to them the name
Bnei-Regesh, (Sons of Thunder).
|18| And Andrew and Philippos and Bar-Talmai, and Mattityahu, and Toma, and Yaakov
Ben-Chalfai, and Taddia, and Shimon the Zealot,
|19| and Yehudah from Kriot, the one who betrayed Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|20| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach goes to his home shtetl; and again the multitude assembles,
with the result that they were not able to have okhel (food).
|21| And when his own mishpochah heard of this, they went out to constrain him. For they were
saying, He is meshuga.
|22| And the Sofrim (Scribes), the ones coming down from Yerushalayim, were saying, He is
possessed by Baal-zibbul and by the Sar HaShedim he casts out shedim.
|23| But having called them, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was speaking to them in meshalim
(parables): How is it possible for Hasatan to cast out Hasatan?
|24| And if a malchut is divided against itself, it is not possible for that malchut to stand.
|25| And if a bais is divided against itself, it will not be possible for that bais to stand.
|26| And if Hasatan has risen up against himself and is divided, it is not possible for him to stand,
but his end has arrived.
|27| But no one is able, having entered into the house of the Gibbor to plunder his possessions,
unless first, he binds HaGibbor, and then he will plunder the Bayit HaGibbor. [YESHAYAH
49:24,25]
|28| Omein, I say to you that for everything--for the averos (sins) and the Chillul Hashem
(Desecration of the Name), whatever they may commit--the Bnei Adam will be granted selicha
(forgiveness).
|29| But whoever commits Chillul Hashem gidduf (blasphemy) against the Ruach Hakodesh, can
never have selicha, but is guilty of a Chet Olam (Eternal Sin).
|30| For they were saying, He has a ruach hatumah (an unclean spirit).
|31| And the Em (Mother) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and his achim come and stand outside
and they sent word to him.
|32| And a multitude was sitting around him, and they are saying to him, Hinei! Your Em
(Mother)! And your achim (brothers)! And your achayot (sisters) are outside looking for you.
|33| And in reply to them, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says, Who is the Em (Mother) of me?
And the achim (brothers) of me?
|34| And having looked around at the ones sitting around him, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says,
Hinei! The Em (Mother) of me and my achim!
|35| For whoever does the ratzon Hashem, this one is my brother and my sister and mother.
§PEREK DALET (CHAPTER FOUR)
And again Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach began to say shiurim (Torah talks) beside the lake.
And a huge multitude gathered together to him so that he got into a sirah (boat) on the lake
and sat down. The whole multitude was by the lake on the shore.
|2| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was giving them torah with many meshalim (parables) and in the shiurim he said, he was saying to them:
|3| Listen. Hinei! The Sower went out to sow (seeds).
|4| And it came about that when he went to sow, that some [seeds] fell beside the road. And the
birds came and devoured it.
|5| And other [seeds] fell upon the rocky places where it did not have much soil, and ofen ort
(immediately) it sprang up because it did not have depth of soil.
|6| And when the shemesh rose, it was scorched and, because it did not have a shoresh (root), it
withered.
|7| And other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them, and it did not
yield pri.
|8| And other seed fell into the adamah tovah (good ground) and it was giving pri (fruit), rising up
and growing, thirty, sixty, and one hundredfold.
|9| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying, He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
|10| And when he was alone, the Shneym Asar were asking him for a hezber (explanation) of the
meshalim (parables).
|11| And he was saying to them, To you the raz (secret) of the Malchut Hashem has been given.
But to the outsiders, everything remains in meshalim,
|12| in order that YIRU they may see and not have daas VSHIMU they may hear and not have
binah, lest they should turn and they should receive refuah and selicha. (YESHAYAH 6:9-10,
TARGUM HASHIVIM)
|13| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Do you not have daas of the meaning of this
mashal? Then how will you have binah (understanding) of all the meshalim?
|14| The one sowing sows the dvar Hashem.
|15| And these are the ones beside the road where the dvar Hashem is sown. And when they hear
it, ofen ort (immediately) Hasatan comes and takes the dvar that has been sown in them.
|16| And these are the ones sown upon the rocky places: when they hear the dvar, ofen ort
(immediately) with simcha they receive it.
|17| Yet they do not have a shoresh (root) in themselves but are transitory; then when ES
TZARAH comes or redifah (persecution) on account of the dvar, ofen ort (immediately) they fall
away, they become shmad. [YIRMEYAH 30:7; Mattityahu 24:21-22]
|18| And others are the ones sown among thorns. These are the ones having heard the dvar,
|19| and the worries of the Olam Hazeh and the seduction of osher (wealth) and the desires for
other things come in and choke the dvar Hashem and it does not bear pri.
|20| And these are the ones sown upon adamah tovah: they hear the dvar Hashem and are
mekabel (receive) the dvar Hashem and bear pri, thirty, sixty and one hundredfold.
|21| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying to them. Surely a menorah is not brought out in order that it may be put under a measuring bucket or under the couch? Rather, is it not brought out that it may be placed on the shulchan?
|22| For there is not [anything] nistar (hidden, secret) except that it may be made nikar (evident)
nor has it become concealed but that it may come into [the] open. [YIRMEYAH 16:17]
|23| If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.
|24| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying to them, Pay attention! By what measure you
measure, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you.
|25| For whoever has, it will be given to him, and whoever does not have, even what he has will
be taken away from him.
|26| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying, Thus is the Malchut Hashem: like a man who
casts seed upon the soil,
|27| and goes to sleep blailah (at night) and arises byom (at day), and the seed sprouts up and
grows in such a way that he does not have daas of how it does so.
|28| On its own, the soil bears pri: first the blade, then a head of grain, then full wheat in the head.
|29| But when the crop is ripe, ofen ort (immediately) he puts forth the MAGGAL, KI VASHAL
KATZIR (sickle, for the harvest is ripe. [YOEL 3:13]
|30| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying, To what should we compare the Malchut
Hashem or by what mashal (parable) may we present it?
|31| The Malchut Hashem is like a mustard seed, which, when it is sown on the soil, is smaller
[than] all the seeds on the earth.
|32| And when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater [than] all the plants of the garden and
puts forth large branches, so that the OF HASHOMAYIM can nest under its shade.
|33| And with many such meshalim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshich was speaking to them the dvar
Hashem as they were able to hear.
|34| But apart from meshalim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was not speaking to them. Only
privately, in a yechidus, was Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach explaining everything to his own
talmidim.
|35| And on that day, when erev had come, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Let us go
over to the other side of the lake.
|36| And leaving the multitude, they took Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, just as he was, in the sirah
(boat), and other sirot (boats) were with him.
|37| And there arose a fierce gale of wind and the waves were beating against the sirah (boat), so
that it was already filling up.
|38| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was in the stern on the cushion sleeping, and they woke
him up, and they say to him, Rebbe, does it not matter to you that we are perishing?
|39| And having been awakened, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach rebuked the wind, and he spoke to
the lake, Sha! Be still! And there was a great calm.
|40| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Why do you have morech lev (cowardliness)?
Do you still not have emunah?
|41| And they were afraid with a terrible pachad (terror), and they were saying to one another,
Who then is this that even the wind and the sea obey him?
§PEREK HE (CHAPTER FIVE)
And they came to the other side of the lake, to the country of the Gerasenes.
|2| And as soon as Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach stepped out of the sirah (boat), ofen ort
(immediately), a man with a ruach hatumah from the kevarim (tombs) of the burial caves met
him.
|3| This man had (his) dwelling among the kevarim. And no one could keep him tied any longer,
even with sharsherot (chains/fetters);
|4| because often he had been bound with shackles and the shackles had been torn apart by him,
and no one had the koach (power) to subdue him.
|5| And constantly, yomam valailah (day and night), among the kevarim and in the mountains, he
was crying out and beating himself with stones.
|6| And, having seen Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach from afar, he ran and fell down before him.
|7| And having cried out with a kol gadol (loud voice), he says, Mah lanu valach, Yehoshua, Ben
HaElohim HaElyon? I implore you by Hashem, [do] not torment me.
|8| For Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had been saying to him, Come out of the man, ruach hatumah (unclean spirit)!
|9| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was questioning him, saying, What is your name? And he
says to him, Legion [is] my name, for we are many!
|10| And he begged Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach again and again not to exorcise him and banish
him from that place.
|11| Now there was a large herd of chazirim feeding nearby on the hillside.
|12| And they (the ruchot hatemeiot, the shedim) implored Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying,
Send us into the chazirim, so that we may go into them.
|13| And he permitted them. And having come out, the ruchot hatemeiot entered into the
chazirim. And the herd of chazirim rushed down the slope into the lake, and there were about
two thousand of them, and they were drowned in the lake. [MICHOH 7:19]
|14| And the herdsmen feeding them fled and reported it in the village and in the sadot (fields),
and the people came to see what had come to pass.
|15| And they come to Yehoshua, and they see the one that had been possessed by the shed
sitting, clothed and in his right mind -- the very one having had the Legion! And they were
afraid.
|16| And the edei reiyah (eyewitnesses) of what had happened to the man possessed by shedim
and of what had happened to the chazirim reported it.
|17| Then they began to implore Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to depart from their region.
|18| And as Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was stepping into the sirah (boat), the one who had been
possessed by shedim was imploring him that he might accompany him.
|19| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach did not permit him, but says to him, Go home to your
people and report to them everything that Hashem has done for you and [that] Hashem had
rachmanim (mercy) upon you.
|20| And the man left and began to preach in the Decapolis everything that Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach had done for him, and everyone was amazed.
|21| And when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had crossed over again in the sirah (boat) to the other
side, a large multitude gathered together to him, and he was beside the lake.
|22| And one of the Roshei Beit HaKnesset comes -- Yair was his name -- and, having seen
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, he falls down at his feet,
|23| and he begs him earnestly saying, Biti (my daughter) is at the point of mavet. Come and put
your hand on her that she may receive refuah and may live.
|24| And Moshiach went with Yair. And a large multitude were following him and they were
pressing against Moshiach.
|25| And [there was] an isha having a flow of dahm for twelve years. [VAYIKRA 15:25-30]
|26| And having suffered much by many rofim (physicians) and having spent everything she had,
instead of recovering, her condition deteriorated.
|27| And having heard about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, she came up behind him in the
multitude, and touched his garment.
|28| For she was saying, If I may touch even the garment of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, I will
receive refuah.
|29| And ofen ort (immediately), the flow of her dahm was dried up and she felt in (her) basar that she has been given refuah from the shrekliche (terrible) machla (illness).
|30| And ofen ort (immediately) Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having perceived within himself
that gevurah (miraculous power) had gone forth from him, turned around in the crowd and said,
Who touched my garments?
|31| And the talmidim of Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach were saying to him, You see the multitude
pressing against you, and you say, Who touched me?
|32| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was looking around to see the one having done this.
|33| Now the isha, BYIRAH (with fear) and BIRADAH (trembling), aware of what had happened
to her, came and fell down before Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and told him the emes (truth).
|34| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to her, Bat (Daughter), your emunah has brought you
refuah (healing). Go in shalom and receive refuah from your machla.
|35| While Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was still speaking, some came from the Rosh Beit
HaKnesset, saying, Your yaldah is a nifteret (deceased person); are you still causing a shter
(bother) for the rabbi?
|36| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having overheard what was being spoken, says to the Rosh
Beit HaKnesset, Do not be afraid, only have emunah.
|37| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach did not permit anyone to follow after him, except Kefa and
Yaakov and Yochanan, the brother of Yaakov.
|38| And they come into the bais of the Rosh Beit HaKnesset, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach
beheld much commotion and weeping and loud wailing.
|39| And having entered, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Why are you distressed and
weeping? The yaldah is not a nifteret (deceased person) but is only sleeping.
|40| And they began making leitzonus (mockery, fun) of him. But having put everyone out,
Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach takes the Abba of the naarah (girl) and the Em and the ones with
him, and goes into where the naarah was.
|41| And having grasped the hand of the naarah, Moshiach says to her, Talitha Koum, which,
being translated, means Little girl, to you I say, arise!
|42| And ofen ort (immediately) the naarah got up and she was walking around. She was twelve
years old. And ofen ort (immediately) they were amazed with great wonder.
|43| And he gave orders to them earnestly that no one should have daas of this. And Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach said to give her some okhel (food).
§PEREK VAV (CHAPTER SIX)
And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came out from there and comes into his shtetl and his
talmidim follow him.
|2| And Shabbos having come, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach began to say shiurim in the shul, and
many, listening, were amazed, saying, From where [did] this one get lernen (Torah learning), and
what [is] the chochmah (wisdom) that has been given to this one? And what gevurot (mighty
deeds) are being done by his hands?
|3| Is not this one the Naggar (Carpenter), Ben-Miryam? The brother of Yaakov, Yosef, Yehuda
and Shimon? And, are not his achayot (sisters) here with us? And they were taking offense at
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|4| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying to them, A navi is not without his kavod, except
in his own shtetl and among his own mishpochah and in his own bais.
|5| And he was not able there to do many nissim (miracles), except on a few cholim (sick
persons) he laid (his) hands on and administered refuah (healing) to them.
|6| And he wondered on account of their lack of emunah. And he was going around the shtetlach
in a circuit, saying shiurim.
|7| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach summons the Shneym Asar, and he began to send them out
two by two, and he was giving to them samchut [over] the ruchot hatumah. [DEVARIM 17:6]
|8| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave directives to them that they should take nothing on
[the] derech except a mere walking stick -- not lechem, not a schnorrer's sack, nor a money belt;
|9| but instead, to wear sandals, and not to take an extra kaftan.
|10| And he was saying to them, Wherever you enter into a bais, stay there until you leave that
area.
|11| And whatever place does not give you the kabbalat panim (welcome), and does not listen to
you, then, as you are leaving there, let it be NIER CHATZNO, shake off the dust of your feet, for
an edut to them.
|12| And having gone out, they preached that Bnei Adam should make teshuva. y shedim they
were casting out, and they were anointing with shemen (oil) many cholim, and they were
administering refuah to them.
|14| And Herod the king heard of it, for the name of Yehoshua had become bavust (famous), and
some were saying, Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva has been made to stand up alive from [the]
mesim, and for this reason the nissim (miracles) are at work in him.
|15| But others were saying, It is Eliyahu HaNavi. Still others were saying, He is a navi, like one
of the neviim of old. [MALACHI 4:5]
|16| But when Herod heard of it, he kept saying, Yochanan whom I beheaded has stood up alive
from the mesim!
|17| For Herod himself had sent and had Yochanan arrested and bound in the beis hasohar, on
account of Herodias, the wife of his brother, Philip, for he had married her.
|18| But Yochanan was saying to Herod, It is not mutar (permissible) according to the Torah for
you to have your brother's wife. [VAYIKRA 18:16, 20:21]
|19| And Herodias bore a grudge against Yochanan and desired to kill him. But she could not.
|20| For Herod feared Yochanan, knowing him [to be] a tzaddik and kadosh, and Herod was
protecting Yochanan. And when Herod heard Yochanan, he was greatly disturbed, and [yet]
gladly Herod was listening to Yochanan.
|21| And, an opportune day having come, when Herod, on his yom huledet (birthday), gave a
seudah (banquet) for the court of his nobles, and the military commanders, and those of chashivut (prominence) of the Galil, [ESTHER 1:3, 2:18]
|22| and when his daughter entered and danced, she pleased Herod and the ones reclining at the
seudah with him. And the king said to the girl, Ask me whatever you wish and I will give [it] to
you.
|23| And he made a shevuah (oath) to her solemnly, Whatever you ask me, I will give you, up to
half of my Malchut. [ESTHER 5:3,6; 7:2]
|24| And having gone out, she said to her mother, What should I ask [for]? And her mother said,
The rosh Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva.
|25| And having entered, ofen ort (immediately), with haste before the king, she made a request,
saying, You may give to me upon a platter the rosh Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva.
|26| And having become very sad, the king, on account of his shevuah and on account of the ones
reclining at the seudah [with him], was unwilling to refuse her.
|27| And, ofen ort (immediately), the king sent an executioner and commanded him to bring the
rosh Yochanan. And having left, the executioner beheaded Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva in
the beit hasohar.
|28| And he brought the rosh Yochanan upon a platter and gave it to the young girl, and the young girl gave it to her mother.
|29| And, having heard this, Yochanan's talmidim came and carried away his geviyah (body) and
placed it in a kever (grave).
REBBE'S FARBRENGEN (MT 14:13-21; MK 6:30-44; LK 9:10-17; YN 6:1-13)
|30| And the Shluchim gathered together with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and reported to him
everything which they did and the torah which they had taught.
|31| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Come away a while, you yourselves, for a
yechidus in a quiet place for a Shabbaton (rest from work). For there were many coming and
going, and they did not even have time for okhel (food).
|32| And they departed in the sirah (boat) to a secluded place for a yechidus (private meeting with
the Rebbe and his talmidim).
|33| And the people, recognizing them, saw them departing, and from all the shtetlach they ran
there and arrived ahead of them.
|34| And having gotten out of the sirah (boat), Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach saw a large multitude
and he had rachmei shomayim (heavenly mercy) on them, for they were KATSON ASHER AIN
LAHEM ROEH (like sheep without a shepherd), and he began with his torah to teach them many
things. (BAMIDBAR 27:17; MELACHIM ALEF 22:17; DIVREY HAYAMIM BAIS 18:16;
YECHEZKEL 34:8)
|35| And when it was already a late hour, his talmidim came up to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach
and were saying, This place is desolate and already [it is] late.
|36| Send them away, that, having departed to the surrounding farms and shtetlach, they may buy
for themselves okhel (food) they may eat.
|37| But in reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, You yourselves give them
[something] to eat. And they say to him, Shall we go and spend two hundred denarii for lechem
and give to them to eat? [MELACHIM BAIS 4:42-44]
|38| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, How much lechem do you have? Go [and]
see. And knowing, the talmidim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach say, Chamesh (five), and dagim,
shenayim (two).
|39| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach commanded them to recline at tish, as it were, everyone
group by group, on the green grass.
|40| And they reclined, group by group, in hundreds and in fifties.
|41| And, having taken the chamesh loaves and the shnei hadagim (two fish) and looking up to
Shomayim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said a bracha. And having offered the betziat halechem,
Moshiach was giving to his talmidim in order that they might set them before the people. And
Moshiach divided the shnei hadagim (two fish) among them all.
|42| And everyone ate, and they were satisfied.
|43| And they picked up shirayim (Rebbe's remainders), shneym asar (twelve) baskets full, and
from the dagim.
|44| And those who had eaten the loaves numbered chamesh elafim (five thousand).
|45| And ofen ort (immediately) Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach compelled his talmidim to embark
into the sirah (boat) and to go before [him] to the other side to Beit-Tzaidah, while he dismisses
the multitude.
|46| And with a Shalom farewell to them, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach departed to the mountain
to daven.
|47| And erev having come, the sirah (boat) was in [the] middle of the lake, and Rebbe Melech
HaMoshiach was alone on shore.
|48| And having seen them laboring at the oars, for the wind was against them, about the fourth
watch of halailah (the night), Moshiach comes to them, walking on the lake. And he wanted to go
by them.
|49| But having seen him on the lake, they thought that it is a ruach refaim (an apparition). And
they cried out;
|50| for everyone saw him. And ofen ort (immediately) Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach spoke with
them, and they were filled with pachad (terror). Moshiach says to them, Chazak! (Be strong!)
Ani hu. (I am he) Do not be afraid.
|51| And he got into the sirah (boat) with them. And the wind died down. And in themselves they were exceedingly amazed.
|52| For they did not have binah (understanding) concerning the loaves [6:43], but their levavot
(hearts) had been hardened.
|53| And having crossed over onto the land, they came to Gennesaret and anchored [there].
|54| And when they disembark from the sirah (boat), the people ofen ort (immediately)
recognized Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|55| And the people rushed everywhere in that whole region, and they began to carry about on
their mats the cholim (sick persons) to where they heard he was.
|56| And wherever Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was entering into the shtetlach or into towns or
into the countryside, thy laid the cholim in the marketplaces, entreating him that they might just
touch the tzitzit of Moshiach. And as many as touched it were receiving refuah (healing).
[BAMIDBAR 15:38-41; DEVARIM 22:12]
§PEREK ZAYIN (CHAPTER SEVEN)
REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH AND THE PNIMIYUS (INNERMOST) TORAH
SHE-BI-KSAV (THE WRITTEN LAW); PERUSHIM MISS THE ALL-IMPORTANT LEV
WASHING OF HITKHADSHUT. (MT 15:1-20)
And, when they had come down from Yerushalayim, the Perushim and some of the Sofrim
come together around Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach,
|2| and they had observed that some of his talmidim were eating their lechem with yadayim
temeiot, that is, hands ritually unclean.
|3| [For the Perushim, and indeed this was the Jewish minhag, do not eat without doing netilat
yadayim (ritual of the washing of the hands) and also observing the Masoret HaZekenim (the
Torah Shebal peh, Oral Torah).
|4| And when they come from [the] marketplace, unless they do so, they do not eat. And there are many other things which they have received in order to observe, such as the tevilah of cups and pitchers and copper pots.]
|5| And the Perushim and the Sofrim question Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Why do your
talmidim not follow the halachah according to the Masoret HaZekenim, but eat their lechem with
yadayim temeiot?
|6| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Yeshayah rightly gave a dvar nevuah of you
tzevuim, as it has been written, HAAM HAZEH BISFATAV KIBDUNI VLIBO RIKHAK
MIMENI VATEHI YIRATAM OTI MITZVAT ANASHIM MELUMMADAH (This people
with [their] lips honor me, but their heart is removed far away from me.
|7| And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the mitzvot of men.) [YESHAYAH
29:13]
|8| Abandoning the mitzvat Hashem, you are holding to the Masoret HaBnei Adam.
|9| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was saying to them, You have a fine knack for setting aside
the mitzvat Hashem in order that your own Masoret might stand undisturbed.
|10| For Moshe [Rabbeinu] said, KABED ES AVICHA VES IMMECHA (Honor your father and
your mother), and, The one reviling AVIV VIMMO MOT YUMAT (father or mother -- let him
be put to death. [SHEMOT 20:12, DEVARIM 5:16, SHEMOT 21:17, VAYIKRA 20:9]
|11| But you say, If a man says to his Abba or to his Em, whatever by me you might have
benefited is Korban [that is, the taitsh (translation) of korban is an offering to Hashem],
|12| then no longer do you permit him to do anything for his Abba or his Em.
|13| You nullify and make void the dvar Hashem by means of your Masoret you received. And
you do many similar things.
|14| And having summoned again the multitude, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was saying to them,
Give ear to me and have binah (understanding).
|15| There is nothing outside of a ben Adam (human being) entering into him which is able to
make him tameh, but it is the things coming out from the ben Adam that make him tameh.
|17| And when he left the multitude and entered a bais, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach's talmidim
were asking him [about] the mashal.
|18| And he says to them, Are you so lacking in binah also? Do you not have binah that it is not
what is outside and entering into the ben Adam that is able to make him tameh (unclean)?
THIS VERSION OF THE BESURAS HAGEULAH IS WRITTEN FOR A NON-JEWISH
AUDIENCE; THE MASKANA (UPSHOT) OF THE TEACHING IS THAT OKHEL TOHAR
AND YADAYIM TOHOROT DO NOT MAKE LEV TOHAR, SO GOYIM SHOULD FOCUS
ON HITKHADSHUT (YOCHANAN 3:7) AND NOT KASHRUT
|19| Because it does not enter into his lev, but into his stomach and goes out into the latrine,
making all the okhel tohar.
|20| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying, It is the thing proceeding out of the ben Adam
that makes him tameh.
|21| For from within the lev of the ben Adam comes evil cravings and machshavot: then zenunim
(fornications), gneyvot (thefts), retzichot (murders),
|22| niufim (adulteries), chamdanut (greediness), rishah (wickedness), nechalim (scheming
deceitfulness), zimmah (lewdness, sensuality), an ayin horo or roah ayin (an envious evil eye),
lashon hora, gaavah (pride), and ivvelet (foolishness).
|23| All these evil things proceed from within and make the ben Adam tameh (unclean).
|24| And from there Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach got up and departed to the district of Tzor and
Tzidon. And having entered into a bais he wanted no one to know, [yet] he was not able to
escape notice.
|25| But, after hearing about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, ofen ort (immediately), an isha, whose
yaldah was having a ruach haumah (unclean spirit), came and fell down at his feet.
|26| Now the woman was a Yevanit (Greek), by birth a Syrophoenician, and she was asking
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to cast the shed (demon) out of her bat (daughter).
|27| And he was saying to her, Rishonah (first) allow the banim (children) to be satisfied, for it is
not tov to take the lechem of the yeladim and throw it to kelevim (dogs).
|28| But she replied, saying, Ken, Adoni, but even the kelevim under the shulchan (table) eat from the crumbs of the yeladim.
|29| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to her, Because of this answer, go your way, the shed
has gone out from the bat of you.
|30| And having departed to her bais, she found the yaldah lying on the bed, the shed having gone
out.
|31| When he returned from the region of Tzor, and then went through Tzidon to Lake Kinneret
within the region of the Decapolis,
|32| they bring to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach [a man who was] cheresh-illem (deaf and mute)
and they entreated him to lay hands on him.
|33| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach took him aside from the multitude by himself and put his
fingers into his ears, and spat, and with that touched the tongue of the mute man;
|34| and, looking up to Shomayim with a deep sigh, he says to him, Ephphatha, (which means, Be
opened!).
|35| Ofen ort (immediately) his ears were opened, and the impediment of his lashon (tongue) was
loosed and he was speaking properly.
|36| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was directing them not to tell anyone. But as much as he
ordered them, they were proclaiming [it] all the more.
|37| And they were all astonished beyond all measure, saying, He has done all things tov meod
(very well), and he makes even the chereshim (deaf people) to hear and the illemim (mute) to
speak. [YESHAYAH 35:5,6]
§PEREK HET (CHAPTER EIGHT)
In yamim hahem (those days), again, when there was a great multitude and they had no okhel
(food), Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach called his talmidim, and says to them,
|2| I have rachmei shomayim (heavenly mercy/compassion) on the multitude, because they
already shlosha yamim (three days) have remained with me and they do not have anything they
may eat;
|3| and if I send them away hungry to their batim (houses), they will give out on the way; and
some of them have come from far away.
|4| And his talmidim answered him, From where will anyone be able to find enough lechem to
feed these ones here in the midbar? [BAMIDBAR 11:21]
|5| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was asking them, How many loaves do you have? And they
said, Shevah.
|6| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach directed the multitude to recline at tish, as it were, on the
ground. And having taken the sheva kikrot (loaves), he made a bracha, saying the ha-Motzi, and
offered the betziat halechem (the breaking of the bread) and was giving [them] to his talmidim to
serve to them, and they served the multitude.
|7| And they also had a few small dagim. And after he had made the bracha over them, he
directed these to be served as well.
|8| And they ate and were satisfied. And there was an abundance of shirayim (Rebbe's
remainders), sheva baskets [full].
|9| And there were approximately arbaat elafim (four thousand [people]). And Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach sent them away.
|10| And ofen ort (immediately), having embarked onto the sirah (boat) with his talmidim, Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach came into the region of Dalmanutha.
|11| And the Perushim came out and began to argue with him, seeking from him an ot min
HaShomayim (a sign from heaven), testing him.
|12| And sighing deeply in his ruach, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Why does hador hazeh
(this generation) seek for an ot? Omein, I say to you, no ot shall be given to hador hazeh (this
generation).
|13| And having left them, Moshiach again embarked and departed to the other side.
|14| And his talmidim had forgotten to take lechem and did not have anything except one kikar
(loaf) in the sirah (boat) with them.
|15| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was giving orders to them, saying, Take care! Beware of
the chametz (leaven) of the Perushim and the chametz of Herod.
|16| And the talmidim were beginning to discuss among themselves that they do not have [any]
kikrot (loaves).
|17| And aware of this, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Why are you discussing that
you do not have kikrot? Do you not yet have binah (understanding) nor comprehend? Have your levavot fallen into timtum halev (hardening of the heart), KESHI (hardness, stubbornness, DEVARIM 9:27)? [YESHAYAH 6:9,10]
|18| EINAYIM LAKHEM VLO TIRU VOZNAYIM LAKHEM VLO TISHMAU (Having eyes,
do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear?--YIRMEYAH 5:21; YECHEZKEL 12:2)
And do you not remember,
|19| when I offered the beziat halechem with the chamesh kikrot (five loaves) for the chameshet
elafim (five thousand), how many baskets of shirayim you picked up? And they say to him,
Shneym Asar.
|20| And when I offered the beziat halechem over the shevah (seven) for the arbaat haalafim (four
thousand), how many baskets full of shirayim did you pick up? And they say to him, Shiva.
|21| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying to them, Do you not yet have binah
(understanding)?
|22| And they come to Beit-Tzaidah. And they bring to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach an ivver
(blind man), and entreated him to touch him.
|23| And having grasped the hand of the ivver, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach took him outside the
shtetl; and, having put spittle on his eyes, [and] having laid hands upon him, Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach was questioning him, Do you see anything?
|24| And after looking up, the ivver was saying, I see bnei Adam--they look like trees walking!
|25| Then again Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach placed his hands upon his eyes; and the man looked
intently and was restored, and was seeing everything clearly.
|26| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach sent the man to his bais, saying, Do not even enter the
shtetl.
THE HISGALUS (REVELATION) OF THE IDENTITY OF MOSHIACH
|27| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went out along with his talmidim, to the shtetlach of
Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he was questioning his talmidim, saying to them, Who do
Bnei Adam say that I am?
|28| And the talmidim spoke to him, saying, Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva; and others say,
Eliyahu HaNavi; but others, One of the neviim. [MALACHI 4:5]
|29| And he continued questioning them, But who do you say that I am? In reply, Kefa says to
him, You are the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|30| And he warned them to tell no one about him.
|31| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach began to teach them that it is necessary [for] the Ben
HaAdam [Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14] to suffer many things and to be rejected by the Zekenim
and the Rashei Hakohanim (the Chief Priests) and the Sofrim (Scribes) [YESHAYAH 53:3], and
to be killed and after his histalkus (passing) and after Shlosha Yamim (Three Days) to undergo
the Techiyas HaMoshiach.
|32| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was speaking about the matter plainly. And Shimon Kefa
took him aside and began to rebuke him.
|33| But having turned around and having looked at his talmidim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach
rebuked Kefa, and says, Get behind me, Hasatan; for you are not putting your machshavot
(thoughts) on the interests of Hashem but on that of Bnei Adam. [cf Mk 7:9]
|34| And having summoned the multitude along with his talmidim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach
said to them, If anyone wishes to follow after me, let him make denial of himself, and take up his
etz shel hakarav atzmo (tree of self-sacrifice), and follow me.
|35| For whoever wishes to save his nefesh will lose it; but whoever loses his nefesh for my sake
and for the sake of the Besuras HaGeulah will save it.
|36| For how is the ben Adam (human being) benefited if he gain the kol haOlam, and forfeit his
neshamah?
|37| For what shall a ben Adam give in exchange [for] his neshamah?
|38| For whoever feels bushah (shame) regarding me and my dvarim in this dor rah umnaef (evil
and adulterous generation), the Ben HaAdam [Moshiach] will also be ashamed of him, when
Moshiach comes in the kavod of his Av with the malachim hakedoshim.
§PEREK TET (CHAPTER NINE)
And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying to them, Omein, I say to you, there are some of
those standing here who shall not taste mavet until they see that the Malchut Hashem has
come in gevurah.
|2| And after shishah yamim Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach takes Kefa and Yaakov and Yochanan,
and brought them up a high mountain by themselves. And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was
transfigured before them;
|3| and his garments became like a dazzlingly brilliant kittel, gantz (exceedingly) white, more
white than anyone on earth could bleach them.
|4| And Eliyahu Hanavi appeared to them along with Moshe (Rabbeinu), and they were talking
with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|5| And in reply, to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Kefa says: Rebbe, it is tov [for] us to be here,
and let us make shalosh succot, one for you and one for Moshe (Rabbeinu) and one for Eliyahu
Hanavi.
|6| Kefa did not know what he was answering, for they were tzufloigen (dazed) with pachad
(terror).
|7| And there came an anan (cloud) that was overshadowing them, and there came a bat kol (voice from heaven) out of the anan, ZEH BENI AHUVI, ELAV TISHMAUN (Listen to him!)
(TEHILLIM 2:7) [SHEMOT 24:16]
|8| And suddenly, when they looked around, they saw no one in their company any more, except
only Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|9| And [as] they were coming down from the mountain, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave
instructions to them that they should tell no one what they saw, except when the Ben HaAdam
[Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14] should stand up in his Techiyas HaMoshiach.
|10| And they retained Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach's dvar, discussing among themselves what he
might mean by the Techiyas HaMoshiach from HaMesim.
|11| And they were questioning Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying, Why is it that the Sofrim
(Scribes) say it is necessary for Eliyahu Hanavi to come rishonah (first)?
|12| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Eliyahu Hanavi indeed does come rishonah
and brings tikkun (restoration) to all things. And yet how is it written of the Ben HaAdam
[Moshiach] that he must suffer many things and be NIVZEH VACHADAL (despised and
rejected--YESHAYAH 53:3)?
|13| But I say to you, that Eliyahu Hanavi has indeed come, and they did to him whatever they
pleased, just as it has been written concerning him. [MELACHIM ALEF 19:2, 10; MALACHI
3:23f (4:5f)]
|14| And when they returned to the talmidim, they saw a great multitude around them and [the]
Sofrim (Scribes) arguing with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach's talmidim.
|15| And ofen ort (immediately), as soon as the multitude saw Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, they
were surprised and began running up to [him] with Birkat Shalom greetings.
|16| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach questioned them, About what are you arguing with them?
|17| And one of the multitude answered Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach: Rabbi, I brought beni (my
son) to you, because he has a shed that makes him illem (mute).
|18| And whenever it seizes him, it throws him into convulsions and he foams at the mouth, and
grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. And I told your talmidim in order that they might cast it out,
and they did not have the koach (power).
|19| In reply to them, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says, O dor (generation) without emunah, how
long will I be with you? How long will I put up with you? Bring the bocher to me!
|20| They brought the bocher to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. And when the shed saw Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach, it threw the bocher into convulsions, and, falling to the ground, the bocher
began rolling around foaming at the mouth.
|21| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach questioned the bocher's abba, How long has this been happening to him? And he said, From kinder-yoren.
|22| And also it has often thrown him into the eish and into the mayim that it might destroy him.
But if you can do anything, grant rachmei shomayim upon us and help us!
|23| Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, If you can?!! All things are possible to him who
has emunah!
|24| Ofen ort (immediately) the abba of the bocher cried out and began saying, Ani Maamin (I
believe)! Help my lack of emunah!
|25| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having seen that a multitude was gathering, rebuked the
ruach hatumah (unclean spirit), saying to it, You cheresh-illem (deaf and mute) ruach hatemeiah,
I command you, come out from him and do not ever enter into him again!
|26| And after shrieking a geshrai (scream) and throwing the bocher into violent seizures, the
ruach hatemeiah came out. And the bocher was so like a geviyah (corpse) that many exclaimed
he was niftar.
|27| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having grasped the hand of the bocher, lifted him up; and
the bocher stood up.
|28| And, having entered into a bais, his talmidim began questioning Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach
in a yechidus: Why were we not able to perform the gerush shedim (exorcism)?
|29| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, This kind of gerush shedim is accomplished
only by davening with tzomot.
|30| And from there they went forth and were passing through the Galil, and Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach did not want anyone to have daas.
|31| For Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was teaching his talmidim and was saying to them, The Ben
HaAdam [Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14] is to be betrayed into the hands of Bnei Adam, and
MOSHIACH YIKARET (Moshiach will be violently killed, DANIEL 9:26), and when he has
been killed and has his histalkus (passing), he will rise in his Techiyas HaMoshiach from
HaMesim on Yom HaShelishi (the Third Day).
|32| But they did not have binah (understanding) concerning this dvar, and they were afraid to
inquire further.
|33| And they came to Kfar-Nachum. And when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was in the bais, he
began questioning them, What were you arguing about baderech (on the road)?
|34| But they were keeping silent, for baderech they were discussing with one another which of
the talmidim was hagadol.
|35| And sitting down, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach called the Shneym Asar and says to them, If
anyone wishes to be Rishon (First), he shall be Acharon (Last), and mesharet (minister, servant)
of all.
|36| And having taken a yeled, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach set him in [the] center of them, and,
having taken the yeled into his arms, he said to them,
|37| Whoever receives one yeled such as this bishmi (in my name) receives me, and whoever
receives me, receives not only me but the One who sent me.
|38| Yochanan said to him, Rebbe, we saw someone performing a gerush shedim in your name,
and we were trying to stop him, because he was not one of your chasidim. [BAMIDBAR
11:27-29]
|39| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Do not stop him, for no one who will accomplish
niflaot (wonders) bishmi (in my name) will be able soon afterward to speak lashon hora about
me.
|40| For the one who is not our mitnagged (opponent) is for us.
|41| For whoever gives you to drink a kos of mayim (cup of water) bishmi (in my name) because
you are talmidim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, omein, I say to you, he shall not lose his sachar
(reward).
|42| And whoever causes a michshol (stumbling block) for one of these little ones, the maaminim
b'Moshiach who have emunah in me, it would be better for him if a heavy millstone, one turned
by a donkey, were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea.
AMPUTATION A METAPHOR OF TRUE TESHUVA
|43| And if your yad (hand) causes you a michshol, cut off your yad; for it is better for you if you
enter Chayyei Olam as an amputee, than, having both yadayim, you go away into Gehinnom, into the EISH LO TIKHBEH (fire not [ever] extinguished, YESHAYAH 66:24).
|45| And if your regel (foot) causes you a michshol, cut off your regel; it is better for you to enter
Chayyei Olam lame, than, having both raglayim, to be cast into Gehinnom.
|47| And if your ayin (eye) causes you a michshol, take it out; for it is better for you to enter the
Malchut Hashem one-eyed, than, having both eynayim, to be cast into Gehinnom,
|48| where their TOLAAT LO TAMUT (worm does not die--YESHAYAH 66:24) and EISH LO
TIKHBEH (the fire not [ever] extinguished --YESHAYAH 66:24).
|49| For everyone will have eish as his melach (salt). [VAYIKRA 2:13]
|50| Melach is tov, but if the melach becomes unsalty, by what [means] will you make it salty
again? Have melach in yourselves. And among yourselves let there be shalom.
§PEREK YOD (CHAPTER TEN)
And from there, having got up, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach comes into the region of
Yehudah and on the other side of the Yarden, and again multitudes gather to him, and as
was his minhag (custom), once more he was teaching them Torah.
|2| And, having approached, the Perushim, testing him, were asking him, Is it mutar (permissible)
for a man to give a get (divorce) to his wife?
|3| But in reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, What mitzvah (commandment) did
Moshe [Rabbeinu] give you?
|4| And they said, Moshe Rabbeinu made it mutar (permissible) for a man to write SEFER
KERITUT (a get, bill of divorcement) and to send her away (dismiss her, divorce her).
[DEVARIM 24:1-4]
|5| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Because of the hardness of your levavot, he
wrote you this mitzvah. [TEHILLIM 95:8]
|6| But in the beginning of the Beriah (Creation) ZACHAR UNEKEVAH BARA OTAM
(Hashem made them male and female). [BERESHIT 1:27,5:2]
|7| AL KEN YAAZAV ISH ES AVIV VES IMMO VDAVAK BISHTO
|8| VHAYU LVASAR ECHAD ( A man will leave his father and his mother and he will be
joined to his isha (wife), and the two will be one flesh;) [BERESHIT 2:24] For this reason, they
are no longer Shenayim but Basar Echad.
|9| Therefore, what Hashem has joined together, let no ben Adam separate.
|10| And in the bais, the talmidim began to question Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach about this
again.
|11| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Whoever gives a get to his isha and marries
another, commits niuf (adultery) against his isha.
|12| And if she gets a get (divorce) from her baal (husband) and marries another, she commits
niuf (adultery). [Mt 19:9]
|13| And they brought to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach yeladim that he might lay his hands on
them. But the talmidim rebuked them.
|14| And having seen this, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach became displeased and indignant, and
said to his talmidim, Permit the yeladim to come to me, and do not hinder them, for of such as
these is the Malchut Hashem.
|15| Omein, I say to you, Whoever is not mekabel Malchut Hashem (receive the Kingdom of G-d) as a yeled would be mekabel Malchut Hashem, will by no means enter it.
|16| And having taken the yeladim into his arms, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach laid his hands on
them and made a bracha over them.
|17| And as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was setting out to travel, one running and falling down
before him, was asking him, Rabbi haTov, what mitzvah may I do that I might inherit Chayyei
Olam?
|18| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Why do you call me tov? No one [is] tov
except echad, Elohim, nu?
|19| You have daas of the mitzvot, the Aseres Ha-Dibros (The Decalogue), LO TIRTZACH, LO
TINAF, LO TIGNOV, LO TAANEH VREIACHA ED SHAKER, KABEID ES AVICHA VES
IMMECHAH (Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness (do
not defraud), honor your father and mother.) [SHEMOT 20:12-16; DEVARIM 5:16-20]
|20| And the man was saying to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Rabbi, from kinder-yoren I have
been frum and shomer mitzvot, keeping all these things.
|21| And looking at him and having ahavah for his neshamah, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, One thing you lack: go and sell all your possessions and give to the aniyim (poor), and you will have otzar (treasure) in Shomayim; and come, follow me [as my talmid].
|22| But at the dvar haMoshiach, his face turned gloomy and he departed with agmat nefesh
(grief), for he had many possessions.
|23| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, looking around, says to his talmidim, How difficult it will
be for the ashirim to enter the Malchut Hashem! [TEHILLIM 52:7, 62:10]
|24| And the talmidim were amazed at his dvarim. But again Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, in
reply, says to them, Yeladim, how difficult it is to enter into the Malchut Hashem.
|25| It is easier [for] a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for an ashir (rich person) to
enter the Malchut Hashem.
|26| And they were even more amazed, saying to one another, Then who with the Yeshuat
Eloheinu is able to be saved?
|27| Having looked at them, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says, With Bnei Adam [this is]
impossible, but not with Hashem. For all things are possible with Hashem.
|28| Shimon Kefa began to say to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Hinei! We left everything and
have followed you!
|29| Yehoshua said, Omein, I say to you, there is no one who left bais or achim or achayot or em
or abba or banim or sadot (fields) for the sake of me and for the sake of the Besuras HaGeulah,
|30| but that he shall receive a hundredfold now in the Olam Hazeh, batim (houses) and achim
and achayot and imahot and banim and sadot with redifot (persecutions); and in Olam Habah,
Chayyei Olam.
|31| And many Rishonim (First Ones) will be Acharonim (Last Ones); and the Acharonim, will
be Rishonim.
|32| And they were on the derech making aliyah leregel (pilgrimage) to Yerushalayim, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was leading out, walking ahead of them, and they were astounded, and the ones following were afraid. And again Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach took the Shneym Asar aside for a yechidus and began to tell them what was to happen to him,
|33| saying, Hinei, we are making aliyah leregel to Yerushalayim, and the Ben Adam will be
betrayed to the Rashei Hakohanim and the Sofrim (Scribes) and they will condemn him with
onesh mavet (death penalty) and will hand him over to the Goyim.
|34| And they will mock him and spit on him and scourge him and will kill [him], and after his
histalkus (passing), on the Yom HaShlishi (the Third Day) he in his Techiyas HaMoshiach from
HaMesim will stand up alive again.
|35| And Yaakov and Yochanan, the banim of Zavdai, approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach,
saying to him, Rebbe, we wish that whatever bakosha (request) we may ask you, you may do for
us.
|36| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, What do you wish me to do for you?
|37| And they said to him, Grant to us that one may sit limin (at the right hand) of you and one
lismol (at the left hand) in your kavod.
|38| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, You do not have daas of what you ask. Are
you able to drink the kos which I drink or to undergo my tevilah? [IYOV 38:2]
|39| And they said to him, We are able. And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, The kos
which I drink you shall drink; and you shall have the tevilah in which I am submerged.
|40| But to sit limin or lismol of me is not mine to grant, but for the ones for whom it has been
prepared.
|41| And hearing this, the Asarah (Ten) became indignant with Yaakov and Yochanan.
|42| And having summoned them, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, You have daas that
among the Goyim those whom they recognize as their moshlim (rulers) domineer them and their
Gedolim (Great Ones, Leaders) exercise authority over them.
|43| However, it is not so among you. He who wishes to become gadol among you must be your
mesharet (minister, servant).
|44| And whoever wishes to be first among you must be eved of all.
THE KOFER TO RANSOM THE CAPTIVES FROM THE GOLUS OF SIN (YESHAYAH
59:2)
|45| For even the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14) did not come to be served but to
serve and to give his NEFESH as a kofer (ransom, pedut) LARABBIM (for many, for the Geulah
Redemption of many). [YESHAYAH 53:10-11]
|46| And they come to Yericho. And as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was going forth from
Yericho with his talmidim and a great multitude, Bar-Timai [son of Timai], an ivver, a poor
kabtzen, was sitting beside the road.
|47| And when he heard that it was Yehoshua from Natzeret coming, he began to cry out and to
shout, Ben Dovid Yehoshua, chaneini!
|48| And many were rebuking him that he should shekit, but he kept crying out all the more, Ben
Dovid, chaneini!
|49| Having stopped, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Summon him here. And they called the
ivver, saying to him, Chazak! Cheer up! He is calling you!
|50| And having tossed aside his kaftan, and having jumped up, he came to Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach.
|51| And in reply, Yehoshua said, What do you wish that I may do for you? And the ivver said to
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Rabboni, that I may see.
|52| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Go. Your emunah has brought you tikkun
(restored you). And ofen ort (immediately) he regained his sight and he began following Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach baderech (on the road).
§PEREK YOD ALEPH (CHAPTER ELEVEN)
And when they draw near to Yerushalayim at Beit-Pagey and Beit-Anyah near the Mount of
Olives, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach sends two of his talmidim,
|2| and says to them, Go into the shtetl ahead of you, and ofen ort (immediately) as you enter it,
you will find an AYIR (colt, ZECHARYAH 9:9) tied there, on which no one of Bnei Adam yet
has ever sat; untie it and bring it here. [BAMIDBAR 19:2, DEVARIM 21:3, SHMUEL ALEF
6:7]
|3| And if anyone says to you, Why are you doing this? you say, HaAdon has need of it and will
send it here again.
|4| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach's talmidim left and found an AYIR (ZECHARYAH 9:9) tied at the shaar (gate) outside on the rehkov (street). And they untied him.
|5| And some by-standers were saying to them, What are you doing untying the AYIR?
|6| And the talmidim spoke to them just as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had instructed them.
And the by-standers permitted them.
|7| And the talmidim brought the AYIR to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and they lay upon it their
garments, and he sat upon it.
|8| And many spread their garments on the derech, but others spread leafy branches they had cut
from the sadot (fields).
|9| And the vanguard and rearguard of the procession were crying out, HOSHAN NAH (Save
now, TEHILLIM 118:25-26) BARUCH HABAH B'SHEM ADONOI!
|10| A bracha on the coming Malchut Dovid Avinu! Hoshan nah in the highest!
|11| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach entered into Yerushalayim into the Beis HaMikdash and,
having looked around at everything, and, the hour now being late, he went out to Beit-Anyah
with the Shneym Asar (Twelve).
|12| And on the next day, when they came from Beit-Anyah, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was
hungry.
|13| And having seen in the distance an etz teenah (fig tree) in leaf, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach
approached it to see whether he might find pri (fruit) on it. But when he came to it, he found
nothing except leaves. For it was not the teenim season.
|14| And in reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to it, May no one ever be nourished from pri
from you again! And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach's talmidim were listening.
|15| Then they came to Yerushalayim. And having entered the Beis HaMikdash, Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach began to drive out the ones buying and selling in the Beis HaMikdash, and he
overturned the shulchanot (tables) of the machalifei hakesafim (money changers) and the chairs
of the ones selling the yonim (doves).
|16| And he was not allowing anyone to carry things through the Beis HaMikdash.
|17| And he was teaching Torah and he was saying to them, Has it not been written, BEITI BEIT
TEFILLAH YIKAREI LKHOL HAAMMIM (My House shall be called a House of Prayer [for]
all peoples), but you have made it a MEARAT PARITZIM (den of robbers). [YESHAYAH
56:7; YIRMEYAH 7:11]
|18| And the Rashei Hakohanim (the Chief Priests) and the Sofrim (Scribes) heard this, and they
were seeking how they might destroy him, for they were afraid of him, for all the multitude were
amazed at his torah (teaching).
|19| And when it became late, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and his talmidim went out of the
city.
WHATEVER IS WITHOUT P'RI IN MOSHIACH IS CURSED--THE WITHERED ETZ
TEENAH AND THE POWER OF EMUNAH
|20| And in the boker (morning), early, as they passed by, they saw the etz teenah (fig tree) having been withered from [the] roots.
|21| And, having remembered, Shimon Kefa says to him, Rebbe, look, the etz teenah (fig tree)
which you cursed has been withered.
|22| And in reply Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Have emunah in Hashem.
|23| Omein, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, be lifted up and be thrown into the sea,
and does not waver in his lev (heart) but has emunah that what he says happens, so it will be
for him.
|24| For this reason, I say to you, everything for which you daven (pray), everything you request
in tefillos (prayers), have emunah (faith) that you have received it, and so it will be for you.
|25| And when you stand davening, grant selicha (forgiveness) if something you hold against
someone, in order that your Avinu shbaShomayim may grant you selicha for your peyshaim
(transgressions).
|27| And again they come into Yerushalayim. And in the Beis Hamikdash, [when] Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach was walking about, the Rashei Hakohanim (the Chief Priests) and the
Sofrim (Scribes) and the Zekenim come to him.
|28| And they were saying to him, By what kind of samchut do you do these things? Or who gave to you this samchut that you may do these things?
|29| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, I will ask you one dvar, and you answer me
and I will tell you by what kind of samchut I do these things:
|30| the tevilah [of teshuva] of Yochanan--was it from Shomayim or from Bnei Adam? Answer
me!
|31| And they were discussing among themselves, saying, If we say, from Shomayim, he will say,
Why then did you not believe him? |32| But [if] we say from Bnei Adam?--they were afraid of
the multitude, for everyone was considering Yochanan beemes (in truth) a navi.
|33| And in reply to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, they say, We do not have daas. And Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Neither will I tell you by what kind of samchut (authority) I
do these things.
§PEREK YOD BEIT (CHAPTER TWELVE)
And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach began to speak to them in meshalim. A man, a Baal Bayit,
planted a kerem (vineyard), and he put around [it] a fence and dug a pit for the yekev
(winepress) and built a migdal (tower), and he leased it to koremim (vine-keepers) and then the
man went on a journey. [YESHAYAH 5:1-7]
|2| And the Baal Bayit sent an eved to the tenants, the koremim, in the season [of Katsir] in order
that from the koremim he might receive from the perot (fruit) of the kerem (vineyard).
|3| But they seized the eved and they beat him and sent him away empty.
|4| And again the Baal Bayit sent to the tenants, the koremim, another eved; and that one they
struck on the rosh and insulted.
|5| And the Baal Bayit sent another; and that one they killed, and many others, some beating, and
others killing.
|6| Still he had one BEN AHUV [9:7]. Lemaskana (finally), the Baal Bayit sent him to them
saying, They will respect BENI.
|7| But those koremim said to themselves, This one is the Yoresh (Heir), the Bechor. Come, let us
kill him, and the nachalah, the bechorah, will be ours.
|8| And having seized [him], they killed him and threw him out of the kerem.
|9| What then will the Baal Bayit of the kerem do? He will come and destroy the koremim and
will give the kerem to others.
|10| Have you not read the Kitvei Hakodesh? EVEN MAASU HABONIM HAYTAH LEROSH
PINAH; MEIET HASHEM HAYTAH ZOT, HI NIFLAT BEINEINU (The stone which the ones
building rejected, this one has come to be for [the] capstone of [the] corner.
|11| From Adonoi this came to be and it is wonderful in our eyes? [TEHILLIM 118:22,23]
|12| And they were seeking to seize him, and they were afraid of the multitude, for they knew that
against them he told the mashal. And leaving him, they went away.
|13| And they send to him some of the Perushim (Pharisees) and the Herodians in order that they
might catch him in a dvar.
|14| And having come, they say to him: Rabbi, we have daas that you are an ish of Emes (man of
Truth) and you do not show deference toward anyone. Ki ein masso panim (For there is no
partiality) with you but rather on the Derech Hashem you give Divrei Torah in Emes. Is it mutar
(permissible) to give a poll tax to Caesar or not? Should we give or should we not give?
|15| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having seen their tzeviut (hypocrisy), said to them, Why
are you testing me? Bring me a denarius that I may look [at it].
|16| And they brought [one]. And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Whose demut is this and whose inscription? And they said to him, Caesar's.
|17| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, The things of Caesar, give to Caesar, and the
things of Hashem [give] to Hashem. And they were amazed at Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
WHEN THE TZEDUKIM CALL HIM RABBI THEY INTEND IT AS A SHTOCH
(MOCKING AND IRONIC JAB)
|18| And [the] Tzedukim come to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, the ones who say that there is not
to be a Techiyas HaMesim, and they were questioning him, saying,
|19| Rabbi, Moshe (Rabbeinu) wrote to us that if an ACH of someone should die and leave
behind an isha UVEN EIN LO (and there is no son to him) YEVAMAH YAVO ALEIHA
ULEKAKHAH LO LISHA VHAYAH HABECHOR ASHER TELED YAKUM AL SHEM
ACHIV HAMET (the brother of her husband must come to her and he must take her to him as
wife and the Bechor she bears shall raise up the name of the dead brother. DEVARIM 25:5)
|20| Now there were shiva achim (seven brothers). And the first took a wife and, dying, did not
leave a descendant.
|21| And the second took her and he died, not having left behind a descendant. And the third
likewise.
|22| And the seven did not leave a descendant.
|23| In the Techiyas HaMesim, when they are made to stand up alive, of which of them will she
be [the] isha? For seven had her as wife.
|24| Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, said to them, Is not this the reason you are in error, having daas
(knowledge) neither of the Kitvei Hakodesh nor of the gevurat Hashem (power of G-d)?
|25| But concerning the Mesim that are made to stand up alive, they do not marry nor are they
given in nessuim (marriage), but are like the malachim in Shomayim.
|26| But concerning the Mesim, that they are made to stand up alive, have you not read in the
sefer of Moshe Rabbeinu at the bush, how Hashem spoke to him, saying, ANOCHI ELOHEI
AVRAHAM ELOHEI YITZCHAK VELOHEI YAAKOV (I am the G-d of Avraham, the G-d of
Yitzchak, and the G-d of Yaakov, SHEMOT 3:6)
|27| Hashem is not the G-d of the Mesim (Dead ones) but of the Chayyim (Living ones). You are
greatly mistaken.
|28| And one of the Sofrim (Scribes) approached and heard them debating, and seeing that Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach answered them well, asked him, Which mitzvah is rishonah of all the
mitzvot?
|29| Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach answered, SHEMA YISROEL ADONOY ELOHEINU
ADONOY ECHAD is harishonah.
|30| VAHAVTA ES ADONOY ELOHECHA BKHOL LVAVCHA UVECHOL NAFSHECHA
UVECHOL MODECHA. [DEVARIM 6:4,5]
|31| And the shneyah is this, VAHAVTA LREACHA KAMOCHA [VAYIKRA 19:18]. There is not another mitzvah greater than these.
|32| And the Baal Torah said to him, Well spoken, Rabbi, beemes you have said that Hashem is
ECHAD (one, DEVARIM 6:4), and EIN OD and there is no other [YESHAYAH 45:18] except
him. [DEVARIM 4:35,39; YESHAYAH 45:6,14; 46:9]
|33| and to have ahavah for him BECHOL LVAVCHA (with all your heart) and with all your
binah UVECHOL MODECHA (with all your strength DEVARIM 6:5) and LREACHA
KAMOCHA (your neighbor as yourself, VAYIKRA 19:18) is greater [than] all of the burnt
offerings and sacrifices. [SHMUEL ALEF 15:22; HOSHEA 6:6; MICHOH 6:6-8]
|34| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, when he saw that this Torah teacher answered with
chochmah (wisdom), said to him, You are not far from the Malchut Hashem. And no one was
daring to put a sheelah (question) in front of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach again.
|35| While Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying shiurim (Torah talks) in the Beis Hamikdash,
he was saying: How is it that the Sofrim (Scribes) say that Moshiach is [merely] ben Dovid?
|36| Dovid himself said by the Ruach Hakodesh, NEUM HASHEM LADONI: SHEV LIMINI,
AD ASHIT OYVECHA HADOM LRAGLECHA (Hashem said to my L-rd, Sit at the right of
me, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.) [SHMUEL BAIS 23:2; TEHILLIM
110:1]
|37| Dovid himself calls Moshiach Adon; how then is Moshiach [merely] ben Dovid? And the
large multitude found it a huge oneg (pleasure) to listen to him.
|38| And in his torah, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying, Beware of the Sofrim (Scribes,
Torah-teachers, rabbonim), the ones enamored of strutting about in extremely long kaftans and
with equally lengthy Birkat Shalom greetings in the marketplaces,
|39| and places of honor in the shuls and places of honor at the seudot (banquet dinners).
|40| Beware particularly of the ones devouring the batim (houses) of the almanot (widows) and
making a grand show of davening long tefillos. Din (Judgment) will fall more heavily on these.
|41| And having sat [down] opposite the Beis Hamikdash Otzar (Treasury), Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach was observing how the multitude throws copper [coins] into the Otzar. And many
ashirim (rich people) were throwing [in] much. [MELACHIM BAIS 12:9]
|42| And a poor almanah (widow) came and threw [in] two leptas, which is a kodrantes.
|43| And having summoned his talmidim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them: Omein, I say
to you that this poor almanah has put in more tzedakah (charity contribution) than all those
contributing to the Otzar,
|44| for everyone threw in from their abundance, but this almanah from her need has put in
everything she had, all her michyah (subsistence).
§PEREK YOD GIMEL (CHAPTER THIRTEEN)
And as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was going out from the Beis HaMikdash, one of his
talmidim says to him, Hinei! Rebbe, what large stones and impressive binyanim
(buildings)!
|2| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Do you see these great binyanim? Not one even (stone) will be left resting on another even (stone). All will be thrown down!
|3| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the Beis
HaMikdash having a yechidus (private meeting) with Kefa and Yaakov and Yochanan and
Andrew.
|4| Tell us when these things will be and what [will be] the ot (sign) when all these things are
about to be consummated?
|5| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach began to say to them, Beware lest anyone deceive you.
|6| For many will come in my name [arrogating my title and authority as Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach] saying I am [here]. And they will deceive many. [YIRMEYAH 29:8]
|7| But when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be troubled. It is necessary for these
things to occur, but it is not yet HaKetz (the End [of the Olam Hazeh]).
|8| For there will be an intifada of ethnic group against ethnic group and malchut against malchut,
there will be earthquakes in place after place, [and] there will be famines. These things are but
the beginning of the Chevlei [Moshiach].
|9| But as for yourselves, take heed and be careful. For they will hand you over to the sanhedrin
and in the shuls you will be beaten and before moshlim (governors) and melachim (kings) you
will take your stand for the sake of me [Moshiach] as a solemn edut (testimony) to them.
|10| And it is necessary that the Besuras HaGeulah first be proclaimed to all nations.
|11| And when they arraign you and hand you over for trial, do not be worried beforehand about
what you might say; but whatever is given to you in that hour, this you shall say, for it is not you
yourselves who are the ones speaking, but the Ruach Hakodesh.
|12| And ach will hand over ach to mavet, and Av [his] own yeled, and yeladim will rise up
against horim (parents) and cause them to be condemned with onesh mavet (the death penalty).
[MICHOH 7:6]
|13| And everyone will hate you with sinas chinom (baseless hatred) because of my name
[Moshiach Yehoshua]. But the one having endured to HaKetz, this one will receive Yeshuat
Eloheinu.
|14| And when you see the SHIKUTS MESHOMEM (the abomination of desolation, the
abomination that causes desolation, DANIEL 9:27; 11:31; 12:11) standing where it ought not
--let the one reading this, take heed! --then let the ones in Yehudah flee to the mountains.
|15| And the one on the roof, let him not come down back inside, and let him not enter his bais to
take anything away.
|16| And the one in the sadeh (field) let him not turn back to get his kaftan.
|17| And oy to the ones with child and the ones with nursing infants in those days.
|18| But daven tefillos that it may not occur in khoref (winter).
|19| For in those days will be Tzarah Gedolah (Great Tribulation) of such a kind as has not
happened from [the] Reshit Yedei HaBriah (Beginning of the Days of Creation) which Hashem
created until now and never again will be. [DANIEL 9:26; 12:1; YOEL 2:2]
|20| And unless Hashem makes those yamim shortened, no one would be delivered in the Yeshuat Eloheinu. But for the sake of the Bechirim (Chosen Ones), whom Hashem chose, he shortened the yamim.
|21| And, then, if someone says to you, Hinei! Here [is] the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach! Hinei!
There!--do not have emunah in what they say.
|22| For meshichei sheker (false moshiachs) will arise, and neviei sheker (false prophets), and
they will perform otot and moftim so as to deceive and lead stray, if possible, the Bechirim.
[DEVARIM 13:6,7,11,14]
|23| But you beware. I have forewarned you concerning all things.
|24| But after the Tzarah [13:19] of yamim hahem, the shemesh (sun) will be darkened, and the
yareach (moon) will not give the ohr (light) of it,
|25| and the kokhavim (stars) will be falling out of Shomayim, and the kochot (powers), the ones
in Shomayim, will be shaken. [YESHAYAH 13:10; 34:4; YECHEZKEL 32:7-8; AMOS 8:9;
YOEL 3:3f (2:30f)]
|26| And then you will see the BEN HAADAM BA BAANANIM (the Son of Man [Moshiach]
coming in clouds DANIEL 7:13-14) with gevurah rabbah (great power) and kavod (glory).
|27| And then he will send the malachim and he will gather together his Bechirim [13:20] from
the four winds, from the ends (extremities) of haaretz to the ends (extremities) of Shomayim.
[ZECHARYAH 2:6]
|28| And from the etz teenah (fig tree) learn the mashal: when by that time its branch has become
tender and it puts forth the leaves, you have daas that Kayits is near;
|29| So also you, when you see these things happening, have daas that it is near, at the doors.
|30| Omein, I say to you that by no means HaDor HaZeh passes away until all these things take
place. [Mk 13:24; Mt 27:45]
|31| Shomayim and haaretz will pass away, but the dvarim of me [Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach]
will by no means pass away. [YESHAYAH 40:8]
|32| But concerning HaYom HaHu or the shaah, no one has daas, neither the malachim in
Shomayim nor HaBen, but only HaAv.
|33| Beware, stay shomer (on guard), for you do not have daas when the time is.
|34| It is like a man, when departing on a journey and leaving his bais (house) and, having put his avadim (servants) in charge, each with his assigned avodas (work), gives orders to the gatekeeper to be shomer.
|35| Therefore you be shomer, for you do not have daas when the Baal Bayit comes, either late in
the yom or at chatzot halailah (midnight) or at cockcrow or baboker,
|36| lest having come PITOM (suddenly MALACHI 3:1) he finds you sleeping.
|37| And what I say to you, I say to all, be shomer.
§PEREK YOD DALET (CHAPTER FOURTEEN)
Now it was two days before the Pesach, the Chag HaMatzot. And the Rashei Hakohanim and
the Sofrim were seeking how they might by ormah (cunning) do away with Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach.
|2| For they were saying, Not at the Chag, for fear that a riot break out among the am haaretz.
|3| And he was in Beit-Anyah at the bais of Shimon the leper, reclining at tish, and an isha
(woman) came, having an alabaster flask of costly perfume, pure nard, and having broken open
the alabaster flask, she poured [it on] the rosh of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|4| Now some were there who in kaas (anger) said to one another, For what reason has this waste
of ointment taken place?
|5| For this was able to be sold for more than three hundred denarii and to be given to the aniyim
(the poor). And they were reproaching her.
|6| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Leave her alone. Why are you bringing about difficulty
for the isha? Has she not performed one of the Gemilut Chasadim on me?
|7| For always the aniyim you have with you, and when you wish you are able to do maasim
tovim (good deeds) for them, but me you do not always have. [DEVARIM 15:11]
|8| With what she had she did all she could. She prepared ahead of time to anoint my basar for
the kevurah (burial) [TEHILLIM 16:9-10; IYOV 19:25-27; YESHAYAH 53:11].
|9| And, omein, I say to you, wherever the Besuras HaGeulah is proclaimed in kol haaretz, also
what this isha did will be spoken in her memory.
|10| And Yehudah from Kriot, one of the Shneym Asar, went to the Rashei Hakohanim (the Chief Priests) in order that he might betray him to them.
|11| And there was chedvah (rejoicing) with the ones having heard and they gave the havtachah
(promise) of a matnat kesef (gift of money) to Yehudah. And he was seeking how he might
conveniently betray Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|12| And at the rishon of the Chag HaMatzot [when it was customary to prepare the Pesach
Korban for moed zevach], his talmidim say to him, Where do you wish us to go and make the
preparations for you to conduct the Seder? [SHEMOT 12:1-11; DEVARIM 16:1-4]
|13| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach sends two of his talmidim and he says to them, Go into the
city, and you will meet a man carrying a jar of water; follow him;
|14| and wherever he enters, tell the Baal Bayit that the Rebbe says, Where is my mekom linah
(guest room) where I can conduct the Pesach Seder with my talmidim?
|15| And he will show you a large upstairs room having been furnished and ready. And there
prepare for us.
|16| And the talmidim went out and they came into the city and found things just as Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach told them, and they made preparations for Pesach.
|17| And erev having come, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach arrives with the Shneym Asar.
|18| And while they were at tish in a yechidus, reclining and eating, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach
said, Omein, I say to you, that one of you will betray me, OKHEL LACHEMI (the one eating my
bread TEHILLIM 41:10 (9).
|19| They began to have agmat nefesh (grief), and, one by one, to say to Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach, Surely I am not the one?
|20| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, It is one of the Shneym Asar, the one dipping
with me into the bowl [SHEMOT 12:8; TEHILLIM 41:10 (9)].
|21| For the Ben HaAdam [Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14] goes just as it has been written
concerning him [YESHAYAH 53:3; DANIEL 9:26; ZECHARYAH 12:10], but woe to that man
through whom the Ben HaAdam is betrayed. [It would have been] better for him if that man had
not been born.
MOSHIACH THE PESACH SEH (LAMB) OF THE BRIT CHADASHA LITZIAT (GOING
OUT) OFFERS THE AFIKOMAN AND THE CUP OF REDEMPTION AS MEMORIAL
TOKENS OF THE KORBAN (SACRIFICE) OF HIS NEFESH (YESHAYAH 53:7,10)
|22| And at [Moshiach's] Seudah, while they were eating, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having
taken the matzah, having made the ha-Motzi, broke the middle matzah, giving the afikoman to
Moshiach's talmidim, and said, Take and eat, this is my BASAR. [SHEMOT 12:8]
DEVEYKUS WITH G-D
|23| And having taken the Cup of Redemption [and] having made the bracha, Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach gave it to Moshiach's talmidim, and everyone drank of it.
|24| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, HINEI DAHM HABRIT (SHEMOT 24:8),
the dahm of me (Moshiach), which is being poured out lamaan RABBIM (for the sake of MANY
YESHAYAH 53:11).
|25| Omein, I say to you, that no longer will I by any means drink of the pri hagefen (fruit of the
vine) until Yom HaHu when I drink it chadash (new) in the Malchut Hashem.
|26| And having sung the Hallel, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
|27| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, All of you will fall away, for it has been
written, I will strike down ES HAROEH UTEFUTEN HATZON (the Shepherd and the sheep
will be scattered). [ZECHARYAH 13:7]
|28| But after I am made to stand up alive (in the Techiyas HaMoshiach), I will go before you into the Galil.
|29| But Shimon Kefa said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Even if everyone will fall away, yet I
will not.
|30| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, Omein, I say to you, that you today, balailah
hazeh (during this night) before the tarnegol crows twice, you will make hakhchashah (denial) of
me shalosh paamim (three times).
|31| But Kefa kept saying with vehemence, If it is necessary for me to die al kiddush ha-Shem for
you, by no means will I make hakhchashah (denial) of you. And likewise also everyone declared.
|32| And they come to a place of which the name [was] Gat-Shmanim and Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach says to his talmidim, Sit down here while I daven.
|33| And he takes Kefa and Yaakov and Yochanan with him and he began to be distressed and to
be troubled.
|34| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, My agmat nefesh (grief) is great, even to the
point of mavet (death). Remain here and stay awake and shomer (on guard).
|35| And having gone forth a little, he was falling on the ground and was davening that, if it is
possible, this shaah (hour) might pass from him.
|36| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying, Abba, Avi, all things [are] possible for you.
Take away this KOS [YESHAYAH 51:17; 53:12] from me. But not what I will,
but what you [will].
|37| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach comes and finds them sleeping, and he says to Shimon
Kefa, Are you sleeping? Did you not have chozek (strength) to stay awake one hour?
|38| Stay shomer and daven that you may not enter into nisayon (trial, temptation). Indeed the
ruach [is] ready but the basar [is] weak.
|39| And again Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went away and davened the same dvarim (words) as
before. [14:36]
|40| And once again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were falling shut, and they
did not have daas (knowledge) of what they might answer him.
|41| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach comes the shlishit (third) time and says to them, Sleep [for]
the remainder and take your rest. It is enough. The shaah (hour) has come. Hinei, the Ben
HaAdam [Moshiach] is betrayed into the hands of choteim (sinners).
|42| Get up, let us go. Hinei, the one betraying me has drawn near.
|43| And, ofen ort (immediately), bishas maise (at the same time) Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach is
speaking, Yehudah arrives, one of the Shneym Asar, and with him a crowd with swords and
clubs with Rashei Hakohanim (the Chief Priests) and the Sofrim (Scribes) and the Zekenim
(Elders).
|44| Now the one betraying Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had given a signal to them, saying,
Whomever I may give the neshikah (kiss), he is [the one], chap him (seize him)! And lead [him]
away under guard.
|45| And when he came, he ofen ort (immediately) approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and
says, Rebbe. And he gave him the neshikah (kiss).
|46| And they laid their hands on Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and arrested him.
|47| But one of those standing by drew his cherev and struck the servant of the Kohen Gadol and
cut off his ear.
|48| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach answered and said to them, Do you come out with swords
and clubs as against a shoded (robber) to arrest me?
|49| Every day I was with you in the Beis HaMikdash teaching Torah and you did not arrest me;
but let the Kitvei Hakodesh be fulfilled. [YESHAYAH 53:7-12]
|50| And, having left Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, everyone fled.
AN EYE-WITNESS, PROBABLY THE AUTHOR (Ac 12:12), IS DESCRIBED
|51| And a certain bocher was following along with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and the bocher
was wearing nothing but a linen garment around his naked body, and they seized the bocher.
|52| But the bocher ran away naked, leaving the linen garment behind.
|53| And they led away Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to the Kohen Gadol. And all the Rashei
Hakohanim (the Chief Priests) and the Zekenim and the Sofrim (Scribes) were assembled.
|54| And Shimon Kefa from a distance followed Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach right into the
courtyard of the Kohen Gadol. And Kefa was sitting together with the servants and warming
himself near the ohr of the hadlakah (bonfire).
|55| And the Rashei Hakohanim (the Chief Priests) and [the] whole Sanhedrin were seeking edut
(testimony) against Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach in order to have him under the onesh mavet
(death penalty), and they were not finding any.
|56| For many gave edut sheker against Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and the eduyot (testimonies) were not in agreement.
|57| And some, taking the stand, were giving edut sheker (false testimony) against him:
|58| We heard him saying, I will bring churban to this Beis HaMikdash made with human hands,
and, after shlosha yamim (three days), another, not made with hands, I will build.
|59| So their eduyot (testimonies) was not in agreement.
|60| And having stood up in their midst, the Kohen Gadol questioned Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach, saying, Do you not answer anything to what these bear solemn edut (testimony)
against you?
|61| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was silent and did not answer anything. [YESHAYAH
53:7-8] Again the Kohen Gadol was questioning him and says to him, Are you the Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach, HaBen Hamevorakh?
|62| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Ani hu, and you will see the BEN HAADAM
[DANIEL 7:13-14] YOSHEV LIMIN HaGevurah [TEHILLIM 110:1] UVA IM ANENEI
HASHOMAYIM (the Ben HaAdam [Moshiach] sitting at the right hand of power and coming
with the clouds of heaven).
|63| And the Kohen Gadol, making the keriah (ritual tearing) of his tunic, says, What further need
do we have of edim (witnesses)? [VAYIKRA 10:6; 21:10; 24:16; BAMIDBAR 14:6]
|64| You heard him commit Chillul Hashem gidduf (blasphemy). How does it seem to you? And
they all condemned Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to be deserving of mishpat mavet. [VAYIKRA
24:16]
|65| And some began to spit on Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and to cover his face and to strike
him and to say to him, Let's hear a dvar nevuah (word of prophecy)! And the shomrim (guards)
took custody of him by slapping Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|66| And Shimon Kefa being below in the courtyard, one of the maids of the Kohen Gadol comes
by.
|67| And having seen Kefa warming himself, having looked him over, she says, You also were
with the one from Natzeret, Yehoshua!
|68| But he denied [it], saying, I do not have daas (knowledge) or binah (understanding) of what
you are saying. And he walked away and went outside into the entryway. And a tarnegol
crowed.
|69| And the maid, having seen him, began again to say to the ones standing by, This is one of
them!
|70| But again he made hakhchashah (denial). And after a little [while] again the ones having
stood by were saying to Kefa, You are one of them, for indeed you are a Gelili (inhabitant of the
Galil).
|71| And Kefa began to speak a klalah (curse) and to swear, I do not have daas of this man--I
don't know the one of whom you speak!
|72| And ofen ort (immediately), for a second time, a tarnegol crowed. And then Kefa
remembered the dvar that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had spoken to him, Before a tarnegol
crows twice, shalosh paamim (three times) you will make hakhchashah (denial) of me. (Mk
14:30). And having broken down, Kefa was weeping.
§PEREK TET VAV (CHAPTER FIFTEEN)
And as soon as it was boker, the Rashei Hakohanim (the Chief Priests) with the Zekenim and
Sofrim (Scribes) and [the] whole Sanhedrin, having performed the akedah (binding) of
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, led [him] away and handed [him] over to Pilate. [BERESHIT 22:9]
|2| And Pilate questioned Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Are you the Melech HaYehudim? And, in
reply, he says, You say so.
|3| And the Rashei Hakohanim were accusing Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach [of] many things.
|4| And Pilate again questioned him, saying, Do you not answer anything? Look how many
things they accuse you [of].
|5| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach no longer answered anything, so Pilate was astounded.
[YESHAYAH 53:7]
|6| Now [at] every Chag he was releasing to them one prisoner for whom they were making
bakosha (request).
|7| Now there was the one being called Bar-Abba, who had been imprisoned with his fellow
insurrectionists and who, at the time of the Mered (Revolt, Uprising), had committed retzach
(murder).
|8| So the crowd came and began to ask Pilate to do for them just as in the past was his custom.
|9| But Pilate answered them, saying, Do you wish [that] I should release to you the Melech
HaYehudim?
|10| For Pilate knew that because of kinah (envy) the Rashei Hakohanim had handed him over to
him.
|11| But the Rashei Hakohanim incited the crowd that Pilate should instead release Bar-Abba to
them.
|12| But Pilate, in reply again, was saying to them, What then do you wish [that] I should do with
the one whom you call the Melech HaYehudim?
|13| And again they cried out, Let him be talui al HaEtz (being hanged on the Tree)! [DEVARIM
21:23]
|14| But Pilate was saying to them, Why? What raah has he committed? But they all the more
cried out, Let him be talui al HaEtz (being hanged on the Tree)! [DEVARIM 21:23]
|15| So Pilate, desiring to placate the crowd, released to them Bar-Abba, and handed over Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach to be scourged [with the flagellum] and to be talui al HaEtz. [to be hanged
on the Tree, DEVARIM 21:23]
|16| And the chaiyalim (soldiers) led away Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach into the courtyard, which
is [the] Praetorium, the governor's headquarters, and they called together [the] whole cohort.
|17| And they clothe him in [royal] purple and place upon him a keter (crown) of thorns that they
had woven together.
|18| And they began to greet him, Hail, Melech HaYehudim!
|19| And they were striking him [on] the rosh with a staff and they were spitting on him and
bending their knees and bowing down before him. [TEHILLIM 22:8,17]
|20| After mocking him, they stripped him of [royal] purple and clothed him in his garments.
And they lead him out that they might make him be talui al HaEtz (being hanged on the Tree).
[DEVARIM 21:23]
|21| And a certain Shimon from Cyrene was passing by, who was coming in from [the]
countryside. He was the father of Alexander and Rufus. The chaiyalim (soldiers) requisition
him in order that he carry Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach's Etz. [DEVARIM 21:23; YESHAYAH
53:4-5]
THE HAGBAH (LIFTING UP) OF MOSHIACH
|22| And they bring Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to a place called Gulgotha, which means, being
translated, Place of the Skull.
|23| And they were giving to him yayin having been mixed with myrrh, but this one did not take
it. [TEHILLIM 69:22 (21); MISHLE 31:6]
|24| And they hanged Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach on HaEtz and YICHALLEKU VEGADAI
(they divide the garments) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and VAPPILU GORAL (they cast
lots) for them, to decide what each might take. [TEHILLIM 22:19 (18)]
|25| Now it was [the] third hour when they nailed and hanged Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach on
HAETZ. [DEVARIM 21:23]
|26| And the inscription of the charge against him was inscribed above his rosh, Melech
HaYehudim.
|27| And with him they also nailed, each to his own etz, shnei shodedim (two robbers), one on
[the] right and one on [the] left of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|29| And the ones passing by were reviling him and shaking their heads and saying, Ha! The one
bringing churban on the Beis HaMikdash and rebuilding [it] in shlosha yamim, [TEHILLIM
22:7; 109:25]
|30| Save yourself! Come down from the etz!
|31| Likewise, also, the Rashei Hakohanim with the Sofrim were also mocking him, saying, He
saved others, but himself he is not able to save. [TEHILLIM 22:7]
|32| Let the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, let the Melech HaMoshiach of Yisroel, let [him] come
down now from the etz, in order that we may see and have emunah! And the ones having been
hanged on the etz on either side of him were reproaching him. [Mk 8:31]
|33| And when the sixth hour came [high noon], it became choshech (darkness) over kol haaretz
(all the earth) until [the] ninth hour. [AMOS 8:9]
|34| And at the ninth hour, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach cried out in a kol gadol (loud voice),
Eloi, Eloi lamah sabachthani? which means, being translated, ELI ELI LAMAH AZAVTANI?
(My G-d, my G-d, why have you forsaken me? [TEHILLIM 22:1])
|35| And some of the ones having been standing nearby and having heard, were saying, Hinei!
He calls for Eliyahu HaNavi!
|36| And someone having run and having filled a sponge with CHOMETZ (vinegar TEHILLIM
69:21), and having placed it on a staff, gave a drink to him, saying, Leave him alone. Let us see
if Eliyahu Hanavi comes to take him down.
|37| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having uttered a kol gadol (loud voice) and having
breathed his last, expired.
|38| And the parochet in the Heikhal was torn in two from top to bottom.
|39| And the centurion, having stood nearby opposite Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and having
seen that he expired this way, said Beemes (Actually, in truth), this man was the Ben HaElohim!
|40| And there were also nashim (women) looking on from a distance, among whom [were]
Miryam from Magdala, and Miryam the Em of the younger Yaakov and of Yosi, and Shlomit.
[TEHILLIM 38:11]
|41| They were with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach in the Galil and they had been following him
[as talmidat] and serving him, and there were many other Jewish women who with Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach had made their aliyah leregel (pilgrimage) up to Yerushalayim.
|42| And already, erev (evening) fast approaching, vi-bahlt (since) it was Preparation Day, which
is the day before Shabbos,
|43| Yosef of Ramatayim, a member of the Sanhedrin and a man of chashivut (prominence) there,
a man who was also himself looking forward to the Malchut Hashem, had the bold chozek to go
into Pilate and ask for the gufat Yehoshua.
|44| And Pilate was amazed that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was already niftar (deceased), and
Pilate summoned the centurion to question him whether Yehoshua was niftar already.
|45| And having found out from the centurion, he gave the geviyah (body) to Yosef. [BERESHIT
47:18]
|46| And having bought linen cloth tachrichim (shrouds) and having taken Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach down, he wrapped him in the tachrichim (shrouds) and placed him in a kever which
had been cut from rock, and he rolled a stone against the entrance of the kever.
|47| And Miryam of Magdala and Miryam the Em of Yosi were observing [trans. note: as chevra
kadesha shomrim eye-witnesses] of where Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had been laid.
§PEREK TET ZAYIN (CHAPTER SIXTEEN)
THE EMPTY OHEL (BURIAL SITE OF THEIR REBBE)
And when Shabbos had ended, Miryam Magdalene and Miryam Em of Yaakov, and Shlomit
bought spices in order that they might go and anoint him.
|2| And at Shachrit on Yom Rishon, the first day of the shavua (week), the shemesh (sun) just
coming up, they come to the kever.
|3| And they were saying to themselves, Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of
the kever?
|4| And having looked up, they observe that the stone, which was extremely large, had already
been rolled aside!
|5| And having entered into the kever, they saw a young man enrobed in white, sitting on the right side, and they were shocked with astonishment.
|6| But he says to them, Do not be alarmed. You seek Yehoshua from Natzeret, who has been
made talui al HaEtz (being hanged on the Tree). He has been made to stand up alive. He is not
here. Hinei! The place where they laid him.
|7| But go tell his talmidim and Kefa that he goes before you into the Galil. There you will see
him, just as he told you.
|8| And having gone out, they fled from the kever, and trembling and amazement seized them.
And they told no one anything, for they were afraid.
|9| And now after Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach stood up alive early on Yom Rishon, he appeared
rishonah (first) to Miryam of Magdala, from whom he had cast out shiva shedim.
|10| She went out and announced to the ones who had been with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach
while they were in avelut (mourning) and weeping.
|11| And those who heard that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach lives and he was seen by her, refused
to have emunah.
|12| And after these things, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach appeared in another form to two of them
walking along into the country.
|13| And those went and reported to the rest, but the rest did not have emunah either.
|14| But later Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach appeared to the Achad Asar (The Eleven) themselves,
reclining at tish, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach reproached them for their lack of emunah and
the KESHI [stubbornness, hardness DEVARIM 9:27] of their levavot (hearts), because they had
not believed in those who saw Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach after he had been made to stand up
alive.
MOSHIACH'S PROGRAM OF KIRUV RECHOKIM (BRINGING NEAR THE FARAWAY
ONES) AS MOSHIACH'S SHUL OPENS TO ALL THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD; WHEN
MESSIANIC BELIEVERS ARE REGULARIZED THEY ARE HERE DESCRIBED
|15| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Go into kol haOlam (all the World), and
proclaim the Besuras HaGeulah to all HaBriah (the Creation).
|16| The one having had emunah (faith) and having submitted to a tevilah of teshuva (immersion
of repentance) will be delivered in the Yeshuat Eloheinu (Salvation of our G-d), but the one not
having emunah will come under the gezar din (verdict) of harshaah (condemnation as guilty).
|17| And these otot (signs) will accompany those that have emunah. Bishmi (In my Name) they
will cast out shedim (demons); they will speak with leshonot chadashot (new tongues, Ac 2:4);
|18| And with their hands they will pick up nechashim (snakes, Ac 28:3-5); and, if any deadly
poison they drink, it will in no way harm them; upon [the] cholim (sick persons) they will lay
their hands and they will bring them refuah.
MOSHIACH IS TAKEN UP INTO SHOMAYIM (LK 24:50-53; AC 1:9-11)
|19| And then Adoneinu Yehoshua, after speaking to them, was taken up into Shomayim and
VYASHAV LIMIN HASHEM (sat down at the right hand of Hashem. [TEHILLIM 110:1])
|20| And those having gone forth preached the Hachrazah (Proclamation, Kerygma) everywhere,
[while] Adonoi was working with them, confirming the Besuras HaGeulah through the
accompanying otot (signs). Omein.
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LUKAS
§PEREK ALEPH (CHAPTER ONE)
Vi-bahlt (since) many Messianic Sofrim have attempted to compile a sefer, a historical
narrative, about the momentous events that have been fulfilled among us,
|2| just as these [masoret haShluchim] have been handed down to us by those who from HaReshit
[of the Besuras HaGeulah] were edei reiyah (eyewitnesses) and mesharetim [ministers] of the
Dvar Hashem,
|3| I thought it expedient also, having done an iyun (investigative research), accurately and
carefully being meayen (engaged in research) in every source and making a medakdeke (pain-
stakingly thorough) investigation of every aspect from HaReshit (the Beginning), to write for you and to mesader (arrange, place in succession) an orderly account, most noble Theophilus,
|4| that you may have daas of HaEmes regarding the Divrei Moshiach about which you took
shiurim (lessons).
|5| At the time of Herod king of Yehudah, there was a certain kohen by the name Zecharyah, who
belonged to the Aviyah division. His isha was of the banot Aharon, name of Elisheva.
[DIVREY HAYAMIM ALEF 24:10]
|6| And they were both tzaddikim before Hashem, walking a derech tamim in all the mitzvot and
chukim of the Torah of Adoneinu. [BERESHIT 6:9; DEVARIM 5:33; MELACHIM ALEF 9:4]
|7| But they had no ben, because Elisheva was barren, and they were both advanced in their
yamim.
|8| And it came to pass in the performance of his avodas kodesh sherut as a kohen before Hashem
in the appointed order of his division, [DIVREY HAYAMIM ALEF 24:19; DIVREY
HAYAMIM BAIS 8:14]
|9| according to the minhag (custom) of the kehunah, Zecharyah was chosen by lot to enter the
Beis Hamikdash and to offer ketoret (incense). [SHEMOT 30:7,8; DIVREY HAYAMIM ALEF
23:13; DIVREY HAYAMIM BAIS 29:11; TEHILLIM 141:2]
|10| And when the hour of the offering ot the ketoret came, all the multitude were davening
outside. [VAYIKRA 16:17]
|11| And there appeared to Zecharyah a malach Hashem, standing on the right side of the
Mitzbeach of ketoret. [SHEMOT 30:1-10]
|12| And, seeing the malach, Zecharyah was terrified, and pachad (fear) fell on him. [SHOFETIM
6:22,23; 13:22]
|13| But the malach said to him, Do not have pachad, Zecharyah. Your tefillah (prayer) was heard
and your isha, Elisheva, will bear a ben to you and you will call his shem Yochanan.
|14| And he will be a simcha to you and sasson (joy), and there will be sasson rav (great joy) at
his huledet (birth).
|15| And he will be gadol before Hashem, and he will not drink yayin or strong drink, and he will
be filled with the Ruach Hakodesh from the womb of his Em (mother), [BAMIDBAR 6:3;
VAYIKRA 10:9; SHOFETIM 13:4; YIRMEYAH 1:5]
|16| and many of the Bnei Yisroel he will turn back in teshuva to Hashem Eloheihem.
|17| And he will go forth before Adonoi in the ruach (spirit) and koach (power) of Eliyahu
HaNavi, VEHESHIV LEV AVOT AL BANIM (And he will turn the heart of the fathers to the
children MALACHI 3:24 [4:6]) and those without mishmaat (obedience) he will turn to the
chochmah (wisdom) of the tzaddikim (righteous) to prepare for Adonoi an Am (People) having
been made ready. [MALACHI 4:5,6]
|18| And Zecharyah said to the malach, Just how will I have daas that this is so? For I am old and
my isha is advanced in her yamim (days). [BERESHIT 15:8; 17:17]
|19| And in reply, the malach said to Zecharyah, I am Gavriel, I stand before Hashem. And I was
sent to speak to you and to announce these things to you. [DANIEL 8:16; 9:21]
|20| And --hinei! You will be illem (mute) and not be able to speak, until the yom (day) when
these things come to pass, because you did not have emunah in my dvarim (words), which will
be fulfilled in their time. [SHEMOT 4:11; YECHEZKEL 3:26]
|21| And the people were expecting Zecharyah and they were bewildered at his delay in the Beis
HaMikdash.
|22| And when he came out, he was illem (mute) and not able to speak to them, and they had daas
that he had seen a chazon (vision) in the Heikhal. He kept motioning to them and he remained
illem (mute).
|23| And it came about as the yamim of his sherut (service in the Beis HaMikdash) as a kohen
were fulfilled, he went to his bais (house).
|24| And after these yamim, Elisheva, his isha, became with child, and she kept herself in
hitbodedut (seclusion, aloneness with G-d) for chamesh chodashim (five months), saying,
|25| Hashem has done this for me. In these yamim he looked with Chen VChesed (favor and
mercy/lovingkindness) on me to take away my reproach among Bnei Adam. [BERESHIT 30:23;
YESHAYAH 4:1]
|26| Now in the chodesh shishi the malach Gavriel was sent from Hashem to a shtetl in the Galil
called Natzeret,
|27| to a betulah (virgin) given in erusin (betrothal, engagement) to an ish from the Beit Dovid
named Yosef [ben Dovid], and the shem of the almah was Miryam.
|28| And when the malach approached her, he said, Shalom, favored one! Hashem is with you!
|29| But she was greatly perplexed at the message, and kept pondering what sort of Shalom
greeting this might be.
|30| And the malach said to her, Do not have pachad (fear), Miryam, for you have found chen
(favor, grace) before Hashem.[BERESHIT 6:8]
|31| And--hinei--in your womb you will conceive and bear BEN [YESHAYAH 7:14] and you
will call SHMO YEHOSHUA. [ZECHARYAH 6:11-12]
|32| He will be gadol (great) and will be called Ben HaElyon (Son of the Most High). Adonoi
Elohim will give him the kisse Dovid Aviv,
|33| and he will rule over the Beis Yakov lOlam vaed, and his Malchut will never come to an end.
[SHMUEL BAIS 7:16; TEHILLIM 89:3,4; YESHAYAH 9:7; YIRMEYAH 33:17; DANIEL
2:44; 7:14,27; MICHOH 4:7]
|34| But Miryam said to the malach, How will be this, vi-bahlt (since) I do not have daas of an
ish?
|35| And in reply, the malach said to her, The Ruach Hakodesh will come upon you and the
gevurah of HaElyon will overshadow you. Therefore, also, the one being born will be called
HaKadosh (The Holy One), Ben HaElohim.
|36| And--hinei-- Elisheva your krovah (relative) also has conceived a ben (son) in her old age,
and this chodesh (month) is hashishi (the sixth) for her who is called barren.
|37| For nothing will be impossible with Hashem.|38| And Miryam said, Hinei!--I am the shifcha
(bond maid) of Hashem. May it be done to me according to your dvar (word). And the malach
departed fr|39| And in those yamim, Miryam got up and traveled into the hill country with haste
to a shtetl of Yehudah.
|40| And she entered into the bais of Zecharyah and gave Birkat Shalom greetings to Elisheva.
|41| And it came about, when Elisheva heard the Birkat Shalom of Miryam, the yeled leaped in
Elisheva's womb, and she was filled with the Ruach Hakodesh.
|42| And Elisheva cried out with a kol gadol (loud voice) and said, Brucha at miNashim (Blessed
art thou among women), and baruch (blessed is) the pri (fruit) of your womb! [SHOFETIM 5:24]
|43| And why has this happened to me that the Em Adoni should come to me?
|44| For--hinei!--when the sound of your Birkat Shalom came into my ears, the yeled leaped with
simcha in my womb.
|45| And ashrey is the one having had emunah that there will be a fulfillment to the things having
been spoken to Miryam by Hashem.
|46| And Miryam said, [TEHILLIM 34:2,3]
|47| ALATZ LIBI BAHASHEM (My heart rejoices in Hashem SHMUEL ALEF 2:1) and my
neshamah exalts in Hashem Yishi (G-d my savior, Moshi'a) CHABAKUK 3:18, [TEHILLIM
18:46; YESHAYAH 17:10; 61:10]
|48| For HASHEM VISHAFAL YIREH (TEHILLIM 138:6) looked upon the humble state of his shifcha (bond maid) for--hinei-- from now on kol hadorot ishruni (all generations will call me
happy,-- BERESHIT 30:13) [TEHILLIM 138:6]
|49| for Shaddai (the Almighty) did gedolot for me and Kadosh (Holy) is Shmo (His Name),
[TEHILLIM 111:9]
|50| and the chesed of Hashem is DOR VDOR [TEHILLIM 100:5] to those with yirat Shomayim.
[SHEMOT 20:6; TEHILLIM 103:17]
|51| Hashem has done niflaot (wonders) with his zeroa [arm, YESHAYAH 53:1]. He scattered
those who in the machshavot (thoughts) of their levavot are the Gaayonim (the Haughty ones).
[TEHILLIM 98:1; YESHAYAH 40:10; BERESHIT 11:8; SHEMOT 18:11; SHMUEL BAIS
22:28; YIRMEYAH 13:9; 49:16]
|52| He brought down shalitim (rulers) from their kisot (thrones) and lifted up the Anavim
(Humble),
|53| the ones hungering, Hashem made full of tov, and the ashirim he sent away empty.
[TEHILLIM 107:9]
|54| Hashem helped his servant Yisroel, in remembrance of his rachamim (mercy), [TEHILLIM
98:3]
|55| just as Hashem spoke to Avoteinu, to Avraham Avinu and his Zera ad Olam.
|56| And Miryam remained with Elisheva about shlosha chodashim (six months), and then
Miryam returned to her bais.
|57| Now when the time of Elisheva to give birth was fulfilled, she bore a ben.
|58| And Elisheva's shchenim (neighbors) and krovim (relatives) heard that Adoneinu greatly
demonstrated his rachamim to her, and they had much simcha with her.
|59| And it came about on the yom hashemini (the eighth day) they came for the bris milah of the
yeled, and they were calling him by the name of his abba, Zecharyah. [BERESHIT 17:12]
|60| And in reply, his Em said: Lo, but he will be called Yochanan.
|61| And they said to her, There is no one from your krovim who is called by this shem (name).
|62| And they began motioning to the yeled's abba to find out what shem he wanted to give him.
|63| And having asked for a luach (tablet), Zecharyah wrote, saying, Yochanan shmo (Yochanan
is his name). And everyone was amazed.
|64| And Zecharyah's mouth was loosed at once and the lashon of him, and he began speaking,
saying Baruch Hashem! [YECHEZKEL 24:27]
|65| And upon all their shchenim (neighbors) came much yirat Shomayim, and in the entire hill
country of Yehudah everyone was shmoozing about these matters.
|66| All who heard these things pondered them in their levavot, saying, What then will this yeled
become? For, indeed, the yad Hashem was on him. [BERESHIT 39:2]
THE DVAR NEVUAH OF ZECHARYAH REGARDING THE HISGALUS (REVELATION)
OF YOCHANAN TO YISRAEL
|67| And Zecharyah, his abba, was filled with the Ruach Hakodesh and brought forth a dvar
nevuah, saying, [YOEL 2:28]
|68| BARUCH HASHEM ELOHEI YISROEL [TEHILLIM 41:14 (13)], for Adonoi has visited
his Am Berit and accomplished a pedut kofer ransom for the Geulah of his people. [BERESHIT
24:27; MELACHIM ALEF 8:15; TEHILLIM 72:18; 111:9]
|69| And Hashem raised up a Keren Yeshuah (Horn of Salvation), a mighty Moshia, for us in the
Beis Dovid, his eved, [SHMUEL ALEF 2:1,10; SHMUEL BAIS 22:3; TEHILLIM 18:2; 89:17;
132:17; YECHEZKEL 29:21]
|70| just as Hashem spoke through the mouth of his neviim hakedoshim meOlam (holy prophets
from long ago), [YIRMEYAH 23:5]
|71| that we should have Yeshuat Eloheinu from our oyvim (enemies) and from the hand of all
the ones who regard us with sinas chinom (baseless hatred).
|72| Thus Hashem has demonstrated his rachamim (mercy) to Avoteinu (our Fathers) and has
remembered his Brit HaKodesh (Holy Covenant), [MICHOH 7:20; TEHILLIM 105:8,9; 106:45;
YECHEZKEL 16:60]
|73| the Brit HaShevuah (the Covenant of the oath) which he swore to Avraham Avinu to grant
us, [BERESHIT 22:16-18]
|74| having been delivered from the yad haoyvim (hand of enemies) of us to serve Hashem
fearlessly,
|75| in kedushah (holiness) and tzedek (righteousness) before Him all our yamim (days).
|76| And you also, yeled (child), will be called Navi HaElyon (Prophet of the Most High); for you
will go LIFNEI HAADON (before the L-rd) to prepare the DERECH HASHEM (The Way of the
L-rd) [MALACHI 3:1; YESHAYAH 40:3]
|77| to give daas (knowledge) of Yeshuat Eloheinu (the Salvation of our G-d) to Hashem's Am
Berit (People of the Covenant) by the selichat (forgiveness) of their avon (sin) [YIRMEYAH
31:34]
|78| through the rav rachamim of Eloheinu (through the great mercy of our G-d), by which will
visit us the rising SHEMESH [Sun, Moshiach] from Shomayim, [MALACHI 3:20 (4:2)]
|79| to appear to the ones in CHOSHECH (darkness) and YOSHVEI BERETZ TZALMAVET
(sitting in the land of the shadow of death), to direct our feet into the Derech Shalom.
[TEHILLIM 107:14; YESHAYAH 9:1-2; 59:9]
|80| And the yeled was growing and was being given chizzuk (strengthening) in the Ruach
Hakodesh, and Yochanan was in the desolate places until the day of his hisgalus (revelation,
manifestation) to Yisroel.
§PEREK BEIT (CHAPTER TWO)
And it came about at that time that a dvar malchut (decree) was sent out from Caesar
Augustus to register everyone in the entire Roman Empire.
|2| This mifkad (census) was before that taken while Quirinius was governor in Syria.
|3| And everyone was traveling to register, each to his own shtetl.
|4| Now Yosef [ben Dovid] also went up from the Galil, from the shtetl of Natzeret, to Yehudah,
to the Ir Dovid (City of David), which is called Beit-Lechem, because he was of the mishpochah
and bais of Dovid.
|5| And Yosef [ben Dovid] went up to register with Miryam, who had been given to him in erusin
(betrothal) and who was with child.
|6| And it came about, while they were there, the yamim (days) were fulfilled for Miryam to give
birth.
|7| And she bore her ben, her Bechor; and she wrapped him in cloths, and laid him in an evus
(animal feeding trough), because for them there was not a place in the malon (inn).
|8| And roim (shepherds) were in the same region, living outside in the open air, and keeping
shomer over their eder (flock) balailah.
|9| And, suddenly, a malach Hashem stood before them, and the kavod Hashem shone around
them; and they were afraid with a yirah gedolah (great fear).
|10| And the malach said to them, Do not have pachad (terror); for-- hinei--I announce Besuras
HaGeulah to you of great simcha (joy) which will be for kol Am Berit (all the People of the
Covenant);
|11| because hayom, in the Ir Dovid, has been born to you a Moshia (Savior), who is Rebbe
Melech HaMoshiach HaAdon. [YESHAYAH 9:5(6)]
|12| And this will be HaOt [The Sign] to you: you will find a small child, an infant, wrapped in
cloths and lying in an evus. [SHMUEL ALEF 2:34; MELACHIM BAIS 19:29; TEHILLIM
86:17; YESHAYAH 7:14]
|13| And, suddenly, there was with the malach a multitude of the Tzivos Hashem, the Tzivos
HaShomayim (Armies or Hosts of Heaven) praising Hashem, and saying,
|14| Kavod to Hashem in the Highest; and on haaretz shalom among Bnei Adam kavvanah tovah
(of good intention). [YESHAYAH 9:5-6; 52:7; 53:5; MICHOH 5:4-5]
|15| And it came about, when the malachim withdrew from them to Shomayim, the roim
(shepherds) were saying to one another, Let us go now up to Beit-Lechem and let us see this
thing that has come about which Hashem has made known to us.
|16| And they came in haste and found both Miryam and Yosef [ben Dovid], and the child was
lying in the evus (animal feeding trough).
|17| And when the roim (shepherds) saw this, they made known the dvar concerning this yeled
which had been told them.
|18| And all who heard it were amazed about the things which were told them by the roim
(shepherds).
|19| But Miryam was treasuring up all these things, pondering them in her lev (heart).
|20| And the roim (shepherds) went back, and as they returned, they cried, Baruch Hashem! They
gave kavod to G-d for all that they had heard and seen, just as it had been foretold to them.
|21| And when shemonah yamim (eight days) were completed for his bris milah, YEHOSHUA
was given as SHMO, which he was called by the malach, before he was conceived in the womb.
[ZECHARYAH 6:11-12; 3:8]
|22| And when the yamim (days) for their tohorah (purification) according to the Torah of Moshe
Rabbeinu were completed, they brought him up to Yerushalayim to present him to Hashem
[VAYIKRA 12:2-8]
|23| (just as it has been written in the Torat Hashem, KHOL BECHOR opening the RECHEM
KADESH to Hashem [SHEMOT 13:2,12,15; BAMIDBAR 3:13]
|24| and to offer a korban according to the thing having been said in the Torat Hashem, SHTEI
TORIM O SHNEI BENI YONAH (a pair of turtle doves or two young pigeons). [VAYIKRA
12:8]
|25| And--hinei--there was an ish in Yerushalayim whose shem was Shimon, a tzaddik, a chasid,
awaiting the Nechamat Yisroel (Consolation of Israel), and the Ruach Hakodesh was upon him.
[YESHAYAH 52:9]
|26| And it had been revealed to him by the Ruach Hakodesh that he was not to see mavet until he had seen Hashem's Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach.
|27| And Shimon came in the Ruach Hakodesh into the courts of the Beis HaMikdash; and when
the horim (parents) brought in the yeled, Yehoshua, to do concerning him the required mitzvah of the Torah,
|28| then Shimon took him into his arms, saying, Baruch Hashem, and the following:
|29| And now, Adonoi, dismiss your eved in shalom, according to your dvar (word);
|30| because my eynayim have beheld the Yeshuat Eloheinu, [YESHAYAH 40:5; 52:10]
|31| which you prepared in the presence of kol haammim (all the peoples),
|32| an Ohr (Light) to give hisgalus (revelation) to the Nations and the kavod (glory) of your Am
(people), Yisroel. [YESHAYAH 42:6; 49:6]
|33| And the Abba and Em of the yeled were amazed at the things being spoken about him.
|34| And Shimon said a bracha over them and said to Miryam his Em, Hinei--this one is destined
for the michshol (stumbling) and tekumah (revival) of RABBIM [YESHAYAH 53:11-12] in
Yisroel and for an Ot (Sign) that will be opposed (against which there will be mitnaggedim,
opponents). [YESHAYAH 8:14; 53:3]
|35| and a cherev (sword) will pierce the neshamah of you yourself also so that the machshavot
(thoughts) of many levavot (hearts) will be revealed.
|36| And there was a neviah (prophetess) named Chanah Bat-Pnuel, of the shevet (tribe) of Asher.
This isha (woman) was advanced in age, having lived with her baal (husband) sheva shanim
(seven years) from her betulim (virginity),
|37| and then to the age of eighty-four she had lived as an almanah (widow) who was not
departing from the Beis HaMikdash, serving yomam valailah (day and night) with tzomot
(fastings) and tefillos.
|38| And at that very moment she came and stood nearby, exclaiming, Baruch Hashem. And she
continued speaking about him to all the ones anticipating the Geulah (Redemption) of
Yerushalayim. [YESHAYAH 40:2; 52:9]
|39| And when they had been shomer mitzvot and completed everything according to the Torat
Hashem, they returned to the Galil and to their own shtetl of Natzeret.
|40| And the yeled continued growing and was given chozek (strength), being filled with
chochmah (wisdom), and the Chen vChesed Hashem was upon him.
REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH JUST BEFORE HE REACHES THE AGE OF HIS
RELIGIOUS MAJORITY IN THE BEIS AVI, THE BEIS HAMIKDASH
|41| And his horim (parents) used to make aliyah leregel (pilgrimage) to Yerushalayim shanah
bshanah (year by year) for Chag HaPesach (the Feast of Pesach). [SHEMOT 23:15; DEVARIM
16:1-8]
|42| And when he became a bocher of twelve years of age, they made aliyah leregel (pilgrimage),
as usual, according to the mitzvah and minhag of the Chag.
|43| And as they were returning, having fulfilled the prescribed number of yamim (days), the
bocher Yehoshua stayed behind in Yerushalayim. And his horim (parents) did not have daas
(knowledge) of this,
|44| but supposed him to be in the caravan, and went a day's journey. And they began looking for
him among the krovim (relatives) and acquaintances.
|45| And, not having found him, they returned to Yerushalayim, looking for him.
|46| And it came about, that after shlosha yamim (three days) they found him in the courts of the
Beis HaMikdash, sitting in the midst of the rabbis, both listening to them and asking them
sheelot (kashes, questions).
|47| And all the ones listening to him where amazed at his binah (understanding) and at his
teshuvot (answers).
|48| And when his horim (parents) saw him, they were astounded, and his Em (mother) said to
him, Beni, why did you do thus to us? Hinei-- your abba and I were anxiously looking for you.
|49| And he said to them, Why is it that you were looking for me? Did you not have daas that I
must be in the Beis Avi?
|50| And they did not have binah (understanding) of the dvar which he spoke to them.
|51| And he went down with them, and they came to Natzeret; and he continued in mishmaat
(obedience) to his horim (parents). And his Em (mother) was treasuring all these things in her
lev (heart).
|52| And Yehoshua kept increasing in chochmah VGADEL VATOV GAM IM HASHEM
VGAM IM ANASHIM (and stature and favor with Hashem and men, SHMUEL ALEF
2:26).
§PEREK GIMEL (CHAPTER THREE)
PLACING THE HISGALUS OF THE MOSHIACH AND HIS PRECURSOR IN THEIR
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
In the shenat chamesh esreh (15th year) of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate
was governing Yehudah, when Herod [Antipas] was tetrarch of the Galil, and when Philip the
brother of Herod Antipas was tetrarch of Iturea and Trachonitis, and at the same time Lysanias
was tetrarch of Abilene,
|2| and when, during the same historical period, Anan and Caiapha were Kohanim Gedolim, then
it was that the dvar Hashem came to [the kohen-navi] Yochanan Ben-Zecharyah bamidbar (in the
wilderness).
|3| And Yochanan went into all the surrounding region of the Yarden preaching a tevilah of
teshuva for the selichat avon (forgiveness of sins),
|4| as it has been written in the sefer divrei YESHAYAH Hanavi, KOL KOREY BAMIDBAR (A
voice of one shouting in the wilderness, YESHAYAH 40:3): Prepare the Derech Hashem (the
Way of the L-rd). Make his paths straight!
|5| KOL GEY YINNASE VKHOL HAR VGIVAH YISHPALU (Every valley will be filled in
and every mountain and hill will be leveled off), VHAYAH HEAKOV LEMISHOR
VHARKHASIM LVIKAH (The crooked will be made straight, the rough paths made into
smooth roads);
|6| VRAU CHOL BASAR ES YESHUAT ELOHEINU (And all basar will see the salvation of
our G-d). [YESHAYAH 40:3-5; TEHILLIM 98:2; YESHAYAH 42:16; 52:10]
|7| Therefore, Yochanan was saying to the multitudes coming out to have the mikveh mayim's
tevilah supervised by him, You banim of nachashim (sons of snakes), who warned you to flee
from the charon af [Hashem] habah (the coming burning wrath of Hashem)?
|8| Therefore, produce pri tov l'teshuva (fruit worthy of repentance), and do not begin to presume
within yourselves, saying, We have the zechut Avot (merit of the Fathers) of Avraham Avinu,
for, I say to you, that Hashem is able from these avanim (stones) to raise up banim to Avraham
Avinu. [YESHAYAH 51:2]
|9| And already the ax is laid at the shoresh haetzim (the root of the trees). Therefore, every etz
not producing pri tov is cut down and is thrown into the Eish.
|10| And the multitudes were questioning him, saying, What then should we do?
|11| And in reply, Yochanan was saying to them, Let the one having two kaftans share with the
one having none, and let the one having okhel (food) do likewise. [YESHAYAH 58:7;
YECHEZKEL 18:7]
|12| Now came also mochesim (tax-collectors) to receive the tevilah of teshuva, and they said to
him, Rabbi, what should we do?
|13| And Yochanan said to them, Collect nothing more than the amount having been commanded
you.
|14| And chaiyalim (soldiers) as well were asking him, What should we do also? And Yochanan
said to them, Extort kesef from no one, and let there be no lashon hora, and be satisfied with your
loin (wages). [YECHEZKEL 23:1; VAYIKRA 19:11]
|15| As the Am [Berit] were filled with expectation, and all were wondering in their levavot
(hearts) concerning Yochanan, whether perhaps he might be the Moshiach,
|16| Yochanan answered everyone, saying, I give you a tevilah with a mikveh mayim, but Hu
HaBah (He Who Comes, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach) has more hechazak (strength) than me; I
am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will give you a tevilah with the Ruach
Hakodesh and with Eish.
|17| The winnowing fork is in his hand to clean out his threshing floor and to gather the wheat
into his barn, but the MOTZ (chaff, TEHILLIM 1:4) he will burn up with an EISH LO
TIKHBEH (fire not [ever] extinguished --YESHAYAH 66:24). [YESHAYAH 30:24; RUTH
3:2]
|18| Therefore, with many other dvarim Yochanan was exhorting them, preaching the Besuras
HaGeulah to the Am [Berit].
|19| Now Herod the tetrarch, when he was reproved by Yochanan about Herodias, the wife of his
brother, and about all the reshaim (evil) which he did,
|20| Herod added this above all: he locked up Yochanan in the beit hasohar (prison).
|21| And it came about while all the Am [Berit] were receiving the tevilah, and when Yehoshua
also had been given the tevilah and was davening, Shomayim was opened,
|22| and the Ruach Hakodesh descended in demut gashmit as a yonah upon Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach; and then came a bat kol out of Shomayim, saying, ATAH BNI AHUVI ASHER
BCHA CHAFATSTI (You are my Son, the beloved one, with you I am well pleased.
[BERESHIT 22:2; YESHAYAH 42:1; TEHILLIM 2:7]
|23| And Yehoshua himself was about shaloshim shanah (thirty years old), at the beginning of his
avodas kodesh ministry, being the ben (as it was being thought of Yosef) ben Eli,
|24| ben Mattat, ben Levi, ben Malki, ben Yannai, ben Yosef,
|25| ben Mattityahu, ben Amotz, ben Nachum, ben Chesli, ben Naggai,
|26| ben Machat, ben Mattityahu, ben ShimI, ben Yosef, ben Yodah,
|27| ben Yochanan, ben Reisha, ben Zerubavel, ben Shealtiel, ben Neri,
|28| ben Malki, ben Addi, ben Kosam, ben Elmadan, ben Er
|29| ben Yehoshua, ben Eliezer, ben Yorim, ben Mattat, ben Levi,
|30| ben Shimon, ben Yehudah, ben Yosef, ben Yonam, ben Elyakim,
|31| ben Malah, ben Manah, ben Mattatah, ben Natan, ben Dovid,
|32| ben Yishai, ben Oved, ben Boaz, ben Salmon, ben Nachshon,
|33| ben Amminadav, ben Admin, ben Arni, ben Chetzron, ben Peretz, ben Yehudah,
|34| ben Yaakov, ben Yitzchak, ben Avraham, ben Terach, ben Nachor,
|35| ben Serug, ben Reu, ben Peleg, ben Ever, ben Shelah,
|36| ben Keinan, ben Arpachshad, ben Shem, ben Noach, ben Lemekh,
|37| ben Metushelach, ben Chanoch, ben Yered, ben Mahalalel, ben Keinan,
|38| ben Enosh, ben Shet, ben Adam, ben HaElohim.
§PEREK DALET (CHAPTER FOUR)
Now Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, full of the Ruach Hakodesh, returned from the Yarden, and was being led by the Ruach Hakodesh bamidbar [YECHEZKEL 37:1]
|2| where for ARBAIM YOM Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was undergoing nisayon by Hasatan.
And he had no okhel in those yamim. And when the yamim had been completed, he was
famished. [SHEMOT 34:28]
|3| And Hasatan said to Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, If you are the Ben HaElohim, command this
even (stone) that it become lechem.
|4| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach answered Hasatan, It has been written, LO AL HALECHEM
LVADOH YCHE-YEH HAADAM, (Not by bread alone will man live. [DEVARIM 8:3])
|5| And Hasatan led Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach up and showed him, in a moment of time, all the
mamlechot (kingdoms) of the Olam Hazeh;
|6| and Hasatan said to Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, To you I will give all this shilton (rule), this
shlita (control), and their kavod, because it has been given to me; and to whomever I desire, I
give it.
|7| Therefore, if you will be KOREIA UMISHTACHAVEH (kneeling down and worship,
ESTHER 3:5) before me, everything will be yours.
|8| And in reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to Hasatan, It has been written, ES HASHEM
ELOHEICHA TIRAH VOTO TAAVOD (Es Hashem Eloheicha you shall fear and him alone
you shall serve. DEVARIM 6:13)
|9| And Hasatan led Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach to Yerushalayim and set him atop the pinnacle
of the Beis HaMikdash, and said to him, If you are the Ben HaElohim, throw yourself down from
here;
|10| For it has been written, MALACHAV YTZAVVEH LACH (His angels he will command
concerning you to protect you,
|11| and upon their hands they will lift you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.
[TEHILLIM 91:11,12]
|12| And in reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to Hasatan, It says, LO TENASSU ES
HASHEM ELOHEICHEM, (Do not put to the test Hashem your G-d. [DEVARIM 6:16])
|13| And after Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach completed all nisayonos, Hasatan went away from
him until an opportune time.
|14| And in the gevurat HaRuach Hakodesh, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach returned to the Galil.
And a report went out throughout all the surrounding countryside about him.
|15| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was saying shiurim in their shuls and eliciting a peledike
response (reaction of marveling) from everyone.
|16| And he came to Natzeret, the shtetl of his guddal (being brought up) and he entered
according to his minhag on Yom HaShabbos into the shul and was given an aliyah as the Baal
Koreh.
|17| [After the Hagbah], Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was presented with the megillat sefer
Yeshayah and having unrolled the megillah, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach found the dvar where it
had been written,
|18| RUACH ADONAI HASHEM ALAI YAAN MASHACH ADONAI OTI LEVASER
ANAVIM SHELACHANI LIKRO LISHVUYIM DEROR, and to the blind PEKACH KOACH,
VSHALACH RETZUTZIM CHAFSHIM, (The Spirit of the Sovereign L-rd is upon me because
he anointed me to preach Besuras HaGeulah to the poor, he has sent me to preach to the captives
release and to the blind the recovery of sight, to set the oppressed free [YESHAYAH 61:1-2;
58:6],
|19| LIKRO SHENAT RATZON LAHASHEM (To preach the year of Hashem's favor.)
[YESHAYAH 61:1,2 TARGUM HA-SHIVIM; VAYIKRA 25:10; TEHILLIM 102:20, 103:6;
YESHAYAH 42:7,49:8,9]
|20| And doing the glilah ceremony, he rolled up the megillah; and, having given it back to the
shammash, he sat down [to teach]. And all the eyes in the shul were focused on him.
|21| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach began to speak to them, Hayom (today) this dvar of the
Kitvei Hakodesh has been fulfilled in your hearing.
|22| And everyone was speaking well of him, and they were amazed at the divrei Chen (words of
Grace) coming out of his mouth and they were saying, Can this be Yosef's ben?
|23| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Muz zain (no doubt) you will speak this
mashal to me: Rofeh, heal yourself. Everything we heard that happened in Kfar-Nachum, do also
here in your shtetl.
|24| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Omein, I say to you that no navi is welcome in his
own shtetl, in his own eretz moledet (homeland).
|25| Omein, I tell you, there were many almanot in Yisroel in the yamim of Eliyahu HaNavi,
when Shomayim was shut up for shalosh shanim and shishah chodashim (three years and six
months), when a great famine occurred over all the land, [MELACHIM ALEF 17:1]
|26| And to not one of them was Eliyahu HaNavi sent except to Tzarfat of Tzidon to an isha, an
almanah. [MELACHIM ALEF 17:8-16]
|27| And many metzoraim (lepers) were in Yisroel during the time of Elisha HaNavi, and not one
of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian. [MELACHIM BAIS 5:1-14]
|28| And hearing these things, all in the shul were filled with kaas (anger).
|29| And they got up and drove Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach outside the shtetl; and they led him
up to the top of the hill upon which the shtetl had been built, and they were intending to throw
him down. [BAMIDBAR 15:35]
|30| But having gone through the midst of them, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was walking away.
|31| And Moshiach went down to Kfar-Nachum, a shtetl of the Galil. And he was saying them
shiurim on the Shabbatot.
|32| And they were amazed at his torah, because Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach's dvar torah was
with samchut (authority).
|33| And in the shul there was a man having a ruach hatameh (unclean spirit, shed, demon) and it
let out a geshrai (scream).
|34| Ah, mah lanu vlach, Yehoshua of Natzeret? Did you come to destroy us? I have daas of
who you are, HaKadosh of Hashem.
|35| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach rebuked him saying, Sha! Shekit! And come out of him!
And right in front of them, when the shed threw him down, the ruach hatameh came out of him
and did not do him any harm.
|36| And astonishment came upon everyone. And they were talking to one another saying, What
is this dvar Torah, for with samchut (authority) and koach (power) he commands the ruchot
hatemeiot (unclean spirits) and they come out!
|37| And a report was going out about him into every place of the surrounding region.
|38| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach got up from the shul and entered into the bais of Shimon.
And the chamot (mother-in-law, shviger) of Shimon was fever-stricken, and they asked him
about her.
|39| And having stood over her, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach rebuked the kaddachat (fever,
DEVARIM 28:22) and it left her. And at once, having got up, she was functioning as their
mesharetet (servant, keli kodesh, minister).
|40| And while the shemesh (sun) was setting, all who had cholim (sick persons), all with various
machlot (illnesses) brought them to Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach. And he, laying his hands upon
each one of them, was giving refuah (healing) to them.
|41| And also shedim were coming out from many, shrieking a geshrai (scream) and crying out,
You are HaBen HaElohim! And rebuking them, he was not allowing them to speak, because they
had daas (knowledge) of his identity as Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach.
|42| And in the boker (morning), having gone forth, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach went out to a
desolate place. And the multitudes were seeking him, and when they got to him, they wanted to
prevent his departure from them.
|43| But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, It is necessary for me to preach the Malchut
Hashem in the other shtetlach, because this is the tachlis (raison detre) for which I was sent.
|44| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was preaching in the shuls of Yehudah.
§PEREK HE (CHAPTER FIVE)
Now it came about that while the multitude was listening to the dvar Hashem and pressing in
upon Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, he had been standing beside Lake Kinneret,
|2| and he saw two sirot (boats) having been beside the lake. But the daiyagim (fishermen) had
left them and were cleaning the nets.
|3| And embarking into one of the sirot (boats), which was Shimon's, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach
asked Shimon to put out from the land a little; and having sat down, from the sirah (boat) to the
multitudes Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was saying shiurim.
|4| And when he stopped speaking, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to Shimon, Put out into the
deep (water) and let down your nets for a catch.
|5| And in reply, Shimon said, Adoni, throughout the whole lailah we have labored and caught
nothing. But on account of your dvar I will let down the nets.
|6| And having done this, they enclosed asach (a lot of) dagim, and their nets were being torn.
|7| And they signaled for their shuttafim (partners) in the other sirah (boat) to come and help
them. And they came and they filled both sirot (boats) so much that they began to sink.
|8| And having seen this, Shimon Kefa fell down before Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, saying,
Depart from me, Adoni, for an ish choteh (sinful man) am I. [BERESHIT 18:27; IYOV 42:6;
YESHAYAH 6:5]
|9| For astonishment seized Shimon Kefa and all the ones with him on account of the catch of
dagim which they took;
|10| and likewise also Yaakov and Yochanan the banim of Zavdai, who were business shuttafim
(partners) with Shimon. And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to Shimon, Do not be afraid.
From now on you will catch bnei Adam.
|11| And having left behind the sirot (boats) on the shore, they forsook all, and followed him [as
talmidim].
|12| And it came about, while he was in one of the shtetlach --hinei!--there was an ish metzorah
full of leprosy. And having seen Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, and having fallen on his face, he
begged him saying, Adoni, if you are willing, you are able to make me tahor (clean).
|13| And having stretched out his hand, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach touched him, saying, I am
willing. Be made tahor. And, ofen ort (immediately), the leprosy departed from him.
|14| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave orders to him to tell no one, but go and show yourself
to the kohen and make a korban for your tohorah (purification) as Moshe Rabbeinu gave
mitzvah; do this for an edut (solemn testimony) to them. [VAYIKRA 14:2-32]
|15| But the man was spreading even more the dvar about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and many
multitudes were assembling to listen and to receive refuah (healing) from their machlot
(illnesses).
|16| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was withdrawing in hitbodedut (seclusion, aloneness with
G-d) into the wilderness places and was davening.
|17| And it came about, on one of the yamim when he was teaching Torah, that the Perushim and
Sofrim had come from every shtetl of the Galil and Yehudah and Yerushalayim and were sitting
by. And the power of Hashem was with Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach to bring refuah (healing).
|18| And-- hinei!--anashim were carrying on a mat a man who had been paralyzed, and they were
seeking to carry in the paralytic and to place him before Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach.
|19| And not having found by what way they might carry him, because of the multitude, and
having gone up onto the roof, they let the man down with the mat through the tiles so that he was
right in the center in front of Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach.
|20| And having seen their emunah, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, Ben Adam, your chattaim
(sins) have received selicha (forgiveness).
|21| And the Sofrim began to raise kashes (questions), and also the Perushim, saying, Who is this
who is speaking Chillul Hashem gidduf (blasphemy)? Who is able to grant selicha to chattaim
but Hashem alone?[YESHAYAH 43:25]
|22| But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach having had daas of their machshavot (thoughts), said to
them in reply, Why are you reasoning in your levavot?
|23| Which is easier: to say, Your chattaim have been granted selicha, or to say, Get up and walk?
|24| But in order that you may have daas that the Ben HaAdam [Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13] has
samchut (authority) on haAretz to grant selicha to chattaim, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to
the one having been paralyzed, To you I say, Get up, pick up your mat, and go to your bais.
|25| And at once the man arose in front of them, picked up the mat upon which he was lying, and
departed to his bais, shouting, Baruch Hashem!
|26| And astonishment seized everyone, and they were shouting Baruch Hashem! And they were
filled with yirat Shomayim, saying, Hayom (Today) our eyes have beheld niflaot (wonders)!
|27| And after these things Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach went out and saw a moches (tax collector)
named Levi [Mattityahu] sitting in the tax office, and he said to him, Follow me.
|28| And having forsaken all and having got up, Levi was following Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach.
|29| And Levi arranged a large seudah in his bais for Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, and there was a
great number of mochesim and others who were with them, reclining at tish.
|30| And the Perushim and their Sofrim were murmuring against Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach's
talmidim, saying, Why with the mochesim and choteim are you eating and drinking?
|31| And in reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, It is not the bariim (healthy ones)
who have need of a rofeh (physician), but the cholim (sick persons);
|32| I have not come to call the tzaddikim but choteim (sinners) to teshuva (repentance).
|33| But they said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Yochanan's talmidim undergo tzomot (fasts)
often and offer tefillos; likewise also the ones of the Perushim; but your talmidim eat and drink.
|34| But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, You are not able to make the Bnei haChuppah
undergo tzomot while the Chosson is with them, are you?
|35| But yamim will come when the Chosson is taken away from them; then, in those yamim,
they will undergo tzomot.
|36| Now Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was telling also a mashal to them: No one tears a piece
from a new garment, and sews it as a patch on an old garment. Otherwise, both the new will be
torn, and the patch from the new will not match the old.
|37| And no one puts yayin chadash (new wine) into old wineskins; otherwise, the new wine will
burst the wineskins, it will be spilled, and the wineskins will be destroyed.
|38| Rather, yayin chadash must be put into new wineskins.
|39| And no one having drunk the old desires the chadash (new), for he says, The alter (old) is
besere (better).
§PEREK VAV (CHAPTER SIX)
And it came about on Shabbos that Rebbe HaMoshiach is passing through grain fields,
and his talmidim were plucking and eating the heads of grain and rubbing them in their
hands. [DEVARIM 23:25]
|2| Now some of the Perushim said, Why are you doing what is asur (impermissible) on Shabbos?
|3| And in reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Have you not read what Dovid
HaMelech did when he and those with him were hungry, [SHMUEL ALEF 21:6]
|4| how he entered into the Beit Hashem and took the Lechem HaPanim (the Bread of the
Presence), and he ate and gave to the ones with him, which is mutar (permissible) to eat only by
the kohanim? [VAYIKRA 24:5,9]
|5| And he was saying to them, The Ben HaAdam [Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14] is Adon
HaShabbos.
|6| And it came about on another Shabbos that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach entered into the shul
and taught Torah. And there was a man there also whose right hand was withered.
|7| Now the Sofrim and Perushim were watching Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to see if he brings
refuah on Shabbos, in order that they might find something to accuse him.
|8| But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach knew their machshavot (thoughts), and said to the man
having the withered hand, Rise and stand in the midst. And the man got up and stood.
|9| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, I ask you whether it is mutar (permissible) on
Shabbos to do hatov or to do harah, to save nefesh or destroy it?
|10| And having looked around at all of them, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to the man,
Stretch out your hand. And he did. And his hand was restored.
|11| But they (the Sofrim and the Perushim) were filled with kaas (anger), and they were
discussing with one another what they might do to him.
|12| Now it came about in those yamim that Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach went forth to the
mountain to daven, and he was spending the whole night b'tefillah to Hashem.
|13| And when boker came, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach summoned his talmidim, and chose from
them Shneym Asar (Twelve), whom he also named Shluchim:
|14| Shimon, whom also he called Kefa, and Andrew his brother, and Yaakov and Yochanan and
Philippos and Bar-Talmai,
|15| and Mattityahu and Toma and Yaakov Ben-Chalfai, and Shimon, the one being called the
Zealot,
|16| and Yehudah Ben-Yaakov, and Yehudah from Kriot, who became the boged (traitor,
betrayer) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|17| And having come down with them, he stood on a level place, and a great multitude of his
talmidim, and a great multitude of the Am Berit (People of the Covenant) from all Yehudah and
Yerushalayim and the coastal region of Tzor and Tzidon,
|18| came to hear him and to receive refuah (healing) from their machlot (illnesses), and the ones
being troubled by ruchot hatemeiot (unclean spirits, shedim) were given refuah,
|19| and all were seeking to touch Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach because koach (power) was going
out from him, and he was giving refuah to everyone.
|20| And lifting up his eyes to look at his talmidim, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, Ashrey are
the the aniyim (poor), for yours is the Malchut Hashem.
|21| Ashrey are the ones hungering now, for you will eat your fill. Ashrey are the ones weeping
now, for you will laugh [YESHAYAH 55:1,2; 61:2,3].
|22| Ashrey are you when Bnei Adam have sinas chinam (baseless hatred) for you and when they
ostracize you and they reproach you and cast out your name as rah (evil) on account of the Ben
HaAdam [Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14].
|23| Have simcha in that day and leap for chedvah (rejoicing), for--hinei--your sachar (reward) is
gadol in Shomayim. According to the same things their Avot were doing to the Neviim.
|24| But oy to you, you ashirim, for you have already received in full your nechamah (comfort).
|25| Oy to you, the ones having been well fed now, for you will hunger. Oy, the ones laughing
now, for you will mourn and weep. [YESHAYAH 65:13; MISHLE 14:13]
|26| Woe when all Bnei Adam speak well of you. For according to the same things were their
Avot doing to the neviei hasheker (false prophets).
|27| But to you I say, to the ones listening, show ahavah to your oyvim (enemies), do mitzvahs for the ones with sinas chinom for you,
|28| Say a bracha for the ones cursing you, daven for the ones mistreating you.
|29| To the one hitting you on the cheek, offer also the other, and from the one taking away your
kaftan (coat), also the tunic and gartel do not withhold.
|30| To everyone asking you, give tzedakah; and from the one taking away your things, do not
demand them back. [DEVARIM 15:7,8; MISHLE 21:26]
|31| And just as you want that Bnei Adam may do to you, do to them similarly.
|32| And if you show ahavah to the ones showing ahavah to you, what kind of shvakh
(commendation) to you is that? For even the choteim (sinners) show ahavah to the ones showing
ahavah to them.
|33| For even if you do mitzvahs for the ones doing mitzvahs for you, what kind of shvakh to you
is that?
|34| And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what kind of shvakh to you is that?
Even choteim lend to choteim, that they receive in return the same amount.
|35| But show ahavah to your oyvim and do mitzvahs and Gemilut Chasadim, expecting nothing
in return. And your sachar will be rav. And you will be bnei Elyon (sons of the Most High),
because he is kind to anashim raim and those without hodayah (thanksgiving).
|36| Be anashim of rachamanut (compassion) just as also your Elohim HaAv is merciful.
[TEHILLIM 103:8]
|37| Judge not, lest you be judged. And do not condemn, and by no means may you be
condemned. If you pardon with mechila (forgiveness), you will be pardoned with selicha
(forgiveness).
|38| Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, having been pressed down and having
been shaken, overflowing, will be put into your kheyk (lap). For by what measure you measure it will be measured in return to you. [TEHILLIM 79:12; YESHAYAH 65:6,7]
|39| Now Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach told also a mashal to them. Surely an ivver (blind man) is
not able to guide an ivver, is he? Will not both fall into a pit?
|40| A talmid is not above his moreh (teacher). But everyone, having been fully trained, will be
like his moreh (teacher).
|41| And why do you see the speck in the eye of your ach, but the log in your own eye you do not
notice?
|42| How are you able to say to your ach, Ach, let me remove the speck in your eye, while you
yourself are not seeing the log in your own eye? Tzevua, remove first the log from your eye, and
then you will see clearly to take out the speck in the eye of your ach.
|43| For there is no etz tov producing pri rah, nor again an etz rah producing pri tov.
|44| For each etz by its own pri will be known. For not from thorns do they gather figs nor from a thorn bush do they pick grapes.
|45| The ish tov from the good storehouse of the lev (heart) produces tov, and the ish rah out of
the evil storehouse produces rah. For from the abundance of the lev the peh (mouth) speaks.
|46| And why do you call me, Adoni, and yet you do not do what I say?
|47| Everyone coming to me and hearing my divrei Torah and putting them into practice, I will
show you to whom he is likened.
|48| He is likened to the man building a bais (house) who dug and went down deep and laid a
yesod (foundation) upon the av sela (bed rock). And a flood having come, the river struck
against that bais, and the flood was not strong enough to shake it, because its binnuy
(construction) was firm.
|49| Now the one having heard [Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach's divrei Torah], and not having put
them into practice, is like a man having built a bais (house) upon the ground without a yesod
(foundation), which the river struck against, and ofen ort (immediately) the bais collapsed, and
gadol (great) was the churban of that bais.
§PEREK ZAYIN (CHAPTER SEVEN)
When he completed all his divrei Torah in the oznei haAm (ears of the people), Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach entered into Kfar-Nachum.
|2| Now a certain eved of a centurion (an eved dear to him) was having a machla (illness) and
was near mavet.
|3| And having had daas of Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, the centurion sent to him Zekenim
(Elders) of the Yehudim, asking him to come and to give refuah to his eved.
|4| And when they had come to Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, they were earnestly entreating him,
saying, He is a worthy man that you grant this for him.
|5| For he is one of the hasidei ummot haOlam who loves our Jewish people and he built for us
our shul.
|6| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was starting out on his way with them; and when he was
already not far from the bais, the centurion sent beloved reim (friends), saying to him, Adoni, do
not trouble yourself further, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof;
|7| Therefore, I did not consider myself worthy to come to you. But just say the dvar, and my
eved will receive refuah. [TEHILLIM 107:20]
|8| For I too am a man placed under the yad memshalah (the hand governing authority), having
chaiyalim (soldiers) under myself, and I say to this one, Go, and he goes, and to another, Come,
and he comes, and to my eved, Do this, and he does it.
|9| And having heard these things, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was mispoyel (deeply impressed)
at him, and, having turned to the multitude following him, he said, I say to you, nowhere even in
Yisroel have I found such great emunah.
|10| And when the ones having been sent returned to the bais, they found the eved being shalem
bguf (healthy).
|11| And it came about on the next day that Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach proceeded to a shtetl
called Naim, and his talmidim were traveling along with him as well as a great company of
people.
REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH BREAKS UP A JEWISH LEVAYAH (FUNERAL)
|12| Now as Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach approached the shaar of the shtetl--hinei!--an ish met
(dead man) was being carried out for kevurah (burial); he was the ben yachid (only son) of his
Em, and she was an almanah (widow), and a considerable crowd from the shtetl was with her.
|13| And when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu saw her, he had rachmei shomayim
(heavenly compassion) over her and said, Do not weep.
|14| And having approached, he touched the aron met (coffin); and the bearers stood still, and he
said, Bocher, to you I say, get up.
|15| And the niftar (deceased person) sat up and he began to speak, and Rebbe Melech
HaMoshiach gave him to his Em (mother).
|16| And everyone was filled with yirat Shomayim and they were shouting, Baruch Hashem! And
they were saying, A navi gadol (great prophet) is among us, and Hashem has visited his people.
|17| And this report about him went out into all Yehudah and into all the surrounding countryside.
|18| And Yochanan's talmidim reported to him about all these things. And when he had
summoned a certain two of his talmidim, Yochanan
|19| sent them to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu, saying, Are you Hu HaBah [Moshiach]
or should we be looking for another?
|20| And when the men had come to him, they said, Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva sent us to
you, saying, Are you Hu HaBah [Moshiach] or should we be looking for another?
|21| At genoi (precisely) that time, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave refuah to many with
machlot (illnesses) and afflictions and ruchot raot (evil spirits) and to many ivverim (blind
persons) he granted sight.
|22| And in reply he said to them, Go and tell Yochanan what you have seen [as edei reiyah,
eyewitnesses]. IVRIM TIRENAH, pisechim (lame persons) walk, the metzorim (lepers) are
cleansed, and chereshim (deaf persons) hear, the mesim are restored to life, ANIYIM (poor) have
the Besuras HaGeulah preached to them. [YESHAYAH 29:18,19; 35:5,6; 61:1,2]
|23| And ashrey (happy) is whoever does not find a michshol (stumbling block, obstacle,
YESHAYAH 57:14) in me [as Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach].
|24| And when the messengers of Yochanan had departed, he began to say to the multitudes about
Yochanan, What did you go out bamidbar (in the wilderness) to see? A reed shaken by the
wind?
|25| But what did you go out to see? A man dressed in a dandy's soft clothing?--Hinei--the ones
with glorious apparel are living in luxury as courtiers in the palaces.
|26| But what did you go out to see? A navi? Ken, I say to you, and one more than a navi.
|27| This one is he about whom it has been written,--HINENI SHOLEIACH MALAKHI (Behold,
I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your derech in front of you [MALACHI
3:1]
|28| I say to you, among those born of isha there is no one greater than Yochanan, yet he who is
least in the Malchut Hashem is greater than he.
|29| (And when kol haAm [all the People] and the mochesim [tax-collectors] heard this, they
acknowledged the Tzidkat Hashem [Righteousness of G-d], having been submitted to the tevilah
of teshuva of Yochanan.
|30| But the Perushim and the Baalei HaTorah rejected the tachlis [purpose] of Hashem for their
lives, refusing the tevilah of teshuva of Yochanan.)
|31| Therefore, to what will I compare the people of hador hazeh (this generation) and what are
they like?
|32| They are like yeladim sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another; and they say,
We played the chalil (flute) for you and you did not dance; we sang a kina (lament, funeral
dirge) and you did not weep.
|33| For Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva has come not eating lechem nor drinking yayin, and
you say, He has a shed (demon)!
|34| The Ben HaAdam [Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14] has come eating and drinking, and you say,
Hinei! A man who is a zolel (glutton) and a shikkor (drunkard), a rea (friend) of mochesim and
choteim.
|35| Yet chochmah is justified by all of her yeladim.
|36| Now a certain one of the Perushim was requesting Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach at tish, and,
he, having entered into the bais of the Parush, reclined to eat.
|37| And--hinei--an isha (woman) was in the shtetl, an isha chotet (a woman of sin), and, when
she had daas that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach reclines at tish in the bais of the Parush, she
brought an alabaster flask of costly perfume.
|38| She stood behind him, and then she began weeping at his feet, and with her tears she began
to wash the feet of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and she was drying them with her hair, and she
was kissing his feet and was anointing them with perfume.
|39| But when the Parush who had invited Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach saw this, he said to
himself, If this one were a navi, he would have had daas who and what sort of isha is touching
him, because she is an isha chotet (woman of sin).
|40| And in reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Shimon, I have something to say to
you. And the Parush said, Speak, Rabbi.
|41| Two persons were debtors to a certain creditor; the one was owing a choiv (debt) of chamesh
meot (five hundred) denarii and the other a choiv (debt) of chamishim (fifty).
|42| Not being able to repay, the creditor graciously forgave both debts. Therefore which of them
will have more ahavah for him?
|43| In reply, Shimon said, I suppose the one whom the creditor forgave more. And Rebbe
Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Your judgment is gantze nachon (entirely correct).
|44| And having turned to the isha, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to Shimon, Do you see this
isha? I entered your bais, you did not give me mayim for my feet, but she has washed my feet
with her tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her rosh. [BERESHIT 18:4; SHOFETIM 19:21]
|45| You did not give me neshikah (kiss), but she, from the time I entered, did not stop kissing my feet.
|46| With oil my rosh (head) you did not anoint. But she with perfume anointed my feet.
[TEHILLIM 23:5; KOHELET 9:8]
|47| Oib azoi (consequently), I say to you, her chattaim, which are many, have been granted
selicha (forgiven), for with rabbah ahavah she loved. But he who is mekabel selicha (accepting
forgiveness) only a little, has ahavah only a little.
|48| And he said to her, Your averos have been granted selicha.
|49| And the ones reclining at tish with Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach began to say to themselves,
Who is this who even grants selicha to averos?
|50| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to the isha, Your emunah has gained you Yeshuat
Eloheinu. L'chi L'shalom. (Go in shalom!)
§PEREK HET (CHAPTER EIGHT)
And it came about afterwards that he was traveling through every shtetl and village preaching
and proclaiming the Besuras HaGeulah of the Malchut Hashem; and the Shneym Asar were
with Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach.
|2| And there were some nashim who had received refuah from ruchot raot and machlot: Miryam
(called Magdalit), from whom shivah shedim had gone out,
|3| and Yochanah the wife of Kuza, the steward of Herod; Shoshanah, and many others who were
giving maamadot (contributions) for Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach from their private means.
|4| Now when a large multitude were coming together and the ones in every shtetl were making
their derech to him, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach spoke by way of a mashal:
|5| The one sowing went out to sow his seed; and as he sows, some [seeds] fell beside the road;
and it was trampled upon, and the birds of the air devoured it.
|6| And other seed fell upon the rock, and as soon as it grew up, it dried up because it has no
moisture.
|7| And other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it.
|8| And other seed fell in the adamah tovah (good ground) and, having grown up, produced pri a
hundredfold. As Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said these things, he was calling out, The one
having oznayim (ears) to hear, let him hear.
|9| Now Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach's talmidim began questioning him as to what this mashal
might be.
|10| And he said, To you it has been granted to have daas of the razei Malchut Hashem (mysteries
of the Kingdom of G-d), but to the others I speak in mashalim, in order that YIRU they may not
see and VSHIMU they may not have binah. [YESHAYAH 6:9]
|11| Now the mashal is this: The seed is the dvar Hashem.
|12| The ones beside the road are the ones having heard, then Hasatan comes and takes away the
dvar Hashem from their levavot, so that they may not have emunah (faith) and come to Yeshuaat
Eloheinu.
|13| Now the ones upon the rock are those who when they hear, with simcha they receive the
dvar; and these have no shoresh (root). They have emunah for a while, but in time of nisayon
(trial, temptation), they become shmad and they fall away.
|14| Now the seed which fell among thorns, these are the ones who have heard, and as they go on
their derech, they are choked by the deagot (worries, anxieties) and osher (riches) and taanugot
(pleasures) of the Olam Hazeh and they bring no pri to maturity.
|15| Now the one in the adamah tova (good ground), these are those who have heard the dvar
Hashem with a lev (heart) tov and yashir (straight), and retain the dvar Hashem and bear pri with
zitzfleisch (patience).
|16| Now no one having lit a menorah covers it with a jar or places it under a bed; but he places
the menorah on the shulchan, in order that the ones entering may see the ohr (light).
|17| For nothing is nistar (hidden) which will not become nikar (evident), nor anything hidden
which shall not be made known and come to ohr (light).
|18| Therefore, be shomer how you listen, for whoever has, to him shall more be given; and
whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has shall be taken away from him.
|19| And the Em of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and his achim came to him, and they were not
able to get to him because of the multitude.
|20| And it was announced to him, Your Em (mother) and your achim have been standing outside
waiting to see you.
|21| But in reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, My Em and my achim are these: the
ones who are shomei dvar Hashem (hearers of the word of Hashem) and also shomrei dvar
Hashem (keepers guarding/doing the word of Hashem).
|22| Now it came about on one of those yamim (days) when he and his talmidim embarked into a
sirah (boat) that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Let us go over to the other side of the
lake. And they launched out.
|23| But as they were sailing, he fell asleep; and a driving storm of wind descended upon the lake,
and they began to be swamped and began to be in a situation of pikuach nefesh (saving an
endangered life).
|24| And they came and woke him up, saying, Adoneinu, Adoneinu, we are perishing! And
having been awakened, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach rebuked the wind and the rough waves, and
the storm ceased. And all became calm. [TEHILLIM 107:29]
|25| And Moshiach said to them, Where is your emunah? And they were fearful and amazed,
saying to one another, Who then is this, that he commands even the winds and the sea and they
obey him? [MISHLE 30:4]
|26| And they sailed down to the country of the Gerasenes, which is opposite the Galil.
|27| And as Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach disembarked upon the shore, he was met from the town
by a certain ish possessed by shedim; and the ish had not worn clothing for a long time and was
not living in a bais but among the kevarim (graves).
|28| And having seen Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach and having cried out, he fell down before him
and said in a kol gadol (loud voice), Mah li ulchah, Yehoshua Ben El Elyon? (What to me and to
you, Yehoshua Son of the Most High G-d?) I beg you, do not torment me.
|29| For Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach had been commanding the ruach hatumah (unclean spirit,
shed) to come out of the ish. For many times it had seized him; and he was restrained with
chains and imprisoned by shackles and, breaking apart the bonds, he was being driven by the
shed into the wilderness places.
|30| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach questioned him, What is your name? And he said, Legion.
For many shedim had entered him.
|31| And the shedim were entreating Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, lest he might command them to
depart into the abyss.
|32| Now there was a herd of many chazirim feeding there on the mountain. And the shedim
begged him that he might permit them to enter into those chazirim. And Rebbe Melech
HaMoshiach permitted the shedim.
|33| And the shedim came out from the ish, and entered the chazirim, and the herd of chazirim
rushed down the bank into the lake, and were drowned.
|34| And when the herdsmen saw what had happened, they fled and reported it in the town and on
the farms.
|35| And the people went out to see what had happened; and they came to him and found the ish
from whom the shedim had gone out, and the ish was clothed and in his right mind, sitting at the
feet of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach; and they were afraid.
|36| And the edei reiyah (eyewitnesses) reported to the people how the one possessed with shedim was given refuah.
|37| And all the multitude of the surrounding country of the Gerasenes asked Rebbe Melech
HaMoshiach to depart from them; because they were being filled with pachad gadol (great fear).
So he embarked into a sirah (boat) and returned.
|38| And the ish from whom the shedim had gone out was begging Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach
that he might accompany him. But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach sent him away, saying, Return
|39| to your bais and tell what great things G-d has done for you. And the man went away,
preaching throughout the whole town, what great things Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach had done for him.
|40| Now Moshiach returns, and the multitude gave him kabbalat panim (welcome), for they had
all been expecting him.
|41| And--hinei!--there came an ish named Yair and this one was one of the Roshei Beit
HaKnesset, and he fell at the feet of Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, pleading with him to come to
his bais;
|42| for he had a bat yachidah (only daughter) about twelve years in age, and she was dying. But
as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went, the multitudes were pressing around him,
|43| and an isha having a flow of dahm for twelve years, and who had spent all she had on rofim
(physicians) but could not receive refuah from anyone, [VAYIKRA 15:25-30]
|44| approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach from behind, and she touched the tzitzit of his
garment; and ofen ort (immediately) the flow of her dahm stopped.
|45| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, Who is the one who touched me? And while everyone
was denying it, Kefa said, Adoneinu, the multitudes surround you and are pressing against you.
|46| But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, Someone did touch me, for I had daas that koach
(power) had gone out from me.
|47| And when the isha saw that she had not escaped notice, she came trembling and fell down
before Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, and declared before the people the reason she touched him,
and how ofen ort (immediately) she received refuah.
|48| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to her, Biti (my daughter), your emunah brought your
refuah. L'chi l'shalom (Go in shalom).
|49| While he was still speaking, someone comes from the bais (house) of the Rosh Beit
HaKnesset [Yair], saying, Your bat has died. Do not cause a shter (bother) for the rabbi.
|50| But when Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach heard this, he answered him, Do not be afraid; only
have emunah, and she will receive refuah.
|51| And having come to the bais, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach did not permit anyone to enter
with him, except Kefa and Yochanan and Yaakov, and the yaldah's Abba and Em.
|52| And all were weeping and mourning for her; but Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, Stop
weeping, for she has not died, but is sleeping.
|53| And they were making leitzonus (fun) of him, having had daas that she was a nifteret (a
deceased person).
|54| But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach took her by the hand and called out, saying, Yaldah, get up!
|55| And her ruach returned, and she got up ofen ort (immediately); and Rebbe Melech
HaMoshiach gave orders that something be given to her to eat.
|56| And her horim (parents) were amazed; but Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach instructed them to tell
no one what had happened.
§PEREK TET (CHAPTER NINE)
And having called together the Shneym Asar, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach gave to them
koach (power) and samchut (authority) over all the shedim and to give refuah (healing) to
their illnesses.
|2| Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach sent them out as his Shluchim to preach the Malchut Hashem and
to give refuah to the cholim (sick persons),
|3| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Take nothing for the journey, neither walking
stick nor a schnorrer's (beggar's) sack nor lechem nor kesef, nor an extra kaftan.
|4| And into whatever bais you may enter, remain there, and from there go out.
|5| And as many as do not receive you, going out from that shtetl, shake off the dust from your
feet for an edut against them.
|6| And they departed and were itinerating throughout the shtetlach, preaching the Besuras
HaGeulah and healing everywhere.
|7| Now Herod the Tetrarch heard all the things happening and he was perplexed because it was
said by some that Yochanan had experienced his Techiyah from HaMesim and come back,
|8| by some also that Eliyahu Hanavi had appeared, but by others that some navi of the ancients
arose.
|9| But Herod said, Yochanan I beheaded. Who then is this about whom I hear such things? And
he was seeking to see him.
|10| And having returned, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach's Shluchim told him what things they did.
And having taken them for a yechidus, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach withdrew to a shtetl being
called Beth-Tzaidah.
|11| But the multitudes, having realized this, followed him. And having given them a kabbalat
panim (welcome), Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was speaking to them about the Malchut Hashem,
and to the ones having need of it, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was giving refuah.
|12| Now the day began to decline. And having approached, the Shneym Asar said to Rebbe
Melech HaMoshiach, Send away the multitude, so that having gone into the surrounding
shtetlach and farms, they may find lodging and may find provisions, for here we are in a desolate
place.
|13| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, You give them [something] to eat. But they
said, There are not to us more than chamesh kikrot (loaves) and dagim, shenayim, unless we go
and buy for all this people okhel (food).
|14| For there were about chamesh elafim anashim (five thousand). But Rebbe Melech
HaMoshiach said to his talmidim, Have them recline [as at a farbrengen (inspirational
gathering)], chamishim (fifty) in a group. [TEHILLIM 23:2]
|15| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach's talmidim did so, and all reclined [as at tish].
|16| And having taken the chamesh kikrot and the shnei hadagim, and having looked up to
Shomayim, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said a bracha over them, and offered the betziat
halechem, and was giving to the talmidim to set before the multitude.
|17| And they ate and all were satisfied, and they picked up shirayim (Rebbe's remainders),
shneym asar baskets full.
|18| And it came about while Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was davening alone, with only his
talmidim with him, he questioned them, saying, Whom do the multitudes declare me to be?
|19| And in reply they said, Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva, but others, Eliyahu Hanavi, and
others, that a certain navi of the ancients has come back to life.
|20| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, And you, who do you declare me to be? And
in reply, Kefa said, The Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach of Hashem.
|21| And having warned them, he gave orders to tell no one this,
|22| saying, It is necessary for the Ben HaAdam [Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14] to suffer much
and to be rejected by the Ziknei HaAm (the Elders of the People) and Rashei Hakohanim and
Sofrim and to be killed, and after his histalkus (passing), on the Yom HaShelishi to undergo the
Techiyas HaMoshiach.
|23| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was saying to all, If anyone wishes to come after me, let
him deny himself and lift up his etz shel hakarav atzmo (tree of self-sacrifice) yom yom (daily)
and let him follow me.
|24| For whoever wishes to save his nefesh will lose it. But whoever loses his nefesh on account
of me (Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach), this one will save it.
|25| For what is the revach (profit) to a ben Adam who has gained the whole of the Olam Hazeh,
but has lost his own self, forfeited his neshamah?
|26| For whoever has bushah (shame) toward me and my dvarim, this one the Ben HaAdam
(Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14) will be ashamed of, when Moshiach comes in his Kavod and the
Kavod of HaAv of him and of the malachim hakedoshim (holy angels).
|27| But I say to you, Omein, there are some standing here who will by no means taste mavet until they see the Malchut Hashem.
|28| And it came to pass, about a week after these divrei Moshiach, that when he had taken Kefa
and Yochanan and Yaakov, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach went up to the har (mountain) to daven.
|29| And it came about that while Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach davens, the appearance of his face
became different and his kaftan and all his clothing became dazzling white.
|30| And--hinei--two men were conversing with Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, and these two men
were Moshe Rabbeinu and Eliyahu HaNavi,
|31| who appeared in kavod and were speaking of Moshiach's Litziat ("Going Out") Exodus,
which he was about to fulfill in Yerushalayim.
|32| But Kefa and the ones with him had been weighed down with sleep. And having awakened
fully, they saw the kavod of Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach and the two men, the ones having stood
with Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach.
|33| And it came about, just as the men departed from Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, Kefa said,
Adoni, it is good for us to be here; let us make shalosh succot, one for you and one for Moshe
Rabbeinu and one for Eliyahu HaNavi. (Kefa did not know what he was saying.)
|34| And while Kefa was saying these things, an anan (cloud) came and was overshadowing them, and while they entered into the anan they were afraid.
|35| And a bat kol came from the anan (cloud), saying ZEH BENI BECHIRI, ELAV TISHMAUN (This is my Son the Chosen One, listen to him. [YESHAYAH 42:1; TEHILLIM 2:7]
|36| When the bat kol became silent, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was found alone. And they were
silent, and reported to no one in those yamim anything of what they had seen.
|37| And it came about on the following day, when they had descended from the har (mountain), a large throng met Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach.
|38| And--hinei--an ish from the multitude cried out, saying, Rabbi, I beg you to look at beni (my
son), for to me he is a ben yachid (only son),
|39| and--hinei--a shed seizes him and suddenly shrieking and lets out a geshrai and throws the
bocher into a convulsion with foam at the mouth and it mauls him and will scarcely depart from
him.
|40| And I begged your talmidim that they might cast out the shed, and they were not able.
|41| And in reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, O perverse dor (generation) without emunah,
until when will I be with you, and until when will I put up with you? Bring your ben here.
[DEVARIM 32:5]
|42| Even now as the bocher was approaching Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, the shed threw him
down and convulsed him. But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach rebuked the shed (the ruach hatumah)
and gave refuah to the bocher, and gave him back to his abba.
|43| And all were amazed at the gedulat Hashem (greatness of G-d). And while all were
beholding the peledike (marvelous) way he was doing everything, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach
said to his talmidim,
|44| Let these divrei Hashem lodge in your ears: for the Ben HaAdam [Moshiach, DANIEL
7:13-14] is about to be delivered into the hands of bnei Adam.
|45| But they had no binah concerning this dvar of Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, and it had been
nistar (hidden) from them in order that they might not have binah, and they were afraid to ask
him about this dvar.
|46| Now an argument arose among the talmidim of Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, as to who might
be the Gadol among them.
|47| And Moshiach, having perceived the machshavah (thought) of their levavot (hearts), took a
yeled into his arms and stood the yeled next to him.
|48| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Whoever receives this yeled in ha-Shem of me (Moshiach), is mekabel (receiving, accepting) of me. And whoever is mekabel of me is mekabel of the One (Hashem) who sent me. For whoever is the least among all of you, this one is the Gadol.
|49| And in reply Yochanan said, Adoni, we saw someone casting out shedim bShem of you and
we were trying to stop him, because he is not following as one of the anshei shlomeinu (men of
our fraternity).
|50| But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Do not stop him. For whoever is not against
you, is for you.
|51| And it came about that as the Yom of Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach's aliyah ascent to
Shomayim approaches, he set his face bedavka (deliberately) and resolutely to go up to
Yerushalayim.
|52| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach sent messengers ahead of him. And having gone, they
entered into a village of Shomron in order to make arrangements for him.
|53| And the people of Shomron were not mekabel Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, because his face
was set to go to Yerushalayim.
|54| And when Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach's talmidim, Yaakov and Yochanan, witnessed this,
they said, Adoneinu, do you want that we should call eish to come down from Shomayim to
consume them? [MELACHIM BAIS 1:10,12]
|55| And, having turned around, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach rebuked them.
|56| And they went to another village.
|57| And as they were going baderech (on the road), a certain one said to Rebbe Melech
HaMoshiach, I will follow you wherever you go.
|58| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Foxes have dens, and the OF HASHOMAYIM
(birds of heaven, IYOV 7:13-14) have nests, but the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14)
does not have a place where he may lay down his head.
|59| And he said to another, Follow me. But the ish said, Adoni, allow me to go first and bury the
Av of me.
|60| But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Leave the mesim (dead ones, spiritually
unregenerate ones without hitkhadshut) to bury their mesim (dead ones), but you go and proclaim the Malchut Hashem.
|61| And another said also, I will follow you, Adoni. But first allow me to say lhitraot to the ones
in my bais. [MELACHIM ALEF 19:20]
|62| But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to him, No one having put his hand upon the plow yet
looking back to the things behind is fit for the Malchut Hashem. [BERESHIT 19:26]
§PEREK YOD (CHAPTER TEN)
And after these things, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu gave smichah to shivim
(seventy) others and sent them on ahead of him shnayim shnayim (two by two) into every
shtetl and place where he was about to arrive.
|2| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was saying to them, Indeed the Katzir is plentiful, but the
poalim of the Katzir are few; therefore, ask the Adon of the Katzir that he might send out poalim
into his Katzir.
|3| Go--hinei--I send you as kevasim (sheep) into the midst of zeevim (wolves).
|4| Do not carry a bag for kesef, nor a schnorrer's sack (beggar's bag), nor sandals, and, along the
derech, dispense with time-consuming Birkat Shalom's.
|5| Into whatever bais you enter, first say, Shalom to this bais.
|6| And if there is a ben hashalom there, your shalom will rest upon him. Otherwise, on you it
will return.
|7| Remain in the same bais eating and drinking the things with them. For worthy is the poel
(worker) of his loin (wages). Do not move from bais to bais.
|8| And into whichever shtetl you enter and they receive you, eat the okhel (food) being set before
you,
|9| and give refuah (healing) to the cholim (sick persons) and say to them, The Malchut Hashem
has come near you.
|10| And into whatever shtetl you enter and they do not receive you, having gone out into the
rekhovot (streets) of that shtetl,
|11| Say, Even the [Goyishe unclean] dust from your shtetl, which clings to us, we shake off from
our feet as an omen of din (judgment) against you. But have daas of this, that the Malchut
Hashem has come near.
|12| I (Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach) say to you, that for Sdom in Yom HaHu [Yom HaDin, the
Day of Judgment] it will be more bearable than it will be for that shtetl.
|13| Woe to you, Korazin, oy to you, Beit-Tzaidah, because if in Tzor and Tzidon had occurred
the gevurot (might works of G-d) that have happened in you, long ago, sitting in sackcloth and
ashes, they would have made teshuva.
|14| But for Tzor and Tzidon it will be more bearable in the Yom HaDin than for you.
|15| And you, Kfar-Nachum, surely not up to Shomayim will you be exalted? To Gehinnom you
will descend!
|16| The one listening to you, listens to me (Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach), and the one rejecting
you, rejects me (Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach). But the one rejecting me (Rebbe Melech
HaMoshiach), rejects the One [the G-d of Yisroel] who sent me.
|17| And the Shivim (Seventy) returned with simcha, saying, Adoneinu, even the shedim submit
to us bShem of you (Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua).
|18| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, I was seeing Hasatan falling like lightning
from Shomayim. [YESHAYAH 14:12]
|19| Hinei! I have given to you the koach and the samchut to walk on nechashim (snakes) and
akrabim (scorpions), and on all the koach of HaOyev [The Enemy, Hasatan], and nothing may by
any means injure you.
KATVENU BSEFER HACHAYYIM LEMAANCHA ELOHIM CHAYYIM (INSCRIBE US IN
THE BOOK OF LIFE FOR THY SAKE, O LIVING G-D) [ROSH HASHANAH, YOM
KIPPUR SERVICES]
|20| But in this do not have a lev sameach, on account of the ruchot (spirits) submitting to you,
but have a lev sameach that your shemot (names) have been inscribed in Shomayim.
|21| In the same hour Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was full of simcha by the Ruach Hakodesh.
And he said, Baruch Hashem, Avi, Adon HaShomayim vhaAretz, that you concealed these things from those with chochmah and seichel and you revealed them to yeladim. Ken, Avi, for thus it was well-pleasing in your sight.
|22| Everything was handed over to me by Avi, and no one has daas of HaBen except HaAv. And
no one has daas of HaAv except HaBen, and whomever HaBen wishes to reveal [him].
|23| And, having turned to the talmidim in a yechidus, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Ashrey
[are] the eyes seeing what you see.
|24| For I say to you that many neviim and melachim wanted to see what you see and they did not
see them, and to hear what you hear and they did not hear them.
|25| And--hinei--a certain Talmid Chacham, a Baal Torah, stood up, testing Rebbe Melech
HaMoshiach, saying, Rabbi, what mitzvah must I do to inherit Chayyei Olam?
|26| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, In the Torah what has been written? How do
you read it?
|27| And in reply the Baal Torah said, VAHAVTA ES ADONOY ELOHECHA BKHOL
LVAVCHA UVECHOL NAFSHECHA UVECHOL MODECHA [DEVARIM 6:4,5] and
L'REACHA KAMOCHA [DEVARIM 6:5; VAYIKRA 19:18]
|28| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Your answer is frum. Richtik (correct). Do
this and you will live.
|29| But because the Baal Torah wanted to justify himself, to be yitzdak im Hashem (justified
with G-d, IYOV 25:4) on the basis of his own zchus (merit), he said to Rebbe Melech
HaMoshiach, And who is my REA (neighbor)?
|30| In reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, A certain ish was coming down from
Yerushalayim to Yericho, and he encountered shodedim (robbers). They stripped him and
inflicted a klap (blow), more than one--they went away and left him half dead.
|31| It so happened that a certain kohen was coming down by that derech, and, having seen him,
he passed by on the other side. [VAYIKRA 21:1-3]
|32| And likewise also a Levi happened upon the place, but when he came and saw him, he
passed by on the other side.
|33| But a certain Shomroni, traveling along on the derech, came upon him; and when he saw
him, he was filled with rachmei shomayim (heavenly compassion).
|34| And when this Shomroni approached, he bandaged the man's wounds, pouring shemen and
yayin over them; and when he had placed him upon his own donkey, he brought the man to a
malon (inn) and cared for him.
|35| And on the next day he produced two denarii and gave them to the keeper of the malon and
said, Take care of him, and whatever you spend additionally, I will take care of, when I return.
|36| Who of these shalosha (three) seems to you to have become a rea (neighbor) to the one
having fallen among the shodedim?
|37| And the Baal Torah answered, The one having shown the man rachamim (mercy,
compassion). And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Go and do likewise.
|38| And while they were on the derech, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach entered into a certain shtetl.
And a certain isha by the name Marta received him.
|39| And this isha had an achot (sister) named Miryam, who sat down at the feet of Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu listening to his dvar.
|40| But Marta was distracted with much avodas. And having stood by, she said, Adoneinu, is it
of no concern to you that my achot has left me alone to serve? Speak, then, to her that she may
help me.
|41| And in reply Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu said to her, Marta, Marta, you are
anxious and worried about many things,
|42| but one is necessary. For Miryam chose HaTov which will not be taken away from her.
§PEREK YOD ALEPH (CHAPTER ELEVEN)
And it came about while Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was in a certain place davening that,
when he concluded, a certain one of his talmidim said to him, Adoneinu, teach us to daven,
just as also Yochanan taught his talmidim.
|2| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, When you daven, say, Avinu, yitkadash
shmecha (hallowed be thy Name). Tavo malchutechah (thy kingdom come).
|3| Es lechem chukeinu ten lanu yom yom (Give us day by day the bread we need).
|4| u-slach lanu es chovoteinu (And forgive us our debts, sins) ki solechim gam anachnu lekhol
hachayav lanu (for also we ourselves are forgiving all that are the debtor to us) val tevieinu lidei
nisayon (And lead us not into temptation).
|5| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Who among you will have a chaver and will
come to him at chatzot halailah (midnight), and say to him, Chaver, lend me shalosh kikrot
(loaves);
|6| because a chaver of mine has come from a journey to me and I have nothing to set before him;
|7| and from inside he shall reply, saying, Do not bother me; the delet has already been shut, and
my yeladim and I are already in bed; I cannot get up and give to you anything.
|8| I say to you, even if he will not get up and give him anything, because he is his chaver, at least
because of his keseder (constantly) persistent importunity he will get up and give to him as much
as he needs.
|9| And I tell you [when you daven], ask, and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find;
knock and it shall be opened to you.
|10| For everyone asking receives; and he who is seeking, finds; and to the one knocking, it shall
be opened.
|11| And what Abba among you is there who, if his ben asks for a dag (fish), instead of a dag
(fish) will give to him a nachash (snake)?
|12| Or if the ben will ask for a beytzah (egg), will the av give him an akrav (scorpion)?
|13| If, therefore, you, though you are raim (evil ones), have daas (knowledge) of how to give
matanot tovot (good gifts) to your yeladim, how much more will HaAv shbaShomayim give the
Ruach Hakodesh to the ones asking him.
|14| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was casting out a shed from an ish illem (mute man). And it
came to pass when the shed had come out, the ish illem spoke, and the multitudes were amazed.
|15| But some of them said, He casts out the shedim by Baal-zibbul Sar HaShedim.
|16| And others, to test him, were demanding of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach an ot (sign) from
Shomayim.
|17| But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, having had daas of their machshavot (thoughts), said to
them, Every Malchut divided against itself is laid waste; and a bais (household) divided against
itself falls.
|18| And if Hasatan also was divided against himself, how shall Hasatan's Malchut (Kingdom)
stand? Because you say by Baal-zibbul I cast out shedim.
|19| But if I by Baal-zibbul cast out the shedim, by whom do your banim cast them out? Oib azoi
(consequently), they shall be your shofetim (judges).
|20| But, if I, by the finger of Hashem, cast out the shedim, then the Malchut Hashem has come
upon you. [SHEMOT 8:19]
|21| When a Gibbor (Strong Man), fully armed, is shomer over his armon (palace), his
possessions are left in shalom;
|22| but when someone stronger than he overpowers him, he takes away from him all his shiryon
kaskasim (coat of scale armor) on which he had depended, and distributes his plunder.
|23| The one who is not with me is against me (anti-Moshiach); and he who does not gather with
me, scatters.
|24| When the ruach hatameh (unclean spirit) goes out from the ben Adam, it goes through
waterless places seeking a menuchah (resting place) and, not finding any, it says, I will return to
my bais from where I came out.
|25| And when it comes, it finds the bais having been swept and put beseder (in order).
|26| Then it goes and takes another sheva shedim more raot (evil) than itself, and they enter it and
dwell there; and the acharit (last) condition of that ish becomes worse than the reshit (first).
MOSHIACH REFUSES TO ALLOW HIS EM TO BE VENERATED
|27| And it came about while Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was saying these shiurim, a certain isha
in the multitude, having lifted up her voice, said to Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, Ashrey is the
womb having carried you and the breasts that nursed you.
|28| But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, Aderaba (to the contrary); ashrey are the ones hearing
the dvar Hashem and being shomer mitzvot! [MISHLE 8:32]
AT THE BEGINNING OF THE GENERATION OF THE CHURBAN STANDS THE
OMINOUS OT HAYONAH
|29| And as the multitudes are gathering even more, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach began to say,
HaDor HaZeh (this generation) is a Dor Rah! It is seeking an ot, and an ot will not be given to it
except the Ot HaYonah (the Sign of Jonah).
|30| For just as Yonah became to the Ninevites an ot, so also the Ben HaAdam will be an ot to
HaDor HaZeh.
|31| The Queen of the South will be made to stand up alive at the [Yom HaDin] Mishpat
(Judgment) with the men of HaDor HaZeh and she will declare a gezar din (verdict) of harshaah
(condemnation as guilty), because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the chochmah of
Shlomo, and--hinei--one greater than Shlomo is here. [MELACHIM ALEF 10:1; DIVREY
HAYAMIM BAIS 9:1; Ro 8:1]
|32| Men of Nineveh will stand up at the Mishpat (Judgment of the Yom HaDin) with HaDor
HaZeh and will condemn it, because they made teshuva at the preaching of Yonah,
and--hinei--one greater than Yonah is here.
|33| No one having lit a menorah puts it in a hidden place, nor under the measuring bucket, but on
the shulchan, in order that the ones entering may see the ohr.
|34| The menorah of the basar is your ayin (eye). When your ayin is sound, then your entire basar
is full of ohr. But when it is rah, then your basar is full of choshech.
|35| See to it, then, that the ohr in you is not choshech (darkness).
|36| If therefore, your whole basar is full of ohr and not having any part choshech, it will be all
full of ohr as when the menorah with the ohr (light) shines on you.
|37| Now while Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach spoke, a Parush asks him that he might have betziat
halechem (have a meal, breaking of bread) with him. And, having entered, Rebbe Melech
HaMoshiach reclined at tish.
|38| And the Parush, having seen this, was amazed that Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach did not first
do netilat yadayim before the meal.
|39| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu said to him, Now you Perushim wash the outside
of the kos and the dish you clean, but the inside of you is full of gezel (robbery) and resha.
|40| Goilomim (Foolish people)! Did not the One having made the outside also make the inside?
|41| But as far as what is inside, give tzedakah, and --hinei-- everything is tahor (clean) to you.
|42| But oy to you, Perushim, because you give as maaser (tithe) the mint and the rue and every
herb and you disregard the mishpat and the ahavah of Hashem. But these things it was necessary
to do and those not to disregard. [DEVARIM 6:5; MICHOH 6:8]
|43| Oy to you Perushim! Because your ahavah is for the moshavot harishonim (first seats) in the
shuls and the [obsequious] Birkat Shalom greetings in the market places.
|44| Woe to you, because you are like the unmarked kevarim (graves), and bnei Adam walk over
them without having daas.
|45| And, in reply, one of the Baalei Torah says to him, Rabbi, by saying these things you insult
us also.
|46| But Rebbe, Melech, HaMoshiach said, Also woe to you Baalei Torah, because you burden
men with [halachic] loads difficult to carry, and you yourselves with so much as one of your
fingers do not touch the loads [with a heter].
|47| Woe to you, because you build the matsevot (tombstone monuments) for the Kivrei
HaNeviim (the sepulchers of the Prophets), but it was your avot who killed them.
|48| Therefore, you are edim (witnesses) and in agreement with the deeds of your avot, because
they do the killing of neviim part and you do the providing of the matsevot part.
|49| Therefore, also the Chochmah of Hashem said, I will send to them Neviim and Shluchim,
some of whom they will kill and persecute, [Lk 20:9-19]
|50| that the Dahm of all the Neviim that has been poured out from the hivvased haOlam
(foundation of the world) may be charged to HaDor HaZeh,
|51| from the blood of Hevel (Abel) to the blood of Zecharyah who was killed al Kiddush
ha-Shem between the Mitzbeach and the Beis Hashem; ken, I tell you, it will be required from
HaDor HaZeh. [BERESHIT 4:8; DIVREY HAYAMIM BAIS 24:20,21]
|52| Woe to you Baalei Torah, because you took the mafteach (key) of daas (knowledge); you
yourselves did not enter in; and the ones entering in you hindered.
|53| And when he went from there, the Sofrim and the Perushim began to be terribly hostile and
to hock (pose questions one right after the other) Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and to subject him
to a wide ranging cross-examination,
|54| plotting to catch him in something from his mouth.
§PEREK YOD BEIT (CHAPTER TWELVE)
Meanwhile, when the multitudes by the thousands assembled, to the point of trampling one
another, Rebbe, Melech, HaMoshiach said this in a yechidus first to his talmidim, Be
shomer regarding the Chametz of the Perushim, which is their tzeviut (hypocrisy).
|2| And nothing that men hide in a cover up is concealed which will not be revealed, and nothing
held nistar (hidden) which will not be laid bare.
|3| So then, what things you said in the choshech, will be heard in the ohr; and what you
whispered in the ear bchadrei chadarim (in a most secret place) will be shouted from the roof
tops.
|4| I say to you, my chaverim, do not have pachad (terror) of the killers of the basar, who after
that have nothing more they can do.
|5| But I will show you someone of whom you should have yirah; fear the One who after killing
the basar has the samchut to throw into Gehinnom. Ken, I say to you, have yirah (fear) of this
One.
|6| Are not chamesh sparrows sold for two assarion? And not even one of them has been
overlooked in the eynayim of Hashem.
|7| But even the hairs of your rosh have all been inventoried. Never fear. You are of more worth
than many sparrows.
|8| And I say to you, whoever will declare the Ani Maamin public hodaah (acknowledgement) of
me [as Moshiach] before Bnei Adam, the Ben HaAdam [Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14] will make
public hodaah (acknowledgement) of him before the malachim of Hashem.
|9| But the one having made hakhchashah (denial) of me [as the Ben HaAdam Moshiach,
DANIEL 7:13-14] before Bnei Adam will be denied before the malachim of Hashem.
|10| And everyone who will say a dvar against the Ben HaAdam [Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14],
he will be given selicha (forgiveness). But the one having committed Chillul Hashem gidduf
(blasphemy) against the Ruach Hakodesh will not be given selicha.
|11| And when they bring you in before the shuls and the rulers and the manhigim (leaders), do
not have a lev rogez (anxious heart) about what you should speak in your own hitstaddekut
(defense), or about your legal brief.
|12| For the Ruach Hakodesh will be your rabbi teaching you in the same hour what it is
necessary to say. [SHEMOT 4:12]
|13| And someone out of the multitude said to him, Rabbi, speak to my ach to share with me the
yerushah (inheritance).
|14| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Ben Adam, who appointed me a shofet or an
arbitrator over you?
|15| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Take care and be shomer against all
chamdanut (covetousness), because the Chayyei HaAdam does not consist in the abundance of
his possessions. [IYOV 20:20; 31:24; TEHILLIM 62:10]
|16| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach spoke a mashal to them saying, An aza (certain) ish ashir
(rich man) had land that produced a good crop.
|17| And he was thinking to himself, saying, What should I do? Because I do not have a place
where I will store my crops.
|18| And he said, This I will do. I will tear down my asim (barns, granaries) and I will build larger asim. And there I will gather all my grain and my produce.
|19| And I will say to my neshamah, Neshamah, you have an ample store of goods for many years
to come. Take your ease, LEEKHOL, VLISHTOT, VLISHMOACH (to eat, to drink, and to be
merry (KOHELET 8:15)
|20| But Hashem said to him, Goilem! Halailah hazeh your nashamah is required of you. Now to
whom will be given what you prepared? [YIRMEYAH 17:11; IYOV 27:8; TEHILLIM 39:6;
49:10]
|21| Such is the one hoarding up for himself and not having osher toward Hashem.
|22| And Rebbe, Melech, HaMoshiach said to his talmidim, Therefore, I say to you: do not have a
LEV ROGEZ (DEVARIM 28:65) for your Chayyim, about your okhel (food) or your basar
(body), what you might put on.
|23| For the neshamah is more than okhel and the basar more than gartel (belt) and shtreimel
(expensive hat). [BERESHIT 47:18; TEHILLIM 16:9-10; IYOV 19:25-27; YESHAYAH 53:11]
|24| Consider the ravens! They do not sow nor reap, they have no storeroom or asam (barn), yet
Hashem feeds them. Of how much more worth are you than the OF HASHOMAYIM [IYOV
38:41; TEHILLIM 147:9]
|25| And can any of you by means of a LEV ROGEZ add one cubit to your span of Chayyim?
|26| If then you are not able to do even a small thing, why have a LEV ROGEZ about the rest?
|27| Consider the lilies! How they grow! A lily does not labor nor spin. But I say to you, not
even Shlomo HaMelech in all his kavod was arrayed like one of these. [MELACHIM ALEF
10:4-7]
|28| And if Hashem so enrobes the grass of the field, which is here hayom (today) and thrown
into the eish makhar (tomorrow), how much more will Hashem enrobe you, you ones of little
bitachon.
|29| And don't keep striving after okhel (food) and skikuy (drink), and don't have a lev rogez.
|30| For all these things the Goyim of the Olam Hazeh strive after, but your Av [shbaShomayim]
has daas that you need these things.
|31| But seek the Malchut Hashem, and these things will be added to you as well.
|32| Do not have pachad (terror, fear), Eder Katan (Little Flock), because it is the ratzon, the
chefetz (desire) of your Av [shbaShomayim] to give you the Malchut.
|33| Sell your possesions and give tzedakah. Make for yourselves the baitel (wallet) that doesn't
wear out, an inexhaustlble otzar (treasure) in Shomayim, where no ganav (thief) comes near nor
moth destroys.
|34| For where your otzar (treasure) is, there also will be your lev (heart).
|35| Tighten your gartels for action and have your menorahs lit.
|36| And you should be like bnei Adam who expectantly khakeh l'vo'o shel (await the arrival of)
their Adon when he returns from the Chassuna, in order that, when he comes and knocks, ofen
ort (immediately) they may open the delet for him.
|37| Ashrey are those avadim (servants), whom, having come, the Adon will find keeping shomer. Omein, I say to you, that he will fasten his gartel, and have those avadim (servants) sit down to tish, and he will come and serve them.
|38| And if in the second or if in the third watch he comes and finds it thus, ashrey (happy,
blessed) are those.
|39| But have daas of this, that if the Baal Bayit had had daas in what hour the ganav (thief)
comes, he would not have allowed his bais to be broken into.
|40| So you be shomer, for the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14) comes in a hour you
do not think.
|41| And Kefa said, Adoneinu, are you speaking this mashal for us or for all?
|42| And HaAdon said, Who then is the sochen haneeman and navon (faithful and wise steward)
whom HaAdon will appoint over his avadim to give them their okhel (food) allowance at the
proper time?
|43| Ashrey is that eved, whom, having come, his Adon will find doing thus.
|44| Omein, I say to you, that he will appoint him over all that he has.
|45| But if that eved says in his lev, Adoni delays to come to me, and if that eved begins to beat
the avadim (servants) and the shfakhot (maid servants), and to gluttonize and get down in his
schnapps,
|46| HaAdon of that eved will come on a day which he does not expect and at an hour of which
he does not have daas, and will cut him in pieces and assign him the Apikoros' portion with the
koferim (unbelievers).
|47| That eved, who had daas of the ratzon of his Adon and did not get prepared or do according
to his ratzon, will be beaten with a klap (blow) and not a few. [DEVARIM 25:2]
|48| But the one not having had daas, but having done things worthy of a klap, will receive but a
few. But to everyone to whom much was given, much will be required from him, and to whom
was entrusted much, even more achraius (accountability) will be required. [VAYIKRA 5:17;
BAMIDBAR 15:27-30]
|49| I came to throw Eish on the earth, and how I wish it was already kindled!
|50| And I have a tevilah I have to undergo, and how I am distressed until it is completed.
|51| Do you think that I came to bring Shalom on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather machaloket
(division, controversy).
|52| For there will be from now in one bais (household) chamesh (five) having been divided,
shalosha against shenayim and shenayim against shalosha,
|53| AV will be divided against BEN and BEN against AV, EM (mother) against BAT and BAT
against EM, KALLAH BACHAMOT (daughter-in-law against mother-in-law) and CHAMOT
against KALLAH. [MICHOH 7:6]
|54| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying also to the multitudes, When you see the anan
(cloud) rising over the maarav (west), ofen ort (immediately) you say, Geshem (rain) is coming,
and so it happens.
|55| And when there is a south wind blowing, you say, It will be kham (hot), and it happens.
|56| Tzevuim! You have daas how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky; how is it,
then, that you do not have daas of how to interpret HaZman HaZeh (This Time)?
|57| And why also for yourselves do you not judge what is yashar (straight, right)?
|58| For as you go with your ish riv (opponent in a lawsuit) to appear before the magistrate, on
the derech make an effort to settle with him, lest he drag you to the shofet, and the shofet (judge)
will hand over you to the shoter (law officer), and the shoter will throw you into the beit hasohar
(prison).
|59| I say to you, by no means may you come out, until even the last peruta (small coin) you pay
back.
§PEREK YOD GIMEL (CHAPTER THIRTEEN)
Now on the same occasion there were some present reporting to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach
about the men of the Galil whose blood Pilate mixed with their zevakhim (sacrifices).
|2| And, in reply, Moshiach said, Do you think that these men of the Galil were greater choteim
(sinners) than all others of the Galil, because they suffered this shud (misfortune)?
|3| Lo, I say, but unless you make teshuva, you will all likewise perish.
|4| Or do you think that those shmonah asar (eighteen) upon whom the migdal (tower) in Siloam
fell and killed them, do you think that they were greater choteim (sinners) that all the Bnei Adam
living in Yerushalayim?
|5| Lo, I tell you, but unless you make teshuva, you will all likewise perish.
|6| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was speaking this mashal. A certain man had an etz teenah
(fig tree) which had been planted in his kerem, and he came seeking pri (fruit) on it, and he did
not find any. [YESHAYAH 5:2; YIRMEYAH 8:13]
|7| So he said to the keeper of the kerem, Hinei--shalosh shanim (three years) I come seeking pri
on this etz teenah (fig tree) and I do not find any. Therefore, cut it down! Why is it even using up the adamah (ground)?
|8| But in reply he says to him, Adoni, leave it also this year, until I may dig around it and may
throw fertilizer on it,
|9| and if indeed it produces pri in the future, tov meod (very well); otherwise, you will cut down
it.
|10| Now in one of the shuls Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying shiurim on Shabbos.
|11| And--hinei--an isha which had a ruach hamachla (a spirit of an infirmity, illness) shmonah
asar (eighteen) years was bent double and was not able to straighten up at all.
|12| And when he saw her, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach called out to her and said, Isha (Woman),
you have been set free from your machla (illness).
|13| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach placed his hands upon her. And ofen ort (immediately) she
was straightened and she was crying, Baruch Hashem!
|14| And in reply the Rosh of the Beit HaKnesset, being indignant that Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach had given refuah (healing) on Shabbos, was saying to the multitude, There are
sheshah yamim (six days) in which melachah (work) should be done; therefore, come during
those sheshah yamim and get your refuah; but not on Shabbos! [SHEMOT 20:9]
|15| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu answered him and said, Tzevuim! Does not each
of you on Shabbos untie his ox or his donkey from the evus (animal feeding trough) and lead it
away to water him?
|16| But ought not this isha, a bat Avraham Avinu as she is, whom Hasatan has bound--hinei,
nebbach (regrettably)--these shmonah asar (eighteen) long years, should she not have been set
free from this bond on Shabbos?
|17| And as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said these things, all his mitnaggedim (opponents) were
put to bushah (shame), and all the multitude was having simcha with chedvah (rejoicing) over all
the things of kavod being accomplished by him. [YESHAYAH 66:5]
|18| Therefore, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying, What is the Malchut Hashem like? And
to what shall I make a tzushtel (comparison) of it?
|19| It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and threw into his own garden, and it grew and
became an etz (tree), and the OF HASHOMAYIM nested in its branches.
|20| And again Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, To what shall I compare the Malchut Hashem?
|21| It is like chametz (leaven), which an isha took and hid in shalosh (three) measures of wheat
flour until the whole batch was leavened.
|22| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was itinerating throughout the shtetlach (towns) and
villages saying shiurim and heading on toward Yerushalayim.
|23| And someone said to him, Adoni, are there only a few coming to Yeshuat Eloheinu? And
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them,
|24| Strive to enter through the shaar hatzarut (gate of narrowness), because many, I say to you,
will seek to enter and they will not be able to.
|25| After the Baal Bayit gets up and shuts the delet, and you begin to stand outside and to knock
on the delet, saying, Adoneinu, open up for us! and in reply, he will say to you, I do not have
daas of you; from where you are from?
|26| Then you will begin to say, We ate and drank in your presence, and in our rehkovot (streets)
you taught.
|27| And he will speak, saying to you, I do not know you, from where you are from? Go away
from me, kol poalei resha (all workers of evil)!
|28| There will be weeping and gnashing of the teeth, when you will see Avraham Avinu and
Yitzchak and Yaakov and all the Neviim in the Malchut Hashem, but you yourselves being
thrown out.
|29| And they will come from mizrach (east) and maarav (west) and from tzafon (north) and
darom (south) and they will be the ones bimesibba (reclining at tish) in the Malchut Hashem.
|30| And--hinei--there are some acharonim who will be rishonim and there are some rishonim
who will be acharonim.
|31| In the same hour some Perushim approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying to him,
Depart and go from here, because Herod wants to kill you.
|32| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Go and tell that fox, Hinei-- behold I cast out
shedim and I accomplish refuot (healings) hayom (today) and makhar (tomorrow) and Yom
HaShlishi (The Third Day) I reach my goal.
|33| Nevertheless, it is necessary for me to travel on hayom (today) and makhar (tomorrow) and
the yom following, because it cannot be that a navi should have his violent death and his
histalkus (passing) outside Yerushalayim.
|34| O Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim, she who kills the Neviim and stones the ones sent to her!
How often I wanted to gather your yeladim just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and
you were not willing!
|35| Hinei-- your Beis [HaMikdash] is left to you desolate; and I say to you, you shall by no
means see me until the zman (time) comes when you say, BARUCH HABAH BSHEM
ADONAI
[YIRMEYAH 12:17; TEHILLIM 118:26]
§PEREK YOD DALET (CHAPTER FOURTEEN)
And it came to pass when he went into a bais of a certain one of the Rashei HaPerushim on
Shabbos for betziat halechem, and they were watching him closely.
|2| And--hinei--there in front of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was a certain ish suffering from
dropsy.
|3| And in reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach spoke to the Baalei Torah and Perushim, saying, Is
it mutar (permissible) on Shabbos to give refuah or not?
|4| But they kept silent. And having taken hold of him, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach granted him
refuah and sent him away.
|5| And to them Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Who of you having a ben or an ox fall into a
well and will not ofen ort (immediately) pull him out on Shabbos?
|6| And they were not able to make a counterargument keneged (against) this.
|7| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach began speaking a mashal to the seudah (banquet supper)
invitees, when he noticed how they had been picking out the rashei hamoshavot (chief seats) at
the tish, saying to them,
|8| When you are invited by someone to a Chassuna, you should not recline at tish in the rashei
hamoshavot (chief seats), lest a more distinguished person than you may have been invited by
him,
|9| and he who invited you both shall come and say to you, Give place to this one, and then in
bushah (shame) you proceed to occupy the seat of humiliation, the low seat.
|10| But when you are invited, go and recline at tish in the moshav hashafel (low seat), so that
when the one who has invited you comes, he may say to you, Chaver,
move up to a higher place; then you will have kavod in the sight of all who are with you at the
tish.
|11| For everyone exalting himself shall be humbled, and the one humbling himself shall be
exalted.
|12| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was speaking also to the one who invited him, When you
prepare a seudah or a Melave Malkah, do not invite your chaverim or your achim or your krovey
mishpochot (relatives) or your shchenim haashirim (rich neighbors), lest they also should invite
you in return and repayment come to you.
|13| But when you prepare a seudah, invite the aniyim (the poor), the baalei hamum (the
maimed), the pisechim (the lame), the ivrim (blind),
|14| and Birkat Shomayim (the Blessing of Heaven) will befall you, because they do not have the
means to repay you; for you will be repaid in the Yom Tekumat HaTzadikkim (Day of the
Resurrection of the Righteous).
|15| And when a certain one of those reclining at tish with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach heard
these things, he said to him, Ashrey is he who will eat lechem in the Malchut Hashem!
[YESHAYAH 25:6]
|16| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, A certain man was preparing a big seudah, and
he invited many;
|17| And at the dinner hour, he sent his eved to say to the seudah invitees, Come, because
everything is ready now.
|18| But each began to come up with a teretz (excuse). The rishon (first) said to him, I bought a
sadeh (field) and I am compelled to go out and look at it. Please be mekabel (receive, accept) my
teretz (excuse).
|19| And another said, I have bought chamesh pair of oxen, and I am going to try them out.
Please be mekabel my teretz (excuse).
|20| And another said, I took a wife and therefore I am not able to come.
|21| And the eved returned and reported this to his Adon. Then the Baal Bayit became angry and
said to his eved, Go out quickly into the rehkovot (streets) and lanes of the shtetl and bring in
here the aniyim (the poor) and the baalei hamum (the maimed) and the ivrim (blind) and the
pisechim (the lame).
|22| And the eved said, Adoni, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.
|23| And the Adon said to the eved, Go out to the rehkovot and along the boundaries and urge
them to come in, in order that my Beis may be filled.
|24| For I say to you that no one of those Bnei Adam who were invited will taste my seudah.
|25| And large multitudes were accompanying him, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach turned and
said to them,
|26| If someone comes to me, and does not hate [hyperbolically, in comparison to Moshiach] his
own Abba and Em (mother) and isha and yeladim and achim and achayot and in addition also his
own life [in the Olam Hazeh], he is not able to be my [Moshiach's] talmid.
|27| Whoever does not carry his own etz [of self-denial] and come after me [Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach] is not able to be my [Moshiach's] talmid.
|28| For who among you, wanting to build a migdal (tower), will not first sit down and rechen
(calculate) the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
|29| Otherwise, having laid his yesod (foundation) and not being able to finish it, everyone seeing
it may begin to make leitzonus (fun, mockery) of him,
|30| saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish.
|31| Or what melech, going out to make milkhamah (war) against another melech, will not first sit down and consider if he is able with aseret alafim (ten thousand) to meet the one with esrim elef (twenty thousand) coming against him?
|32| Or else, while the other is noch (yet) far away, he sends an embassy delegation and seeks
terms for shalom.
|33| So, then, none of you can become my talmid if you do not renounce all your [anti-Moshiach]
holdings.
|34| Therefore, melach (salt) is tov; but if even melach should become tasteless, with what will it
be seasoned?
|35| It is useless either for the land or for the dung hill; they throw it away. The one who has
ears
to hear, shema!
§PEREK TET VAV (CHAPTER FIFTEEN)
Now all the mochesim (tax-collectors) and the choteim (sinners) were coming near Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach to listen to him.
|2| And both the Perushim and the Sofrim were grumbling, saying, This one gives a kabbalat
panim reception to choteim (sinners) and eats at tish with them.
|3| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach told them this mashal, saying,
|4| What man of you, if he has meah kevasim (a hundred sheep) and has lost from them one, does
not leave the tishim vteshah (ninety-nine) in the open pasture, and go for the one which has been
lost until he finds it?
|5| And when he has found it, he puts it on his shoulders with lev sameach. [TEHILLIM 23;119;
YIRMEYAH 31:10; YECHEZKEL 34:11-16]
|6| And when he returns to his bais, he calls together his chaverim and his shchenim (neighbors),
saying to them, Make a simcha with me, because I have found my keves (sheep), the one that was lost!
|7| I say to you that in the same way there will be more simcha in Shomayim over one choteh
(sinner) who becomes a baal teshuva than over tishim vteshah tzaddikim who have no need of
teshuva.
|8| Or what isha having asaret (ten) drachmas, if she loses one drachma, will not light a licht
(light) and sweep the bais and search carefully until she finds it?
|9| And having found it, she calls together chaverim and shchenim saying, Have simcha with me,
for I have found the drachma which I lost.
NO RETURN FROM THE GOLUS OF AVEROS TO THE JOY OF RITZTZUY
(RECONCILIATION) WITH ELOHIM HAAV WITHOUT TESHUVA; HASHEM CANNOT
BE APPROACHED FROM AN ATTITUDE OF ZCHUS (MERIT) (DEVARIM 9:6;
YESHAYAH 59:2; 64:6)
|10| In the same way, I say to you, there is simcha in the presence of the malachim Hashem over
one choteh (sinner) who becomes a baal teshuva.
|11| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, A certain ben Adam had shnei banim (two sons).
|12| And the younger of them said to his Abba, Avi, give to me the share of the estate that falls to
me. And his Abba divided his wealth between them.
|13| And not many yamim later, having gathered together everything, the younger ben went on a
journey to a far away country, and there he squandered his ashirut (riches) with gilui arayot
(sexual immorality) and loose living. [YESHAYAH 59:2]
|14| And when he had spent everything, there came a severe raav (famine) throughout that aretz,
and he began to be nitzrach (needy).
|15| And he went and became associated with one of the citizens of that aretz, and he sent him
into his fields to feed chazirim, [VAYIKRA 11:7]
|16| and he was longing to fill his mogen (stomach) with the pods which the chazirim were
eating, and no one was giving anything to him.
|17| When he came to his senses, his seichel told him, How many of my Abba's sachirim (hired
workers) have more than enough okhel (food) and I am perishing here with hunger.
|18| I will get up and go to my Abba, and I will say, Avi, I sinned against Shomayim and in your
sight. [VAYIKRA 26:40; TEHILLIM 51:6(4)]
|19| I no longer have the zchus (merit) worthy to be called a ben of my Abba. Make me as one
of your sachirim (hired workers).
|20| And when he got up he came home to his own Abba. And while he was still a long way off,
his Abba saw him, and was filled with rachmei Shomayim (heavenly mercy/compassion) and
tears, and fell upon his neck and kissed him. [BERESHIT 45:14]
|21| And his ben said to the Abba, Avi, I sinned against Shomayim and in your sight. No longer
do I have the zchus (merit) to be worthy to be called your ben. [TEHILLIM 51:6(4)]
|22| But his Abba said to his avadim, Shnel! (Quick!) Bring out the best kaftan and clothe him,
and put a ring on his hand and sandals for his feet, [ZECHARYAH 3:4; BERESHIT 41:42]
|23| and bring the fattened calf, and slaughter it, and let us eat and have a simcha,
|24| because this ben of mine was dead and now he has returned l'Chayyim! He had been lost
and now he is found. And they began to make a simcha.
|25| But the Abba's alterer ben (older son) was in the sadeh (field). And as he was coming, he
drew near to the bais, and he heard the zemirot (table songs), and the sound of the klezmer
(musician) and the [chasidic] dancing,
|26| And having summoned one of the avadim (servants), the alterer ben (older son) was
inquiring what these things might be.
|27| And the eved said to him, Your ach is present, and your Abba sacrificed the fattened calf,
because your Abba received him back bari vshalem (safe and sound).
|28| And the alterer ben was filled with kaas (anger), and he did not want to enter. But his Abba
came out and was pleading with him.
|29| But in reply the alterer ben said to his Abba, Hinei, so many years I serve you and never a
mitzvah of you I disobeyed, and never for me did you give even a young goat that with my
chaverim I might make a simcha.
|30| But when shows up this ben of yours, the one having devoured your property with zonot
(prostitutes), you sacrificed for him the fattened calf. [MISHLE 29:3]
|31| And the Abba said to him, Beni, you are always with me, and everything which is mine is
yours.
|32| But now it was necessary for us to have lev sameiach and make a simcha, because the ach of
you was dead and he has returned lChayyim! He has been lost and now is found. [MALACHI
3:17]
§PEREK TET ZAYIN (CHAPTER SIXTEEN)
And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying also to the talmidim, A certain Oisher (rich
man) had a sochen (steward, estate manager or agent), and the charge brought against him
was that he was squandering the property of the Oisher (rich man).
|2| And having called him, the Oisher said to the sochen, What is this I hear about you? Submit
to a bikoret beshbonot (audit) for that which is under your pekuddat (stewardship, care), for you
are no longer able to be sochen.
|3| And the sochen said to himself, What may I do, because my Adon takes away the pekuddat
from me? I am not strong enough to dig, I am ashamed to beg.
|4| Oh! I have daas of what I may do, that when I am removed from the work of the sochen, they
may receive me into their batim (houses).
|5| And having summoned his Adon's debtors one by one, he was saying to the first, How much
do you owe Adoni?
|6| And he said, One hundred jugs of olive oil. And the sochen said to him, Take your bill, sit
down, quickly write fifty.
|7| Then to another he said, And you, how much do you owe? And he said, One hundred
containers of wheat. He says to him, Take your bill and write eighty.
|8| And the Baal Bayit praised the unrighteous sochen because he acted with chochmah (wisdom). Because the Bnei HaOlam HaZeh (the Sons of This World) have more seichel (good sense, understanding) in dealing with their own generation than the Bnei HaOhr (the Sons of Light). [TEHILLIM 17:14; 18:26]
|9| And I say to you, use the mammon (the wealth of the Olam HaZeh) to make for yourselves
yedidim (friends, chaverim), so that when unrighteous mammon fails, they may welcome you
into the mishkenot olam (eternal dwellings of the Olam HaBah).
|10| The one oisgehalten (trustworthy) in little, also is neeman in much, and the one who is
unrighteous in little, also in much is unrighteous.
|11| If, then, you were not neeman with unrighteous mammon, who will entrust you with hon
emes (true wealth)?
|12| And if you were not neeman with that which belongs to another, who will give you what is
your own?
|13| No eved is able to serve two adonim; for either he will have sinah (hatred) toward the one
and he will have ahavah (love) toward the other, or one he will be devoted to and the other he
will despise. Your avodas service cannot be for Hashem and Mammon.
|14| And the Perushim, who were ohavei kesef (lovers of money), heard all this and they made
leitzonus (fun) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|15| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, You are the ones who in the sight of Bnei
Adam credit yourself as being yitzdak im Hashem (justified with G-d, IYOV 25:4), but Hashem
has daas (knowledge) of your levavot. Because the thing highly esteemed among Bnei Adam is a toeva (abomination) before Hashem.
|16| The Torah and the Neviim were proclaimed until Yochanan; since then it is the Malchut
Hashem that is being preached as Besuras HaGeulah, and anyone entering it must strive to do so.
|17| But it is easier for HaShomayim and HaAretz to pass away than for one tag (ornamental
flourish) of the Torah to be dropped.
|18| Anyone giving the get to his isha and taking another wife commits niuf (adultery), and the
one marrying a gerusha (divorcee) commits niuf (adultery).
|19| Now there was a certain Oisher (rich man). He was dressed in purple and fine linen, and
yom yom (daily) he feasted sumptuosly and every day for him was to make a simcha.
[YECHEZKEL 16:49]
|20| And there was a certain ish oni (poor man) covered with sores, Elazar by name, who had
been laid at the Oisher's shaar (gate).
|21| And the ish oni (poor man) Elazar longed to fill his mogen (stomach) with what fell from the
Oisher's tish. But even the kelevim (dogs) were coming and licking the sores of the ish oni (poor
man).
|22| And it came to pass that Elazar died, and he was carried away by the malachim to the tish at
the kheyk (bosom) of Avraham Avinu. And then the Oisher (rich man) died also, and he was
buried.
|23| And lifting up his eynayim in Sheol, where he was in the torments of agony, he sees
Avraham Avinu off in the distance and Elazar at tish at his kheyk (bosom).
|24| And he called, Avraham Avinu! Chaneni na and send Elazar that he may dip the tip of his
finger into the mayim and cool my tongue, because I am in torment in this moked (fire).
[YESHAYAH 66:24]
|25| But Avraham Avinu said, Beni, have zikaron (recollection) that you received your tov in the
span of your days, and Elazar likewise received the raah. But now he is given nechamah
(comfort) here, but you, yisurim (sufferings, torments). [TEHILLIM 17:14]
|26| And, in addition to all these things, there has been fixed between us and you a tehom gedolah
(a great abyss, chasm), so that the ones wishing to come over from here to you are not able,
neither from there to us may they cross over.
|27| And the Oisher said, I ask you then, Avraham Avinu, that you may send Elazar to the bais of
Avi,
|28| for I have chamesh achim (five brothers)!--that he may warn them, lest also they may come
to this place of yisurim (torments).
|29| But Avraham Avinu says, They have Moshe Rabbeinu and the Neviim. Let them listen to
them.
|30| But the Oisher said, Lo, Avraham Avinu, but if someone from the Mesim should go to them,
they will make teshuva.
|31| But Avraham said to him, If Moshe Rabbeinu and the Neviim they do not listen to, neither if
someone should make his Techiyah from the Mesim should they be persuaded.
§PEREK YOD ZAYIN (CHAPTER SEVENTEEN)
And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to his talmidim, It is impossible for the nisayon
(temptation) to sin not to come, but oy through whom it comes.
|2| It is better for him if a millstone is hung around his neck and he had been thrown into the sea
than that he should cause a michshol (stumbling block) for these little ones.
|3| Pay attention to yourselves. If your ach sins and you rebuke him, and if he makes teshuva,
grant him selicha (forgiveness).
|4| And if shevah paamim (seven times) during the yom he sins against you and shevah paamim
he turns around to you saying, I make teshuva, you will grant him selicha.
|5| And the Shluchim said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Adoneinu, increase our emunah.
|6| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu said, If you have emunah like a mustard seed, you
would have said to this mulberry etz, be uprooted and be planted in the sea, and it would have
given you mishmaat (obedience).
|7| But who among you, having an eved plowing or tending kevesim, when the eved comes in
from the sadeh, will say to him, Here, come ofen ort (immediately) and recline at tish.
|8| Rather, would he not say, Prepare something that I may have okhel; gird up your tunic and
serve me until I am satisfied, and, after that, you may have okhel?
|9| There is no obligatory effusive todah, when the eved only did his chiyuv (duty).
|10| So also you, when you do all these things which are given you as mitzvot, say, We are
useless avadim, we only did our chiyuv.
|11| And it came about while Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach goes to Yerushalayim, he was
traveling through the middle of Shomron and the Galil.
|12| And entering into a certain shtetl, some anashim metzoraim (leprous men) met Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach, and there were ten of them. Keeping their distance, [VAYIKRA 13:45,46]
|13| they shouted, saying, Yehoshua, Moreinu, chaneinu!
|14| And having seen this, he said to them, Go and show yourselves to the kohanim. And it came
about while they were going away that they were made metoharim (clean). [VAYIKRA 14:3]
|15| And one of them, having seen that he had received refuah, returned with a kol gadol (loud
voice), saying Baruch Hashem!
|16| And he fell on his face at the feet of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach giving hodayah
(thanksgiving). And he was a Shomroni (Samaritan).
|17| And in reply Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, Were there not ten who were made
metoharim? Now the tishah (nine), where are they?
|18| Was none of them found to turn around and return and give kavod (glory) to Hashem except
this nokhri (foreigner)?
|19| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Get up and go. Your emunah (faith) has
delivered you.
|20| Now having been asked by the Perushim, Ad mosai? (How much longer?) When comes the
Malchut Hashem? Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach replied, The Malchut Hashem is not coming with
things observable,
|21| nor will they say, Hinei, here it is, or There it is, for hinei, the Malchut Hashem is within you.
|22| And he said to the talmidim, Yamim are coming when you will long to see one of the yamim
of the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14) and you will not see it.
|23| They will say to you, Hinei, there it is! or, Hinei, here it is! Do not go out after them nor
pursue them.
|24| For as the lightning flashing out of one part under Shomayim lights up the other part under
Shomayim, thus will be the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14) in his Yom.
|25| But brishonah it is necessary for him to suffer many things and to be rejected by HaDor
HaZeh.
|26| And just as it was in the yamim of Noach, thus will it be also in the yamim of the Ben
HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14). [BERESHIT 6:5-8; 7:6-24]
|27| They were eating, drinking, marrying, and being given in marriage, until the Yom when
Noach entered into the Tevah (Ark) and HaMabbul (the Flood) came and destroyed everything.
|28| Likewise, just as it was in the yamim of Lot: they were eating, drinking, buying, selling,
planting, and building. [BERESHIT 19:1-28]
|29| But on the Yom when Lot went out from Sdom, from Shomayim it rained down eish and
gofrit (sulphur) and destroyed everything.
|30| So it will be on the yom when the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14) has his
hisgalus (revelation).
|31| On that yom let not anyone on the housetop come back down inside for any of his property in the bais, and the one in a sadeh (field) likewise let him not turn back for things left behind.
|32| Have zikaron (recollection) of the isha of Lot. [BERESHIT 19:26]
|33| Whoever seeks to preserve his nefesh will lose it, but whoever loses it, will preserve it.
|34| I say to you, in lailah hazeh there will be two in one bed: one will be taken and the other will
be left.
|35| There will be two grinding at the same place: one will be taken, but the other will be left.
|36|Two will be in the sadeh (field); one will be taken and the other left.
|37| And in reply they say to him, Where, Adoneinu? But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to
them, Where the NEVELAH (DEVARIM 21:23) is, there also the nesharim (vultures, eagles
[popularly]) will be gathered together.
§PEREK YOD HET
(CHAPTER EIGHTEEN)
Now he was speaking a mashal (parable) to them about how it is necessary always for them
to daven and not to lose chozek, [YESHAYAH 40:31]
|2| saying, An aza (certain) Shofet (judge) was in a certain town. Now this Shofet had no fear of
Hashem nor any respect for Bnei Adam.
|3| Now an almanah (widow) was in that town and she was coming to him saying, Grant me
yashrus (justice) against my ish riv (opponent in a lawsuit). [YESHAYAH 1:17]
|4| And for a zman (time) the Shofet was not willing. But after these things, he said to himself, If indeed Hashem I do not fear nor Bnei Adam I respect,
|5| yet because this almanah (widow) causes me tzoros and is such a nudzh (pest), I will grant
yashrus (justice) to her, lest in the end she may wear me out by her constant coming.
|6| Now Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu said, Listen to what the unrighteous shofet says.
|7| Now will not Hashem by all means do mishpat for his Bechirim crying out to him yomam
valailah? Will he delay long in bringing them help? [SHEMOT 22:23; TEHILLIM 88:1]
|8| I say to you that Hashem will bring about their yashrus (justice) swiftly, but when the Ben
HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14) comes, will he then find emunah (faith) on haaretz?
|9| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said this mashal also to some, who have become soimech
(confident, putting their trust and being dependent) on themselves that they are tzaddikim and
who are despising others. [YESHAYAH 65:5]
|10| Shnei anashim (two men) went up to the Beis Hamikdash to daven, one was a Perush and the
other, a moches (tax-collector).
|11| The Perush was standing by himself, shawkling (ritual swaying
while davening), and his tefillah went like this: Adonoi, Modeh Ani that I am not like other men,
swindlers, reshaim, menaafim (adulterers), or even this moches.
|12| I undergo a tzom (fast) twice during the week, I give the maaser (tithe) of everything as much as I get. [YESHAYAH 58:3, MALACHI 3:8]
|13| But the moches (tax-collector) stood at a distance and was not willing even to lift up his
eynayim to Shomayim but was beating his chest, saying, Adonoi, rachem na al choteh kamoni!
(L-rd, have mercy on a sinner like me!) [YESHAYAH 66:2; YIRMEYAH 31:19]
|14| I say to you, this one, rather than the other one, went down to his bais having been made
yitzdak im Hashem (justified with G-d). Because everyone lifting himself up will be brought
low, but the one bringing himself low will be uplifted.
CHINUCH (EDUCATION) WITH YELADIM QUARANTINED FROM MOSHIACH?
FORBID THEM NOT!
|15| Now also they were bringing to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach yeladim that he might place his
hands on them. But having seen this, the talmidim were rebuking them.
|16| But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach called for them saying, Permit the yeladim to come to me
and do not hinder them, for of such ones is the Malchut Hashem.
|17| Omein, I say to you, whoever does not welcome the Malchut Hashem as a yeled would, may
by no means enter into it.
|18| And a certain one of the manhigim (leaders, one of the wealthier Baale-Battishe Jews)
questioned Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying, Mori HaTov (Good Teacher), what mitzvah
must I do to inherit Chayyei Olam?
|19| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Why do you call me tov? No one is tov except
Hashem alone, nu?
|20| You have daas of the Mitzvot. LO TINAF, LO TIRTZACH, LO TIGNOV, LO TAANEH
VREIACHAH AD SHAKER, KABEID ES AVICHA VES IMMECHAH. [SHEMOT 20:12-16;
DEVARIM 5:16-20]
|21| And he said, In all these things I have been shomer mitzvot and frum from my kinder-yoren.
|22| And having heard, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Still one thing for you is lacking.
Everything as much as you have, sell and distribute to the aniyim (poor), and you will have otzar
(treasure) in Shomayim; and come follow me [Moshiach].
|23| But having heard these things, he fell into agmat nefesh (grief, sadness). For he had much
kesef.
|24| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, when he saw him fall into agmat nefesh, said, How
difficult it is for the ones having osher (riches) to enter into the Malchut Hashem. [MISHLE
11:28]
|25| For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for an oisher (rich man) to
enter into the Malchut Hashem.
|26| But the ones, having heard, said, Then who is able to come to Yeshuat Eloheinu?
|27| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, The things impossible with Bnei Adam are possible
with Hashem.
|28| And Kefa said, Hinei, we have left everything to follow you.
|29| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Omein, I say to you, that there is no one who
left bais or isha or achim or horim (parents) or yeladim because of the Malchut Hashem,
|30| who will not receive many times as much in this zman (time) and in the Olam HaBah,
Chayyei Olam (Eternal Life).
|31| And having taken the Shneym Asar (Twelve) aside in a yechidus, he said to them, Hinei, we
are making another aliyah leregel (pilgrimage) to Yerushalayim, and all the things having been
written by the Neviim about the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14) will be fulfilled.
[TEHILLIM 118:22]
|32| For he (the Ben HaAdam Moshiach) will be delivered up to the Goyim and he will be
ridiculed and he will be mistreated and he will be spat upon,
|33| and, having laid the shot (whip) on him, they will kill him and after his histalkus (passing),
on the Yom HaShlishi there will be Techiyas HaMoshiach.
|34| And they had binah (understanding, comprehension) regarding none of these things, and this
dvar was nistar (concealed) from them, and they had no understanding of the things being said.
|35| And it came about while Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach drew near to Yericho, a certain ivver
(blind man) was sitting beside the road begging.
|36| And having heard a multitude traveling through, he was asking what this might be.
|37| And they reported to him that Yehoshua of Natzeret is going by.
|38| And he cried out saying, Ben Dovid! Chaneni! (Have mercy on me!)
|39| And the ones going past him were rebuking him that he should be silent, but he just so much
the more was crying out, Ben Dovid, chaneni!
|40| And stopping, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach commanded the ivver (blind man) to be led to
him. Having drawn near, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach asked him, What for you do you wish that
I may do?
|41| And he said, Adoni, that I may regain my sight.
|42| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Regain your sight. Your emunah (faith) has
brought you refuah (healing).
|43| And at once he saw again and was following Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, shouting, Baruch
Hashem! And all the people, who were edei reiyah (eyewitnesses) of this, shouted, Baruch
HaShem!
§PEREK YOD TET (CHAPTER NINETEEN)
And having entered, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was passing through Yericho.
|2| And, hinei, a man by name Zakkai was there and he was a chief moches (tax-collector)
and he was an oisher (rich man).
|3| And he was seeking to catch a look at Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach and was not able to do so,
because of the multitude, and because he was komah (short of stature).
|4| And having run ahead to the front, he climbed up onto an etz (tree), a sycamore, that he might
see Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, because by that derech (way) he was about to pass by.
[MELACHIM ALEF 10:27, DIVREY HAYAMIM ALEF 27:28, YESHAYAH 9:10]
|5| And as he came to the place, having looked up, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to him,
Zakkai, hurry and come down, for hayom (today) in your bais (house) it is necessary for me to
remain.
|6| And having hurried, Zakkai came down and welcomed with Kabbalas HaMalchus (accepting
his sovereignty as king) Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach with simcha (joy).
|7| And all, having seen this, were beginning to kvetch (complain), saying, With a choteh (sinner)
he entered to rest?
|8| And Zakkai stood there and said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu: Hinei, half of my
possessions, Adoni, I give as tzedakah (contribution to charity) to the aniyim (poor), and if from
someone I defrauded of anything, I am paying back arbatayim (four times). [SHEMOT 22:1,
VAYIKRA 6:4,5; BAMIDBAR 5:7; SHMUEL BAIS 12:6; YECHEZKEL33:14,15]
|9| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Hayom (Today) Yeshuat Eloheinu has come to
this bais, because also he is a Ben Avraham.
|10| For the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14) came to seek and to save the lost.
[YECHEZKEL 34:12,16]
|11| Now as they were hearing these things, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach added a mashal
(parable), because he was near to Yerushalayim and they had the havamina (assumption) that the
Malchut Hashem was about to appear immediately.
|12| Then Moshiach said, A certain man of noble birth traveled to a distant country to get for
himself royal power for his malchut (kingdom) and to return.
|13| And having summoned ten avadim (servants) of his, he gave them ten minas and he said to
them, Conduct eisek (business) until I come.
|14| But his subjects were hating the man of noble birth and they sent a delegation after him
saying, We do not want this one to rule over us.
|15| And it came about when he returned, having received the royal power of his malchut, he
summoned to his presence these avadim to whom he had given the kesef, that he might have daas
of what they had gained by trading.
|16| And the rishon (first) came, saying, With your mina, Adoni, ten minas more were gained.
|17| Yafeh! Eved tov! Because you have been neeman (faithful) in a very small thing, have shlita
(authority) over ten towns. [MISHLE 27:18]
|18| And the sheni (second) came saying, Your mina, Adoni, made five minas.
|19| And the man of noble birth said also to this one, And you have shlita (authority) over five
towns.
|20| And the other came saying, Adoni, hinei! Your mina...which I had put away in a tichel
(kerchief).
|21| For I was fearing you, because you are a big machmir (stickler), you take what you did not
deposit and you reap what you did not sow.
|22| He says to him, From your own mouth I will judge you, eved rasha (bad servant). You had
daas that I am a big machmir (stickler), taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not
sow?
|23| Why then did you not put my kesef into the bank? Then when I came I would have collected
ribit (interest).
|24| And to the ones having stood nearby he said, Take from him the mina and give it to the one
having ten minas.
|25| And they said to him, Adoneinu, he has ten minas!
|26| I say to you, that to everyone having, more will be given, but from the one not having, even
what he has will be taken away.
|27| But these oyevim (enemies) of mine, the ones refusing me the Kabbalas HaMalchus (refusing my sovereignty as king) over them, bring them here and execute them before me.
|28| And having said these things, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was traveling ahead, making his
aliyah leregel to Yerushalayim.
|29| And it came about as he came near to Beit-Pagey and Beit-Anyah, by the Mount of Olives,
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach sent two of the talmidim,
|30| saying, Go to the shtetl ahead of you, in which entering you will find an AYIR
(ZECHARYAH 9:9) having been tied, upon which none among Bnei Adam ever sat, and having
untied it, bring it here.
|31| And if someone asks you, Why are you untying it? you will say this: Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach Adoneinu has need of it.
|32| And having departed, the ones having been sent found it just as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach
told them.
|33| And while untying the AYIR, its owners said to them, Why are you untying the AYIR?
|34| And they said, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu has need of it.
|35| And they led it to him and, having thrown their kaftans on the AYIR, they put Rebbe Melech
HaMoshiach on it.
|36| And as Moshiach rode along, the people were spreading their garments on the road.
[MELACHIM BAIS 9:13]
|37| And as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was now approaching the path that makes the descent
from the Mount of Olives, all the multitude of the Rebbe's talmidim began with simcha (joy) and
with a kol gadol (a loud voice) to shout Baruch Hashem! for all the niflaot (wonders) and gevurot
(mighty deeds) of Hashem! For they had been edei reiyah (eyewitnesses) of these,
|38| saying, BARUCH HABAH, HaMelech B'SHEM ADONOI! Shalom b'Shomayim! And
kavod in the Highest! [TEHILLIM 118:26]
|39| And some of the Perushim from the multitude said to him, Rabbi, rebuke your talmidim!
|40| And in reply Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, I say to you, if these will be silent, the avanim (stones) will cry out. [CHABAKUK 2:11]
|41| And as he came near, having seen the Ir (City [of Yerushalayim]), Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach wept over it, [YESHAYAH 22:4]
|42| saying. If you had only had daas in HaYom HaZeh of the things leading to shalom, but now it was nistar (concealed, hidden) from your eyes.
|43| Because yamim (days) will come upon you when your oyevim (enemies) will construct a
siege against you and they will surround you and will hem you in from all directions.
[YESHAYAH 29:3; YIRMEYAH 6:6; YECHEZKEL 4:2; 28:6]
|44| And they will dash you to the ground, you and your yeladim with you. And they will not
leave an even (stone) upon an even (stone) within you, because you did not have daas of the
zman (time) of your YOM PEKUDDAH visitation/reckoning [YESHAYAH 10:3).
|45| And having entered into the Beis HaMikdash, Moshiach began to throw out the sellers,
|46| saying to them, It has been written, BEITI BEIT TEFILLAH YIKAREI, but you made it a
MEARAT PARITZIM. [YESHAYAH 56:7; YIRMEYAH 7:11]
|47| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying shiurim yom yom (daily) in the Beis
Hamikdash. But the Rashei Hakohanim and the Sofrim were seeking to kill him, and also the
Rashei HaAm,
|48| and they were not finding what they might do, for HaAm were all hanging on his every
dvar.
§PEREK KAPH (CHAPTER TWENTY)
And it came about on one of the yamim (days) Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying
shiurim to HaAm (the People) in the Beis Hamikdash and was preaching the Besuras
HaGeulah, and the Rashei Hakohanim and the Sofrim with the Ziknei HaAm (Elders of the
People) stood by,
|2| they spoke, saying to him, Tell us by what shlita (authority) you do these things, or who is the
one having given to you this shlita (authority)?
|3| And in reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, I will also confront you will a sheelah
(question), and you tell me:
|4| the tevilah of teshuva of Yochanan--was it from Shomayim or from Bnei Adam?
|5| And they reasoned to themselves saying, If we say, from Shomayim, he will say, why did you
not believe him?
|6| But if we say, from Bnei Adam, HaAm (the People) all will subject us to sequilah (stoning),
for HaAm Yisroel are all convinced that Yochanan is a navi.
|7| And they answered that they did not have daas of the origin of the tevilah of teshuva of
Yochanan.
|8| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Neither am I telling you by what shlita
(authority) I do these things.
|9| And he began to tell this mashal to HaAm Yisroel. A certain ish planted a kerem and leased it
to koremim (vine-keepers) and he went away for a long time. [YESHAYAH 5:1-7]
|10| And in season he sent to the koremim (vine-keepers) an eved (servant) that from the pri of
the kerem they will give to him. But the koremim (vine-keepers) sent the eved away empty,
having beaten him.
|11| And he proceeded to send another eved. But him also, when they had beaten and dishonored
him, they sent him away empty.
|12| And he proceeded to send an eved shlishi (a third servant). And also this one, having
wounded, they threw out.
|13| And the Adon of the kerem, said, What should I do? I will send Beni Ahuvi. Perhaps this
one they will respect.
|14| But having seen him, the koremim (vine-keepers) were reasoning with one another saying,
This one is the Bechor, the heir. Let us kill him, that the bechorah may become ours.
|15| And having driven him outside the kerem, they killed him. What then will the Baal
HaKerem do to them?
|16| He will come and will destroy these koremim (vine-keepers) and will give the kerem to
others. And having heard this, HaAm Yisroel said, Chas vShalom!
|17| But having looked at them, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, What then is this which has
been written: EVEN MAASU HAYTAH LEROSH PINAH (The Stone they rejected became the
capstone)? [TEHILLIM 118:22]
|18| Everyone having fallen upon that even (stone) will be DAKU (broken into pieces, DANIEL
2:34), and upon whomever it falls, it will crush him [YESHAYAH 8:14,15; DANIEL 2:34f].
|19| And the Sofrim and the Rashei Hakohenim sought to lay their hands upon him in the same
hour, but they were afraid of HaAm Yisroel, for they knew that he spoke this mashal (parable)
against them.
|20| And having watched carefully, they sent spies pretending themselves to be tzaddikim, that
they might catch him in his dvar, so as to deliver him to the rulers and the manhigim under the
Moshel (Governor).
|21| And they set a sheelah (question) before Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying, Rabbi, we
have daas that you speak beemes (truly) in the shiurim you say and you show no deference
toward anyone, but on the basis of HaEmes you give torah about HaDerech Hashem.
|22| Is it mutar (allowed) for us to pay tax to Caesar or not?
|23| But having noticed the ORMAH (cunning, craftiness, BERESHIT 3:1) in their manner,
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them,
|24| Show me a denarius. Whose demut (likeness) has it? And whose inscription? And they said,
Caesar's.
|25| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Then give the things of Caesar to Caesar and
the things of Hashem to Hashem.
|26| And they were not able to catch him in his dvar before the people and, having been
mishpoyel (marveled) at his teshuvah (answer), they were silent.
|27| And some of the Tzedukim (the Tzedukim are the ones speaking against the Techiyas
HaMesim, who say it is not to be) approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.. They set a sheelah
(question) before him,
|28| saying, Rabbi, Moshe Rabbenu laid it down in writing to us, if someone's ach dies and has an
isha, and UVEN EIN LO (and there is no son to him), that he should take the almanah (widow)
of his ach and he should raise up a zera (seed) to his ach. [DEVARIM 25:5]
|29| Now there were shiva achim. And the first took an isha, and died UVEN EIN LO (and there
is no son to him).
|30| And the second
|31| and the third took her, and likewise also the seventh did not leave behind a ben and they all
died.
|32| And lemaskana (finally) the isha died.
|33| The isha, then, in the Techiyas HaMesim, of which of them does she become the wife?
|34| For shiva had her as isha (wife). And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, The banim of
the Olam Hazeh marry and are given in marriage,
|35| but the ones having been considered worthy to attain to the Olam HaBah and the Techiyas
HaMesim neither marry nor are given in marriage.
|36| For neither is it possible any longer for them to die, for they are like malachim and they are
bnei haElohim, being bnei haTechiyas HaMesim.
|37| But that the Mesim are made to stand up alive, even Moshe revealed at the burning bush, as
he calls Adonoi ELOHEI AVRAHAM ELOHEI YITZCHAK VELOHEI YAAKOV. [SHEMOT
3:6]
|38| But Hashem is not the G-d of Mesim but is Elohei HaChayyim, for to Hashem all are alive.
|39| And, in reply, some of the Sofrim said, Rabbi, you spoke well.
|40| For no longer were they daring to set a sheelah (question) before him regarding anything.
|41| And he said to them, How do they say that the Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach is to be [merely]
Dovid's ben?
|42| For Dovid himself says in the book of Tehillim, NEUM HASHEM LADONI: SHEV
LIMINI,
|43| AD ASHIT OYVECHA L'RAGLECHA. [TEHILLIM 110:1]
|44| Therefore, if Dovid calls him Adon, how is he [merely] ben Dovid?
|45| In the hearing of all the people, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to his talmidim,
|46| Beware of the Sofrim (Rabbonim), the ones wanting to strut around in long kaftans and
loving obsequious Birkat Shalom greetings in the marketplaces and the rashei hamoshavot (chief
seats) in the shuls and the places of kavod at seudot tishen,
|47| who devour the batim (houses) of the almanot (widows) and for the sake of appearance
daven lengthy tefillos (prayers). The Din (Judgment) of them will be more severe.
§PEREK KAPH ALEPH (CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE)
And having looked up, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach saw the ashirim (rich people) putting
into the Beis Hamikdash Otzar (Treasury) their matanot (gifts).
|2| And he saw a certain poor almanah (widow) putting in there two leptas.
|3| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Omein, I say to you that this poor almanah (widow) put in more tzedakah than everyone.
|4| For all these put in matanot (gifts) out of their abundance, but this almanah (widow), out of
her need, put in her michyah (subsistence).
|5| And as some were speaking about the Beis Hamikdash, that with beautiful avanim (stones)
and with matanot (gifts) it has been decorated, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said,
|6| Yamim (Days) will come in which of these things which you see there will not be left an even
(stone) upon an even (stone) which will not be thrown down.
|7| And they questioned him, saying, Rebbe, ad mosai? (how much longer?) when will these
things be, and what will be the ot (miraculous sign) when these things are about to take place?
|8| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Beware, you should not be deceived. For many will
come Bishmi (in my Name [Moshiach]) saying, "I am he [I am the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach].
And, the time [of the Geulah] has drawn near." Do not follow after them.
|9| But whenever you hear about wars and intifadas, do not be a pachdan (coward). For it is
necessary for these things to occur barishonah, but it is not immediately HaKetz.
|10| Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying to them, Ethnic group will have an intifada
against ethnic group, and malchut (kingdom) against malchut, [DIVREY HAYAMIM BAIS
15:6; YESHAYAH 19:2]
|11| There will be great earthquakes and in various places, raav (famine) and makkot (plagues),
both horrible portents and great moftim (signs) in Shomayim. [YESHAYAH 29:6; YOEL 2:30]
|12| But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and bring redifot (persecutions)
on you, handing you over to the shuls and the batei hasohar (prisons), being led away before
melachim (kings) and moshelim (governors) because of my Name (Yehoshua/Yeshua).
|13| It will turn out for you to be an opportunity for being an eidus (witness) to the edut
(testimony).
|14| Therefore, keep in your levavot (hearts) not to prepare to defend yourselves.
|15| For I will give to you a peh (mouth) and chochmah (wisdom) which none of your
mitnaggedim (opponents) will be able to resist or to contradict.
|16| And you will be handed over also by horim (parents) and achim (brothers) and krovey
mishpachot (relatives) and chaverim (friends), and they will have some of you executed and you
will die al kiddush ha-Shem,
|17| and you will be the focus of sinas chinom (baseless hatred) from everyone because of my
Name (Yehoshua/Yeshua).
|18| And not even a hair of your rosh will by any means perish.
|19| In your savlanut (patience) and endurance you will gain your nefashot (souls).
|20| But when you see Yerushalayim being surrounded by machanot (encamping armies), then
have daas that the devastation of it has drawn near.
|21| Then the ones in Yehudah, flee to the mountains, and the ones inside HaIr (the City), let
them get out, and the ones in the sadot (fields), let them not enter into HaIr (the City),
|22| because these are the Yemei Nekamah (Days of Vengeance), as a fulfillment of all the Kitvei
Hakodesh. [YESHAYAH 63:4; DANIEL 9:24-27; HOSHEA 9:7]
|23| Oy to the ones with child and to the ones nursing in yamim hahem (those days). For there
will be Tzarah Gedolah (Great Tribulation) upon Eretz Yisroel and kaas (anger) against this
people,
|24| and they will fall by the edge of the cherev (sword) and they will all be led captive into the
Golus, and Yerushalayim will be trampled down by the Goyim, until the times of the Goyim are
fulfilled. [YESHAYAH 5:5; 63:18; DANIEL 8:13]
|25| And there will be otot (miraculous signs) in the shemesh (sun) and the yareach (moon) and
the kochavim (stars), and upon the earth there will be dismay among the Goyim, in perplexity at
the sound of the sea and the waves, and
|26| Bnei Adam will be fainting from pachad (terror) and from expectation of the things coming
upon the Olam Hazeh, for the kochot (powers) of the heavens will be shaken.
|27| And then you will see the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14) and his Bias
HaMoshiach on an Anan (Cloud) with gevurah (miraculous power of Hashem) and kavod rav
(great glory).
|28| And when the Reshit (the Beginning) of these things occurs, stand erect and lift up your
roshim (heads), because your Geulah (Redemption) draws near.
|29| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach told a mashal (parable) to them. You see the etz teenah (fig
tree) and all the etz.
|30| When they sprout leaves already, you see for yourselves and you have daas that Kayits
(Summer) is already near.
|31| So also you, when you see these things happening, you have daas that the Malchut Hashem is near.
|32| Omein, I say to you, that HaDor HaZeh will not pass away until all these things may occur.
|33| HaShomayim and HaAretz will pass away, but my Dvarim will by no means pass away.
|34| And be shomer regarding yourselves lest your levavot (hearts) may be burdened with
dissipation and drunkenness and the cares of the Olam HaZeh and Yom HaHu (That Day) may
come upon you PITOM (suddenly, MALACHI 3:1).
|35| as a mokesh (trap). For it will come upon all the ones dwelling on the pnei kol haAretz (the
face of all the Earth).
|36| But be shomer (on guard, alert), always davening that you may be able to escape all these
things that are about to happen and that you may be able to stand before the Ben HaAdam
(Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14).
|37| Now in those days Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying shiurim in the Beis Hamikdash,
and balailah (at night) he was going out into the Mount of Olives.
|38| And all the people were getting up early in the boker (morning) to come to Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach in the Beis Hamikdash to hear him.
§PEREK KAPH BEIT (CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO)
And the Chag HaMatzot was approaching, the feast called Pesach.
|2| And the Rashei Hakohanim and the Sofrim were seeking how they might destroy him,
for they were afraid of the people.
|3| And Hasatan entered into Yehudah, the one being called Yehudah from Kriot, being one of the Shneym Asar.
|4| And having departed, Yehudah spoke with the Rashei Hakohanim and Ketzinim (Officers) of
the Beis Hamikdash how he might hand him over to them.
|5| And they got a lot of geshmak (pleasure) out of this, and they agreed to pay him kesef.
[ZECHARYAH 11:12]
|6| And Yehudah consented and he was seeking an opportunity to betray him when there was no
multitude with them.
|7| Shoin (already) now came the Yom HaMatzot, in which it was necessary to sacrifice the
Pesach Korban, the Seh (Lamb, YESHAYAH 53:7). [SHEMOT 12:18-20; DEVARIM 16:5-8]
|8| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach sent Kefa and Yochanan, having said, Go and make our
preparations that we may eat and have the Pesach Seder.
|9| And they said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Where do you wish that we should prepare it?
|10| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Hinei! When you enter into HaIr, you will
meet a man carrying a jar of mayim. Follow him into the bais (house) into which he enters,
|11| and you will say to the Baal Bayit, The Rabbi says to you, Where is the mekom linah (guest
room) where I may conduct the Pesach Seder with my talmidim?
|12| And that one will show you a large upstairs cheder (room) having been furnished. There
prepare the Seder.
|13| And having departed they found things just as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had told them,
and they prepared the Seder.
|14| And when the hour came, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach reclined at tish and the Moshiach's
Shluchim were with him.
|15| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, With great tshuka (deep and sincere desire,
longing) I have desired to eat this Pesach with you before I suffer.
|16| For I say to you that I may by no means eat it until it is fulfilled in the Malchut Hashem.
MOSHIACH THE PESACH SEH OF THE BRIT CHADASHA LITZIAT (GOING OUT)
OFFERS THE AFIKOMAN AND THE CUP OF REDEMPTION AS MEMORIAL TOKENS
OF THE KORBAN OF HIS NEFESH (YESHAYAH 53:7,10)
|17| And having taken the Cup of Redemption, having made the bracha, Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach said, Take this and share it among yourselves.
|18| For I say to you that from now on by no means shall I drink from the pri hagefen until the
Malchut Hashem comes.
|19| And having taken the Afikoman and having made the ha-Motzi, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach
broke the matzah and gave it to them, saying, This is my BASAR (SHEMOT 12:8) being given
for you; this do in zikaron (remembrance) of me. [VAYIKRA 5:7; 6:23; YECHEZKEL 43:21;
YESHAYAH 53:8]
|20| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach took the kos (cup) similarly after they ate, saying, This kos
(cup) is HaBrit HaChadasha in my dahm, being shed for you. [SHEMOT 24:8; YESHAYAH
42:6; YIRMEYAH 31:31-34; ZECHARYAH 9:11; 53:10-12]
|21| Nevertheless, hinei! The hand of the one betraying me is with me on the tish (table)
[TEHILLIM 41:9]
|22| Because the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14) indeed goes according to the thing
having been determined, but oy to that man through whom he is betrayed.
THE HISKASHRUS OF THE TALMIDIM TO THEIR REBBE
THROWN INTO QUESTION
|23| And they began to discuss among themselves who then it might be among them that would
do this.
|24| And there came about also a dispute among them, as to which of them seemed to be the
Gadol.
|25| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, The melachim (kings) of the Goyim domineer
them and the ones having shlita (control) over the Goyim are called benefactors.
|26| But with you it is not so, but he of the Gedolim among you, let him be as the youngest, and
he of the Manhigim, as the one serving.
|27| For who is HaGadol? The one reclining at tish or the one serving? Is it not the one reclining
at tish? But I am in your midst as one serving.
|28| But you are the ones having remained with me in my nisyonos (temptations).
|29| And I assign shlita (authority) to you, just as Avi assigned shlita to me--a Malchut
(Kingdom),
|30| that you may eat and drink at my tish in my Malchut, and you will sit upon kissot (thrones)
judging the Shneym Asar Shivtei Yisroel (Twelve Tribes of Yisroel).
|31| Shimon, Shimon, hinei! Hasatan asked for you, to sift you like wheat [IYOV 1:6-12; AMOS
9:9]
|32| But I davened for you, that your emunah may not fail. And when you have made teshuva,
give chizzuk to your Achim bMoshiach.
|33| But Shimon Kefa said to him, Adoni, with you I am prepared even to go to the beis hasohar,
even to die al kiddush ha-Shem.
|34| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, I say to you, a tarnegol will not crow hayom until
shalosh paamim you, Kefa, will make hakhchashah (denial) of your daas of me.
|35| He said to them, When I sent you without a money belt and a bag and sandals, did you lack
anything? And they said, Nothing.
|36| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, But now the one having a money belt, let him
take it; likewise also a bag; and the one not having, let him sell his kaftan and let him buy a
cherev.
|37| For I say to you, that it is necessary that what stands written be fulfilled in me, VES
POSHEIM NIMNAH (and with lawless persons he was numbered YESHAYAH 53:12). For
indeed what was written about me is being fulfilled.
|38| And they said, Adoni, hinei! Here are shtei charavot (two swords). And Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach said to them, It is enough.
|39| And having gone out, he went according to his kvius (regimen) to the Mount of Olives, and
his talmidim followed him also.
|40| And having come to the place, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Daven and offer
tefillos, lest you enter lidey nisayon (into temptation, Mt.6:13).
|41| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had withdrawn from them about a stone's throw, and,
having fallen down, he was davening,
|42| saying, Avi, im yirtzeh Hashem, if you are willing, take this kos (cup) away from me.
Nevertheless not the ratzon of me but rtzonechah (thy will) be done. (Mt. 6:10)
|43| And a malach min HaShomayim appeared to him, strengthening him.
|44| And having been in agony, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was davening more fervently; and
his sweat became like drops of dahm falling down upon the adamah.
|45| And having got up from davening and having come to the talmidim, he found them sleeping,
because of agmat nefesh (grief).
|46| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Why are you sleeping? Get up, daven, lest
you enter lidey nisayon (into temptation).
|47| Yet as he was speaking, hinei, a multitude! And going at their head was the one being called
Yehudah, one of the Shneym Asar, and he drew near to Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach to give him a
neshikah (kiss).
|48| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Yehudah, do you with a neshikah the Ben
HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14) betray?
|49| But having seen what was coming, the ones around Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Adoni,
should we strike with the cherev (sword)?
|50| And a certain one of them struck the eved (servant) of the Rashei Hakohanim and cut off his
right ear.
|51| And, in reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, Blaib shtein! (Stop!) No more of this! And
having touched the ear, he healed him.
|52| And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to the ones having come against him, the Rashei
Hakohenim and the Beis Hamikdash shomrim and the Ziknei HaAm, Do you have the chutzpah
to come out as against a ganav (thief) with charavot and clubs?
|53| Yom Yom (Daily) I was with you in the Beis Hamikdash and you did not stretch out your
hands against me, but this is your hour and the shlita of choshech (power of evil, sitra ahra).
|54| And having seized Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, they led him away and brought him into the
bais of the Rashei Hakohanim. And Kefa was following from a distance.
|55| And some kindled a hadlakah (bonfire) in the middle of the courtyard, and having sat down
together, Kefa was sitting in their midst.
|56| And a certain shifcha (woman servant), seeing him sitting in the light of the hadlakah
(bonfire), stared intently at Kefa and said, And this one was with him.
|57| But Kefa denied it, saying, I do not have daas of him, isha (woman).
|58| And after a short while, another, having seen him, said, And you are of them! But Kefa said,
Ben Adam, I am not!
|59| And about one hour had passed, and still another was insisting, saying, Beemes (in actuality)
this one was with him also, for he also is a Gelili (inhabitant of the Galil)!
|60| But Kefa said, Ben Adam, I do not have daas what you are saying. And immediately, while
Kefa was speaking, a tarnegol crowed.
|61| And having turned, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu looked at Kefa, and Kefa was
reminded of the dvar of Moshiach Adoneinu when he said to him, Before the tarnegol crows
hayom (today) you will make hakhchashah (denial) of me shalosh paamim.
|62| And having gone outside Kefa wept bitterly.
|63| And the men, the ones having Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach in custody, were ridiculing him
and beating him.
|64| And having blindfolded him, they were setting a sheelah (question) in front of him, saying,
Give a dvar nevuah, who is the one having given you a klap (blow)?
|65| And with much other Chillul Hashem gadfanut they were speaking against Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach.
|66| And when boker came, the Ziknei HaAm were gathered together, both the Rashei
Hakohanim and the Sofrim, and they led him away to their Sanhedrin,
|67| saying, If you are the Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, tell us. But he said to them, If I say this to
you, you will by no means have emunah.
|68| And if I set a sheelah before you, you will by no means give answer.
|69| But from now on the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14) will be YOSHEV LIMIN
as the gevurat Hashem. (TEHILLIM 110:1)
|70| And everyone said, Then you are the Ben HaElohim? Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, You
are saying that I am.
|71| And to them they said, Why still do we have need of an eidus (witness)? For we ourselves
heard from his peh (mouth).
§PEREK KAPH GIMEL (CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE)
And the whole multitude of them got up and led Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach before Pilate.
|2| And they began to accuse him saying, This one we found misleading our nation and
making it asur (forbidden) to pay taxes to Caesar and calling himself Moshiach and that he is to
be a Melech.
|3| And Pilate cross-examined him, saying, Are you the Melech HaYehudim? And in reply, he
said to him, You say so?
|4| And Pilate said to the Rashei Hakohanim and the multitudes, I find no ashmah (guilt) in this
man.
|5| But they were insisting, saying, He incites the people, from where he began with his torah
(teaching), throughout all of Yehudah, from the Galil even to this place.
|6| And when Pilate heard this, he asked whether the man was a Gelili (an inhabitant of the Galil).
|7| And having learned that he is under the jurisdiction of Herod, he sent him to Herod, who was
also in Yerushalayim during those days.
|8| And Herod, having laid eyes on Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, had great simcha. For he was for a long time wanting to see him, because he keeps hearing things about him and he was hoping to watch some ot (miraculous sign) being performed by him.
|9| And Herod was questioning Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach with many words, but he answered
him nothing.
|10| And the Rashei Hakohenim and the Sofrim had stood by vehemently accusing Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach.
|11| And having treated him with contempt, Herod with his chaiyalim (soldiers) also ridiculed
him, having clothed him in an elegant royal robe. So they thus sent back him to Pilate.
|12| And Herod and Pilate became fast friends with one another on that very day, for they were
previously at enmity toward each other.
|13| And Pilate, when he had assembled the Rashei Hakohenim and the manhigim and the people,
|14| said to them, You brought to me this man causing the people to rise up in mered (revolt),
and, hinei, I have cross-examined him before you and I found nothing in this man of the crime of
which you make accusations against him.
|15| And neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us, and, hinei, nothing worthy of mishpat
mavet has been done by him.
|16| Therefore, having disciplined him, I will release him.
|18| But they cried out with one kol, saying, Away with this one! And release to us Bar-Abba!
|19| (Bar-Abba was a man who was thrown into the beis hasohar, because of some insurrection
which occurred in HaIr (the City) as well as a retzach [murder].)
|20| And again Pilate addressed them, wishing to release Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach.
|21| But they were crying out saying, Let him be talui al HaEtz! Let him be hanged on HaEtz!
[DEVARIM 21:23]
|22| And a paam shlishit (third time), Pilate said to them, But what raah did this one do? No
crime worthy of mavet did I find in him. Therefore, having disciplined him, I will release him.
|23| But they insisted with a kol gadol (loud voice) demanding him to be hanged on HaEtz and
their voices were roiv (the larger portion) prevailing.
|24| And Pilate decided that their demand be accomplished.
|25| And Pilate released the one they were requesting, the one who had been thrown into the beis
hasohar on account of an insurrection and retzach (murder), but Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach he
delivered over to their ratzon.
|26| And as they led him away, having seized a certain Shimon, a Cyrenian, coming in from the
country, they put upon him Moshiach's Etz to carry, following Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach.
|27| And a great multitude of HaAm were following him and nashim, who were acting as avelim
(mourners), lamenting for him.
|28| And having turned to them, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, Benot HaYerushalayim
(Daughters of Yerushalayim), stop weeping for me; weep for yourselves and for your yeladim,
|29| because, hinei, yamim are coming in which they will say, Ashrey are the barren and the
wombs which did not bear and the breasts which did not nurse.
|30| Then they will begin to say to the mountain, Fall on us! and to the hills, Bury us. [HOSHEA
10:8; YESHAYAH 2:19]
|31| Because if while an etz (tree) is green they do these things, what may happen when it is dry?
[YECHEZKEL 20:47]
|32| And two POSHA'IM (criminals, resha'im, YESHAYAH 53:9,12) were also being led away
with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to be executed.
|33| And when they came upon the place being called The Skull, there they hanged each on his
etz, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and the POSHA'IM (criminals, YESHAYAH 53:12), one on
the right, and one on the left.
|34| But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was saying, Abba, grant selicha to them, for they have no
daas of what they are doing. And dividing up his garments, VAPPILU GORAL (they cast lots).
[TEHILLIM 22:19(18)]
|35| And HaAm had stood watching. And the manhigim were mocking him also, saying, Others
he saved, let him save himself, if this one is the Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach of Hashem, the
Bechir Hashem. [TEHILLIM 22:17; YESHAYAH 42:1]
|36| And the chaiyalim (soldiers) also ridiculed Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach as they approached,
offering CHOMETZ (wine vinegar TEHILLIM 69:21) to him, [TEHILLIM 22:7]
|37| and saying, If you are HaMelech HaYehudim, save yourself.
|38| And there was also an inscription over him, THIS IS HAMELECH HAYEHUDIM.
|39| And one of the POSHA'IM (criminals, YESHAYAH 53:12) having been hanged with him
was speaking Chillul Hashem gadfanut against him, saying, Are you not the Rebbe Melech
HaMoshiach?
|40| Save yourself and us. And in reply the other, rebuking him, said, Do you not have yirat
Shomayim? For you are under the same gezar din (verdict) of harshaah (condemnation as
guilty).
|41| And this is a just gezar din against us, for we deserve what we are getting for our maasim
(deeds). But this one did nothing rah.
|42| And he was saying, Yehoshua, remember me when you come into your Malchut.
|43| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Omein, I say to you, hayom (today) with me
you will be in Gan-Eden.
|44| And it was already about the sixth hour [noon] and choshech (darkness) was over the whole
land until the ninth hour. [AMOS 8:9]
|45| The shemesh (sun) being obscured; and the Parokhet [between the Kodesh HaKodashim and
HaKodesh] in the Beis Hamikdash was torn in two. [SHEMOT 26:31-33]
|46| And having cried out with a kol gadol, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, Abba, BYADCHA
AFKID RUCHI (Into your hands I commit my ruach TEHILLIM 31:6[5]). And this having said,
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach breathed out his last.
|47| And the centurion who saw the thing that happened was saying, Baruch Hashem, surely this
man was a Tzaddik.
|48| And when all the hamon (crowd) that had assembled at this spectacle had observed the things
that had happened, they went away beating their chests.
|49| And all his acquaintances stood at a distance and the nashim, the ones following him from
the Galil, observed these things.
|50| And, hinei, a man by name Yosef being a member of the Sanhedrin, and an ish tov and a
tzaddik
|51| (this one had not consented to their cheshbon [plan] and action) came from Ramatayim, a
shtetl of Yehudah. He was waiting expectantly for the Malchut Hashem.
|52| He approached Pilate, and asked for the gufat Yehoshua. [TEHILLIM 16:9-10; IYOV
19:25-27; YESHAYAH 53:11]
|53| And, having taken down geviyyato (his body), he wrapped it in a linen [tachrichim] and
placed it in a hewn kever (tomb) where not anyone had yet been laid. [TEHILLIM 16:9-10;
IYOV 19:25-27; YESHAYAH 53:11]
|54| And it was nearly Erev Shabbat, Shabbos was drawing near.
|55| And following along after, the nashim who had come out of the Galil with him, saw the
kever (tomb) and how his NEVELAH (body, DEVARIM 21:23) was laid. [BERESHIT 47:18;
TEHILLIM 16:9-10; IYOV 19:25-27; YESHAYAH 53:11]
|56| And having returned, they prepared spices and ointments. And on Shabbos they rested
according to the mitzvah (commandment). [SHEMOT 12:16; 20:10]
§PEREK KAPH DALET (CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR)
THE EMPTY OHEL (BURIAL SITE OF THEIR REBBE)
But on Yom HaRishon, the first day of the shavua (week), very early in the boker, they went
to the kever (tomb) bringing what spices they prepared.
|2| But they found the even (stone) having been rolled away from the kever (tomb),
|3| and, having entered, they did not find geviyyato (his body, DEVARIM 21:23; BERESHIT
47:18) of the Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu. [TEHILLIM 16:9-10; IYOV 19:25-27;
YESHAYAH 26:19; 53:11]
|4| It came about while they were perplexed about this, indeed, hinei! Shnayim (two) who were
garmented in dazzling robes, stood by them.
|5| And having become terrified, the nashim bowed their faces to the ground. They said to the
nashim, Why are you seeking HaChai (the One living) among HaMesim?
|6| He is not here, he kam (stood up) litechiyyah (to come to life again). Have zikaron
(recollection) how he spoke to you while he was still in the Galil,
|7| saying, It is necessary for the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14) to be delivered over into the hands of anashim choteim and to be talui al HaEtz [to be hanged on the Tree,
DEVARIM 21:23] and on HaYom HaShlishi to stand up alive again.
|8| And they remembered the words of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
|9| And having returned from the kever (tomb), they reported all these things to the Achad Asar
(the Eleven) and to all the others.
|10| Now there were Miryam of Magdala and Yochanah and Miryam the Em (mother) of Yaakov,
and the others with them. They were telling the Moshiach's Shluchim these things,
|11| and these words of theirs appeared to the Moshiach's Shluchim as utter narrishkait, and the
Shluchim had no emunah in what they said.
|12| Kefa got up and ran to the kever (tomb). And when he bent over, Kefa sees the tachrichim
linen cloths only, and he departed wondering to himself with tzorich iyun (unresolved
puzzlement) about the thing that had happened.
|13| And, hinei, shnayim (two) of them that same day were traveling to a shtetl being distant sixty
stadia fromYerushalayim, a shtetl the name of which is Ammaus.
|14| And they were speaking to one another concerning all these things that had happened.
|15| And it came about while they were talking and discussing these things that also Rebbe
Melech HaMoshiach himself had come near and was traveling along with them,
|16| But the eynayim (eyes) of them were prevented from recognizing Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach.
|17| And he said to them, What dvarim (words) are these which you are exchanging with one
another as you are walking along? And they stood with a look of agmat nefesh (tzubrochen,
broken-hearted).
|18| And in reply one, Cleopas by name, said to him, Are you the only one visiting Yerushalayim
that does not have daas of the things that have happened in it in these days?
|19| And he said to them, What things? And they said to him. The things about Yehoshua from
Natzeret, who was a man, a navi, powerful in maaseh and dvar before Hashem and all HaAm,
|20| and how both our Rashei Hakohenim and minhagim delivered him over to a mishpat mavet
and how on HaEtz they hanged him. [DEVARIM 21:23]
|21| But we were holding the tikvah that he is the one to bring the Geulah of Yisroel. Ken, and
besides all this, it is now HaYom HaShlishi vi-bahlt (since) these things took place.
|22| Also some nashim (women) in our number astounded us. They came to the kever (tomb)
early this morning,
|23| and not having found geviyyato (his body, cf Bereshit 47:18; nevelah (corpse), DEVARIM
21:23], the nashim (women) came saying also to have seen a chazon (vision, appearance) of
malachim (angels) who say he lives.
|24| And some of the ones with us departed to the kever (tomb), and they found it so, just as also
the nashim (women) said, but him they did not see.
|25| And Moshiach said to them, O foolish ones and slow in lev (heart) to have emunah in all
which the Neviim spoke.
|26| Was it not necessary for the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to suffer these things and to enter
into his kavod (glory)?
|27| And having begun from Moshe Rabbenu and from all the Neviim, he explained to them in all
the Kitvei Hakodesh the things concerning himself. [BERESHIT 3:15; BAMIDBAR 21:9;
DEVARIM 18:15; YESHAYAH 7:14; 9:6; 40:10,11; 53; YECHEZKEL 34:23; DANIEL 9:24;
TEHILLIM 22; MALACHI 3:1]
|28| And they drew near to the shtetl where they were traveling and he acted as though to travel
vaiter (farther).
|29| And they strongly urged him saying, Stay with us, because it is towards erev and the yom has declined already. And he entered to stay with them.
|30| And it came about, while he was reclining at tish with them, having taken the matzot, he
made the ha-Motzi, and, with the betziat halechem (the breaking of the bread) he handed it to
them.
|31| And the eynayim of them were opened, and they had daas, recognizing him. And just then he became invisible from them.
|32| And they said to one another, Were not our levavot burning within us as he was speaking to
us on the derech, as he was opening to us the Kitvei Hakodesh?
|33| And getting up that very hour, they returned to Yerushalayim, and they found the Achad Asar (Eleven) gathered together and those with them,
|34| saying that beemes (really) Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu was mamash (definitely)
made to stand up alive and he tahke (actually) appeared to Shimon.
|35| And they were explaining the things on the derech and how he was made known to them in
the hisgalus of the betziat halechem.
|36| And while they were speaking these things, he stood in the midst of them, and he says to
them, Shalom Aleichem.
|37| But having been startled and having been terrified, they were thinking they saw a ruach
(spirit).
|38| And he said to them, Why have you been troubled, and why do doubts arise in your levavot?
|39| You see my hands and my feet that I am myself. Touch me and see, because a ruach does not
have basar and atzamot (bones) as you see me having.
|40| And having said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.[TEHILLIM 22:17(16)
TARGUM HASHIVIM]
|41| And while in their simcha they were still disbelieving and astonished, he said to them, Have
you some okhel here?
|42| And they gave him part of a broiled dag (fish).
|43| And having taken it, in front of them, he ate it.
|44| And he said to them, These are my dvarim which I spoke to you while still being with you,
that it is necessary that all the things having been written in the Torah of Moshe [Rabbenu] and
the Neviim and the Tehillim about me to be fulfilled. [TEHILLIM 2; 16; 22; 69; 72; 89; 110;
118;]
|45| Then he opened their minds to have binah (understanding) of the Kitvei Hakodesh.
|46| And he said to them, Thus it has been written, that the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach must
suffer his histalkus (passing) and come back to life again from HaMesim on HaYom HaShlishi,
|47| and teshuva for the selicha (forgiveness) of chattaim (sins) is to be preached bShem of
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua to all the Nations, beginning from Yerushalayim.
|48| You are to be edim (witnesses) of these things.
THE HAVTACHA OF THE TEVILAH IN THE RUACH HAKODESH GIVEN TO REBBE,
MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S TALMIDIM, THAT THEY WILL HAVE POWER AND
WEAPONS OF THE RUACH HAKODESH TO BE HIS EDIM IN A RESISTANT AND
REBELLIOUS OLAM HAZEH
|49| And, hinei, I send the havtachah of Avi to you; but you sit in HaIr (the City) until you may be clothed with oz (power) from on High.
|50| And he led them outside as far as Beit-Anyah, and having lifted up his hands, he said a
bracha over them.
|51| And while he said the bracha over them, he departed from them, being taken up in an aliyah
ascent to Shomayim.
|52| And they, having reverenced him in worship [DANIEL 7:14; cf. DANIEL 3:18], returned to
Yerushalayim with simcha gedolah.
|53| And they were continually in the Beis Hamikdash praising Hashem.
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YOCHANAN
§PEREK ALEPH (CHAPTER ONE)
Bereshis (In the Beginning) was the Dvar Hashem [YESHAYAH 55:11; BERESHIT 1:1],
and the Dvar Hashem was agav (along with) Hashem [MISHLE 8:30; 30:4], and the Dvar
Hashem was nothing less, by nature, than Elohim! [TEHILLIM 56:11(10); Yn 17:5; Rev. 19:13]
|2| Bereshis (In the Beginning) this Dvar Hashem was with Hashem [MISHLE 8:30].
|3| All things through him came to be, and without him came to be not one thing which came into
being. [TEHILLIM 33:6,9; MISHLE 30:4]
|4| In him was Chayyim (Life) and the Chayyim (Life) was the Ohr (Light) of Bnei Adam.
[TEHILLIM 36:10 (9)]
|5| And the Ohr (Light) shines in the choshech (darkness) [TEHILLIM 18:28], and the choshech
did not grasp it. [YESHAYAH 9:1]
|6| There came an ish haElohim (a man of G-d), having been sent from Hashem. His name was
Yochanan.
|7| This Yochanan came for an eidus (witness), that he might give solemn edut (testimony) about
the Ohr (Light), that kol Bnei Adam (all mankind) might have emunah (faith) through him.
|8| This ish haElohim was not the Ohr (Light), but he came that he might give solemn edut
(testimony) about the Ohr (Light).
|9| The Ohr, the Ohr HaAmitti (the True Light), which gives rational haskalah (enlightenment) to
kol Bnei Adam (all mankind), was coming into the Olam Hazeh.
|10| He was in the Olam Hazeh, the Olam (world) came to be through him [TEHILLIM 33:6,9];
yet the Olam Hazeh did not recognize him.
|11| He came to his own, and his own were not mekabel (accepting) the Kabbalus HaMalchus of
him [YESHAYAH 53:3].
|12| But as many as him lekabel pnei Moshiach (receive him as Moshiach), to them he gave the
tokef (validity) to become in fact yeladim haElohim [DEVARIM 14:1].
|13| He gave this tokef to the ones whose being born was not by the agency of natural descent,
nor by the ratzon (will) of basar (fallen human nature), nor by the ratzon of a gever
(male)--rather, to the ones born of G-d (Yn 3:3,7).
|14| And the Dvar Hashem took on gufaniyut (corporeality) and made his Mishkan (Tabernacle)
among us [YESHAYAH 7:14], and we [Shluchim] gazed upon his Kavod [SHEMOT 33:18;
40;34; YESHAYAH 60:1-2], the Shechinah of the Ben Yachid from Elohim HaAv, full of
Hashem's Chesed v'Emes. [1Y 1:1-2]
|15| And Yochanan gives solemn edut (testimony) about him and has cried out [as a maggid
forMoshiach], This was he about whom I said, Hu HaBah (He who comes [BERESHIT 49:10;
YECHEZKEL 21:27], trans. note: i.e. Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach) He who comes after me is
really before me in priority, because, before I came to be, he was (Yn 8:58).
|16| For from the kol melo (all the plentitude) of him we all received Chesed upon Chesed.
|17| Because the matan Torah (giving of the Torah) was graciously bestowed through Moshe
Rabbeinu [DEVARIM 32:46 SHEMOT 31:18; 34:28], but Chesed and Emes of Hashem came
through [Rebbe,] Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua [SHEMOT 34:6; TEHILLIM 25:10; 40:11;
85:11; Yochanan 1:49].
|18| No one has ever seen Hashem [SHEMOT 33:20]. It is Elohim the Ben Yachid (who shares
the nature of Hashem), it is he, the one being in the kheyk (bosom) of HaAv, this one is
Hashem's definitive midrash (exegesis).
|19| And this is the solemn edut (testimony) of Yochanan, when those of Yehudah sent kohanim
and L'viim from Yerushalayim to him that they might ask him, Mi atah? (Who are you?).
|20| Yochanan made hoda'a (confession, admission)...he did not make hakhchashah (denial) [Yn
18:17], he made hoda'a (confession), and said clearly, I am not the [Rebbe,] Melech
HaMoshiach.
|21| And they asked Yochanan, What, then? Are you Eliyahu HaNavi? and Yochanan says, I am
not. Are you the Navi? (DEVARIM 18:15,18) And he answered, Lo (No).
|22| They said then to him, Mi atah?--that we may give a teshuvah (answer) to the ones who sent
us. What do you say about yourself?
|23| Yochanan said, I am a KOL KOREY BAMIDBAR, make straight the DERECH HASHEM!
(YESHAYAH 40:3, TARGUM HASHIVIM), as Yeshayah HaNavi said.
|24| And the ones that had been sent were of the Perushim.
|25| And the Perushim asked Yochanan, If you are not the [Rebbe,] Melech HaMoshiach nor
Eliyahu nor the Navi, then why do you administer the mikveh mayim's tevilah?
|26| Yochanan answered the Perushim, I give a tevilah in a mikveh mayim; among you is
standing one of whom you do not have da'as.
|27| Hu HaBah (he who comes, i.e. the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach), that is, He who comes after
me is one that I am not worthy even to untie the thong of his sandal.
|28| These events took place in Beit-Anyah (Bethany), beyond the Yarden River, which
Yochanan was using as a mikveh mayim in which to administer the tevilah.
|29| On the next day, Yochanan sees Yehoshua coming to him, and Yochanan says, Hinei! The
Seh HaElohim (BERESHIT 22:8; SHEMOT 12:5-13; YESHAYAH 53:7), the one carrying away
the avonot HaOlam Hazeh (sins of this world, YESHAYAH 53:6-7,12; VAYIKRA 16:22).
|30| This is he about whom I said, After me comes an ISH (ZECHARYAH 6:12) who is really
before me in priority, because, before I came to be, he was (Yochanan 8:58).
|31| And I did not recognize him, but that he might be manifested to Klal Yisroel, I came,
therefore, administering the mikveh mayim's tevilah.
|32| And Yochanan gave solemn edut (testimony), I have seen the Ruach Hakodesh descending
like a yonah (dove) out of Shomayim and remaining upon him. (YESHAYAH 11:2)
|33| And I did not recognize him, but the One who sent me to give the mikveh mayim's tevilah
said to me, Upon whomever you see the Ruach Hakodesh descending and remaining, this is the
One giving the tevilah in the Ruach Hakodesh. [YESHAYAH 11:2; YOEL 3:1 (2:28)]
|34| And I have seen and I have given solemn edut (testimony) that this One is the Ben
HaElohim.[SHMUEL BAIS 7:14; TEHILLIM 2:7; DIVREY HAYAMIM ALEF 17:10-14;
MISHLE 8:30; 30:4]
|35| On the next day, Yochanan was standing with two of his talmidim.
|36| And as Yochanan watched Yehoshua walking by, Yochanan says, Hinei! The Seh HaElohim! (BERESHIT 22:8; SHEMOT 12:5-13; YESHAYAH 53:7)
|37| And the two talmidim heard Yochanan speaking, and they followed after him.
|38| When he turned and saw them following, he says to them, Mah tevakkeshun? (What do you
seek?) And they said to him, Rebbe (which means, being translated, my Master Moreh [teacher]),
where is your mekom megurim (dwelling place)?
|39| And he says to them, Bo'u u're'u! (Come and see!) They went, therefore, and saw his mekom
megurim, and remained with him that day. The hour was about the tenth (four o'clock in the
afternoon).
|40| One of the two was the achi Shimon Kefa. His name was Andrew. He was one of the two
who heard Yochanan and followed him.
|41| Andrew first finds his own achi Shimon Kefa and says to him, We have found the Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach! (the word, being translated, means "Messiah"). [DANIEL 9:25;
TEHILLIM 2:2; SHMUEL ALEF 2:10]
|42| Andrew led Shimon to Yehoshua. When Yehoshua gazed at Shimon, he said, You are
Shimon Bar Yonah. You will be called Kefa, which is translated Petros [Rock]. [BERESHIT
17:5,15; 32:28; 35:10]
|43| On the next day he wanted to go out into the Galil, and he finds Philippos, and says to
Philippos, Follow me [as my talmid]. [MELACHIM ALEF 19:19]
|44| Now Philippos was from Beit-Tzaidah, the shtetl of Andrew and Kefa.
|45| Philippos finds Natan'el and says to him, He whom Moshe Rabbenu wrote of in the Sefer
Torah, he whom the Nevi'im also wrote of--Yehoshua ben Yosef [ben Dovid], from Natzeret--we
have found! [DEVARIM 18:18; YESHAYAH 7:14; 9:5[6]; YECHEZKEL 34:23]
|46| And Natan'el said to Philippos, Can anything good come out of Natzeret? [7:41;
YESHAYAH 11:1; ZECHARYAH 6:11-12] Philippos says to Natan'el, Bo'u u're'u! (Come and
see!) [MELACHIM BAIS 6:13]
|47| Yehoshua saw Natan'el coming to him, and he says, Hinei! A genuine Ben Yisroel, in whom
is no MIRMAH (deceit). [TEHILLIM 32:2; ZEFANYAH 3:13; YESHAYAH 53:9]
|48| Natan'el says to him, How do you have da'as of me? In reply, Yehoshua said to him, Before
you received your kri'ah from Philippos, while you were beneath the etz hate'enah (fig tree,
MICHOH 4:4; ZECHARYAH 3:10), I watched you.
|49| In reply, Natan'el said to him, Rebbe, you are the Ben HaElohim [SHEMUEL BAIS 7:14;
TEHILLIM 2:7;89:26-27], the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach of Yisroel.
|50| In reply, Yehoshua said to Natan'el, Because I told you that I watched you beneath the etz
hate'enah, do you have emunah (faith)? Greater than these things you will see.
|51| And he says to Natan'el, Omein, omein, I say to you, you will see Shomayim having been
opened and malachim (angels) of Hashem ascending and descending on the Ben HaAdam.
[DANIEL 7:13-14; ZAFANYAH 3:15; BERESHIT 28:12].
§PEREK BEIT(CHAPTER TWO)
On Yom HaShelishi, there was a Chassuna (Wedding Feast) in Kanah in the Galil; and the
Em (Mother) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was there.
|2| He and his talmidim were also invited to the Chassuna (Wedding Feast).
|3| And when yayin (wine) was lacking, the Em of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, They do not have yayin.
|4| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to her, Mah lanu valach, Isha? [BERESHIT 3:15] My
sha'ah (hour, time) has not yet come. [Mt 26:18, 27-28]
|5| The Em of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to the mesharetim, Asher yomar lakhem ta'asu
(Do whatever he tells you). [BERESHIT 41:55]
|6| Now there were shesh (six) stone water jars lying there. These were for the Jewish tohorot,
each holding twenty to thirty gallons.
|7| Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Fill with mayim. And they filled them up to the
top.
|8| And he says to them, Draw now and bring to the Rosh HaMesibba (Head of the Reception,
Feast). And they brought it.
|9| And when the Rosh HaMesibba tasted the mayim having become yayin, and when he did not
have da'as of where it came from (but the mesharetim had da'as, the ones having drawn the
water), the Rosh HaMesibba summoned the Chosson (Bridegroom).
|10| And the Rosh HaMesibba says to him, Everyone sets out the yayin hatov first, and when they
have become drunk, he sets out the inferior; you have kept the yayin hatov until now.
|11| This was the reshit (beginning) of the otot (miraculous signs) Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach
accomplished in Kana of the Galil, and he manifested the kavod (glory) of him, v'ya'aminu bo
(and they put their faith in him) [SHEMOT 14:31].
|12| After this he went down to K'far-Nachum and the Em of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and the
achim and his talmidim also, and there they remained not many yamim (days).
|13| And Pesach was fast approaching, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went up to Yerushalayim
[DEVARIM 16:1-6].
|14| And he found in the Beis Hamikdash the ones selling oxen and sheep and doves [VAYIKRA
1:14; DEVARIM 14:26] and the coin dealers sitting [DEVARIM 14:25].
|15| And having made a shot (whip) out of ropes Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach drove all of them
out of the Beis Hamikdash, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the
machalifei hakesafim (money changers) and overturned their tishen (tables).
|16| And to the ones selling doves, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Take these things from
here. Do not make the bais Avi a bais hasokharim (house of merchants). [ZECHARYAH 14:21]
|17| The talmidim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach remembered that it had been written, KINAT
BETECHA AKHALATNI (The zeal for the your bais will devour me [TEHILLIM 69:9].
|18| In reply, those of Yehudah then said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, What ot (miraculous
sign) do you show us for these things you do?
|19| In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Bring churban to this heikhal and in
shloshah yamim [YONAH 1:17; HOSHEA 6:2] I will raise it.
|20| Those of Yehudah then said, In forty and six years this Heikhal was built and you in shloshah yamim will raise it?
|21| But that one was speaking about the heikhal of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach's basar.
[BERESHIT 47:18; TEHILLIM 16:9-10; IYOV 19:25-27; YESHAYAH 53:10-11]
|22| Therefore, when he underwent the Techiyas HaMoshiach (Resurrection of the Moshiach), his
talmidim remembered that this he was saying and v'ya'aminu (and they put their faith SHEMOT
14:31) in the Kitvei Hakodesh [TEHILLIM 16:9-10] and the dvar which Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach said.
|23| And when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was in Yerushalayim during Pesach at the Chag
(Feast), many from Yehudah had emunah (faith) in ha-Shem of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach,
seeing his otot (miraculous signs) which he was doing.
|24| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was not entrusting himself to them, because he had da'as of
kol Bnei Adam.
|25| And he had no need that anyone should give solemn edut (testimony) about them
[YESHAYAH 11:3], for he knew what was in Bnei Adam [DEVARIM 31:21; MELACHIM
ALEF 8:39].
§PEREK GIMEL (CHAPTER THREE)
Now there was a man of the Perushim. His name was Rav Nakdimon, a [Sanhedrist] katzin
(leader) of the Yehudim.
|2| This one came to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach under cover of lailah and said to him, Rabbi,
we have da'as that from Hashem you have come, a moreh, for no one is able these otot
(miraculous signs) to do, which you do, unless Hashem is with him.
|3| In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Omein, omein, I say to you, unless someone is born anew [Yochanan 1:13; DEVARIM 10:16; 30:6; YIRMEYAH 4:4; YESHAYAH 52:1; YECHEZKEL 44:7,9], he is not able to see the Malchut Hashem.
|4| Rav Nakdimon says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, How is a man, being old, able to be born? Surely he is not able into the womb of his Em (Mother) a second time to enter and to be born?
|5| In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Omein, omein, I say to you: unless someone is
born of mayim (TEHILLIM 36:10 [9]) and Ruach Hakodesh [YECHEZKEL 36:25-27; 37:14],
he is not able to enter into the Malchut Hashem.
|6| That which is born of basar is basar, and that which is born of the Ruach is ruach.
|7| Do not marvel that I said to you, It is necessary for you to be born anew.
|8| The ruach (wind, Spirit) blows where it wishes, and the sound of it you hear, but you do not
have da'as of where it comes from and where it goes [KOHELET 11:5]; so it is with everyone
having been born of the Ruach Hakodesh. [YECHEZKEL 37:9]
|9| In reply, Rav Nakdimon said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, How is it possible for these
things to happen?
|10| In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, You hold the teaching office of rabbi, of
moreh b'Yisroel and of these things you do not have da'as?
|11| Omein, omein, I say to you, that of which we have da'as we speak, and of that which we have
seen, we give solemn edut (testimony), and the solemn edut of us you [pl.] do not receive.
|12| If I told you [pl.] about things of the Olam Hazeh and you have no emunah, how will you
have emunah if I tell you about the things of the Olam Haba?
|13| And no one has ascended into Shomayim except the one having descended out of Shomayim, the Ben HaAdam [DANIEL 7:13-14; MISHLE 30:4; DEVARIM 30:12].
|14| And as Moshe lifted up the nachash in the wilderness [BAMIDBAR 21:8,9], so it is
necessary for there to be a hagbah (lifting up) of the Ben HaAdam [TEHILLIM 22; YESHAYAH
53],
|15| that everyone having emunah [BERESHIT 15:6; BAMIDBAR 14:11; SHEMOT 14:31] in
him may have Chayyei Olam [DANIEL 12:2; YESHAYAH 52:13].
|16| For Hashem so had ahavah (agape) for the Olam Hazeh that he gave the matanah (gift)
[YESHAYAH 9:5 (6)] of his Ben Yachid [BERESHIT 22:12], so that whosoever has emunah in
him may not be ne'evad (lost, perish, be ruined with destruction), but find Chayyei Olam.
|17| For Hashem did not send the Ben HaElohim into the Olam Hazeh that he might judge the
Olam Hazeh, but that the Olam Hazeh might be brought to the Geulah (Redemption) and of the
Olam Haba through him (Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach). [YESHAYAH 53:11]
|18| The one of emunah who is mekabel Moshiach (accepting the person of the Ben HaAdam,
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach) is not judged, but the one without emunah who is not mekabel
Moshiach, already has been judged and given the psak din (verdict) of "condemned," because he
has no emunah in ha-Shem of the Ben Yachid of Hashem.
|19| And this is the psak din, that the Ohr (Light) has come into the Olam Hazeh, and Bnei Adam
had ahavah for the choshech (darkness) rather than for the Ohr (Light), for their ma'asim were
ra'im (evil). [TEHILLIM 52:3]
|20| For everyone walking in the derech resha'im has sin'as chinam (baseless hatred) for the Ohr
(Light) and does not come to the Ohr (Light), lest his ma'asim be exposed. [TEHILLIM 1:6;
IYOV 24:13-17]
|21| But the one doing HaEmes comes to the Ohr (Light) that his ma'asim hamitzot may be
manifested, that they have been wrought in Hashem.
|22| After these things Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and his talmidim came into the land of
Yehudah, and there he was staying with them and was giving the mikveh mayim's tevilah.
|23| And Yochanan was also giving the tevilah near Shalem at Einayim, because there was plenty
of water there for a mikveh, and the Yehudim were coming and submitting to the tevilah.
|24| Yochanan had not yet been incarcerated in the beit hasohar (prison).
|25| There was then a discussion of Yochanan's talmidim with one of the Yehudim about the
subject of tohorah (purification).
|26| And they came to Yochanan and said to him, Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the
Yarden, the one to whom you have given solemn edut, hinei, this one gives the mikveh mayim's
tevilah and kol Bnei Adam are coming to him.
|27| In reply, Yochanan said, A man is not able to receive anything, unless it has been given to
him from Shomayim.
|28| You yourselves stand as eidus (witness) to me, that I said I am not the Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach, but I have been sent as his foroisgeier (forerunner). [MALACHI 3:1]
|29| The one having the Kallah (bride) is the Chosson (Bridegroom, i.e. Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach) but the Shoshvin (the Chosson's best man), the one having stood and hearing him
with simcha, rejoices because of the kol (voice) of the Chosson (Bridegroom). Therefore, this
simcha of mine has been made sheleimah (complete).
|30| It is necessary for that one (Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach) to increase, but for me to decrease.
|31| The one coming from above (Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach) is over all; the one being from
Olam Hazeh is of Olam Hazeh and of the Olam Hazeh he speaks; Hu Habah (He who comes, i.e.
Moshiach) from Shomayim is over all.
|32| Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gives solemn edut (testimony) to that which he has seen and
heard, yet no one receives his edut.
|33| The One who is mekabel Moshiach's edut has thereby set his chotam (seal) of attestation that
Hashem is Emes.
|34| For he whom Hashem sent speaks the Divrei Hashem (Words of Hashem), for he gives the
Ruach Hakodesh without measure. [YESHAYAH 42:1]
|35| Elohim HaAv (the Father) has ahavah (love) for HaBen (the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach)
and has given all things into his hand.
|36| The one with emunah in the Ben [HaElohim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach] has Chayyei
Olam; but the one disobeying the Ben [HaElohim] will not see Chayyim, but the Charon Af
(Burning Wrath) of Hashem remains on him.
§PEREK DALET (CHAPTER FOUR)
Therefore when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach knew that the Perushim heard that he makes
more talmidim and administers the tevilah of teshuva to more talmidim than Yochanan
|2|--although Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach himself did not personally administer the mikveh
mayim's tevilah--this was administered by his talmidim,
|3| then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach left the land of Yehudah and departed again into the Galil.
|4| And it was necessary for him to pass through Shomron (Samaria).
|5| Therefore, he comes into a city of Shomron (Samaria) being called Sh'khem near the field
which Ya'akov Avinu had given to Yosef Ben Ya'akov. [BERESHIT 33:19; 48:22; YEHOSHUA
24:32]
|6| Now a be'er (well) of Ya'akov was there. Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having become weary
from his journey was sitting there at the be'er. The sha'ah (hour, time) was about hashishit (the
sixth, noon).
|7| An isha (woman) of Shomron (Samaria) comes to draw mayim (water). Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach says to her, Give me a drink. [BERESHIT 24:17; MELACHIM ALEF 17:10]
|8| For Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach's talmidim had gone away into the city that they might buy
okhel (food).
|9| Therefore, the isha (woman) of Shomron (Samaria) says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, How
can you, being a Yehudi, ask to be given a drink from me, an isha (woman) from Shomron
(Samaria)? (For those who are Yehudim do not associate with those of Shomron) [EZRA 4:3-6;
9:1-10:44].
|10| In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to her, If you knew the matanah (gift) of Hashem
and who it is saying to you, Give me a drink, [BERESHIT 26:19] you would have asked him and
he would have given you Mayim Chayyim (Living Water). [YESHAYAH 44:3; 55:1;
YIRMEYAH 2:13; 17:13; ZECHARYAH 14:8].
|11| The isha (woman) says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Adoni, you have no bucket and the
be'er is deep. From where then do you have the Mayim Chayyim? [BERESHIT 21:19]
|12| Surely you are not greater than Ya'akov Avinu who gave the matanah to us of the be'er (well)
and drank from it himself as did his banim (sons) and his tzon (flock)?
|13| In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Everyone drinking from this mayim (water) will
thirst again,
|14| but whoever drinks of the mayim (water) which I will give to him will never thirst again, but
the mayim (water) which I will give him will become in him a makor (fountain, TEHILLIM
36:10 [9]) of mayim (water, YESHAYAH 12:3; 58:11) springing up unto Chayyei Olam.
|15| The isha (woman) says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Adoni, give me this mayim that I
may not thirst nor come here to draw mayim.
|16| Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to her, Go, call your ba'al (husband), and come back here.
|17| In reply, the isha (woman) said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, I do not have a ba'al. He says
to her, Well you spoke, I do not have a ba'al.
|18| For beetzem (in fact) chamisha be'alim (five husbands) you had, and the one you have now is
not your ba'al (husband). What you have said is emes. [MELACHIM BAIS 17:24; HOSHEA 2:7]
|19| The isha says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Adoni, I see that you are a navi.
|20| Avoteinu on this mountain (Gerizim) worshiped [DEVARIM 11:29; 27:12; YEHOSHUA
8:33] and you say that in Yerushalayim is the place where it is necessary to worship. [DEVARIM 12:5-14; TEHILLIM 122:1-5]
|21| Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to her, Have emunah (faith), believe me, Isha. A sha'ah
(hour, time) comes when neither on this mountain nor in Yerushalayim [MALACHI 1:11;
MELACHIM ALEF 8:27; YESHAYAH 66:1] will you worship HaAv. [YESHAYAH 63:16]
|22| You worship that of which you do not have da'as [MELACHIM BAIS 17:28-41]; we worship that of which we have da'as, because Yeshu'at Eloheinu (salvation) is from the Yehudim
[YESHAYAH 2:3; Rom. 9:3-4].
|23| But a sha'ah (hour, time) is coming, and now is, when those of the true avodas kodesh will
worship HaAv in the Ruach Hakodesh and in Emes (Truth), for indeed [Elohim] HaAv is seeking
such to worship him.
|24| Hashem is Ruach (Spirit) and it is necessary for the ones worshiping him to worship in the
Ruach Hakodesh and Emes. [YECHEZKEL 36:26-27; 37:14]
|25| The isha says to him, I have da'as that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach is coming, the one being
called the Messiah. When Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach comes, he will proclaim to us everything.
|26| Yehoshua says to her, Ani Hu (I am He), the one speaking to you.
|27| And at this very moment, the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach's talmidim arrived, and they were
marveling that he was speaking with an isha (woman). No one said, however, What are you
seeking? or Why do you speak with her?
|28| Therefore, the isha left her waterpot and went away into the city and says to the bnei Adam
of the city,
|29| Come, see an ish who told me everything I have ever done. Surely this one is not Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach, is he?
|30| They came out of the city and were coming to him.
|31| Divaile (meanwhile), Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach's talmidim were asking him, Rebbe, eat.
|32| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, I have okhel (food) to eat [IYOV 23:12] of
which you have no da'as.
|33| Therefore, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach's talmidim were saying to one another, Surely no one
brought him anything to eat?
|34| Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, My okhel (food) is that I may do the ratzon (will)
of the One having sent me and may complete ma'aseh HaElohim [his work, KOHELET 11:5].
|35| Do not say, Yet arba'ah chodashim (four months) and then comes the katzir (harvest). Hinei,
I say to you, Lift up your eyes and see the sadot (fields) that they are white for the katzir
(harvest). Already
|36| the one harvesting receives wages and gathers p'ri (fruit) unto Chayyei Olam, that the one
sowing and the other one harvesting may have simcha together.
|37| For in this the saying is true, One sows and another harvests. [IYOV 31: 8; MICHOH 6:15]
|38| I sent you to harvest that upon which you have not labored; others have labored and you have
entered into their labor.
|39| And from that city of Shomron (Samaria) many had emunah in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach,
because of the solemn dvar of the isha giving edut: He told me everything I have ever done.
|40| Then when those of Shomron came to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, they were asking him to
remain with them, and he remained with them there two yamim (days).
|41| And many more put their emunah [in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach], because of his dvar
(word).
|42| And to the isha they were saying, No longer because of what you spoke do we have emunah
(faith), for we ourselves have heard and we have da'as that his one is be'emes the Moshi'a
HaOlam (the Savior of the world).
|43| And after two yamim (days), he went out from there into the Galil.
|44| For Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach himself gave solemn edut (testimony) that a Navi in his own country does not have kavod (honor).
|45| Therefore, when he came into the Galil, those of the Galil received Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach, vi-bahlt (since) they had seen all which he did in Yerushalayim during the Chag,
for they also went to the Chag.
|46| Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came again into Kanah of the Galil where he made the
mayim (water) into yayin (wine). There was a certain royal official whose ben was choleh (ill) in
K'far-Nachum.
|47| This man, having heard that Yehoshua comes from the land of Yehudah into the Galil, went
to him and was asking him to come down and cure the ben of him. For the yeled was about to
die.
|48| Therefore, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Except you see otot (miraculous signs)
and moftim (wonders), you will never have emunah (faith). [DANIEL 4:2-3,37]
|49| The royal official says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Adoni, come down before my yeled
dies.
|50| Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, Go! Bincha chai (your son lives)! [MELACHIM
ALEF 17:23] The man had emunah