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A planet was not made to orbit around itself but around
a star. The old self, orbiting around itself, is a wandering dim thing in
the night, restless and falling into a black hole of despondency. This
will end in the outer darkness
unless we sense the Creator's Hand forming us into a new self, fitted in the
heavenlies toward the gravity of G-d. When you study the Book of
Philippians you will learn about the Self. You find there the sensual,
greedy, heretical, lascivious libertines who live for self and are dead
even while they live; these form a group with the heretical mohalim of
goyim and the secular and religious opponents of the messianic kehillah in
Philippi. Secondly, you have in this book the carnal believers who are
rivalrous and immature because they have a problem with selfish ambition.
These are the competitive, back-stabbing preachers in Rome and the
divisive yentas argumentative Euodias and contrary Syntyche in Philippi.
And, thirdly, you have the mature believers Timothy, Epaphroditas, and
Paul who follow the example of the self-emptying Moshiach, who abandoned
his rights and riches and took the form of a slave suffering a slave's
ignominious death to make kaparah for our sins that we might share his
riches in glory. All of these tell us something about the self and why we
say of our selves, "It is no longer I who live but Moshiach who lives in
me...and to me to live is Moshiach."
As it says,
לדעתהמשיחואתגבורתתחייתו
והתחברותביסוריוולהדמותלמותו
To know Moshiach and the power of his techiyah and the fellowship of his yissurim and to be similar to
his death
The place is probably Rome around C.E. 61. Here is a prisoner
in a possible "death row" situation with the nerve-racking
possibility that the Roman executioner will come bursting in and
drag him off to his death by beheading at any
moment. His
co-worker has recently almost died as well (2:27). And yet,
despite the precarious nature of this uncertain life-or-death
situation, RavSha'ul is so filled with joy that he is bursting
with it as he writes a "thank you note" for a love offering the
Brit Chadashakehillah at Philippi
has sent him.
Now read the letter. MOSHIACH'S LETTER THROUGH THE
SHLIACH SHA'UL TO THE BRIT CHADASHA KEHILLAH IN PHILIPPI |||1|||From
Sha'ul and Timotiyos, servants of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua; To
all the Kadoshim in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua who are in the city
of Philippi with the supervising mashgichim ruchaniyim (spiritual
overseers, zekenim, mivakkerim, supervisors) and the klei kodesh
(ministers), the ministering messianic shammashim. |2| Chen v'chesed
Hashem and shalom Hashem from Elohim Avinu and Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach Yehoshua. |3| Modeh Ani (I thank) my G-d upon every zikaron
(remembrance) of you, |4| Always in every tefillah of mine on behalf of
all of you, davening with simcha, making techinnah (supplication) |5| In
view of your deveykus Hashem, your chavrusa partnership in the Besuras
HaGeulah from day one until now. |6| Being convinced of this: that He who
began a pe'ulah hatovah (good work 2:13) in you, will bring that mitzvoh
to completion [TEHILLIM 138:8] by Yom Hashem, the Yom Adoneinu, Moshiach
Yehoshua [1:10; 2:16]. |7| It is in fact b'tzedek for me to have
hitbonenut (profound contemplation) about you all because I hold you in my
lev with hartzige (heartfelt) sincerity, both in regard to my sharsherot
(prison chains) and in the apologetic hitstaddekut (defense) and
vindicatory work for the Besuras HaGeulah, you being all deveykus
(attachment to G-d) participators in the Chen v'Chesed Hashem given to me.
|8| For der Oybershter is mine eidus (G-d is my witness) how I yearn for
all of you with the ahavas Moshiach Yehoshua. |9| And my tefillah (prayer)
is this, that your ahavah (love) [in Moshiach] may yet increase more and
more in profound da'as and binah |10| To help you approve the feste
(excellent) things of musar (moral discipline) that matter, that you may
be sincere and without michshol (stumbling block) of blame [2:15] in the
Yom HaMoshiach [1:6; 2:16], |11| Having been filled with the p'ri Tzedek
(fruit of righteousness) through Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua to the
kavod Hashem and His tiferet (splendor). |12| I want you to have da'as,
Achim b'Moshiach, that the things concerning me have fallen out to an even
greater advancement (1:25) of the Besuras HaGeulah [2Ti 2:9]. |13| So that
my sharsherot (chains--1:7) have become a hisgalus (revelation) in Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach! In all the imperial guard and the public at large! |14|
And most of the Achim b'Adoneinu, having been strengthened in bitachon by
my sharsherot (chains), are more readily willing to dare to fearlessly
proclaim the Dvar Hashem. |15| Indeed some darshanim (preachers) preach
their derashot (sermons) out of a ruach that is mekanne (jealous, envious)
and one of madon (strife); but some have derashot proclaiming Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach, and these darshanim have kavvanah tovah (good
intention). |16| These latter proclaim Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach out of a
ruach of ahavah, having da'as that the purpose of my divinely destined
appointment here is for the hitstaddekut (apologetic defense) of the
Besuras HaGeulah. |17| But those other ones preach Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach out of anochiyut (selfishness 2:3), not with a lev tahor (pure
in heart) motive, lu yetzuuyar (assuming) by means of my sharsherot
(1:1314) to stir up tzoros. |18| Nu? Whether the maggidim are or are not
perfect in their intent, the significant thing is that Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach is preached! And in this I have simcha. And I will go right on
having simcha! |19| For, I have da'as that through your tefillos for me
and through the ezrah (aid) given by the Ruach Moshiach, this will turn
out for my Yeshu'ah (rescue, salvation 1:28; 2:12) [Ro 8:28]. |20| It is
my confident tikvah that in nothing I will be put to bushah (shame), but
with all ometz lev (courage, boldness YEHOSHUA 1:7) as always, even now,
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach will be magnified in my basar (1:13), whether
through Chayyim (Life) or through Mavet (Death). |21| For to me to live is
Moshiach [Ga 2:20] and to die is revach (gain, profit, hanaa). |22| But if
it means I am to go on living in the basar, this for me is p'ri for Hashem
in the work of avodas kodesh ministry. What will I choose? I do not have
da'as. |23| I am kleir (deliberating). I am pulled two drakhim (ways) by a
happy dilemma, on the one tzad (side) having the desire to depart and be
with Moshiach, for this is much better [2C 5:8]. |24| But on the other
tzad (side) to remain in the basar is more necessary for your sake. |25|
And having been convinced of this fact, I have da'as that I blaib (remain,
continue unchanged) and will continue with all of you, for your
advancement (1:12) and simcha of the [Orthodox Jewish] Emunah [cf. 1:27;
1Ti 3:9; 4:1,6; 5:8; 6:10,21; Yd 3], |26| With the ultimate aim that by
coming to you again your glorying may abound in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach
Yehoshua. |27| Only one thing: conduct in practice your torat haEzrakhut
(citizenship, see 3:20) worthily of the Besuras HaGeulah of Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach. Then, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear
concerning you that you are standing like a ma'oz (fortress, bastion) in
one ruach, with one neshamah, contending for the Emunah (Yd 3; Pp 4:3) of
the Besuras HaGeulah. |28| And, I might add, not having pachad (fear,
terror) in reaction to anything as far as the mitnaggedim (the ones
opposing) are concerned, which is a proof to them of their churban
(destruction), but of your Yeshu'ah (salvation 1:19; 2:12], and this from
Hashem. |29| For to you it was given on behalf of Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach, not only to have emunah in him but also on behalf of him to be
laden with the burden of Messianic yissurim (sufferings 3:10), |30| With
you having the same struggle, which you saw in me [Ac 16:22] and now hear
to be in me [1:13]. |||2|||If, therefore, there is any idud
(encouragement) in Moshiach, if any nechamah (comfort) of ahavah (love),
if any deveykus (attachment to G-d) in the Messianic chavrusashaft
(association) of the Ruach Hakodesh, if any warmth of affection and
rachamanut (compassion, mercy), |2| Then make my simcha (joy) shleimah
(complete) by having the same lev, the same ahavah, being an agudah
association with one neshamah, thinking the same machshavot (thoughts),
|3| Doing nothing according to anochiyut (selfishness 1:17) nor according
to empty ga'avah (conceit, haughtiness, arrogance), but in anavah
(humility), fergin (graciously grant) each other esteem above yourselves
[Ro 12:10]. |4| Let each of you talmidim look after not only your own
interests, but also the best interests of others [2:21; 1C 10:24,33]. |5|
Let this mind be in you which was also in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach
Yehoshua, |6| Who, though existing in the demut of the mode of being of
Elohim [His etzem or essential nature, Yn 1:1-2; 17:5], nevertheless
Moshiach did not regard being equal with G-d as a thing to be seized
[BERESHIS 3:5], |7| But poured out and emptied himself [2C 8:9], taking
the demut of the mode of being of an eved [YESHAYAH 52:13- 53:12 [T.N. see
the AVDI TZADDIK TZEMACH DOVID MOSHIACH YIRMEYAH 23:5; ZECHARIAH 3:8], and
was born in the likeness of Bnei Adam [Yn 1:14; Ro 8:3; MJ 2:14-17], and
having been found in appearance as an Adam, |8| Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach
humbled himself and took the path of shiflut (lowliness), unto mishma'at
(obedience 2:12) [cf. BERESHIS 3:17] even unto death [Yn 10:17; MJ 5:8;
12:2], and that, a death on HaEtz [the Tree, DEVARIM 21:23; 27:26; Ga
3:13; Pp 3:18]. |9| Therefore, also Hashem exalted [YESHAYAH 52:13; 53:12;
DANIEL 9:26; 7:14; Ac 2:33; MJ 1:3] Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and gave to
him haShem [Ep 1:21; MJ 1:4] above every name, |10| That at haShem of
Yehoshua, KOL BERECH (every knee YESHAYAH 45:23) will bow, of beings
b'Shomayim and ba'Aretz and mitachat laAretz (in the world below), |11|
And KOL LASHON (every tongue YESHAYAH 45:23) shall make hoda'ah
(confession) with an Ani Ma'amin that is an open and public admission that
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua (Yeshua) is Adoneinu, to the kavod of
Elohim Avinu. |12| Therefore, Chaverim, just as you have always had
mishma'at (obedience 2:8) concerning me, not as in my presence only, but
now much more in my absence, work out your own Yeshu'ah (Salvation)
[1:19,28] B'YIR'AH ("with fear") and BIRA'DAH "with trembling" [TEHILLIM
2:11]. |13| For Hashem is the one working in you, both to will and to work
according to His chafetz (good pleasure of His will). [EZRA 1:5] |14| Do
all things without murmurings and madon, |15| That you may be innocent and
without michshol of blame [1:10], bnei haElohim TAMIM U'MUM ("unblemished
and unspotted" Ex 12:5; Lv 22:20; Isa 53:7-9) in the midst of a DOR IKKESH
UFETALTOL ("warped and crooked generation Dt 32:5), among whom you shine
as the ZOHAR (Dan 12:3) in the Olam Hazeh, |16| Holding fast the Dvar
HaChayyim. This is so that I will have reason for glorying on the Yom
HaMoshiach [1:6,10], that I neither ran nor labored L'TOHU (in vain)
[YESHAYAH 49:4; 65:23]. |17| And, indeed, if my neshamah is to be poured
out as a nesekh (libation wine) offering upon the korban (sacrifice) of
the avodas kodesh (kohen's service, ministry) of your emunah, I have
simcha, rejoicing together with you all [cf. Ro 15:16; 2Ti 4:6]. |18| And
in the same way also you have simcha, rejoicing together with me
[l:4,18;1:25;2:2,17]. |19| I have tikvah b'Adoneinu Yehoshua to send
Timotiyos to you soon, that I also may be cheered up in the da'as of the
things concerning you. |20| For I have no one likeminded who will emesdik
(genuinely) care for your spiritual welfare. |21| All of them are seeking
their own interests [2:4], not those of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua.
|22| But of the proven mamashus (real worth) of Timotiyos you have da'as,
because as a ben with his abba, Timotiyos served with me in the Besuras
HaGeulah. |23| Therefore, I have tikvah to send him, as soon as I see how
things will go with me. |24| But I have bitachon in Hashem that indeed I
will come quickly. |25| But I considered it necessary to send to you
Epaphroditus, the Ach b'Moshiach and fellow po'el (worker) and fellow
chaiyal (soldier) of mine, but your shliach and keli kodesh (minister) of
my need [4:18]. |26| I am sending him to you, because he was yearning
after you all and was under zeiyar (extremely great) stress, because you
heard that he was ill. |27| For indeed he was ill, coming near to death,
but Hashem had mercy on him not on him only but also on me, lest I should
have agmat nefesh upon agmat nefesh. |28| Therefore, I am all the more
eager to dispatch him to you, in order that when you have seen him again,
you may have simcha and I may have less agmat nefesh. |29| Therefore,
receive him in Adoneinu with all simcha and hold esteem for such klei
kodesh (ministers) [1C 16:16,8; 1Ti 5:17], |30| Because he came near to
death on account of the avodas kodesh of Moshiach, performing an act of
Messianic mesirat nefesh (whole-hearted devotion to the cause of Moshiach,
even at risk of life) having risked his life, that he might make up for
the ministry to me that you could not give. |||3|||As to the rest, Achim
b'Moshiach of mine, have simcha in Adoneinu [1:25; 2:18,28,29; 4:4]. To
keep writing the zelba thing [l:4,18; 1:25; 2:2,17,18, 28,29] to you is
not an irksome bother to me, but for you it is a te'udat bitachon
(safeguard). |2| Be shomer and on your guard and watch out for those
[unclean, prowling] kelevim (dogs Ps 22:17(16),20; Rv 22:15), watch out
for the evil po'alim (workers), watch out for the "circummutilators" (Ga
6:12). |3| For we are the Bnei HaMilah [Ro 2:29; Co 2:1112], the ones
whose avodas kodesh is by the Ruach Hakodesh [Yn 4:23; Ro 8:4] and whose
kavod is in Moshiach Yehoshua and who take no bitachon in the basar, |4|
Even though I could be having bitachon also in the basar. If any other
person thinks he has grounds to have bitachon in the basar, I have more
(2C 11:18-12:10): |5| Bris milah on the eighth day [Lk 1:59; 2:21]; from
Bnei Yisroel by birth; of the tribe of Benjamin; a speaker of Lashon
HaKodesh, Ivrit of Ivrit-speaking horim, a Hebrew of Hebrews (2C 11:22);
with regard to the Torah, from the kat haPerushim (Ac 23:6; 26:5); |6|
With regard to kanous (zealousness), persecuting the Adat HaMoshiach (Ac
8:3; 22:4; 26:9-11); with regard to [my own, eigene (personal)] Tzidkat
HaTorah [3:9; Ro 2:27-29], unreproachable [i.e., glatt kosher, frumkait,
and shomer mitzvot chasid of all chasidim]. |7| But what things were
revach (gain, profit) to me, these things I considered loss, on account of
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach (Mt 13:44-46; Lk 14:33). |8| But even more so, I
consider all to be loss on account of the excellency of the da'as of
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu [3:10; YIRMEYAH 9:23-24], on
account of whom I suffered the loss of all things and I consider them as
nothing, in comparison, that I may gain Moshiach [TEHILLIM 73:25], |9| And
be found in him, not having my own Tzedek (selfachieved righteousness, by
definition a self-righteousness) based on chumra (legalism [LEGALISM
ITSELF A "MERIT" MISINTERPRETATION OF THE TORAH, Deut 9:5-6]), but the
Tzedek [YIRMEYAH 33:16] through emunah [Ro 3:21-22] in Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach, the Tzidkat Hashem based upon emunah [BERESHIS 15:6; Ro 9:30].
|10| I want to have da'as of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and of the gevurah
(power) of the Techiyas HaMoshiach and the deveykus (attachment to G-d) of
Moshiach's yissurim (sufferings 1:29; Ro 8:17; Ga 6:17), being formed into
the mode of being of Moshiach's death [DEATH TO THE SINFUL OLAM HAZEH AND
THE UNREGENERATE BASAR RO 6:3-5], |11| If somehow I may attain to the
Techiyas HaMesim. |12| Not that already I obtained or already have been
made shleimut, but I pursue this tachlis (final end, aim) that I may lay
hold of [1Ti 6:12,19 cf. Pp 2:6] that for which I was laid hold of by
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua [Ac 9:5-6]. |13| Achim b'Moshiach, I do
not consider myself to have laid hold (3:12); but one zach (thing) I do,
forgetting the things behind, and stretching forward to the things ahead,
|14| According to the tachlis I pursue the prize of the Shomayim Aliyah
ascent of Hashem, the upward k'riah (call) of HaShem b'Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach Yehoshua (2K 1:10; 2:12). |15| Therefore, as many as would be
shleimut, let us think like this (2:5-8): and if in anything your
machshavot (thoughts) are different [Mt 5:48; 2C 2:6], even this Hashem
will reveal to you. |16|Fort (nevertheless), let us march in line with
what we have attained, let us hold to the same [Ga 6:16]. |17| Achim
b'Moshiach, together be imitators of me [1C 4:16; 11:1]. Take note of the
ones walking as you have a mofet in us [2:5-30; 1Th 1:7; 1K 5:3]. |18| For
many, of whom I was often telling you, and now also I say with weeping,
walk as oyvim (enemies) of Moshiach's Etz [DEVARIM 21:23; 27:26; Ga 3:13;
1C 1:23; Ga 6:12 cf Pp 2:8]. |19| Their destined end [TEHILLIM 73:17] is
churban (destruction, Gehinnom). Their g-d is their appetite [Ro 16:18],
and their kavod, what they glory in, is their bushah (shame). Their
machshavot are set on the Olam Hazeh [Ro 8:5-6]. |20| But the torat
haEzrakhut (citizenship-see 1:27) we conduct exists in Shomayim [Ep 2:6;
MJ 12:22; Ga 4:26; 6:16], from where also we eagerly await a Moshi'a
(Savior), a Go'el, Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, |21| Who
will transfigure the basar of our humiliation into the demut of the mode
of being of the guf kavod of Moshiach, according to the pe'ulah (action,
work--1:6; 2:13) of his ko'ach (power) [Ro 8:29;1C 15:43 53], even to the
subjecting of all things to himself [1C 15:28]. T.N. THE JOYOUS TONE OF
THIS LETTER IS MIRACULOUS, GIVEN THE FACT THAT RAV SHA'UL IS, AS HE IS
WRITING IT, IN DANGER OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT BY DECAPITATION AT ANYTIME AND
WITHOUT WARNING. BUT SHA'UL SELFLESSLY THINKS ABOUT TWO QUARRELING WOMEN
AND THE DANGER THEIR QUARREL POSES TO THE KEHILLAH IN PHILIPPI. HE SEEMS
TO HAVE BEEN LEADING UP TO THIS STATEMENT IN 4:2: "I APPEAL TO EUODIAS AND
I APPEAL TO SYNTYCHE, THINK THE SAME THING IN ADONEINU." ] |||4|||So then,
my achim ahuvim whom I have a tshuka (longing) for, my simcha and crown
(1Th 2:1920), stand firm in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu. |2| I
appeal to Euodias and I appeal to Syntyche, think the same thing in
Adoneinu. |3| Yes, I ask also you, true yoke-fellow, assist these women
who contended alongside me in the Besuras HaGeulah with both Clement and
the rest of the fellow po'alim (workers) of mine, whose names are in the
Sefer HaChayyim. |4| Have simcha in Adoneinu always; again I will say it:
Rejoice! |5| Let your chassidus (piety) and sobriety be known to kol Bnei
Adam; Moshiach Adoneinu is near. |6| Be anxious in nothing [Mt 6:25; 1K
5:7], but in everything by tefillah and by techinnah (supplication) with
hodayah (thanksgiving), let your requests be made known before Hashem, |7|
And the shalom Hashem [YESHAYAH 26:3; Yn 14:27; Co. 3:15], surpassing all
binah (understanding), will guard your levavot and your machshavot
(thoughts) in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua. |8| As to the rest, Achim
b'Moshiach, whatever things are emes (truth), nichbad (noble), yashar
(straight), tahor (clean), male No'am (full of pleasantness) and tiferet
(beauty) [SHEMOT 28:2], whatever things are commendable, if there is any
virtue, if any praise, think about these things. |9| And that which you
learned and you received and you heard and you saw in me, practice these
[Ro 12:17] and Elohei HaShalom will be with you. |10| I had much simcha in
Adoneinu that now at last you blossomed anew so as to think of me, for
indeed you were thinking of me, but were lacking opportunity. |11| Not
that I refer to lack, for I have learned, in whatever circumstances I am,
to be tzufrieden (content) [1Ti 6:6]. |12| I have da'as both to be humbled
in anavah and I have da'as how to abound in everything. And in all things
I have learned what is nistar (concealed, hidden, unseen), I have learned
the secret of being filled and having hunger, of abounding and having
lack. |13| I can do all things in the One giving me ko'ach. |14|Fort
(nevertheless), you did well in entering into deveykus (communing with
Hashem) through sharing in my Messianic yissurim (sufferings) with me.
|15| And also you Philippians have da'as, that in the beginning of the
Besuras HaGeulah, when I went out from Macedonia, not one kehillah shared
with me in an accounting of expenditures and receipts except you only.
|16| Indeed in Thessalonica both once and again you sent to my machsor
(shortage). |17| Not that I seek the matanah (gift), but I seek the p'ri
increasing to your account [1C 9:11]. |18| But I have all things and I
abound; I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things
from you, a RE'ACH HANNICHOACH ("a pleasant aroma" BERESHIS 8:21), an
acceptable, sacrifice wellpleasing to Hashem [SHEMOT 29:18; YECHEZKEL
20:41]. |19| And my G-d will fill every machsor (shortage, want) of yours
according to his osher (riches) in Kavod in Moshiach Yehoshua. |20|
L'Elohim Avinu hakavod l'Olemei Olamim. Omein. (To G-d and our Father be
glory forever and ever. Amen) |21| Drishat Shalom (Kind Regards) to every
Kadosh in Moshiach Yehoshua; the Achim b'Moshiach here with me send
Drishat Shalom. |22| All the Kadoshim send "Shalom" greetings, especially
the Kadoshim in Caesar [Nero's] household [Pp 1:13]. |23| The Chen
v'Chesed of Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua be with your
neshamah.
