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This is the Sefer Toldot <n>Book of Genealogy</n> of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach <n>the King Messiah</n> Yehoshua <n>see NEHEMYAH 8:17; EZRA 3:8.  Also see ENDNOTES for Mt. 1:1 indicated by * </n> Ben Dovid, Ben Avraham.  FROM AVRAHAM TO DOVID HAMELECH: THE AVOT <n>FATHERS, ANCESTORS</n> OF HAMELECH HAMOSHIACH AND HIS REBBISHE DYNASTY


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then Yishai fathered Dovid HaMelech. FROM DOVID HAMELECH TO THE TIME OF THE GOLUS <n>EXILE</n> IN BABYLON: THE AVOT OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH Dovid HaMelech, then Shlomo <n>Solomon</n> by the wife of Uriyah;


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then Y'khanyahu <n>Jeconiah or Jehoiachin</n> and his achim from the days of the Golus in Babylon. FROM THE TIME OF THE GOLUS TO MOSHIACH


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Ya'akov fathered Yosef, the ba'al <n>husband</n> of Miryam, from whom was born Yehoshua, who is called Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. [Yochanan 1:49]


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So then, there were arba'a asar <n>fourteen</n> generations from Avraham to Dovid [trans. note: Dovid= DVD in Hebrew = [d= 4, v = 6, d = 4]= <n>4 + 6 + 4 = 14</n>], and there were arba'a asar <n>fourteen</n> dorot <n>generations</n> from Dovid to the Golus in Babylon, and there were arba'a asar <n>fourteen</n> generations from the Golus in Babylon to Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach.  YOSEF BEN DOVID AND MIRYAM AND KIDDUSHIN <n>BETROTHAL</n> AND THE HULEDET <n>BIRTH</n> OF MOSHIACH THE BECHOR <n>FIRST BORN SON</n>, YEHOSHUA BEN DOVID <n>SEE BABA BATHRA 8:6, 130a</n>


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The huledet <n>birth</n> of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was as follows.  When Moshiach's Em, Miryam, had been given in erusin <n>betrothal, engagement</n> to Yosef, but before they came together, she was found "with child" through the Ruach HaKodesh.


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Her shidduch, Yosef, being a tzaddik and not wanting to humiliate her publicly, planned to deal with the get <n>bill of divorce</n> in a private arrangement.  MIRYAM VINDICATED AS AN AISHES CHAYIL


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Now just when Yosef had thought through to this tachlis <n>purpose</n>--hinei!--a malach Hashem <n>angel of the L-rd</n> appeared to him in a cholom <n>dream</n> [see BERESHIT 37:5], and said, "Yosef ben Dovid, do not shrink from taking Miryam in nessu'in <n>marriage</n> as your kallah <n>bride</n>, because what has been conceived in her is through the Ruach Hakodesh.


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And she shall bear BEN <n>Son</n> and you will call SHMO <n>his name</n> Yehoshua [trans. note: see ZECHARYAH 3:8; 6:11-12; NEHEMYAH 8:17; EZRA 3:8 where the TZEMACH or MOSHIACH is indicated by the personal name YEHOSHUA, which in Aramaic is YESHUA * ], because he will bring his people yeshu'a <n>rescue, salvation, deliverance</n> from their peysha'im <n>rebellions, transgressions</n>."


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Now all this occurred so that which was spoken by Hashem through the Navi <n>prophet</n> might be fulfilled,


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HINEI, HA'ALMAH HARAH V'YOLEDET BEN V'KARAT SHMO IMMANU-EL <n>"Behold, the  Virgin *  will be `with child` and will bear Son and will call his name Immanu-El" YESHAYAH 7:14</n>, which translated means "Hashem is with us."


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And he did not know her until she bore BEN <n>Son, YESHAYAH 7:14</n> and Yosef [Ben Dovid] called him by the name Yehoshua [Ben Dovid].*


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Now after Yehoshua was born in Beit-Lechem Yehudah, in the days of Herod [the Great, the Roman "client"] king --hinei!-- chachamim <n>wise men</n> from eretz Mizrach <n>the land of the East</n> arrived in Yerushalayim,


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saying, "Where is he that is born Melech HaYehudim? For we have seen his KOCHAV <n>"star," BAMIDBAR 24:17</n> in the Mizrach <n>East</n> and have come to fall down before him."


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And assemblying all the Rashei Hakohanim <n>Chief Priests</n> and Sofrim <n>Scribes, Torah-teachers, Rabbonim</n> of the people, he inquired of them the place where Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was to be born.


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`And YOU, BEIT-LECHEM,<n>"Bethlehem," MICHOH 5:1[2]</n> in eretz Yehudah, are by no means least among the shtetlach <n>towns</n> or ruling [clans] of Yehudah; because out of you will come a Moshel <n>Governor</n> who will be the Ro'eh Ami Yisroel <n>Shepherd of my people Israel</n>.`"


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Then Herod secretly summoned the chachamim and ascertained from them the exact date of the manifestation of the KOCHAV.


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Then he sent them to Beth-Lechem, saying, "Go and make a thorough search for the yeled <n>child</n>; and as soon as you have found him, report to me, so that I, as well as you, may come and fall down before him. "


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After they heard the king, they departed, and--hinei!--the KOCHAV they had seen in the Mizrach <n>East</n> was going ahead of them til it came and stood above the place where the yeled was.


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And, entering the bais <n>house</n>, 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.


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And having been warned in a cholom <n>dream</n> not to return to Herod, they took refuge in their own country by another way. MOSHIACH IN EGYPT


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And when they'd gone, hinei, a malach Hashem appeared to Yosef Ben Dovid in a cholom <n>dream</n>, saying, "Arise, and take the yeled and his Em, and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod is about to seek the yeled to destroy him."


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And he was there until the death of Herod.  This was to fulfill what had been spoken by Hashem through the Navi, UMIMITZRAYIM KARATI LIVNI <n>"Out of Egypt have I called my Son," HOSHEA 11:1</n>.  FIRST CENTURY SHOAH OF THE INNOCENTS


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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.


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KOL B'RAMAH NISHMAH <n>"A voice was heard in Ramah," YIRMEYAH 31:14[15]</n>, "a voice of bitter weeping and mourning.  Rachel is crying for her yeladim; she refuses to be comforted, because they are no more." THE EXODUS OF MOSHIACH FROM EGYPT AND HIS RETURN TO A FIRST CENTURY "SHTETL"


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When Herod died--hinei!--in Mitzrayim <n>Egypt</n> a malach Hashem appeared to Yosef in a cholom <n>dream</n>,


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saying, "Arise, and take the yeled and his Em and go to Eretz-Yisroel, for those seeking the life of the yeled are dead."


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And when Yosef heard that Archelaus had succeeded his father Herod as king of Yehudah, Yosef was afraid to go there.  And, having been warned in a cholom, he departed into the districts of the Galil.


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And Yosef made his home in the shtetl <n>Jewish community, village</n> called Natzeret, so that that which was spoken by the Neviim might be fulfilled, "He will be called a Natzri." *


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Now in those days Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva appears, preaching, crying out as a maggid <n>preacher</n> [for the Moshiach] in the midbar <n>wilderness</n> of Yehudah,


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For this is the one spoken of through Yeshayah the Navi, saying, KOL KOREY BAMIDBAR <n>"A voice of one shouting in the wilderness," YESHAYAH 40:3</n>: `Prepare the Derech Hashem <n>the way of the L-rd</n>. Make his paths straight!`"


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Now Yochanan himself had camel-hair clothing and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was arbe <n>locusts</n> and devash <n>wild honey</n>.


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Making vidduy <n>confession</n> [to Hashem] of their averos <n>sins</n>, they were submitted to a tevilah <n>immersion</n> by him, using the Yarden River as a mikveh mayim.


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But when he saw many of the Perushim and Tzedukim coming to where he was using the Yarden as a mikveh mayim, he said to them, "You yeladim of nachashim <n>snakes</n>!  Who warned you to flee from the charon af [Hashem] habah <n>the coming burning wrath of Hashem</n>?


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"Do not presume to say to yourselves, `We have the yichus <n>proud lineage</n>, we have the zechut Avot <n>merit of the Fathers</n> of Avraham Avinu <n>our father Abraham</n>.`  For I say to you that Hashem is able to raise up from these avanim <n>stones</n> banim <n>sons</n> of Avraham.


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"And already the ax is laid at the shoresh haAitzim <n>the root of the trees</n>; therefore, every aitz not producing p'ri tov <n>good fruit</n> is cut down and thrown into the aish <n>fire</n>.


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"I give you a tevilah <n>immersion</n> in a mikveh mayim for teshuva, but Hu HaBah <n>He who Comes, i.e. Moshiach</n> after me has more koach <n>power</n> than me.  I am not worthy to remove his sandals.  He will give you a tevilah <n>immersion</n> with the Ruach Hakodesh and aish <n>fire</n>.


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"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 aish <n>fire</n>." THE TEVILAH OF THE KOHEN MOSHIACH IN THE MIKVEH MAYIM OF THE YARDEN RIVER <n>SEE TEHILLIM 110:1-4; VAYIKRA 16:4,24; DANIEL 9:24</n>


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Then Yehoshua comes from the Galil to the Yarden to Yochanan, to submit to Yochanan's tevilah <n>immersion</n>.


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But Yochanan would have deterred him, saying, "I have need to submit to your tevilah <n>immersion</n>, and yet you come to me?"


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But answering him, Yehoshua said, "Permit it now, for thus it is proper to fulfill all Tzidkat Hashem [DANIEL 9:24]."


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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 Hashem descending like a yonah <n>dove</n> and coming upon him.


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And, hinei, a bat kol <n>daughter of a voice, Divine voice</n> came out of Shomayim, saying, ZEH BNI AHUVI ASHER BO CHAFATSTI  <n>"This is my Son, the beloved, with whom I am well pleased" *</n>.


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Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was led up into the midbar by the Ruach Hakodesh of Hashem to undergo temptation by Hasatan.


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And, having undergone a tzom <n>fast</n> for arba'im yom v'arba'im lailah, afterwards Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was famished.


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And the tempter came to him and said to him, "If you are the Ben HaElohim, then speak the command that these avanim <n>stones</n> become lechem <n>bread</n>."


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach answered, "Katuv <n>It is written</n>, LO 'AL HALECHEM L'VADOH Y'CHE-YEH HAADAM, KI 'AL KOL MOTZAH FI HASHEM. <n>"Man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of Hashem", DEVARIM 8:3</n>.


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Then Hasatan takes Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to the Ir Hakodesh <n>the Holy City</n> and set him atop the pinnacle of the Beis Hamikdash,


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and says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "If you are the Ben HaElohim, then throw yourself down, for katuv <n>it is written</n>, MALACHAV Y'TZAV-VEH LACH <n>"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.</n>


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Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to Hasatan, "Again, it is written, LO TENASSU ES HASHEM ELOHEICHEM <n>"Do not test Hashem your G-d" DEVARIM 6:16</n>.


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Again, Hasatan takes Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to a very high mountain and shows him all the mamlechot <n>kingdoms</n> of the Olam Hazeh and the kavod <n>glory</n> of them.


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And Hasatan said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "All these things I will give to you, if you will fall down V'TISHTACHAVEH <n>`and you will bow down` to, [DEVARIM 5:9]</n> me."


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Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, "Depart, Hasatan!  For katuv <n>it is written</n>, ES HASHEM ELOHEICHA TIRAH V'OTO TA'AVOD <n>"The L-rd your G-d you shall fear and Him you shall worship," DEVARIM 6:13</n>.


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Then Hasatan leaves him, and, hinei, malachim came and attended to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. MOSHIACH'S KEHILLAH BEGINS TO FORM IN THE GALIL, WITH ITS ROSH HAEDAT AND MANHIG, REBBE MELECH  HAMOSHIACH, SURROUNDED BY MOSHIACH'S SHLUCHIM AS ACHIM <n>BROTHERS</n> WHO BECOME CHAVERIM AND CHAVRUTA <n>STUDY COMPANIONS</n> IN MOSHIACH


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And having left behind Natzeret, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach headquartered in K'far-Nachum by the sea, in the environs of Z'vulun and Naftali.


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ARTZAH Z'VULUN V'ARTZAH NAFTALI <n>"To the land of Z'vulun and to the land of Naftali," YESHAYAH 8:23-9:1 [9:1-2]</n>, the way to the sea beyond the Yarden, Galil haGoyim,


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the people sitting in CHOSHECH R'U OHR GADOL <n>"the people sitting in darkness saw a great light"</n>, YOSHVEI V'ERETS TSALMAVET <n>"the ones living in the land of the shadow of death"</n>, a light has dawned among them."


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From then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, as a maggid, began to proclaim, saying, "Make teshuva, for the Malchut HaShomayim has come near."


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And walking beside Lake Kinneret, <n>Sea of Galilee</n>, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach saw two achim, Shimon, the one being called Kefa <n>Petros</n>, and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the sea, for they were daiyagim <n>fishermen</n>.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says, "Come, follow me, and I will make you daiyagei adam <n>fishers of men</n>."


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And having gone on from there, he saw two other achim, Ya`akov Ben-Zavdai and Yochanan his brother, in the sirah <n>boat</n> with Zavdai their father, repairing their nets, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach summoned them.


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Immediately, leaving the sirah <n>boat</n> and their father, they followed Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.  THE REFUAH SHELEMAH <n>COMPLETE HEALING</n> REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH BRINGS --THE BEGINNING OF MOSHIACH'S MA'ASIM TOVIM <n>GOOD DEEDS</n> AND NISIM <n>MIRACLES</n>


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went about in all the Galil, exercising the ministry of moreh <n>teacher</n> in their shuls and of maggid <n>preacher</n> of the Besuroh Tovoh <n>Good Tiding of a Joyous Event</n>, the Besuras HaGeulah <n>the Good News of Redemption</n> of the Malchut Hashem, *  and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went about administering refu'ah <n>healing</n> to every disease and every illness of the people.


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And the report went out about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach throughout all Syria; and they brought to him all the cholim <n>sick</n> with various illnesses and machalot, demoniacs, epileptics, and paralytics, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach brought them refu'ah.


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And from the Galil, the Decapolis, Yerushalayim, Yehudah, and Ever-haYarden--from all these places great multitudes followed Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.


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When Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach saw the multitudes, he ALAH HAHAR <n>"went up the mountain," SHEMOT 19:3</n> and when he sat down, his talmidim came to him.


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"Ashrey ANIYEY RUACH <n>"Blessed/Happy are the poor in spirit," YESHAYAH 66:2</n> for theirs is the Malchut HaShomayim.


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Ashrey are the ANAVIM ("humble," YESHAYAH 29:19; TZEFANYAH <n>ZEPH) 2:3</n>, for YIRESHU A'RETZ <n>"they will inherit the land," TEHILLIM 37:11</n>.


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Ashrey are the ones hungering and thirsting for Tzidkat Hashem <n>Righteousness, DANIEL 9:24</n>, for they will be satisfied.


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Ashrey are the ones being persecuted because of Tzidkat Hashem <n>`righteousness,` DANIEL 9:24</n>, for theirs is the Malchut HaShomayim.


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Ashrey are you when they reproach you and persecute you and speak all kinds of lashon horah against you, speaking sheker <n>falsehood, lies</n> because of me [Moshiach].


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Have simcha <n>joy</n> and lev same'ach <n>glad heart</n>, for your sachar <n>reward</n> is great in Shomayim, for thus they persecuted the Nevi'im before you. MOSHIACH'S TALMIDIM ARE THE MELACH HA'ARETZ <n>SALT PRESERVING AGAINST RA'AH</n>


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You are the melach ha'aretz <n>salt of the earth</n>, 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.  MOSHIACH'S NER TAMID SHINING THROUGH HIS TALMIDIM


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You are the Ohr HaOlam <n>the Light of the World</n>.  A city lying on a mountain top cannot be hidden.


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No one, after lighting a menorah, places it under a measuring basket, but on the shulchan, and it gives light to kol anshey habais <n>all in the house</n>.


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In like manner, let your light shine before bnei Adam, so that they may see your ma'asim tovim <n>good works</n> and give kavod <n>glory</n> to your Av sh'baShomayim <n>Father in Heaven</n>.  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH ON THE TORAH OF MOSHE RABBENU


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Do not think that I came to abolish the Torah or the Nevi'im.  I did not come to abolish but to complete.


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For, omein, truly I say to you, until Shomayim and ha'aretz pass away, not one yod, not one tag <n>ornamental flourish</n>, will pass from the Torah until everything is accomplished.


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Therefore, whoever annuls one of the least of these mitzvot <n>divine commandments</n> and so teaches bnei Adam, shall be called katon <n>least</n> in the Malchut HaShomayim, but whoever practices and teaches them, this one will be called gadol <n>great</n> in the Malchut HaShomayim.  *


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For I say unto you that unless your Tzidkat Hashem <n>Righteousness</n> exceeds that of the Sofrim and Perushim, you will certainly not enter the Malchut HaShomayim.  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH AND THE ASERES HA-DIBROS


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You have heard that it was said to the ancients, LO TIRTZACH <n>"Do not murder," SHEMOT 20:13; DEVARIM 5:17</n>, and every rotzeach <n>murderer</n> shall be liable to be the Bet Din <n>Court</n>.


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But I say to you, that everyone who harbors ka'as <n>anger</n> against his ach b'Moshiach, his chaver, shall be subject to mishpat <n>judgment</n>; and whoever shall say to his ach b'Moshiach, `Shlemiel!` <n>`Good for nothing!`</n> will be subject to the Sanhedrin; and whoever shall say `Shoteh` <n>`Fool`</n> shall be subject to Aish Gehinnom <n>Fire of Hell</n>.


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Therefore, if you bring your korban to the Mitzbe'ach <n>altar</n>, and there you remember that your ach b'Moshiach has something against you,


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leave your korban there before the Mitzbe'ach, and go and first be reconciled to your ach b'Moshiach, and then come offer your korban.


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Come to terms quickly with your ish riv <n>opponent in a lawsuit</n>, while you are a fellow-traveller on the derech eretz, lest the ish riv might deliver you to the shofet <n>judge</n> and the shofet might deliver you to the shoter <n>law official</n> and the shoter might deliver you to the beit hasohar <n>prison house</n>.


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For, omein, truly I say to you, you may never come out from there until you repay the last peruta <n>small coin</n>.  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH ON THE NEED FOR TZNI'UT <n>MODESTY</n>


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But I say to you that everyone looking upon a woman with ta'avah <n>lust</n> for her has already committed ni'uf <n>adultery</n> with her in his heart.


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And if your right eye causes you to commit chet <n>sin</n>, tear it out and throw it from you, for it is better for you that one of your evarim <n>members</n> be lost and not your whole basar <n>body, flesh</n> be thrown into Gehinnom.


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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 be lost and not that your whole basar may go into Gehinnom.  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S TORAH ABOUT THE GET <n>DOCUMENT OF DIVORCE</n>


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It was also said, `Whoever divorces his wife, let him give to her a GET, a SEFER KERITUT <n>`bill of divorce,` DEVARIM 24:1</n>.`


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But I say to you that everyone divorcing his wife, except for the dvar <n>"thing," DEVARIM 24:1</n> of zenut <n>fornication</n>, makes her become a no'efet <n>adulteress</n>, and whoever marries a gerusha <n>divorcee</n> commits ni'uf <n>adultery</n>. REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S TORAH ABOUT NEDERIM


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Again, you have heard that it was said to the ancients, `You shall not break your nederim <n>vows</n>, but you shall repay your vows to Hashem.`<n>see VAYIKRA 19:12; BAMIDBAR 30:3; DEVARIM 23:22</n>


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But I say to you, Do not swear shevuot <n>oaths</n> at all, neither by Shomayim, for it is the kisseh Hashem <n>throne of G-d</n>,


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nor by ha'aretz, for it is the foot stool of his feet, nor by Yerushalayim, for it is the kiryat melech rav <n>"city of the great king," TEHILLIM 48:3[2]</n>.


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But let your word be `ken, ken` <n>`yes, yes`</n> or `lo, lo` <n>`no, no,`</n>, but anything beyond this is lashon horah.


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You have heard that it was said, AYIN TACHAT AYIN, SHEN TACHAT SHEN <n>"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," SHEMOT 21:24</n>


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But I say to you, Do not set yourself against the rasha <n>evil person</n>, but whoever hits you on your right cheek, turn to him also the other cheek.


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And the one asking you to give and the one wishing to borrow from you, from these do not turn away.   REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH TEACHES AHAVAH/AGAPE FOR OYEVIM <n>ENEMIES</n>


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You have heard that it was said, V'AHAVTAH L'REI'ACHAH <n>"You shall love your neighbor," VAYIKRA 19:18</n> and you shall hate your oyev <n>enemy</n>.`


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But I say to you, Love your enemies, and offer tefillos <n>prayers</n> for the ones bringing redifah <n>persecution</n> upon you.


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Do this so that you may become banim of your Av sh'baShomayim, for his shemesh <n>sun</n> he makes to rise on the ra'im <n>evil ones</n> and the tovim <n>good ones</n>, and he sends his geshem <n>rain</n> upon the tzaddikim <n>righteous ones</n> and the resha'im <n>unrighteous ones</n>.


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For if you have ahavah <n>love</n> for the ones who have ahavah for you, what sachar* <n>reward</n> do you have?  Even the mochesim <n>tax-collectors</n> do that, don't they?


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And if you give "shalom" greetings only to your achim, what extraordinary thing are you doing? Don't even the Goyim do the same?


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"Be careful that you don't practice your tzedakah before bnei Adam in order to varf <n>show off</n> to be seen by bnei Adam;  for then you have no sachar <n>reward</n> with your Av sh'baShomayim.


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Therefore, whenever you contribute tzedakah, don't blow the shofar before you, as the tzevu'im <n>hypocrites</n> do in the shuls and in the streets, in order that they may receive kavod <n>glory</n> from bnei Adam.  Omein, truly I say to you, they have their sachar.


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so that your tzedakah may be in secret, and your Av haRo'eh b'seter <n>Father the One seeing in secret</n> will give you sachar <n>reward</n> b'seter <n>in secret</n>.   REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH TEACHES HIS TALMIDIM HOW TO DAVEN


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And whenever you daven, do not be as the tzevu'im <n>hypocrites</n>;  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.


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But you, whenever you daven, enter into the secret place, your secret cheder,*  and, having shut your door, offer tefillos to your Av Asher b'Seter <n>Father Who is in Secret</n>, and your Av haRo'eh b'seter <n>Father the One seeing in secret</n> will give you sachar.


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But when you daven, do not babble on and on maarich <n>long-winded</n> and vacuously and without kavanah like the Goyim. For the Goyim think that in their verbosity their techinnah <n>prayers of supplication</n> will be heard.


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Therefore, be nisht azoi <n>not so</n>; for your Av has da'as <n>knowledge</n> of what things you have need before you ask him.


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Therefore, when you offer tefillos, daven like this:                   THE MOSHIACH'S TEFILLAH            `Avinu sh'baShomayim` <n>`Our Father in heaven`</n>, `yitkadash shmecha` <n>`hallowed be your Name`</n>.


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`Tavo malchutechah` <n>`Thy Kingdom come`</n>  `Ye'aseh r'tzonechah` <n>`Thy will be done`</n> `k'moh vaShomayim ken ba'aretz` <n>`on earth as it is in heaven`</n>.


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`u-s'lach lanu es chovoteinu ka'asher salachnu` <n>`and forgive us our debts`</n> gam anachnu lachayaveinu` <n>`as we also have forgiven our debtors`</n>.


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`V'al t'vieinu lidey nisayon` <n>`And lead us not into temptation` [Mt.26:41]</n> `ki im chaltzeinu min harah` <n>`but deliver us from evil [or the evil one]`</n>.  [`Ki l'chah hamamlachah` <n>`for thine is the Kingdom`</n> `v'hagvurah` <n>`and the power`</n> v'hatiferet` <n>`and the glory`</n> `l'olmey olamim` <n>`forever`</n>. `Omein`]. MOSHIACH'S CONDITION FOR SELICHOT <n>PRAYERS FOR FORGIVENESS</n> TO BE ANSWERED


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For if you give men mechila <n>forgiveness</n> for their chata'im <n>sins</n>, so also your Av sh'baShomayim will give selicha <n>forgiveness</n> to you.


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But if you do not give men mechila <n>forgiveness</n>, neither will your chata'im receive selicha from your Av. REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH ON UNDERGOING A TZOM <n>FAST</n>


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And whenever you undergo a tzom <n>fast</n>, don't be as the sullen tzevu'im <n>hypocrites</n>, for they disfigure their faces to parade their tzom <n>fast</n>.  Omein, truly I say to you, they have received their sachar.


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so that your tzom is concealed from bnei Adam but not from your Av Asher b'Seter <n>Father Who is in Secret</n>, and your Av haRo'eh b'seter <n>Father the One seeing in secret</n> will give you sachar. REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH ON OTZAROT IN SHOMAYIM


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Do not store up for yourselves otzarot <n>treasures</n> on ha'aretz,  where moth and rust destroy and where ganavim <n>thieves</n> break in and steal.


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But avekshtel <n>store up</n> for yourselves otzarot <n>treasures</n> in Shomayim, where neither moth nor rust destroys, neither do ganavim break in and steal.


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The eye is the menorah of the basar.  Therefore, if your eye is unblurred, then your whole basar will be lighted.


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But if yours is the 'ayin horo <n>evil eye</n>, your whole basar will be in choshech <n>darkness</n>.


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No one is able to serve two adonim <n>masters</n>.   For either he will have sin'ah <n>hatred</n> for the one and ahavah <n>love</n> for the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.  You cannot serve Hashem and Mammon <n>Money</n>.


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Therefore, I say to you, Do not have a LEV ROGEZ <n>anxious heart, [DEVARIM 28:65]</n> 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 <n>food</n> and basar more than malbush <n>clothing</n>?   SHATZ UP <n>EVALUATE</n> YOUR WORTH IN THE ESTIMATION OF HASHEM!


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Look to the OF HASHOMAYIM <n>`birds of heaven,`IYOV 35:11</n>, for they do not sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and your Av sh'baShomayim feeds them.  Are you yourselves not worth more than they?


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And why have a LEV ROGEZ <n>anxious heart</n> about malbush <n>clothing</n>? Observe the lilies of the field, how they grow.  They do not labor nor spin.


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And if Hashem thus clothes the grass of the field that exists today and tomorrow is thrown into an oven,  how much more will he clothe you, you ones of little emunah.


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Therefore,do not have a LEV ROGEZ <n>DEVARIM 28:65</n>, saying, `What might we eat?`  or `What might we drink?`  or `With what might we clothe ourselves?`


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For all these things the Goyim strive for. For your Av sh'baShomayim bavorn <n>anticipates, realizes and resolves in advance</n> that you need all these things.


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But seek first the Malchut Hashem and his Tzidkat Hashem, and all these things will be added to you.


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Therefore, do not have a LEV ROGEZ <n>DEVARIM 28:65</n> for tomorrow, for makhar <n>tomorrow</n> will care for itself.  Each day has enough tsimmes <n>difficulties</n> of its own."


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For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged, and with what measure you measure, it will be measured to you.


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And why do you see the speck in the eye of your brother, but you do not consider the beam in your own eye.


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Or how will you say to your brother, let me take the speck out from your eye, and--hinei!--the beam is in your own eye.


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Tzevu'a <n>hypocrite</n>, 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 brother.


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Do not give the kodesh <n>the holy</n> to kelevim <n>dogs</n> nor throw your pearls before chazirim, lest they will trample them with their feet and turn around and tear you into pieces.


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Keep asking and it shall be given to you; keep searching and you shall find; keep knocking and the delet <n>door</n> shall be opened to you.


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For everyone asking receives, and the one searching finds, and to the one knocking the delet will be opened.


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Or what man is there among you the ben of whom will ask for lechem <n>bread</n>, and he will give him a stone.


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Therefore, if you, being ra'im <n>evil ones</n>, *  know to give matanot tovot <n>good gifts</n> to your yeladim, how much more does your Av sh'baShomayim give tov <n>good</n> to the ones asking him.


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Therefore, everything that you wish bnei Adam do for you, thus also you do for them. For this is the Torah and the Nevi'im. WITHOUT KEDUSHAH NO MAN WILL SEE HASHEM


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Enter through the derech <n>way</n> of the delet hatzarut <n>door of narrowness</n>, for wide is the delet and broad is the rehov <n>street</n> leading to Avaddon <n>destruction, hell, Abbadon</n>, and rabbim <n>many</n> are they who enter through it.


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But tzar <n>narrow</n> is the delet and constricted is the Derech <n>Way</n> that leads to Chayyim <n>life</n> and few are the ones finding it.


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Beware of the nevi'ei hasheker <n>false prophets</n>, who come to you in the malbush <n>clothing</n> of kevasim <n>sheep</n>, but within are ravenous ze'evim <n>wolves</n>.


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By their perot <n>fruits</n> you will know them; surely grapes are not gathered from thorns nor figs from thistles, are they?


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So every aitz tov <n>good tree</n> produces p'ri tov <n>good fruit</n>, but the aitz nishchat <n>corrupt tree</n> produces p'ri rah.


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Kol aitz <n>every tree</n> not producing p'ri tov is cut off and is thrown into HaAish <n>the Fire</n><n>Yeshayah 66:24; Daniel 12:2</n>.


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Not all the ones saying to me, `Adoneinu, Adoneinu,` will enter the Malchut HaShomayim, but the one doing ratson Avi sh'baShomayim <n>the will of my Father in Heaven [Mt.26:39,42]</n>.


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Many will say to me [Moshiach] on that Day [the Yom HaDin, the Day of Judgment], `Adoneinu, Adoneinu, did we not speak as nevi'im in your Name?  Did we not cast out shedim <n>evil spirits, demons</n> in your Name? Did we not accomplish many niflaot <n>miracles</n> in your Name?`


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And then I will tell them to their face, `I never knew you. Depart from me, you workers of mufkarut <n>lawlessness</n>` [TEHILLIM 6:9<n>8</n>].


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Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and does them, is like a chacham <n>wise man</n> who built his bais <n>house</n> upon the Tsur <n>Rock</n>.


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And the geshem <n>rain</n> came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that bais, and it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the Tsur <n>Rock</n>.


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And everyone hearing these words of mine [Divrei Moshiach] and not doing them is like the shoteh <n>fool</n>, who built his bais upon the sand.


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And the geshem <n>rain</n> came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that bais, and it fell, and gadolah was the mappalah <n>fall/downfall</n> of it."                             THE SAMCHUT <n>AUTHORITY</n> OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH


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And it came about when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach finished these divrei torah <n>words of teaching</n>, the multitudes were filled with fear and wonder at his torah.


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For his ministry of moreh <n>teacher</n> was as one having samchut <n>authority</n> and not as their Sofrim <n>scribes/torah teachers, rabbonim</n>.


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And--hinei--an ish metzorah <n>a leper</n> there was who approached him and fell down before Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying, "Adoneinu, if you choose, you can make me tahor <n>clean</n>."


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And, having stretched out his hand, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach touched him, saying, "I am willing. Be made tahor."


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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 mitzva as an edut <n>testimony</n> to them."


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Now when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach entered into K'far-Nachum, a centurion approached him, begging him


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and saying, "Adoneinu, my servant has been bedridden in the house, paralyzed, in terrible tza'ar <n>pain and suffering</n>."


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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 refu'ah <n>healing</n>.


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For I also am a man under marut <n>authority</n>, 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."


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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.


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And I say to you, that many from the mizrach <n>east</n> and the ma'arav <n>west</n> will come and will sit bimesibba <n>reclining</n> at tish with Avraham and Yitzchak and Ya'akov in the Malchut HaShomayim.


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But the Bnei HaMalchut will be thrown out into the outer choshech <n>darkness</n>, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth."


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to the centurion, "Go!  According to your bittachon <n>trust</n>, your emunah <n>faith</n>, let it be for you."  And his servant was given refu'ah <n>healing</n> punkt <n>exactly</n> at that hour.


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When Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach entered the bais <n>house</n> of Kefa, he saw the chamot <n>mother-in-law, shviger</n> bedridden and fever-stricken.


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Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach touched her hand, and the fever left her.  She then began functioning as his mesharetet <n>servant, minister</n>, serving Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.


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And when erev <n>evening</n> had come, they brought to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach many possessed by shedim <n>evil spirits, demons</n>, and he cast out the shedim with a dvar, and all the cholim Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach healed.


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Thus was fulfilled what was spoken by Yeshayah the Navi, saying,  ACHEN CHOLAYEINU HU NASAH UMACHOVEINU S'VALAM <n>"Surely he took up our sicknesses and he carried away our sorrows," YESHAYAH 53:4</n>.


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And when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach saw the crowd around him, he gave orders to go over to the other side. IN THE OLAM HAZEH, THE REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH OF YISROEL REQUIRES TOTAL ALLEGIANCE, WITHOUT WHICH ONE CANNOT BE MEKABEL MOSHIACH


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A sofer <n>scribe/Torah-teacher</n> approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and said, "Rebbe, I will follow you wherever you go."


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, "Foxes have holes and the OF HASHOMAYIM <n>birds of heaven, IYOV 35:11</n> have nests, but the Ben HaAdam [Moshiach, Daniel 7:13-14] does not have a place where he may lay his head."


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And another of Moshiach's talmidim said to him, "Adoneinu, allow me first to go and bury my father."


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, "Follow me, and permit the mesim <n>dead ones, spiritually unregenerate ones</n> to bury their own mesim <n>dead ones</n>." REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH THE BAAL MOFET <n>MIRACLE WORKER</n>


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And--hinei!--a great storm came up on the lake, so that the sirah <n>boat</n> was about to be covered by the waves. REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH: THE NEW YONAH, ASLEEP IN THE SIRAH <n>BOAT</n> But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was sleeping.


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And Moshiach's talmidim approached and aroused him, saying, "Adoneinu, hoshieynu!  We are perishing!"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, "Why are you fearful, you ones of little emunah?" REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH SHOWS HIMSELF ADON KOL HA'ARETZ Then, arising, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was great calm.


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And the men were astonished, saying, "What sort of man is this!?  That even the winds and the sea obey him!" REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH CASTS OUT THE SHEDIM


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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 <n>demons</n>; these men were coming out of the kevarim <n>tombs</n> of the burial caves and were so dangerous no one could pass on that road.


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And--hinei--they screamed, saying, "Mah lanu valach, Ben HaElohim?" <n>"What to us and to you, Son of G-d?" i.e. What business do you have with us, Son of G-d"</n> "Have you come here to torture us before the time [of the Yom HaDin, the Day of Judgment]?"                                                        THE UNCLEAN REJECT THE REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH


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And the shedim begged Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying,"If you cast us out, send us into the herd of chazirim."


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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.


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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.


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And--hinei!--the whole town came out to meet Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and seeing him, they begged him to depart from their area.


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And, having embarked into a sirah <n>boat</n>, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach crossed over [to the other side of the lake] and came into his own town.


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And--hinei!--they brought to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach a paralytic lying upon a mat.  Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having seen their emunah, said to the paralytic, "Chazak! <n>Be strong!</n> Selicha <n>forgiveness</n> is granted on your averos <n>sins</n>!"


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And--hinei!--some of the Sofrim said to themselves, "This one commits Chillul Hashem!" [VAYIKRA 22:32]


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, reading their minds, said, "Why are you thinking ra'ah <n>evil</n> in your levavot <n>hearts</n>?


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But in order that you may know that the Ben HaAdam [Moshiach, Daniel 7:13-14] has samchut * <n>authority</n> on earth to pronounce selicha <n>forgiveness</n> on chatta'im <n>sins</n>"--Moshiach then declared to the paralytic--"Arise, take up your mat and go to your bais <n>house</n>."


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And having witnessed this, the multitudes experienced yirat Shomayim and gave kavod to Hashem, who had given such samchut to men.  THE KERI'AH <n>CALLING</n> OF MATTITYAHU THE MOCHES --THE SICHAS SEUDAH SHEL TALMIDE CHACHAMIM <n>THE TABLE TALK OF THE WISE</n>


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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.


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And it came about that while Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was sitting bimesibba <n>reclining</n> at tish <n>table</n> in the bais--hinei!--many mochesim <n>tax collectors</n> and chote'im <n>sinners</n> came and were sitting bimesibba <n>reclining</n> at tish <n>table</n> with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and his talmidim.


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When the Perushim saw this, they were saying to Moshiach's talmidim, "Why does your Rebbe eat with the mochesim and the chote'im?"


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But when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach heard this, he said, "It is not the bari'im <n>healthy ones</n> who have need of a rofeh <n>physician</n>, but the cholim.


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Go and learn what this means: CHESED CHAFATZTI V'LO ZEVACH <n>"I desire lovingkindness/mercy and not sacrifice" HOSHEA 6:6</n>, for I have not come to call the tzaddikim but the chatta'im [to teshuva].  SHA'LOT ABOUT TZOMOT <n>FASTS</n> LEAD TO DIVREI TORAH ON THE NEED FOR MOSHIACH'S ORTHODOX JUDAISM AND ITS NEW WINESKINS <n>SEE ACTS CHAPTERS 15 AND 21</n>


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Then Yochanan's talmidim approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying, "Why do we and the Perushim often undergo tzomot <n>fasts</n>, but your talmidim do not undergo tzomot?"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Surely the Bnei haChuppah <n>wedding invitees</n> are not able to act as avelim <n>mourners</n> as long as the Chosson <n>Bridegroom</n> is with them. But the days will come when the Chosson is taken away from them, and then they will undergo tzomot.


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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.


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Neither do men put yayin chadash <n>new wine</n> 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." MOSHIACH'S TZITZIT AND TAHARAT HAMISHPOCHAH: EMUNAH AS THE MEANS OF BRINGING WOMEN BACK FROM THE STATE OF ESCHATOLOGICAL NIDDAH <n>SEPARATION</n>


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While Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was speaking these things to them--hinei--one of the nichbadim <n>dignitaries</n> [of the shul] came and fell down before Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying, "The bat <n>daughter</n> of me has just become niftar, but come lay your hand upon her and she will live."


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And--hinei!--an isha <n>woman</n> hemorrhaging twelve years approached him from behind and touched his garment at Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach's tzitzit.


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For she was saying to herself, "If only I might touch his garment, I will receive refu'ah <n>healing</n>."


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Turning and seeing her, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, "Chazak, bat <n>daughter</n> of me! Your emunah has brought you refu'ah." And the isha was healed from that hour.


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And having come into the bais <n>house</n> of the nichbad <n>dignitary</n>, and having seen the flute players and the unruly crowd,


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Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying, "Go away! For the yaldah <n>girl</n> is not among the mesim <n>dead ones</n>--she sleeps!" And they were making leitzonus <n>mockery, fun</n> of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.


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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.


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And as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went on from there, two iverim <n>blind men</n> followed him, shouting loudly, "Chaneinu, Ben Dovid!"


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And when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach entered the bais <n>house</n>, the iverim <n>blind men</n> 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."


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Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach touched their eyes, saying, "According to your emunah, let it be done for you."


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And their eyes were opened. Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach sternly warned them, saying, "See to it that no one knows!"


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After they had departed, the people brought to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach a mute man who was possessed by shedim.


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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!"


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But the Perushim said, "It was by the Sar HaShedim <n>the Prince of Demons</n> that this man casts out shedim!" THE RACHMONUS OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went about all the towns and villages exercising the ministry of moreh <n>teacher</n> in their shuls and of maggid <n>preacher</n> of the Besuras HaGeulah of the Malchut Hashem and bringing refu'ah to all the cholim, every machla <n>disease</n> and every illness.


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And looking out on the multitudes, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach felt rachamanut <n>mercy, compassion, sympathy</n> for his people, for they were distressed and nil'ah <n>weary</n> KA-TZON ASHER EIN LAHEM RO'EH <n>`like sheep without a shepherd,` BAMIDBAR 27:17</n>.


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Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to his talmidim, "The katzir <n>harvest</n> is indeed great but the kotzerim <n>harvesters</n> are few.


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Therefore, offer tefillos to the Adon HaKatzir <n>the L-rd of the Harvest</n> that He may send out Kotzerim into His Katzir.


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And summoning his Shneym Asar <n>Twelve</n> Talmidim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave to them samchut <n>authority</n> over shedim <n>unclean spirits</n>, so as to cast them out, and samchut <n>authority</n> to call forth refu'ah to every machla and every illness.


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Now of the Shneym Asar Shluchim, the names are these: first, Shimon, the one being called Kefa, and Andrew his brother, Ya'akov Ben-Zavdai and Yochanan his brother,


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Shimon the Zealot and Yehudah from K'riot, who betrayed Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH GIVES S'MICHAH COMMISSIONING TO THE SHNEYM ASAR


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These Shneym Asar <n>Twelve</n> did Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach send out with the following mitzvot <n>divine commandments</n>, saying:  "In the Derech HaGoyim <n>Way of the Gentiles, Gentile territory</n> do not go, and do not enter into any Shomron town,


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Heal the cholim, raise the mesim <n>dead ones</n>, cleanse the metzora'im <n>lepers</n>, cast out the shedim <n>demons</n>; freely you received, freely give.  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH COMMANDS THAT HIS SHLUCHIM HAVE THE RIGHT TO EARN THEIR CHALLOH BY PREACHING THE BESURAS HAGEULAH


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nor a beggar's sack for the road nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor a staff, for the oseh hamelachah <n>the one doing the work</n> is worthy of his lechem.


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And into whichever town or shtetl you enter, inquire who in it is a ben chayil <n>son of worthiness</n>, and there remain until you leave.


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And if indeed the bais is a bais chayil <n>a house of worthiness</n>, let your shalom come upon it; but if it is not a bais chayil, let your shalom return to you.


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And whoever neither receives you nor listens to your divrei [Moshiach], as you are leaving and as you go outside of that bais <n>house</n> or city, then let it be NI'ER CHATZNO * <n>shake out the fold of the robe, i.e. wash one's hands of</n>, shake off the dust of your feet.


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Omein, I say to you, it will be more tolerable on Yom HaDin <n>the Day of Judgment</n> for S'dom and Amora than for that town. COMING TZOROS <n>TROUBLES</n>


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Hinei!  I send you as kevesim <n>sheep</n> in the midst of ze'evim; therefore, have the saichel <n>intelligence</n> of nachashim <n>serpents</n> and be tamim <n>faultless</n> as yonim <n>doves</n>.


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And beware of bnei Adam, for they will deliver you up to the sanhedriyot <n>local councils/courts</n>, and in their shuls they will subject you to the shot <n>whip</n>.


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And before moshelim <n>governors</n> and also melachim <n>kings</n> you will be led for my sake [for the sake of Moshiach], for an edut <n>testimony</n> to them and to the Goyim.


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But when they deliver you up, do not be of a LEV ROGEZ <n>anxious heart, DEVARIM 28:65</n>  worried about how or what you are to say; for it will be given to you in that hour what you are to speak.


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For you are not the ones speaking, but the Ruach Avichem <n>the Spirit of your Father</n> is the one speaking in you.


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And brother will deliver up to death his own brother, even an abba his own yeled.  And yeladim will stand up against their horim <n>parents</n> and put them to death.


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And you will be under the sinas chinam <n>baseless hatred</n> of kol bnei Adam on account of my name; but the one enduring ad es Ketz <n>until the time of the End</n> will receive the Yeshu'at Eloheinu <n>the Salvation of our G-d</n>.


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But when they persecute you in one city, flee to the other; for omein, I say to you, by no means will you complete the arim <n>towns</n> of Yisroel until the Bias HaMoshiach <n>Coming of the Moshiach, the Ben HaAdam, Daniel 7:13-14</n>.


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It is enough for the talmid that he be as his Rebbe, and the eved as his Ba'al Bayit. If they called the Ba'al Bayit <n>the master of the house</n> "Ba'al-zibbul," how much more the anashim <n>men</n> in his bais.


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Therefore, do not fear them; for nothing has been veiled which will not be unveiled; and nothing has been hidden which will not be made known.


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What I say to you in the choshech <n>darkness</n>, you declare in the ohr <n>light</n>; and what you hear whispered into your ears, shout, preach, from the rooftops.


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And do not fear those who kill the basar <n>flesh</n>, but are unable to kill the nefesh <n>soul</n>; but rather fear the One who is able to destroy both basar and nefesh in Gehinnom.


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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!


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Therefore, al ta'arotz <n>do not be afraid</n>! You are of more value than many sparrows!  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH AND SHALOM BAYIS <n>FAMILY PEACE</n>--MAKING THE ANI MA'AMIN HODA'AH <n>CONFESSION</n> OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH BEFORE MEN, EVEN IF MEN WANT YOU TO PUT MISHPOCHAH ABOVE MOSHIACH


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Therefore, everyone who shall declare publicly the Ani Ma'amin of me [as Moshiach], before bnei haAdam, I will make hoda'ah <n>acknowledgment</n> of him before Avi sh'baShomayim.


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But everyone who makes hakhchashah <n>denial</n> of me [as Moshiach], I also will make hakhchasha <n>denial</n> of him before Avi sh'baShomayim.


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Do not think that I have come to bring shalom al ha'aretz <n>peace on the earth</n>; I have not come to bring shalom but a cherev <n>sword</n>.


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For I came to divide a man against his Av, and a bat against her Em, and a kallah <n>bride</n> against her chamot <n>mother-in-law, shviger</n>.


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And the OIYVEI ISH ANSHEI VEITOH <n>`the enemies of a man will be the members of his own household,` MICHOH 7:6</n>.


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The one who has more ahavah <n>love</n> for a tata or a mama than for me [Moshiach] is not worthy of me [Moshiach], and the one who has more ahavah <n>love</n> for a ben or a bat than me is not worthy of me [Moshiach].  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH TEACHES ON MESIRAS NEFESH [SELF-SACRIFICE]


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The one who does not take up his aitz shel hinnazrut <n>tree of self-denial</n> and follow after me, is not worthy of me.


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The one who has found his nefesh will lose it; the one who has lost his nefesh for my sake [lema'an Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach] will find it.                                                     REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH AND THE SACHAR FROM HASHEM


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The one who gives the kabbalat panim <n>welcome</n> to you gives the Baruch Haba <n>welcome</n> to me [to Moshiach], and the one who gives the Baruch Haba to me [Moshiach] gives the Baruch Haba to the One [Elohim haAv] who sent me.


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The one who gives the Baruch Haba to a navi in the name of a navi will receive the sachar of a navi, and the one who gives the Baruch Haba to a tzaddik in the name of a tzaddik will receive the sachar of a tzaddik.


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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 <n>reward</n>."


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And it came about when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach finished giving commands to his Shneym Asar Talmidim, he moved on from there, exercising the ministry of moreh <n>teacher</n> and maggid <n>preacher</n> in their cities.


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Now when Yochanan, in the beit hasohor <n>prison</n>, heard of the ma'a'sei haMoshiach <n>works of Moshiach</n>, he sent his talmidim to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.


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They asked him, "Tell us. Are you Hu HaBa* <n>He who comes</n> or is our chiki'ah <n>wait</n> to be for the Bias <n>Coming</n> of another?"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach answered them, saying, "Go give the shema <n>report</n> of what you see and hear to Yochanan:


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the iverim <n>blind people</n> see, the pisechim <n>lame people</n> walk, the metzora'im <n>lepers</n> are cleansed, the chereshim <n>deaf people</n> hear, the mesim are made to stand up alive, and the aniyim <n>poor</n> have the Besuras HaGeulah preached to them. *


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Ashrey <n>Happy</n> is the one who does not find a cause of michshol <n>falling</n> in me [as Moshiach]."


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As they were leaving, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach began to speak to the multitudes about Yochanan, "What did you go out into the midbar <n>wilderness</n> to see?  A reed being shaken by the wind?


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What did you go out to see?  Someone shtats in appearance attired in soft raiment? Hinei, the ones wearing soft raiment are in houses of melachim <n>kings</n>.


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This is he about whom it has been written, HINNENI SHOLEIACH MALACHI <n>"Behold, I will send my messenger"</n> before your face, UPINNAH DERECH LEFANAI <n>"and he will prepare the way before me," [SHEMOT 23:20; MALACHI 3:1]</n>.


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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 <n>importance</n> in the Malchut HaShomayim is greater than he.


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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 coersion.


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But to what will I compare this generation?  It is like yeladim sitting in the marketplaces, calling out to one another,


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`We played the chalil <n>flute</n> for you, but you did not dance; we sang a kina <n>lament, funeral dirge</n> for you, and you did not mourn.


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For Yochanan came neither eating nor drinking, and they say,`He has a shed <n>demon, evil spirit</n>.`


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The Ben HaAdam <n>Moshiach</n> came eating and drinking, and they say, Hinei! A zolel <n>glutton</n> and a soveh <n>drunkard</n>, a friend of mochesim <n>tax-collectors</n> and chatta'im <n>sinners</n>.` Yet, Chochmah <n>wisdom</n> is vindicated by her ma'asim <n>works</n>."


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Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach began to reproach the arim <n>towns</n> in which were accomplished most of his gevurot <n>mighty deeds</n>, because they did not make teshuva <n>repentance, turning from sin to G-d</n>.


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"Oy l'chah <n>Woe to you!</n>, 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.


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Nevertheless, I say to you, it will be more bearable for Tzorand Tzidon than for you on Yom HaDin *  <n>the Day of Judgment</n>.


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And you, K'far-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 S'dom were accomplished the gevurot that were accomplished among you, S'dom would have a she'arit <n>remnant</n> today!


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Nevertheless, I say to you, it will be more bearable for the land of S'dom on Yom HaDin than for you." IN SPITE OF APICURSIM <n>NONBELIEVERS</n>, REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH OFFERS THANKS TO RABBONO SHEL OLAM


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At that time, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, "Modeh Ani, Avi, Adon haShomayim v'ha'Aretz, <n>I thank you, Father, L-rd of Heaven and Earth</n>, because you hid these things from the chachamim <n>wise</n> and those with saichel, and to them they are "nistar" <n>hidden, esoteric</n>, and you revealed them unto ollelim <n>infants</n>.


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"Ken, Avi, for thus it was pleasing in your sight.  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSIACH THE BEN YACHID OF HASHEM IS EIDEL <n>GENTLE</n> AND BRINGS TRUE SHABBOS MENUCHAH; THE BURDEN OF THE SINAI COVENANT AND ITS MITZVOT IS LIGHTER WHEN WE BECOME MEKABEL MOSHIACH BECAUSE HE HAS BROUGHT SHLEIMUT TO THE TORAH OF MOSHE RABBEINU AND HAS OVERCOME THE OLAM HAZEH


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"All things were given to me by Avi, and no one has da'as <n>knowledge</n> of HaBen except HaAv, nor does anyone have da'as of HaAv, except HaBen, and anyone to whom HaBen chooses to unveil him.


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"Come to me, all you who are burden-weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you Shabbos menuchah <n>rest</n>.


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"Take my ol <n>yoke</n> upon you and learn from me, for I am anav <n>humble</n> and lowly in lev <n>heart</n>, and you will find menuchah <n>rest [RUTH 1:9]</n> for your nefashot (souls, YIRMEYAH 6:16].


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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.


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But the Perushim, seeing this, said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Hinei! Your talmidim are doing what is asur <n>forbidden</n> to do on Shabbos."


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Have you not read what Dovid HaMelech did when he and those with him were hungry,


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"how he entered into the Beit Hashem and ate the Lechem HaPanim <n>the Bread of the Presence</n>, which was not mutar <n>permissible</n> for him to eat nor the ones with him, but only for the kohanim alone?


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"Or have you not read in the Torah that on Shabbos the kohanim in the Beis Hamikdash commit Chillul HaYom HaShabbos <n>desecration of the Sabbath Day</n> and yet are blameless?


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"But if you had known what this means, CHESED CHAFATZTI V'LO ZEVACH <n>"I desire mercy and not sacrifice" HOSHEA 6:6</n>, you would not have condemned the innocent.


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And hinei!  there was a man with a withered hand. And they questioned Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, asking "Is it mutar <n>permissible</n> to administer refu'ah <n>healing</n> on Shabbos?"  They did this in order to bring accusation against him.


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "What man will there be among you, who owns a kevesh <n>sheep</n>, and if it falls into a pit on Shabbos, will not take hold of it and lift it out?


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Therefore, how much more valuable is a man than a sheep. For this reason, it is mutar <n>permissible</n> on Shabbos to do good."


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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 the other hand.


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But the Perushim went out and took counsel against Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach so that they might destroy him.  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH THE CHOSEN EVED HASHEM


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, knowing this, departed from there.  And many multitudes followed Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and he administered refu'ah to them all.


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HEN AVDI ETMACH BO, BECHIRI RATZTAH NAFSHI, NATATI RUCHI 'ALAV, MISHPAT LAGOYIM YOTZI <n>"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</n>


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LO YITZAK V'LO YISSAH V'LO YASHMI'A BACHUTZ KOLO <n>"He will not shout nor cry out nor raise the sound of his voice in the street."</n>


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KANEH RATZUTZ LO YISHBOR UFISHTAH CHEHAH LO YECHABENAH LE-EMET YOTZI MISHPAT <n>"A bruised reed he will not break nor a smoldering wick will he snuff out"</n> until Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach leads mishpat <n>justice</n> to victory.


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And in his Name, HaGoyim will put their tikvah <n>hope</n>  [YESHAYAH 42:2-3].  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH BEN DOVID AND BA'AL-ZIBBUL


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Then a man, blind and mute, who was possessed by shedim, was brought to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach administered refu'ah to him, so that the mute man was able to speak and to see.


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And all the multitudes were amazed and they were saying, "Surely this is not the Ben Dovid <n>Moshiach</n>, is he?" REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH ON LASHON HORAH AND ALSO ON CHILLUL HASHEM


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But, having heard this, the Perushim said, "This one does not cast out shedim except by Ba'al-zibbul, the Sar HaShedim <n>the Prince of Demons</n>."


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But knowing their thoughts, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Every malchut that is divided against itself is made desolate, and every ir <n>city</n> and  bais <n>house</n> that is divided against itself will not stand.


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And if Hasatan casts out Hasatan, he is divided against himself.  How, therefore, will the Malchut Hasatan stand?


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And if I by Ba'al-zibbul cast out the shedim, by whom do your banim <n>sons</n> cast them out? Therefore, they will be your shofetim <n>judges</n>.


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But if by the Ruach Hakodesh I [Moshiach] cast out the shedim, then upon you the Malchut Hashem has arrived.


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Or how is someone able to enter the Bayit haGibbor <n>the house of the strong man</n> and confiscate his furnishings unless he binds the Gibbor <n>strong man</n> first. Then he will plunder the Bayit haGibbor.


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The one not with me <n>Moshiach</n> is against me <n>anti-Moshiach</n>.  And the one not gathering with me scatters.


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Therefore, I say to you, every chet <n>sin</n> and gidduf <n>blasphemy</n> will be forgiven men, but whoever commits Chillul Hashem <n>desecration of the Name</n> against the Ruach Hakodesh will not be forgiven.


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And whoever speaks a word against the Ben HaAdam <n>Moshiach</n> will be granted selicha <n>forgiveness</n>, but whoever speaks against the Ruach Hakodesh, selicha <n>forgiveness</n> will be granted him neither in the Olam Hazeh nor in the Olam Haba.


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Either make the aitz <n>tree</n> tov <n>good</n> and its p'ri <n>fruit</n> will be tov, or make the aitz nishchat <n>corrupt</n> and its p'ri will be rah; for by its p'ri the aitz is known.


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You yeladim of nechashim, how are you able to l'deber tovot <n>speak good things</n>, for out of the abundance of the lev <n>heart</n> the mouth speaks.


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The ish tov <n>good man</n> out of the good otsar <n>treasure</n> brings forth good; and the ish rah out of the evil otsar brings forth evil.


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But I say to you, that for every careless lashon horah <n>evil speech</n> that men speak, they will be called to account on the Yom HaDin <n>the Day of Judgment</n>.


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For by your dvarim you will be pronounced tzodek <n>righteous</n>, and by your dvarim you will be chiyev <n>pronounced guilty, condemned</n>.  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH AND THE SIGN OF YONAH


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Then some of the Sofrim and Perushim answered Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying, "Rabbi, we desire to see an ot <n>miraculous sign</n> from you."


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach answered them, "Dor rah um'naef <n>an evil and adulterous generation</n> seeks for a miraculous ot <n>sign</n>, but no ot will be given it except the ot of Yonah HaNavi.


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For just as Yonah was in the belly of the fish SHLOSHAH YAMIM U'SHLOSHAH LAILAH <n>`three days and three nights,` YONAH 1:17</n>, so will be Ben HaAdam <n>Moshiach</n> in the heart of the earth SHLOSHAH YAMIM U'SHLOSHAH LAILOT <n>three days and three nights</n>.


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The men of Nineveh will stand up at the Mishpat * with this generation and they will condemn it, for the men of Nineveh made teshuva at the preaching of Yonah, and, hinei, something much greater than Yonah is here.


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The Queen of the South will be made to stand up alive at the Mishpat 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 Solomon is here.


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Now when the ruach hatameh <n>unclean spirit</n> goes out from the man, it goes through dry places seeking a manoach <n>resting place</n> and it does not find one.


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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 <n>in order</n>.


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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."


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While he was still speaking to the multitudes, hinei, Moshiach's Em and achim stood outside, seeking to speak with him.


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And someone said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Hinei! Your Em and your achim have stood outside seeking to speak with you."


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply to the one speaking with him, "Who is my em and who are my achim?"


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And stretching out his hand upon his talmidim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, "Hinei, my em and my achim.


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For whoever does the ratson <n>will</n> of Avi sh'baShomayim <n>see Mt.6:10; 26:39</n>, he is my ach and achot and em." *


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And many multitudes gathered together to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach so that he got into a sirah <n>boat</n> to sit down, and the entire multitude stood along the shore.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach told them many things in meshalim <n>parables</n>, saying "Hinei! The Sower went out to sow [seeds].


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And  while he sowed, on the one hand, this [seed] fell along the road, and, the birds having come, devoured them.


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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.


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And when the shemesh arose, the zera <n>seed</n> was scorched, and because it did not have a root, it withered.


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But others fell on the good ground, and they yielded fruit: the one, one hundred, the other, sixty, the other, thirty.


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And, approaching, the talmidim said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Why in meshalim <n>parables</n> are you speaking to them?"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach answered them, "Because to you it has been granted to know the razi'im <n>mysteries</n> of the Malchut HaShomayim, but to those it has not been granted.


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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 <n>see Mt.25:14-29</n>.


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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 understand.


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And in them is fulfilled the nevu'ah <n>prophecy</n> of Yeshayah, saying, SHIM'U SHAMO'A V'AL TAVINU UREU RA'O V'AL TEIDA'U <n>"In hearing you will hear and by no means understand, and seeing you will see and by no means perceive"</n>.


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HASHMEIN LEV HA'AM HAZEH V'AZNAV HACHBEID V'EINAV HASHA, PEN YIREH V'EINAV UVE'AZNAV YISHMAH U'LEVAVO YAVIN, V'SHAV N'RAFAH LOH.  ("For the heart of this people has been made dull, and with [their] ears they 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 <n>heart) they understand and they turn and I will give them refu'ah [healing]," YESHAYAH 6:9-10</n>


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For truly I say to you that many Nevi'im 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. REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH EXPLAINS THE MASHAL OF THE SOWER AND THE MESIRAT NEFESH <n>DEVOTION</n> NECESSARY TO ENTER THE MALCHUT HASHEM


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When anyone hears the Dvar HaMalchut and does not understand it, haRah <n>the Evil one</n> comes and seizes that which was sown in his lev <n>heart</n>. This is the zera <n>seed</n> sown along the path.


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And the zera sown upon the rocky places is the person listening to the Dvar Hashem and immediately with simcha receives it.


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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 ma'amin Meshichi <n>Messianic believer</n> and becomes meshummad <n>apostate</n>, falling away and giving up the [true Orthodox Jewish] faith.


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And the [zera] sown among the thorns is the one hearing the dvar <n>word</n>, and the rogez HaOlam Hazeh <n>the anxiety of this age, DEVARIM 28:65</n> and the deceit of riches, chokes the Dvar Hashem and it becomes unfruitful.


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And the zera sown upon the adamah hatovah <n>the good ground</n>, this is the one who hears the Dvar Hashem and, understanding [it], indeed bears p'ri and, one produces a hundred, the other sixty, the other thirty."  ANOTHER MASHAL


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Another mashal Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach placed before them, saying, "The Malchut HaShomayim is like a man sowing zera tov <n>good seed</n> in his field.


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But while men slept, his oyev <n>enemy</n> came and oversowed weeds in between the wheat and went away.


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So the servants of the Ba'al Bayit said to him, `Adoneinu, did you not sow zera tov <n>good seed</n> in your field?  How then does it have weeds?


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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?


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Permit both to grow together until the katzir <n>harvest</n>; and in time of the katzir, I will say to the kotzerim <n>reapers</n>, "Collect first the weeds, and bind them into bundles to burn them. But the wheat gather into my barn." *   ANOTHER MASHAL


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Another mashal Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach placed before them, saying, "The Malchut HaShomayim is like a mustard seed, which a man, taking, sowed in his field.


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This which is indeed less than all the zera'im <n>seeds</n>, but when it grows, it is larger than the garden vegetables and it becomes an aitz <n>tree</n>, so that the OF HASHOMAYIM <n>the birds of heaven, IYOV 35:11</n> come and dwell in its branches." ANOTHER MASHAL


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Another mashal Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach spoke to them. "The Malchut HaShomayim is like se'or <n>leaven</n>, which having taken, a woman hid in shalosh <n>three</n> satas of wheat flour until the whole was leavened."


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All these things Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach spoke in mashalim to the multitudes.  And apart from mashalim Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach did not speak to them,


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so that might be fulfilled what was spoken through the Navi, saying, EFT'CHA V'MASHAL PI A'VIAH CHIDOT MINI-KEDEM <n>"I will open my mouth  with parables, I  will utter things having been hidden from the foundation of the world," TEHILLIM 78:2</n>


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Then having sent away the multitudes, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came into the bais <n>house</n>.  And Moshiach's talmidim approached him, saying, `Explain to us the mashal of the weeds of the field.`


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And answering, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, `The Sower of the zera tov is the Ben HaAdam <n>Moshiach</n>.


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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 <n>sons of the Evil one, Bereshis 3:15</n>.


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And the Oyev <n>the Enemy</n> sowing them is Hasatan.  And the Katzir <n>Harvest</n>, this is the Kets HaOlam <n>the end of the age</n>.   And the kotzerim <n>reapers, harvesters</n> are malachim <n>angels</n>.


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As the weeds are pulled up and gathered and are consumed with Aish <n>Fire</n>, so also it will be at the Kets HaOlam.


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The Ben HaAdam <n>Moshiach</n> will send forth his malachim, and they will pull up and gather out of the Moshiach's Malchut all the things making meshummad <n>apostate</n> and the ones who are without Torah and antinomian.


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And Moshiach's malachim will throw them into the furnace of Aish; there will be weeping and grinding of the teeth.


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Then the tzaddikim will shine as the shemesh in the Malchut of their Father.  The one having ears, let him hear.


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The Malchut HaShomayim is like otzar <n>treasure</n> 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.


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Again, the Malchut HaShomayim is like a reshet <n>net</n> having been cast into the lake, a reshet collecting and gathering dagim <n>fish</n> of all descriptions,


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which, when this reshet <n>net</n> was filled, they hoisted it upon the shore, sat down, collected the tov into a creel, and the rah, they threw out.


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Thus it will be at the Kets HaOlam Hazeh.  The malachim will go out and they will separate the resha'im from among the tzaddikim.


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And they will throw the resha'im into the furnace of Aish.  In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.


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So Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Therefore, every sofer <n>scribe, Torah-teacher</n> who becomes a talmid of the Malchut HaShomayim is like a man [who is] a Ba'al Bayit, who takes out of his otzar <n>treasure</n>, chadashot <n>new things</n> and also yeshanot <n>old things</n>."


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And it came about when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach finished these meshalim, that he went away from there.  TAKING OFFENSE AT REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH


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And having come into Moshiach's shtetl, he began ministering as a moreh <n>teacher</n> in their shul, so they were amazed and said, "From where did this chochmah come to this one, this chochmah and these moftim <n>miracles/wonders/omens</n>?


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Is this not the ben hanaggar <n>the carpenter's son</n>?  Is not his Em called Miryam? And are not his achim Ya'akov, Yosef, Shimon and Y'hudah?


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And are not his achayot <n>sisters</n> with us? From where, therefore, came to this one all these things?"


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And they were taking offense at Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "A Navi <n>prophet</n> is not dishonored except in his hometown and in his bais."


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach did not accomplish in that place many moftim, because of their lack of emunah and bittachon.


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And he said to his servants, "This one is Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva.  He has come up from the Techiyas HaMesim <n>the resurrection of the dead</n> and for this reason the moftim <n>wonders</n> are working in him."


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For Herod had Yochanan arrested and bound him and threw him in the beit hasohar <n>prison</n>, on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip.


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For Yochanan kept on saying to him, "It is asur <n>impermissible/ forbidden</n> for you to have her."


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And [although] Herod was desiring to kill Yochanan, he feared the crowd, because they considered Yochanan a Navi.


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Now at the yom huledet <n>birthday</n> celebration of Herod, it came about that the daughter of Herodias danced before them and Herod was pleased.


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So she, having been prompted by her mother, said, "Give to me here upon a serving tray the rosh <n>head</n> of Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva."


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And, although grieving, the king commanded [it] to be given, on account of the shevu'ot <n>oaths</n> and the fellow guests.


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And the rosh of 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.


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And Yochanan's talmidim approached and carried away the chalal <n>dead man</n> and buried him, and they went and reported [it] to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.  REBBE MOSHIACH'S TISH AND THE "MANNA" FROM SHOMAYIM SERVED AT HIS FARBRENGEN <n>INSPIRATIONAL GATHERING</n>


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And when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach heard [this], he withdrew from there in a sirah <n>boat</n> to a desolate place by himself.  And when the multitudes heard [this], they followed Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach by land from the arim <n>towns</n>.


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And having gone out, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach saw a great multitude, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach felt rachamanut <n>compassion</n> for them and administered refu'ah <n>healing</n> to their cholim.


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Now when erev <n>evening</n> 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 arim, they may buy for themselves okhel <n>food</n>."


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "They have no need to go away. You yourselves give them something to eat."


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But Moshiach's talmidim say to him, "We do not have here anything except chamesh <n>five</n> loaves and dagim <n>fish</n>, only shenayim <n>two</n>."


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And having commanded the multitudes to recline on the grass and having taken the chamesh loaves and the shnei hadagim, and having looked up to Shomayim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said a beracha over the okhel, and having offered the betzi'at halechem <n>the breaking of the bread</n>, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave the lechem to the talmidim, and Moshiach's talmidim served the lechem to the multitudes.


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And everyone ate and they were satisfied, and they took away shirayim <n>leftovers</n>, shneym asar <n>twelve</n> baskets full.


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And the ones eating were about chamesh elafim <n>five thousand</n> men, apart from the women and children.  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH THE BAAL MOFET <n>MIRACLE WORKER</n>


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And immediately Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach compelled the talmidim to board a sirah <n>boat</n> and to go on ahead of him to the other side until he might send away the multitudes.


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And having sent away the multitudes, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went up to the mountain by himself to daven. Now when erev had come, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was alone there.


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Now the sirah <n>boat</n>, being tossed by the waves <n>for the wind was against them</n>, was by this time many stadia distant from the land.


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Now in the fourth watch of the night, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came towards them, walking on the lake.


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But Moshiach's talmidim, having seen him walking on the lake, were terribly shaken, saying, "It is a ruach refa'im <n>an apparition</n>!"   And from pachad <n>terror</n> they cried out.


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And immediately Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach spoke to them, saying, "Chazak! Ani hu. <n>I am He.</n> Do not be afraid."


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And Kefa said in reply to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Adoni, if it is really you, command me to come to you al p'nei hamayim <n>on the surface of the waters</n>."


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, "Boh!"  And having gone down from the sirah <n>boat</n>, Kefa walked al p'nei hamayim <n>on the surface of the waters</n> and came towards Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.


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And seeing the strong wind, Kefa was afraid, and having begun to sink, Kefa cried out, saying, "Gevalt! Adoni, hoshieini!"<n>"L-rd, save me!"</n>


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And immediately Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having stretched out <n>his</n> hand, took hold of Kefa and says to him, "One of little emunah, why did you doubt?"


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And the ones in the sirah <n>boat</n> fell down before Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying, "In emes <n>truth</n>, you are the Ben HaElohim!"


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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,


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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 refu'ah <n>healing</n>. [Yeshayah 53:5]


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"Why do your talmidim transgress the Masoret HaZekenim <n>the Tradition of the Elders</n>?  For they do not do the netilat yadayim <n>ritual of the washing of the hands</n> before meals."


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, in reply to them, said, "Why [do] also you transgress the mitzvat Hashem on account of your own masoret <n>tradition</n>? *


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For Hashem has said, KABED ES AVICHA V'ES IMMECHA <n>"honor your father and your mother," SHEMOT 20:12; DEVARIM 5:16</n>, and M'KALEL 'AVIV V'IMMO MOT YUMAT<n>literally, "the one cursing to die he must die, "SHEMOT 21:17; VAYIKRA 20:9</n>.


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But you say, `Whoever says to his father or his mother, whatever support you might have had from me, [it is] a gift [i.e. korban, dedicated to G-d],`


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by no means does [anyone who says this] honor his father.  And you nullify the Dvar Hashem on account of your masoret.            REBBE,MELECH HAMOSHIACH REBUKES VAIN AVODAH AND POINTS TO THE SOURCE OF TIFLUT


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You tzevu'im <n>hypocrites</n>, well did Yeshayah make a nevu'ah <n>prophesy</n> concerning you, saying,


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YA'AN KI NIGASH HAAM HAZEH BEFIV U'VISHFATAV KI-B'DUNI V'LIBO RICHAK MIMENI VA'TEHI YIRA'TAM OTI MITZVAT ANASHIM MELUMADAH ("This people with their lips honor Me, but their heart is far away from Me,


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It is not the thing entering into the mouth that makes the man tameh <n>unclean</n>, but the thing going out from the mouth--this makes the man tameh."


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Then Moshiach's talmidim approached and say to him, "Do you know that the Perushim took offense when they heard [this] word?"


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, in reply, said, "Every plant which Avi sh'baShomayim did not plant will be uprooted.


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Leave them. They are blind morei derech <n>guides/teachers</n> of [the] blind. And if the ivver <n>blind man</n> leads the iverim <n>blind</n>, both will fall into a pit."


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Do you not know that everything which enters into the mouth goes into the stomach and passes into a latrine?


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But the things coming out from the mouth come out from the lev <n>heart</n>, and that makes the man tameh <n>unclean</n>.


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For out of the lev comes evil makhshavot <n>thoughts</n>: retzichot <n>murders</n>, ni'ufim <n>adulteries</n>, zenunim <n>fornications</n>, genevot <n>thefts</n>, eduyot sheker <n>false testimonies</n>, giddufim <n>revilements</n>.


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These are the things making the man tameh, but eating with hands lacking the netilat yadayim <n>ritual of the washing of the hands--see Mt. 27:24</n>, this does not make the man tameh." THE EMUNAH OF THE GOYIM IN SPITE OF THE MECHITZAH-SOREG BARRIER OF GENDER AND NATIONALITY SEPARATING THEM FROM REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH


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And having gone from that place, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach withdrew into the districts of Tzor and Tzidon.


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And--hinei--a woman from Canaan came out from those regions, and was shouting, "Have mercy on me, Adoni, Ben Dovid!  my bat <n>daughter</n> is in torment possessed by shedim."


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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."


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But, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply, "I was not sent except to the Seh Oveid HaBeth Yisroel <n>the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel</n>."


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But she came and fell down before Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying, "Adoni, azreini"<n>"L-rd, help me"</n>.


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But, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply, "It is not good to take the lechem of the Banim and throw it to the kelevim <n>dogs</n>."


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But she said, "Ken, Adoni, but even the kelevim eat the crumbs falling from the tish <n>table</n> of their masters."


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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 <n>daughter</n> of her was given refu'ah <n>healing</n> at that very hour.


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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.


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And great multitudes approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having with them pisechim <n>lame</n>, iverim <n>blind</n>, crippled, mute people, and many others, and they laid them at Moshiach's feet, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave the cholim refu'ah.


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The result was that the multitude was astounded, witnessing mute people speaking, cripples made whole, the pisechim <n>lame</n> walking, and the iverim <n>blind people</n> seeing, and they gave kavod to Elohei Yisroel.  REBBE MOSHIACH'S TISH AND THE "MANNA" FROM SHOMAYIM SERVED AT HIS SECOND FARBRENGEN


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having summoned his talmidim, said, "I have rachamanut <n>compassion</n> for the multitudes, for already shloshah yamim <n>three days</n> 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."


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And Moshiach's talmidim say to him, "From where bamidbar <n>in the wilderness</n> is there enough lechem for us to feed such a vast multitude?"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, "How much lechem, how many loaves do you have?" And they said, "Sheva <n>seven</n>, and a few dagim <n>fish</n>."


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Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach took the loaves numbering sheva and the dagim, and making a beracha, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach offered the betzi'at halechem <n>the breaking of the bread</n> and served them to the talmidim, and Moshiach's talmidim served them to the multitudes.


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And everyone ate and they were satisfied, and the shirayim <n>leftovers</n> were numbering sheva baskets full.


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And having sent away the multitudes, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach embarked in the sirah <n>boat</n>, and came to the region of Magadan.


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And the Perushim and Tzedukim approached, to test Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, asking him to present them with an ot <n>sign</n> from Shomayim.


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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.`


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And in the boker <n>morning</n>, `There will be stormy weather today, for the sky is overcast fiery red and threatening.` You know enough to distinquish the signs of the appearance of the sky, but you can't discern the signs of the times.


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A dor rah um'naef <n>an evil and adulterous generation</n> demands an ot <n>sign</n>, and no ot will be given it except the ot of Yonah HaNavi."  And having left them, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went away.  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH WARNS ABOUT TEACHING THAT PUFFS UP WITH BLINDING GA'AVAH <n>PRIDE</n>


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Take special precaution against the se'or <n>leaven</n> of the Perushim and Tzedukim."


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, aware of their makhshavot <n>thoughts</n>, said, "You men of little emunah, why do you reason among yourselves that you have no lechem?


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"Do you not yet understand or remember the chamesh loaves of the chamesh elafim, and how many baskets full you took up,


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"How is it that you do not chap <n>grasp mentally</n> that I did not speak to you concerning lechem?  But beware of the se'or of the Perushim and Tzedukim."


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Then Moshiach's talmidim understood that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach did not say to beware of the se'or of the lechem, but of the se'or <n>leaven</n> of the Perushim and the Tzedukim's teaching.  THE ANI MA'AMIN OF THE CORRECT <n>ORTHODOX JEWISH</n> EMUNAH <n>FAITH</n>, THE EMUNAH OF THE TRUE DAT HAYEHUDIT


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Now, having arrived in the district of Caesarea Philippi, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach began asking his talmidim, saying, "Who do men say that the Ben HaAdam is?"


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And Moshiach's talmidim said, "Some say `Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva,` and others, `Eliyahu,` but still others, `Yirmeyah or one of the Nevi'im.`"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply to him, "Ashrey atah <n>happy are you</n>, Shimon Bar Yonah, because basar vadahm <n>flesh and blood</n> did not reveal this to you, but Avi b'Shomayim.


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And I also say to you that you are Shimon Kefa [rock] and upon this rock I will build my Kehillah <n>the Community of Moshiach</n> and the sha'arei She'ol <n>gates of She'ol</n> shall not overpower it.


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I will give you the maftechot Malchut HaShomayim <n>keys of the Kingdom of Heaven</n>; and whatever you shall bind as asur <n>prohibited</n> on ha'aretz shall be bound as asur <n>prohibited</n> in Shomayim, and whatever you shall loose as mutar <n>permitted</n> on ha'aretz shall be loosed as mutar <n>permitted</n> in Shomayim."


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Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave the command to his talmidim that they should tell no one that he was the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH BEGINS TO GIVE THE NEVU'AH <n>PROPHECY</n> OF HIS COMING MAVET AND TECHIYAS HAMESIM


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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 <n>Elders</n>, and the Rashei Hakohanim <n>the Chief Priests</n> and the Sofrim <n>Scribes</n> and be killed and undergo the Techiyas HaMesim on the Yom HaShlishi <n>the Third Day</n>.


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And Kefa took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, "Chas v'shalom <n>G-d forbid!</n> Adoni, this shall never happen to you!"


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach turned and said to Kefa, "Get behind me, Hasatan!  You are a michshol <n>stumbling block</n> to me; for you are not setting your mind on the divrei Elohim <n>the things of G-d</n>, but the things of bnei Adam!"    THE BITTUL HAYESH <n>ABANDONMENT OF SELF</n> MOSHIACH COMMANDS


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Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to his talmidim, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him turn in hinnazrut <n>self-denial</n>, and take up his aitz haKorban <n>tree of sacrifice</n>, and follow me.


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For whoever wishes to save his nefesh shall lose it; but whoever loses his nefesh on account of me [Moshiach], shall find it.


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For what will a man be benefited if he acquires the whole world and forfeits his nefesh, or what will a man give in exchange for his neshamah?


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For the Ben HaAdam <n>Moshiach</n> is about to come in the kavod of his Av with his malachim and will then recompense every man according to his ma'asim <n>deeds</n>.


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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 <n>Moshiach</n> coming in his Malchut."


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And after shisha yamim <n>six days</n>, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach took Kefa and Ya'akov and Yochanan his brother, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach brings them up to a high mountain privately.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was transfigured * before them, and Moshiach's face shone like the shemesh, and his garments became brilliant like the ohr.


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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 <n>three tabernacles</n> here: one for you, and one for Moshe, and one for Eliyahu."


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While he was speaking--hinei!--a brightly shining anan <n>cloud</n> overshadowed them, and--hinei!--a bat kol <n>a Divine voice</n> out of he anan was saying, "This is my Ben ahuvi <n>beloved Son</n> with whom I am well-pleased.   Listen to him."


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And having heard this, the talmidim fell on their faces and were filled with pachad <n>fear, terror</n>.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came to them, and touched them, and said, "Arise, and do not be afraid."


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And as Moshiach's talmidim were coming down from the mountain, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave them this command, saying, "Tell the mar'eh <n>vision</n> to no one until the Ben HaAdam <n>Moshiach</n> has undergone the Techiyas HaMesim."


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And Moshiach's talmidim asked him, saying, "Why then do the Sofrim say that it is necessary for Eliyahu to come first?"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply,  "Eliyahu does indeed have his Bias <n>Coming</n> and will restore all things.


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But I say to you, that Eliyahu already came, and they did not know him, but did to him whatever they willed <n>Mt. 6:10</n>. So also the Ben HaAdam <n>Moshiach</n> is about to suffer by them."


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Then the Moshiach's talmidim understood that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach spoke to them about Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva.  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH HEALS THE BOCHUR POSSESSED BY SHEDIM


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And when they came to the multitude, a man came up to rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, falling down before him.


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And the man said, "Adoni, grant rachamim <n>mercy</n> on this ben <n>son</n> of mine, for he is an epileptic, and suffers horribly; for often he falls into the aish, and often into the mayim.


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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."


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach rebuked it, and the shed <n>demon/evil spirit</n> came out of him, and the bochur received his refu'ah that hour.


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Then the talmidim came to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach privately, and said, "Why were we not able to cast it out?"


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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."


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But these kinds, i.e. kinds of mazikim <n>malicious spirits</n>, do not come out except by tefillah and tzom. MOSHIACH'S SECOND NEVU'AH OF HIS INNUYIM AND THE KAVOD TO FOLLOW


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And as they were gathering together in the Galil, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "The Ben HaAdam <n>Moshiach</n> is about to be handed over, even betrayed, into the hands of bnei  Adam.


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and they will kill him, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach will undergo the Techiyas HaMesim on the Yom HaShlishi."   And Moshiach's talmidim were deeply moved with agmat nefesh.


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And when they had come to  K'far-Nachum, those who collected the two-drachma tax approached Kefa, and said, "Does your rebbe not pay the two-drachma tax?"


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Kefa said, "Ken."  And when Kefa came into the bais <n>house</n>, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach anticipated Kefa with this question, "What think you, Shimon? From whom do the melechei ha'aretz <n>kings of the earth</n> collect customs or poll tax, from their banim <n>sons</n> or from zarim <n>strangers</n>?"


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And upon Kefa's saying, "From zarim," Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to Kefa, "Veha raya <n>consequently</n>, the banim are patur <n>exempt, free</n>.


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But, lest we give them offense, go to the yam <n>sea</n>, and cast in a hook, and take the first dag <n>fish</n> that comes up; and when you open its mouth, you will find a stater <n>coin</n>. Take that and give it to them for you and me."


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At that time, the talmidim approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying, "Who then is greatest in the Malchut HaShomayim?"


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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.


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But whoever causes a michshol <n>stumbling block</n> 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.


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Oy l'Olam <n>Woe to the World</n> because of its michsholim <n>stumbling blocks</n>!  For it is inevitable that michsholim come; but oy to that man through whom the michshol comes.


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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 <n>lame</n>, than, having two hands and two feet, to be cast into the Aish Olam <n>Eternal Fire</n>.


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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 HaAish.


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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 sh'baShomayim <n>my Father who is in Heaven</n>.


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What do you think?  If any man owns a hundred kevasim <n>sheep</n> 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?*


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And if it turns out that he finds it, truly I say to you, he has more simcha <n>joy</n> over it than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.


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Thus it is not the ratson Hashem, the will of your Av sh'baShomayim, that one of these little ones perish.  HOW SIN IS BOUND AND SETTLED IN THE BET DIN OF MOSHIACH'S KEHILLAH IF YOU HAVE A TVIA <n>GRIEVANCE</n> AGAINST YOUR ACH B'MOSHIACH


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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.


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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 <n>`by the mouth of two or three witnesses,` DEVARIM 19:15</n> every word shall be established.


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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 <n>tax-collector</n>.


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Omein, I say to you, whatever you bind as asur <n>prohibited</n> on ha'aretz  will have been bound in Shomayim, and whatever you permit as mutar on ha'aretz is mutar <n>permitted</n> in Shomayim.


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Again, omein I say to you, that if two of you will be in agreement about anything on ha'aretz that you petition for, it will be done for them by Avi sh'baShomayim.


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For where two or three form a kehillah in my name [Moshiach], there I am in the midst of them."                         *A MASHAL OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH ABOUT UNFORGIVENESS


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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 <n>forgiveness</n>? As many as shevah <n>seven</n> times?"


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Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to Kefa, "I do not say to you as many as shevah, but as many as shivim <n>seventy</n> times shevah. MOSHIACH'S MIDRASH ON HIS TEFILLAH MT. 6:12 missing


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Therefore, the Malchut HaShomayim is like a melech, a king, who wished to settle accounts with his servants.


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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.


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Therefore, crying out for rachamim and falling down before him, the servant said, `Have zitzfleisch <n>patience</n> with me and I will pay back to you everything!`


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And out of rachamanut <n>compassion</n>, the adon of that servant pardoned him and forgave the choiv <n>debt</n>.


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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!`


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And, falling down, the servant said to the debtor,`Have zitzfleisch <n>patience</n> with me and I will repay you.`


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But the debtor was not willing. Then the debtor went and threw the servant into the beit hasohar <n>prison</n> until he should repay the debt.


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Therefore, when the man's fellow servants saw what had taken place, they grieved greatly and they went and reported to their adon all that had taken place.


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Then having summoned the debtor, his adon said to him, `Wicked servant, all that choiv <n>debt</n> I forgave you, because you begged me.


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And in charon af <n>wrath</n>, his adon handed the debtor over to the keepers of the beit hasohar until the debtor should repay the entire debt.


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Thus also Avi sh'baShomayim will do to you, unless you grant selicha <n>forgiveness</n>, each one to his brother from your lev <n>heart</n>."


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And it came to pass when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach finished these words, he departed from the Galil and came into the regions of Yehudah east of the Yarden River.


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And a great multitude followed Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach administered refu'ah to them there.


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And the Perushim approached him, and to test him, they asked Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Is it mutar <n>permissible</n> for a man to give a get to his wife for any and every reason?"


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply, "Have you not read that the Boreh <n>Creator, G-d</n> bereshis <n>in the beginning</n> created them zachar <n>male</n> and nekevah <n>female</n> [BERESHIT 1:27, 5:2]?"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, "Because of this, YA'AZAV ISH ES AVIV V'ES IMMO V'DAVAK B'ISHTO V'HAYU L'VASAR ECHAD ("a man will leave his father and his mother and will be joined to his isha <n>wife), and the two will be one flesh," BERESHIT 2:24</n>.


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So they are no longer shnayim <n>two</n> but basar echad <n>one flesh</n>.  Therefore, whatever Hashem joined together, let no man divide asunder."


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They say to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Why then did Moshe Rabbenu give the mitzva to give the get, the sefer keritut <n>bill of divorcement</n>, and send her away?"


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Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, "Moshe, because of your hardness of heart, permitted you to give the get to your wives; from bereshis <n>in the beginning</n>, however, it was not this way.


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But I [Moshiach] say to you that whoever, the case of zenut <n>fornication</n> being excepted, gives the get to his wife and marries another, is guilty of ni'uf <n>adultery</n>."


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Moshiach's talmidim say to him, "If thus is the case of the man with the wife, it is not advantageous to marry."


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Not everyone is able to accept this divrei torah, but rather those to whom it has been given.


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For there are sarisim <n>eunuchs</n> 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 this."  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH ON THE SUBJECT OF CHINUCH HABANOS


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Then yeladim were brought to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach that he might place his hands on them and offer tefillos. However, Moshiach's talmidim rebuked them.


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, "Permit the yeladim to come to me, and forbid them not, *  for of such is the Malchut HaShomayim."  YELADIM RECEIVE THE BIRKAT REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH


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And having placed his hands on the yeladim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach departed from there. REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH AND ONE OF THE BAALE-BATTIM OF YISROEL, WHO BECAUSE OF HIS LACK OF PERCEPTION OF TRUE RICHES, PASSES BY THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECEIVE MOSHIACH'S S'MICHAH TO THE MINISTRY


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And--hinei--one, having approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, said, "Rebbe, what mitzva, what good may I do that I may have Chayyei Olam?"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, "Why do you ask me about the good?  There is only One who is good.  But if you wish to enter into Chayyim <n>Life</n>, do not fail to be shomer mitzvot."


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He says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach,  "Which mitzva?"  And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, "LO TIRTZACH, LO TINAF, LO TIGNOV, LO TA'ANEH V'REI'ACHAH AD SHAKER, KABEID ES A'VICHA V'ES IMMECHAH, V'AHAVTAH L'RE'ACHA KAMOCHA ("You shall not murder, commit adultery, steal, bear false witness;


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honor your father and your mother, and You shall love your neighbor as yourself," SHEMOT 20:13 <n>13-16); DEVARIM 5:17-20; SHEMOT 20:12; DEVARIM 5:16; VAYIKRA 19:18.</n>


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The bochur <n>young man</n> says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "I was shomer mitzvot and frum in all these things, so where do I still fall short?"


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Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, "If you wish to be tamim <n>perfect</n>, if you wish to have shelemut <n>perfection, completeness</n>, then go and sell your possessions and give to the anyim <n>poor</n> and you will have otzar <n>treasure</n> in Shomayim. Then come and follow me."


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But having heard the divrei Moshiach, the young man went away with agmat nefesh <n>grief</n>, for he was having many possessions.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to his talmidim, "Omein, I say to you that a rich person with difficulty will enter into the Malchut HaShomayim.


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And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to  go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter into the Malchut HaShomayim."


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And when Moshiach's talmidim heard this, they were exceedingly astounded, saying, "Who then is able to receive the Yeshuat Eloheinu <n>Salvation of our G-d</n>?"


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And having looked upon them, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "With bnei Adam it is impossible; but with Hashem all things are possible."


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Then Kefa said in reply to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Hinei! We have left everything and followed you [as Moshiach]!  Where does that leave us?"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Omein, I say to you, that you, the ones having followed me, when the Bri'ah <n>Creation</n> becomes Chadasha <n>New</n>, when the Ben HaAdam <n>Moshiach</n> sits upon his Kisei Kavod <n>Throne of Glory</n>, you also will sit upon the Shneym Asar Kisot <n>Twelve Thrones</n> judging the Shneym Asar Shivtei Yisroel <n>the Twelve Tribes of Israel</n>.


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And anyone who left bais or achim or achayot or Av or Em or banim or sadot <n>fields</n> on account of me <n>Moshiach</n> and my Name <n>Yehoshua</n>, will receive a hundred times over and will inherit Chayyei Olam.


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And many who are Rishonim <n>first ones</n> will be Acharonim <n>last ones</n>, and the Acharonim, Rishonim."


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"The Malchut HaShomayim is like a man, the Ba'al Bayit, who went out early in the boker <n>morning</n>, to hire po'alim <n>workers</n> for his kerem <n>vineyard</n>.


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And having agreed with the po'alim to salary them a denarius for their day's pay, the Ba'al Bayit sent them into his kerem.


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and he said to those, `You go also into the kerem. And whatever is right, this is what your pay will be.'


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And they left.  And again, having gone out around the sixth and the ninth hour, the Ba'al Bayit did the same thing.


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And around the eleventh hour, having gone out, the Ba'al Bayit found others standing around, and he says to them,  `Why have you been standing here all the day not working?'


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The idle workers say to the Ba'al Bayit, `Because no one hired us.` The Ba'al Bayit says to them, `You go also into the kerem.'


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And when erev had come, another man, the owner of the kerem, says to his foreman, `Call the po'alim and give to them the wage, beginning with the acharonim and going to the rishonim.'


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And when the rishonim came, they were under the impression that they would receive a larger sum; instead, they themselves each received a denarius.


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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.'


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But the Ba'al 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?


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Take what belongs to you, your denarius, and go.  But it is my ratson, my good pleasure, to give to this one who is last also what I gave to you.


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Thus the Rishonim will be Acharonim, and the Acharonim will be Rishonim."  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH AND HIS THIRD NEVU'AH CONCERNING HIS MAVET AND TECHIYAS HAMESIM


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And going up to Yerushalayim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach took the Shneym Asar Talmidim aside privately, and, on the way, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them,


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"Hinei!  We are going up to Yerushalayim, and the Ben HaAdam <n>Moshiach</n> will be handed over to the Rashei Hakohanim and the Sofrim <n>scribes, Torah-teachers, or rabbonim</n>, and they will condemn him to death.


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And they will hand Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach over to the Goyim in order to mock and to whip and to hang him up pierced al Aitz <n>on the Tree</n>, and on the Yom HaShlishi <n>Third Day</n> there will be Moshiach's Techiyas HaMesim." ARE YOU ABLE TO SHARE MOSHIACH'S KOS?


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Then the Em of Zavdai's banim, along with the sons, approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and, prostrating herself before him, she made a bakosha <n>request</n> of him.


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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 <n>the Moshiach's</n> Malchut <n>Kingdom</n>."


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply, "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the Kos which I am about to drink?"  They say, "We are able."


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Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach 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 <n>Moshiach's</n> Av."


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And having heard this, the Asarah <n>the Ten</n> became indignant about the two achim <n>brothers</n>.


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having summoned them, said, "You know that those who have the rule over the Goyim domineer them like tyrants.


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But it will not be thus among you. For whoever wishes to be gadol among you will become your mesharet <n>servant,minister</n>. *


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Just as the Ben HaAdam <n>Moshiach</n> 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 <n>ransom</n> LARABBIM <n>`for the sake of many, `YESHAYAH 53:11</n>. A MIRACLE: TWO JEWISH MEN LEARN TO SEE REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH BEN DOVID


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And--hinei!--two ivrim <n>blind men</n>, sitting beside the road, having heard that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach is passing by, shouted, crying out, "Adoneinu, Ben Dovid, chaneinu, y'hi chase'd'cha aleinu" <n>"have mercy on us" TEHILLIM 33:22</n>!"


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However, the crowd rebuked the two ivrim, that they be silent, but they shouted even more, saying "Chaneinu, Adoneinu Ben Dovid!"


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And having stopped, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach called to them and said, "What do you wish that I should do for you?"


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And having been filled with rachmei shomayim <n>heavenly mercy/compassion</n>, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach touched their eyes, and immediately their eyes were opened and they followed Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.


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saying to them, "Go into the village 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.


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"And if anyone should say to you anything, you say, `The Adon has need of them.' And he will send them immediately."


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IMRU L'BAT TZIYON! <n>"Tell the Daughter of Zion!"</n>  "Hinei! Your Melech comes, ANI V'ROCHEV AL CHAMOR V'AL AYIR BEN ATONOT <n>"poor/humble and riding on a donkey and upon a colt, the foal of donkeys" YESHAYAH 62:11; ZECHARYAH 9:9</n>.


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they brought the donkey and the colt and they put their garments upon them, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach sat upon them.


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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.


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And the multitudes going before Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and the multitudes following after Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach were crying out, saying, "HOSHAN NAH <n>`Save now`, TEHILLIM 118:25-26</n> to Ben Dovid!  BARUCH HABAH B'SHEM ADONAI!"  *Hoshannah in the Highest!"


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And when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had entered into Yerushalayim, the whole city was stirred, saying, "Who is this?"


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And the multitudes were saying, "This is Yehoshua HaNavi!  From Natzeret in the Galil."  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH CLEANSES THE BEIS HAMIKDASH


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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 <n>tables</n> of the machalifei hakesafim <n>money changers</n> and the chairs of those selling the yonim <n>doves</n>.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, "It has been written, BEITI BEIT TEFILLAH YIKAREI <n>"My House shall be called a House of Prayer," YESHAYAH 56:7</n>, but you are making it into a ME'ARAT PARITZIM <n>"den of robbers," YIRMEYAH 7:11</n>."


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And iverim <n>blind persons</n> and pisechim <n>lame persons</n> came to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach in the Beis Hamikdash, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach administered refu'ah to them.


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And the Rashei Hakohanim and the Sofrim, having seen the niflaot which Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach accomplished and the yeladim shouting in the Beis Hamikdash, "Hosha nah to the Ben Dovid," were indignant.


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And they said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Do you hear what these are saying?"  And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, "Ken.  Have you never read, MIPI OLELIM V'YONKIM YISSADETAH OZ <n>"From the lips of children and infants You ordained strength/praise," TEHILLIM 8:3[2]</n>?"


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And having left them, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went out of the city to Beit-Anyah <n>Bethany</n> and spent the night there. WHATEVER IS WITHOUT P'RI <n>FRUIT</n> IN REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH IS CURSED


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And observing the aitz te'enah <n>fig tree</n> on the way, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went up to it and found nothing on it, except leaves, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to it, "No longer from you will there ever be p'ri <n>fruit</n>!"  And the aitz te'enah <n>fig tree</n> withered then and there.


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And observing this, the talmidim were astounded, saying, "How did the aitz te'enah instantly wither?"


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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 aitz te'enah, but also if you say to this mountain, `Be lifted up and be thrown into the sea,' it will happen."


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And, when you daven, all things whatever you may with emunah make techinah <n>petition, supplication</n>, with emunah you will receive.  THE SAMCHUT OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH IS QUESTIONED


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And after Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had gone into the Beis Hamikdash, while Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was bringing forth his torah, the Rashei Hakohanim and the Zekenim of the people approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying, "By what samchut <n>authority</n> do you do these things?  And who granted you this samchut?"


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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...


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the tevilah in the mikveh mayim that Yochanan administered...it was from where, from Shomayim or from bnei Adam <n>the sons of Men</n>?" 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?`


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And in reply to him, they said, "We do not know."  And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what samchut I do these things." REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH GIVES A MASHAL THAT TEACHES TRUE TESHUVA


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"What do you think?  A man had two banim <n>sons</n>. And having approached the rishon <n>first</n>, the man said, `Beni <n>my son</n>, go today and work in the kerem <n>vineyard</n>.`


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Which of the two did the ratson haAv <n>the will of the Father</n>? They say, "The rishon <n>the first</n>."  Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, "Omein, I say to you, that the mochesim <n>tax-collectors</n> and the zonot <n>prostitutes</n> are going in ahead of you into the Malchut Hashem.


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For Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva came to you in the Derech Tzidkat Hashem <n>Way of Righteousness</n>, 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 and believe him."   REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH THE BECHOR <n>TEHILLIM 89:28</n>: A MASHAL


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"Listen to another mashal.  There was a man, a Ba'al Bayit, who planted a kerem <n>vineyard</n>.  And he put a fence around it, and he dug a yekev <n>winepress</n> in it, and built a migdal <n>tower</n> and leased it to koremim <n>vine-keepers</n> and departed.


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And when the time of the Katsir <n>Harvest</n> came, the Ba'al Bayit sent his servants to the koremim to receive the p'ri <n>fruit</n>.


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And the koremim, having seized his servants, this one they beat, another they killed, and another they stoned.


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And the Ba'al Bayit sent other servants, more than the rishonim <n>firstones</n>, and the koremim did the same thing to them.


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And when the koremim saw the Ben, they said among themselves, "This is the Bechor <n>Firstborn</n>, the Yoresh <n>Heir</n>. Come, let us kill him and let us take possession of his bechorah <n>inheritance</n>.


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Therefore, when the Ba'al HaKerem <n>Owner of the Vineyard</n> comes, what will he do to those koremim <n>vine-keepers</n>?"


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They say to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Those resha'im <n>evildoers</n> the Ba'al HaKerem will bring to a terrible niftar <n>decease</n> and the Kerem the Ba'al HaKerem will lease to other koremim, who will render unto the Ba'al haKerem the P'RI B'ITO <n>`fruit in its season, `TEHILLIM 1:3</n>."


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Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, "Have you never heard in the Kitvei Hakodesh <n>Holy Scriptures</n>, EVEN MA'ASU HABONIM HAY'TAH LEROSH PINAH;  MEI'ES HASHEM HAY'TAH ZOT, HI NIFLAT B'EINEINU <n>"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</n>?


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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 p'ri."


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[And the one having fallen on this stone will be crushed; and on whom ever it falls it will crush him.]


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And having heard Moshiach's mashal, the Rashei Hakohanim and the Perushim understood that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach spoke about them.


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And seeking to arrest him, they were afraid of the multitudes, vi-bahlt <n>since</n> the multitudes considered him a Navi.


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"The Malchut HaShomayim is like a man, a Melech <n>King</n>, who prepared a chassuna <n>wedding</n> feast for his Ben.


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And the Melech sent out his servants to summon the Bnei haChuppah <n>wedding invitees--Mt.9:15</n> to the chassuna, and they did not want to come.


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Again, the Melech sent out other servants, saying, `Tell the Bnei HaChuppah, the wedding invitees, "Hinei! My Seudah I have prepared, my oxen and fatten calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready: Come to the chassuna!"`


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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;


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meanwhile, the others seized the Mesharetim HaMelech <n>Ministers of the King</n> and abused them and killed them.


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So the Melech was angry and, having sent his armies, the King destroyed those ratzchaniyot <n>murderers</n>, and their city he burned.


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Therefore, go to the intercessions of the streets, and, whoever you find, invite as muzmanim <n>guests</n> to the chassuna.'


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And having gone out to the highways, those ministers congregated everyone they found, rah and tov <n>evil and good</n>, and the chassuna was filled with muzmanim <n>guests</n>.


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And the Melech, having entered to see the ones sitting bimesibba <n>reclining at tish</n>, spotted there a man lacking the attire proper for the chassuna.


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And the Melech says to him, `Chaver, how did you get in here, not having attire proper for the chassuna?' But the man had nothing to say.  *


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Then the King said to the servants, `Bind him feet and hands and expell him into the outer choshech, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH AND THE YECHIDE SEGULAH <n>CHOSEN FEW</n>


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For the invited ones are many, but the nivcharim <n>chosen ones</n> are few.'" REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH AND HIS GAINSAYERS


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Then, having departed, the Perushim took counsel together so that they might entrap Yehoshua in his own words.


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And they are sending to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach their talmidim with the Herodians, saying, "Rabbi, we know that you are an ehrliche Yid <n>a good Jew</n> 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.


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Therefore, tell us what to you seems right:  is it mutar <n>permissible</n> to pay Poll tax to Caesar or not?"


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having known their rah <n>evil</n>, said to them "Why do you test me, tzevu'im <n>hypocrites</n>?


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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, unto Hashem."


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And having heard this, they were amazed and, having left Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, they went away.  THE SHEILAH <n>QUESTION</n> ABOUT THE TECHIYAS HAMESIM


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saying, "Rabbi, Moshe Rabbenu  said that if someone dies, not having banim, his brother shall marry his isha <n>wife</n> to raise up zera <n>seed</n> for his brother.


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Now there were among us shiva achim <n>seven brothers</n>, and the first, having married, died.  And not having zera <n>offspring</n>, left his isha to his brother.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply to them, "You are in error, not having known the Kitvei HaKodesh or the gevurat Hashem."


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For in the Techiyas HaMesim they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like the malachim in Shomayim.


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ANOCHI ELOHEI AVRAHAM ELOHEI YITZCHAK VEELOHEI YA'AKOV <n>"I am the G-d of Avraham, the G-d of Yitzchak, and the G-d of Ya'akov," [SHEMOT 3:6]</n>?  Hashem is not the G-d of the Mesim <n>dead ones</n> but the G-d of the Chayyim <n>living</n>."


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And having heard this, the multitudes were amazed at oshiach's torah <n>teaching</n>. THE GREATEST MITZVAH


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and one of them, a Ba'al Torah <n>learned Torah scholar</n>, tried to trip up Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach with a sh'eilah <n>question</n>:


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave this teshuva <n>answer</n> to the Ba'al Torah, "V'AHAVTAH ES ADONAI ELOHECHA B'CHOL LEVAVCHA UV'CHOL NAFSHECHA UV'CHOL M'ODECHA <n>"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]</n>.


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And the second mitzva is like it: V'AHAVTAH L'REI'ACHA KAMOCHA"<n>"And thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," [VAYIKRA 19:18]</n>.


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On these two mitzvot hang the entire Torah and the Nevi'im.  MOSHIACH MAKES A DIYUK <n>INFERENCE</n> WHICH GIVES US THE TRUE DAAS TORAH INTERPRETATION OF TEHILLIM 110:1*


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saying, "What do you think concerning the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach?  Whose Ben is he?"  The Perushim gave this teshuva <n>answer</n> to him, "Ben Dovid."


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NE'UM HASHEM LAADONI, SHEV LIMINI AD ASHIT OYVECHA HADOM LERAGLECHA <n>"Utterance of Hashem to my L-rd, `Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a foot stool for your feet`" TEHILLIM 110:1</n>.


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And no one was able to give a teshuva <n>answer</n> to him, nor did anyone dare to pose another sh'eilah <n>question</n> to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach from that day on.


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Therefore, everything whatever they may tell you, be frum and be shomer, but according to their ma'asim <n>works</n> do not be shomer, for they do not practice what they preach.


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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.  DO NOT SEEK AFTER CHASHIVUS OR A CHASHUVE POSITION IN THE KEHILLAH


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And all their ma'asim hamitzvot <n>works of the commandments</n> they do in order to be seen by bnei Adam, for they their tefillin broad and lengthen their tzitziyot


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But you are not to have pretentious titles like `Rebbe,' for One is your Rebbe [Moshiach], and all of you are achim.


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But whoever will lift up himself will be humbled, and whoever will humble himself will be lifted up.


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But oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevu'im <n>hypocrites</n>, 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.


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Oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevu'im, for you travel over the sea and the dry land for the giyyur <n>proselytization</n> of one proselyte and then,  when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehinnom as you.


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Oy to you, morei derech ivrim <n>blind guides</n>, the, ones saying,`Whoever swears by the Beis Hamikdash, it is a worthless shevu'ah <n>oath</n>: but whoever swears by the gold of the Beis Hamikdash, he is obligated.'


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Iverim! <n>blind ones</n>, for which is greater, the gold  or the Beis Hamikdash which gives the gold its kedusha <n>holiness, sanctity</n>?


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`And whoever swears by the Mizbe'ach <n>altar</n>, it is worthless; but whoever swears by the korban upon it, he is obligated.'


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Ivrim, blind ones, for which is greater, the korban or the Mizbe'ach which gives the korban its kedusha <n>holiness, sanctity</n>?


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And the one having sworn by Shomayim swears by the Kisei Hashem and by the One sitting upon it. REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH SPEAKS ABOUT TERUMOS <n>OFFERINGS</n> AND MA'ASROS <n>TITHES</n>


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Oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevu'im, for you give ma'aser <n>tithe</n> 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.


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Morei derech ivrim <n>blind guides</n>, the ones that strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH DEMANDS EHRLICHE YIDEN, WITH ALL HIS TALMIDIM GLAT KOSHER <n>FIT, PROPER</n> ON THE INSIDE AND WITH HIS HECHSHER THAT EACH IS A KOSHERER YID <n>GOOD AND RIGHTEOUS JEW</n>


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Oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevu'im,  you cleanse the outside of the kos <n>cup</n> and the dish, but inside they are full of chamdanut <n>greed</n> and ta'avanut <n>lust</n>.


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Oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevu'im, for you are like kevarim <n>graves</n> having been whitewashed which on the outside indeed appear ois vaist <n>ostensibly</n> shein <n>beautiful</n>, but on the inside are full of the unclean bones of the mesim <n>dead ones</n> and every kind of unclean treifoh.


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Thus on the outside you indeed appear tzodek <n>righteous</n> to bnei Adam, but on the inside you are full of tzevi'ut <n>hypocrisy</n> and you are lawlessly against the Torah.


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Oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevu'im, for you build kevarim of the Nevi'im and decorate matsevot <n>gravestones</n> of the tzaddikim,


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and you say, `If we were in the yamim <n>days</n> of Avoteinu <n>our Fathers</n>, we would not have been chaverim <n>partners</n> with them in the dahm haNevi'im <n>blood of the Prophets</n>.`


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Therefore, you give edut <n>testimony</n> against yourselves that you are the banim <n>sons</n> of the ratzchaniyot <n>murderers</n> of the Nevi'im.


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For this reason--hinei!--I send to you Nevi'im and Chachamim and Sofrim, some of whom you will kill and some you will pierce al aitz <n>on the tree</n> and some you will subject to the shot <n>whip</n> in your shuls, and you will drive them out from city to city,


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so that upon you may come all the dahm naki <n>innocent blood</n> shed upon the earth from the blood of Hevel to the blood of Zecharyah, *  whom you murdered between the Heikhal and the Mizbe'ach.


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Omein, I say to you, that all these things will come upon this generation. REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH GIVES THE NEVU'AH <n>PROPHECY</n> OF THE CHURBAN <n>DESTRUCTION</n> OF THE BEIS HAMIKDASH AND THE MAKKOS <n>PLAGUES</n> OF THE ACHARIT HAYAMIM--HIS KENA <n>LAMENT</n> OVER YERUSHALAYIM


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Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim, the ones that kill the Nevi'im 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!


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Hinei! Look!  KI LECHARBAHYIH' YEH HABEIT HAZEH (`for this House will become a ruin` <n>i.e. churban), YIRMEYAH 22:5</n>.


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For I say to you, by no means will you see me <n>Moshiach</n> from now until you say, BARUCH HABA B'SHEM ADONAI <n>`Blessed is the One who comes in the Name of Adonoi`</n>.


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And having exited from the Beis Hamikdash, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach departed, and his talmidim approached to show him the buildings of the Beis Hamikdash.


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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."


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And while Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was sitting upon the Mount of Olives, his talmidim approached him privately, saying, "Tell us when these things will be and what about the ot <n>sign</n> of the Bias Moshiach, of your Coming, and the kets haOlam Hazeh?"


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For many  will come in my Name, saying `I am  the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.`   And they will deceive many.


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But you are about to hear about milchamot <n>wars</n> 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 haKets <n>the End</n>.


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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.


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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 <n>Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua</n>.


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And then many will be led into chet <n>sin</n>, and others they will hand over and they will hate others.


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And because of the increased hefkerut <n>lawlessness, anarchy --Mt.7:23</n>, the agape <n>love</n> of many will become cold.


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But the one having endured to HaKets <n>the End</n>, this one will receive Yeshu'at Eloheinu <n>the Salvation of our G-d</n>.


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And this Besuras HaGeulah of the Malchut will be announced in kol haOlam <n>all the world</n> as an edut <n>testimony</n> to all the Goyim, and then will come haKets <n>the End</n>. REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH ON THE TZARAH GEDOLAH


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Therefore, when you see the Shikuts HaMeshomem <n>Abomination of Desolation</n>, the thing spoken through Daniel HaNavi, having stood in the Makom Kadosh <n>Holy Place, i.e. the Beis Hamikdash</n> --let the reader understand!


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For then will be Tzarah Gedolah <n>Great Tribulation*</n> such as has not been from Reshit HaOlam <n>Beginning of the World</n> until now nor will it by any means happen again.


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And if those days were not cut short, kol basar <n>all flesh</n> would not be saved.  But, on account of the Kedoshim, the Bechirim <n>Chosen Ones</n>, those days will be cut short.


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Then, if someone says to you, `Hinei, here is the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach!,` or, `Hinei! Here!` do not have emunah <n>faith</n> [in that].


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For meshichei sheker <n>false moshiachs</n> will arise, and nevi'ei sheker <n>false prophets</n>, and they will give otot gedolim <n>great signs</n> and moftim <n>wonders</n>, so as to deceive, if possible, even the Bechirim <n>Chosen ones</n>.


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If, therefore, they say to you, `Hinei! He <n>Moshiach</n> is in the desert!` do not go out [there].  `Hinei! [Moshiach] is in the secret cheder <n>room</n>!` do not have emunah <n>faith</n> [in that].


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For as lightning goes out from the mizrach <n>east</n> and shines to as far as the ma'arav <n>west</n>, thus will be the Bias HaMoshiach <n>coming of the Messiah, the Ben HaAdam, the Son of Man--DANIEL 7:13-14</n>. *


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Wherever the place of the Geviya <n>Corpse</n> is, there will be gathered together the nesharim <n>vultures, eagles [popularly]</n>. THE BIAS HAMOSHIACH; THE GEULAH SHELEMAH <n>THE FINAL REDEMPTION</n> AS THE MOSHIACH'S MALACHIM COME FOR THE KIBUZ GALUYOT <n>THE INGATHERING OF THE EXILES</n>


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Immediately after the Tzarah <n>Tribulation--Mt.24:21</n> of those days, the shemesh <n>sun</n> will be darkened, and the yare'ach <n>moon</n> will not give its light.  And the kochavim <n>stars</n> will fall from Shomayim, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.


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And then will appear the Ot Ben Adam <n>the Sign of the Son of Man</n> in Shomayim. All the tribes of kol ha'aretz <n>all the earth</n> will see the Ben HaAdam Moshiach and his Bias, his Coming, on the ananim of Shomayim <n>clouds of glory of Heaven</n> with gevurah <n>power</n> and great kavod <n>glory</n>.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach 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."  MOSHIACH'S HINT FOR MECHASHVEI KITSIN <n>RECKONERS OF THE END OF DAYS, ESCHATOLOGISTS</n>


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"And from the aitz te'enah <n>fig tree</n>, learn its parabolic lesson: when its branch has become tender already and sprouts leaves, you know that Kayits <n>Summer</n> is near;


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Omein, I say to you, that this dor <n>generation</n> will by no means pass away until all these things come about.


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Shomayim v'ha'Aretz <n>Heaven and Earth</n> will pass away, but my Dvar <n>Word</n> will by no means pass away.


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But concerning that day and hour, no one knows, neither the malachim haShomayim nor HaBen, but only HaAv <n>the Father</n>.


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For as they were in those days before HaMabbul <n>the Flood</n>, eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noach entered the Tevah <n>Ark</n>.


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And they did not know until HaMabbul came and took away everything--thus also will be the Bias HaMoshiach, the Coming of the Ben HaAdam.


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Then two men will be in the field, one is snatched away, and one is left behind <n>not retained</n>.


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So be shomer, be on your guard, because you do not know on which day will be the Bias of Adoneichem <n>your L-rd</n>.


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But understand this: if the Ba'al 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.


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For this reason also you be shomer,  for in the hour when you do not think, then will be the Bias HaMoshiach <n>the Coming of the Ben HaAdam</n>.  THE FAITHFUL EVED VERSUS THE UNFAITHFUL EVED


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Who then is the faithful and wise eved <n>servant</n>, whom the Adon appointed over the household servants to give the other servants their food at the prescribed time?


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and he begins to beat his fellow avadim <n>slaves</n>, and he eats and drinks with the ones getting drunk,


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the Adon of that slave will come on a day which he does not expect, and at an hour which he does not know.


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And the Adon will cut in two that slave, and the slaves' portion he will put with the tzevu'im <n>hypocrites</n>. There will be weeping and grinding of teeth."


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Then the Malchut HaShomayim will be compared to eser almot <n>ten virgins</n>, who, having taken their menorahs, went out to meet the Chosson <n>Bridegroom</n>.


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Now the Chosson, being delayed, here's what happened:  all the almot became drowsy and were sleeping.


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And at chatsot halailah <n>midnight</n> there was a shout, `Hinei! The Chosson <n>Bridegroom</n>! Go out to meet him!`


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But the foolish said to the wise, `Give us from your shemen <n>oil</n>, for our menorahs are going out.`


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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.`


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And as they were going away to buy, the Bias of the Chosson <n>Bridegroom</n> occurred!  The ones prepared entered with him into the Chassuna <n>Wedding</n> feast and the door was shut.


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Be shomer, be on the alert, therefore, for you do not know the Yom or the Sha'ah <n>hour, time</n>.  USING ONE'S TALENTS FOR REBBE,MELECH HAMOSHIACH: A MASHAL TEACHING THAT WE ARE ACCOUNTABLE FOR EVERY KISHROINOS <n>TALENT</n>


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For it is as a man going on a journey, who called to his own avadim <n>slaves</n> and handed over to them his possessions.


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after the man had gone, the one having received the five talents, went to work with them, and gained five others.


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But the one, having received one, went out and dug a hole in the ground and buried the gelt <n>money</n> of his Adon in a hiding place.


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And after much time, here comes the Adon of those servants.  And he conducts a settling of accounts with them.


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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.`


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And his Adon said to him, `Shkoyach <n>well done</n>, eved tov v'ne'eman! <n>good and faithful servant</n>! A few things you were faithful over, over many things I will ordain you.  Enter into the simcha of your Adon.


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And having come forward, the one having received two talents, said, `You bestowed upon me two talents. Hinei! Two more talents I gained.`


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His Adon said to him, `Shkoyach <n>well done</n>, eved tov v'ne'eman!  A few things you were faithful over, over many things I will ordain you. Enter into the simcha of your Adon.`


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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.


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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.`


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And, in reply, his Adon said to him, `You farbissener <n>mean</n> eved rah v'atzel <n>wicked and lazy slave</n>, so you knew that I reap where I did not sow and I gather from which I did not scatter seed?


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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?


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For to everyone 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.


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And as for the useless slave, throw him into the outer choshech. There will be weeping and grinding of teeth.  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH AND THE YOM HADIN OF THE NATIONS


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And there will be assembled all the Goyim, and He will separate them from each other as the Ro'eh <n>the Shepherd</n> separates the Kevasim <n>Sheep</n> from the Izzim <n>Goats</n>.


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Then HaMelech HaMoshiach will say to the ones on his right, `Come! Baruchei Avi <n>Blessed of my Father</n>, receive the bechorah <n>inheritance</n>, the Malchut prepared for you from before Hivvased HaOlam <n>the establishing of the world</n>.


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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 hachnosat orchim <n>hospitality</n> to me.


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I was naked and you gave me malbish arumim <n>clothing the naked</n>.  I was ill and with bikkur cholim <n>visiting the sick</n> you ministered to me. I was in the beit hasohar <n>prison</n> and you came to me.`


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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?


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And when did we see you a sojourner and we extended hachnosat orchim <n>hospitality</n> to you, or naked and we clothed you?


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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.`


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Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach will say also to the ones on his left, `Depart from me, the ones having been cursed, into the Aish Olam having been prepared for Hasatan and his malachim.


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For I hungered and you did not give me something to eat, I thirsted and you did not give drink to me.


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I was a sojourner and you did not extend hachnosat orchim to me, I was naked and you did not clothe me, ill and in the beit hasohar and you did not visit me.


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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?


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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 for me did you do it.


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And these will go away into Onesh Olam <n>Eternal Punishment*</n>, but the tzaddikim into Chayyei Olam <n>Eternal Life</n>.`


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"You know, that after two days, there is Pesach, and the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach <n>Ben HaAdam</n> is handed over to be pierced al Aitz <n>on the Tree</n>."


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Then the Rashei Hakohanim and the Ziknei haAm <n>Elders of the People</n> were assembled in the courtyard of the residence of the Kohen Gadol <n>High Priest</n>, the one being called Caiapha.


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But they were saying, "Not during the Chag <n>Feast</n>, lest a riot break out among the am ha'aretz."


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an isha <n>woman</n> approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach with an alabaster flask of costly mishcha <n>ointment</n>, and she poured it out on Moshiach's rosh, as he sat bimesibba <n>reclining at tish [table]</n>.


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For it would have been possible to sell this for a generous sum and give to the aniyim <n>poor ones</n>."


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Aware of this, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Why are you bringing about difficulty for the isha for the ma'aseh tov <n>good deed</n> she does to me."


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For this isha <n>woman</n> has poured this ointment on my guf <n>body</n> in order to prepare me for kevurah <n>burial</n>.


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Omein, I say to you, wherever this Besuras HaGeulah is preached b'chol HaOlam <n>in all the world</n>, in her zechirah <n>remembrance</n> it will be spoken also what was done by her."


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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 <n>thirty pieces of silver</n>.


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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?"


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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.`"


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And the talmidim did as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach commanded them, and they prepared the Seder.  MOSHIACH'S FINAL HAMOTZI AND BERAKHAH OVER THE CUP OF BERACHA <n>BLESSING</n> AT MOSHIACH'S SEDER


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When erev came, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was sitting bimesibba <n>reclining</n> at tish with the Shneym Asar Talmidim.


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And as they were eating with their Rebbe, he said, "Omein, I say to you that one of you will be my betrayer."  THE TIME OF CHESHBON HANEFESH OF THE SHLUCHIM AND THE BEDIKAS CHOMETZ OF DENIAL AND BETRAYAL


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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."


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"Indeed the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach <n>Ben HaAdam</n> goes as it was written concerning him, but oy to that man through whom the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach <n>Ben HaAdam</n> is betrayed.  It would have been better for that man if he had not been born."


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And, in reply, Yehudah the betrayer of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, said, "Surely I am not the one, Rebbi?"  Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to Yehudah, "You have said it."


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And at the Seudah, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having taken matzah, having made the ha-Motzi, he offered the betzi'at halechem <n>breaking of the bread</n>, giving it to the talmidim, and said, "Take and eat, this is my    basar." *  THE FINAL KIDDUSH IN ZIKARON <n>REMEMBRANCE</n> OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH WHOSE TZAVA'AH <n>LAST WILL</n> IS THE BRIT CHADASHA KAPPARAH FOR OUR SELICHA <n>FORGIVENESS</n> AND DEVEKUS <n>COMMUNION WITH G-D</n>


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And having taken the Kiddush Cup <n>Kos</n> and having made the beracha, he gave it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you.


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For this is my [Moshiach's] Dahm HaBrit HaChadasha, which is being shed LARABBIM <n>`for Many` YESHAYAH 53:11-12</n> for the selicha <n>forgiveness</n> of chatta'im <n>sins</n>.


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And I say to you, I will by no means drink from now on of this p'ri hagefen <n>fruit of the vine</n> until that Day when I drink it with you chadash <n>new</n> in the Malchut Avi <n>Kingdom of my Father</n>." MOSHIACH'S L'HITRAOT AND THE FINAL MIZMOR <n>HYMN</n>, THE LAST TISH NIGGUN OF OUR REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH


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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 HARO'EH UTEFUTSEN HATSON <n>"Strike the Shepherd and the sheep will be scattered" ZECHARYAH 13:7</n>.


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And, in reply, Kefa said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "If everyone will be offended at you, I never will be offended."


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Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, "Omein, I say to you that balailah hazeh <n>during this night</n>, before a tarnegol <n>cock</n> crows, you will make hakhchashah <n>denial</n> of me [as Moshiach] shalosh pa'amim <n>three times</n>."


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Kefa says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Even if it is necessary for me to die with you, by no means will I deny you. "Likewise all the talmidim spoke also.   THE FINAL TEMPTATION OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH; THE ADAM HECHADASH IN THE GAN HANISYONOS <n>GARDEN OF TEMPTATION</n> GAINS THE  ESCHATOLOGICAL MESSIANIC NITZACHON <n>VICTORY</n>


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Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach comes with them to a place being called Gat-Sh'manim, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to the talmidim, "Sit here until I go over there and daven."


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And having taken Kefa and the two sons of Zavdai, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach began to be sorrowful and distressed with agmat nefesh <n>grief</n>.


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Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, "My nefesh is deadly grieved, even to the point of mavet <n>death</n>.  Remain here and stay awake with me."


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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 <n>Mt.6:10; 12:50</n>." MISHMAROT <n>WATCHMEN</n> FALL ASLEEP


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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?


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Stay awake and offer tefillos, lest you enter lidey nisayon <n>Mt.6:13</n>.  Indeed the ruach is willing but the basar is weak."


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Again, for a second time, having left, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach davened, saying, "Avi, if it is not possible for this to pass by except I drink it, let ye'aseh  r'tzonechah." [Mt.6:10]


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And having come again, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach found the talmidim sleeping, for their eyes were too heavy to stay open.


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And having left them again and having gone away, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was davening for the shlishit <n>third</n> time, saying the same words.


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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 Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach <n>Ben HaAdam</n> is being betrayed into the hands of chote'im <n>sinners</n>.


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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 <n>Chief Priests</n> and the Ziknei haAm <n>the Elders of the People</n>.


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Now the betrayer had given them a signal, saying, "Whomever I may give the neshikah <n>kiss</n>, he is the one. Chap <n>grab</n> him!"


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And immediately, he approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and said, "Shalom, Rebbe."  And he gave him the neshikah.


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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.


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And--hinei!--one of the ones with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach stretched out his hand, drew his cherev <n>sword</n>, and struck the servant of the Kohen Gadol, cutting off his ear.


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Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, "Return your sword into its place; for all who take the sword will die by the sword.


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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?


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At that moment, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to the multitudes, "Do you have the chutzpah <n>nerve</n> to come out, as against a revolutionary, with swords and clubs to arrest me? Daily in the Beis Hamikdash I was sitting giving my torah <n>teaching</n> and you did not arrest me.


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But this all happened that the Kitvei Hakodesh of the Nevi'im might be fulfilled."  Then the talmidim deserted Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and fled.  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN, THE BEGINNING OF HIS TZA'AR <n>PAIN AND SUFFERING</n>


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But the ones having arrested Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach led him away to Caiapha the Kohen Gadol, where the Sofrim and the Zekenim <n>Elders</n> were gathered together.


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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 outcome.


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And the Rashei Hakohanim and the Sanhedrin all were seeking edut sheker <n>false testimony of false witnesses</n> against Yehoshua so that they might put him to death.


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and said, "This one said, `I am able to bring about a churban <n>destruction</n> of the Beis Hamikdash of Hashem and within shloshah yamim to build it.`


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And having got up, the Kohen Gadol said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Do you answer nothing? For what do these men give edut <n>testimony</n> against you?"


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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."


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Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, "You said it.  But I say to you, `From now on you will see the Ben HaAdam <n>Moshiach</n> sitting at the right hand of Gevurah <n>Power</n> and his Bias <n>Coming</n> will be with ANENEI HASHOMAYIM <n>"clouds of Heaven," DANIEL7:13-14</n>.`"


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Then the Kohen Gadol made the keriah <n>rending of his garments</n>, saying, "He has committed Chillul Hashem. What further need do we have of edut?  Hinei!  Now you have heard the Chillul Hashem.


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saying, "Give us nevu'ah, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.  Who is the one who hit you?" KEFA MAKES HAKHCHASHAH <n>DENIAL</n> OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH


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Now Kefa was sitting outside in the courtyard. And one maid approached Kefa, saying, "And you were with Yehoshua of the Galil!"


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And having gone out to the gate, another saw Kefa and says to the bystanders, "There!  This one was with Yehoshua of Natzeret!"


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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!"


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Then Kefa began to curse and swear, "I do not know the man!" And immediately a tarnegol <n>cock</n> crowed.


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And Kefa remembered the word which Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had said: "Before a tarnegol <n>cock</n> crows you will deny me shalosh pa'amim <n>three times</n>."  And Kefa went out and wept bitterly.


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Now when boker had come, all the Rashei Hakohenim and the Ziknei haAm took counsel together against Yehoshua to put him to death.  HASHEM'S AKEDAH OF THE REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH, WHO IS HIMSELF THE YITZCHAK OF YISROEL'S REDEMPTION; MATTITYAHU WAS MECHAVEN <n>MAKING AN ALLUSION</n> TO THE AKEDAH


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And having performed the akedah <n>binding</n>, they led him away, and delivered him up to Pilate the Governor.


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Then when Yehudah, who had betrayed Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saw that Yehoshua had been condemned, he felt remorse and returned the sheloshim shiklei kesef <n>thirty pieces of silver</n> to the Rashei Hakohanim and the Zekenim,


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saying "Chatati <n>`I have sinned`</n>.  I have betrayed dam naki <n>innocent blood</n>."  But they said, "What is that to us?  See to that yourself!"


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And Yehudah threw the shiklei kesef <n>pieces of silver</n> into the Beis Hamikdash and departed; and, having gone away, Yehudah hanged himself.


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And the Rashei Hakohanim took the shiklei kesef and said, "It is asur <n>forbidden</n> to put these into the Beis Hamikdash otzar <n>treasury</n>, vi-bahlt <n>since</n> it is blood money."


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And they took counsel together and they bought the potter's field as a beit kevarot <n>cemetery</n> for zarim <n>foreigners</n>.


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Then that which was spoken through Yirmeyah HaNavi was fulfilled, saying, "And they took the SHELOSHIM KASEF <n>thirty pieces of silver</n>, HAYEKAR <n>the price</n> of the one whose price had been set by the Bnei Yisroel.


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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."


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And while Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was being accused by the Rashei Hakohanim and the Zekenim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach answered nothing.


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Then Pilate said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Do you not hear how many things they give edut against you?"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach did not answer him with even one word, so that the Governor was quite amazed. THOUGH IT IS PESACH AND NOT YOM KIPPUR, REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH FULFILLS A YOM KIPPUR MOTIF IN THE QUESTION OF KAPPARAH IN TWO "SONS OF THE FATHER," ONE FOR HASHEM, ONE FOR AZAZEL (VAYIKRA 16:6-9]; MOSHIACH MA SHE-EIN KEIN BAR-ABBA


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Now at the Chag <n>Festival</n> the Governor was accustomed to release for the multitude any one prisoner whom they wanted.


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And they were holding at the time a notorious prisoner, called [Yeshua] Bar-Abba ["son of the father"].


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When therefore they were gathered together Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release for you, Bar-Abba or Yehoshua who is called Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach?"


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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 <n>dream</n> because of Yehoshua."


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However, the Rashei Hakohanim and the Zekenim persuaded the multitudes to ask for Bar-Abba, but Yehoshua they should destroy.


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But the Governor answered, saying to them, "Which of the two do you want me to release for you?" and they said, "Bar-Abba."


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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 hanged on HaAitz <n>the Tree, Devarim 21:22</n>! Let him be hanged on HaAitz!"


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But Pilate said, "Why? What ra'ah <n>evil</n> has he done?"  But they kept shouting all the more, saying, "Let him be hanged on HaAitz!"


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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."


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Then Pilate released Bar-Abba to them.  But after having Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach scourged, he handed him over to be hanged on HaAitz.  MOSHIACH'S KETER OF THORNS


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Then the soldiers of the Governor took Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach into the praetorium and gathered the whole cohort against Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.


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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!"


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And after they had ridiculed Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, they took his robe off and put his garments on him, and led him away to hang him on HaAitz.


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And as they were coming out, they found a man from Cyrene named Shimon, whom they pressed into service to bear Moshiach's Aitz <n>Tree</n>.


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they gave him wine to drink mingled with gall. And, after tasting it, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was unwilling to drink.        THE HAGBA <n>LIFTING UP</n> OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH


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When they had hanged Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach on HaAitz,  they divided up Moshiach's garments among themselves, casting lots;


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At that time, two shodedim <n>robbers</n> were each hanged on his own aitz with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, one on the right and one on the left.


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and saying, "You who are going to cause the churban <n>destruction</n> of the Beis Hamikdash and rebuild it in shloshah yamim <n>three days</n>, save yourself!  If you are the Ben HaElohim, come down from HaAitz <n>the Tree</n>."


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"He saved others;  yet himself he is not able to save. He is Melech Yisroel?  Let him now come down from the Aitz, and we shall have emunah in him.


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"He trusts in Hashem; let Hashem be his Moshi'a and deliver him now, if Hashem takes pleasure in him, for this one said, `Ben HaElohim Ani!`"


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And the shodedim <n>robbers</n>, hanging, each on his aitz, with him, were casting similar insults at Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, reproaching him.


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And about the ninth hour, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach cried out with a kol gadol, saying "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani! * <n>that is, "My G-d, my G-d, why hast thou forsaken me? "TEHILLIM 22:2[1]</n>.


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And some of those who were standing there, when they heard, began saying, "This one calls for Eliyahu."


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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.


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And--hinei!--the parochet <n>curtain</n> of the Beis Hamikdash was torn in two from top to bottom, and the earth shook; and the rocks were split


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and the kevarim <n>graves</n> were opened, and many gufot <n>bodies</n> of the kedoshim who had fallen asleep were made to stand up alive.


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And coming out of the kevarim after Moshiach's Techiyas HaMesim, they entered the Ir HaKodesh <n>Holy City</n> and appeared to many.


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Now when the centurion, and those who were with him keeping 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."


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And many nashim were there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach from the Galil and had ministered to him.


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Among them was Miryam of Magdala, Miryam the Em of Ya'akov and Yosef, and the Em of Zavdai's sons.  THE MOSHIACH'S OWN CHEVRAH KADDISHA FORMS TO MAKE PREPARATIONS FOR THE KEVURAH OF THE NIFTAR


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And when it was erev, there came a rich man from Ramatayim named Yosef who himself had also become a talmid of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.


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This man went to Pilate and asked for the guf Yehoshua [TEHILLIM 16:9-10]. Then Pilate ordered it to be given over to Yosef.


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and laid it in his own new kever, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a large stone against the entrance of the kever <n>tomb</n> and went away.


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and said, "Sir, we remember that when he was still alive that mat'eh <n>deceiver</n> said, `After shloshah yamim I am to rise again.`


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Therefore, give orders for the kever to be made secure until the Yom HaShlishi <n>the Third Day</n>, lest his talmidim come and steal him away and say to the people, `He has stood up alive from the dead.`  And the last deception will be worse than the first."


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And they went and made the kever secure, and, along with the guard, they set a seal on the <n>stone</n>.


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Now after Shabbos, at the time of Shacharit on Yom Rishon <n>the first day of the week</n>, Miryam of Magdala and the other Miryam came to look at the kever.


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And--hinei!--a great earthquake had occurred, for a malach Adonoi <n>an angel of Hashem</n> descended from Shomayim and came and rolled away the stone and sat upon it.


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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 HaAitz. *


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"He is not here. For to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach has come the Techiyas HaMesim, just as he said. Come, see the place where he was lying.


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"And go quickly, tell his talmidim about Moshiach's Techiyas HaMesim.  And--hinei!--he is going ahead of you into the Galil.  There you will see him.  Hinei! I have told you!"


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And they departed quickly from the kever with fear and great simcha and ran to report everything to Moshiach's talmidim.


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And--hinei!--Moshiach met them, saying" Shalom Alechem."  And they came up and took hold of his feet and fell prostrate before Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.


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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."


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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.


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And when they had assembled with the Zekenim and counseled together, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,


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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.


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But the Achad Asar Talmidim proceeded to the Galil, to the mountain which Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had designated.


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And when they saw him, they prostrated themselves before Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, but some were doubtful. MOSHIACH'S PROGRAM OF KIRUV RECHOKIM <n>BRINGING NEAR THE FAR AWAY ONES</n>


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came up and spoke to them, saying,  "All samchut <n>authority</n> has been given to me in Shomayim and on haAretz.  MOSHIACH'S GZERAH MIN HASHOMAYIM


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Go, therefore, make talmidim for Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach of all the  nations, giving them a tevilah in a mikveh mayim in Hashem, the Name of HaAv, HaBen, and HaRuach haKodesh,


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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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[The] beginning of the Besuras HaGeulah <n>the Good News of Redemption</n> of Yehoshua, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach [the] Ben HaElohim.   YOCHANAN OF THE TEVILAH OF TESHUVA COMES AS MOSHIACH'S MAGGID IN THE MIDBAR <n>MT. 3:1-12; MK 1:2-8; LK 3:3-18</n>


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Just as it has been written in Yeshayah HaNavi, HINNENI SHOLEIACH MALACHI <n>"Behold, I send my messenger"</n> before your face, UPINNAH DERECH LEFANAI <n>"and he will prepare the way before me," [SHEMOT 23:20; MALACHI 3:1]</n>, he will prepare your way.


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KOL KOREY BAMIDBAR <n>"A voice of one shouting in the wilderness," TARGUM HASHIVIM YESHAYAH 40:3</n>: `Prepare the Derech Hashem <n>the way of the L-rd</n>. Make his paths yashar <n>straight</n>!'"


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Yochanan came with a mikveh mayim in the midbar <n>wilderness</n>, preaching a tevilah of teshuva for the selichat avon <n>forgiveness/pardon of sins</n>.


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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 <n>confession</n> [to Hashem] of their averos <n>sins</n>.


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And Yochanan had camel-hair clothing and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was arbe <n>locusts</n> and devash <n>wild honey</n>. [Melachim Bais 1:8; Vayikra 11:22]


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And he was preaching, crying out as a maggid <n>preacher</n> [for the Moshiach], saying, "Hu Habah <n>He who Comes, i.e. Moshiach</n> after me is more powerful than me. I am not worthy to stoop down and remove his sandals.


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I give you a tevilah in a mikveh mayim, but he <n>Moshiach</n> will give you a tevilah in the Ruach Hakodesh." [Yeshayah 44:3; Yoel 2:28]  MOSHIACH'S TEVILAH IN THE MIKVEH MAYIM OF THE YARDEN RIVER <n>MT.3:13-17; MK 1:9-11; LK 3:21-23</n>


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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.


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And ofen ort <n>immediately</n> Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came up out of the mikveh mayim, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach saw the Shomayim being torn open and the Ruach Hakodesh of Hashem descending like a yonah <n>dove</n> upon him.


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And there was a bat kol out of Shomayim, ATAH BNI AHUVI ASHER B'CHA CHAFATSTI <n>"You are my Son, the beloved, with whom I am well pleased"</n>. [Bereshis 22:2; Tehillim 2:7; Yeshayah 42:1]  HASATAN STANDS UP AGAINST MOSHIACH: THE TEMPTATION <n>MT.4:1-11; MK1:12-13; LK 4:1-13</n>


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Then the Ruach Hakodesh ofen ort <n>immediately</n> thrusts Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach out into the midbar.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was in the midbar arba'im yom v'arba'im lailah, undergoing temptation by Hasatan; and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was with the chayyat hassadeh <n>wild beasts, IYOV 5:23</n>, and the malachim were the meshartei Hashem ministering to Moshiach <n>YOEL 1:9; TEHILLIM 91:11</n>. [Shemot 24:18; Melachim Alef 19:8] MOSHIACH RETURNS TO THE GALIL <n>MT.4:12; MK 1:14; LK 4:14; JO 4:43-45</n>


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Now after Yochanan was arrested, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came to the Galil, proclaiming the Besuras HaGeulah of Hashem,      MOSHIACH THE MAGGID OF TESHUVAH <n>MT.4:17; MK 1:15; LK 4:15</n>


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and saying, "The appointed time has been fulfilled and the Malchut Hashem has come near. Make teshuva, and have emunah in the Besuras HaGeulah."  MOSHIACH'S KEHILLAH BEGINS TO FORM IN THE GALIL, WITH ITS ROSH HAEDAT AND MANHIG, REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH, SURROUNDED BY MOSHIACH'S SHLUCHIM FISHING THE OLAM HAZEH: MOSHIACH SUMMONS THE DAIYAGIM <n>MT.4:18-22; MK 1:16-20; LK 5:1-11</n>


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And passing along beside Lake Kinneret <n>Sea of Galilee</n>, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach saw Shimon and Andrew, the brother of Shimon, casting a net into the sea, for they were daiyagim <n>fishermen</n>.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Come, follow me [as my talmidim], and I will make you to become daiyagei adam <n>fishers of men</n>."


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And going on a little, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach saw Ya`akov Ben-Zavdai and Yochanan his brother, who were also in the sirah <n>boat</n> repairing the nets.


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And ofen ort <n>immediately</n> Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach summoned them; and, leaving Zavdai their father in the sirah <n>boat</n> with the sachirim <n>hired workers</n>, they went away to follow Moshiach [as his talmidim].  SHABBOS IN K'FAR-NACHUM <n>MT 8:14-17; MK 1:21-34; LK 4:32-41</n>


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And they enter into K'far-Nachum, and ofen ort <n>immediately</n> on Shabbatot, entering into the shul, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach exercised the ministry of moreh <n>teacher</n>.


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And they were astounded at Moshiach's torah <n>teaching</n>, for he was teaching them as one having samchut <n>authority</n>, and not as the Sofrim <n>Scribes/torah teachers, rabbonim</n>.  THE REFUAH SHELEMAH <n>COMPLETE HEALING</n> REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH BRINGS--THE BEGINNING OF MOSHIACH'S MA'ASIM TOVIM <n>GOOD DEEDS</n> AND NISSIM <n>MIRACLES</n>


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And, ofen ort <n>immediately</n>, there was in their shul a man with a ruach hatameh <n>unclean spirit, shed/demon/evil spirit</n>, and he shouted,


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saying, "Yehoshua of Natzeret, mah lanu v'lach?" <n>"What to us and to you?" Melachim Alef 17:18</n> Have you come to bring us churban <n>destruction</n>? I have da'as [of the raz, secret/mystery of] who you are, HaKadosh of Hashem <n>the Holy One of G-d, YESHAYAH 49:7</n>!"  [Shofetim 13:5, Yeshayah 41:14,16,20]


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And, the ruach hatameh, throwing him into convulsions, let out a shrai <n>scream</n> and came out of him.


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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?"


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And the besuroh <n>news</n> of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach ofen ort <n>immediately</n> went forth everywhere into the surrounding region of the Galil.


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And ofen ort <n>immediately</n>, coming out of shul, they went into the bais <n>house</n> of Shimon and Andrew with Ya'akov and Yochanan.


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And the chamot <n>mother-in-law, shviger</n> of Shimon was bedridden and fever-stricken, and ofen ort <n>immediately</n> they tell Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach about her.


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And approaching, holding her hand, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach lifted her up, and the kaddachat <n>fever, DEVARIM 28:22</n> left her, and she then began functioning as their mesharetet <n>servant, keli kodesh, minister</n>, waiting on them.


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When erev came, with the setting of the shemesh, they brought to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach all the cholim and all those possessed by shedim.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach administered refu'ah 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 of his identity, that he was the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH MAKES HIS FIRST ITINERARY THROUGH THE GALIL <n>MT 4:23-25; MK 1:35-39; LK 4:42-44</n>


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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.


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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] I came. [Yeshayah 61:1]


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And he came preaching in their shuls <n>synagogues</n> and casting out shedim in [the] whole [region of] the Galil.  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S REFU'AH OF THE ISH METZORAH <n>MT 8:2-4; MK 1:40-45; LK 5:12-16</n>


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And an ish metzorah <n>leper</n> comes to him begging him and kneeling down and saying, "If you are willing, you are able to make me tahor <n>clean</n>."


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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 <n>cleansed</n>."


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And ofen ort <n>immediately</n> the ish metzorah <n>leper</n> went away from him and he was made tahor.


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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 of you which Moshe <n>Rabbeinu</n> gave mitzva, for an edut <n>testimony</n> to them."[Vayikra 13:49, 14:1-32]


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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.


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And having entered again into K'far-Nachum after [many] yamim, it was heard that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach is at home.


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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.


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And they come carrying to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach a paralytic being carried along by arba'a anashim.


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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.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having seen the emunah of them, says to the paralytic, "Beni, your averos are granted selicha."


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And there were some of the Sofrim <n>Scribes</n> sitting there and thinking about these things in their levavot <n>hearts</n>,


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"Why is this one speaking thus?  He is guilty of Chillul Hashem gidduf.  Who is able to grant selicha to averos except Hashem?"  [Yeshayah 43:25]


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And, ofen ort <n>immediately</n>, having had da'as in his ruach that in this way they were thinking, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach says to them, "Why are you considering such things in the your levavot?


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Which is easier? To say to the paralytic, `Your averos are granted selicha', or to say, `Stand and pick up your mat and walk'?"


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But in order that you may have da'as that the Ben HaAdam <n>Moshiach, Daniel 7:13-14</n> has samchut <n>authority</n> on ha'aretz to grant that averos receive selicha," -- Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to the paralytic--


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And the man arose, and, ofen ort <n>immediately</n>, in front of everyone, taking the mat, he went outside.  So everyone was astonished and gave kavod to Hashem saying, "Never have we seen anthing like this."  THE KERI'AH <n>CALLING</n> OF MATTITYAHU THE MOCHES --THE SICHOS CHULIN SHEL TALMIDE CHACHAMIM <n>THE TABLE TALK OF THE WISE</n>; CALLING CHOTE'IM TO TESHUVA <n>MT 9:9-13; MK 2:13-17; LK 5:27-31</n>


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went out again beside the lake; and all the multitude was coming to him, and he was teaching them Torah.


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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, rising up, Levi <n>Mattityahu</n> followed Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.


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And it came to pass that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach reclined at tish in Levi's house, and many mochesim <n>tax collectors</n> and chote'im <n>sinners</n> were reclining at tish with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and with his talmidim.  For there were many, and they were following him.


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And the Sofrim <n>scribes</n> of the Perushim, seeing that Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach eats with chote'im <n>sinners</n> and mochesim <n>tax collectors</n>, were saying to his talmidim, "With mochesim <n>tax collectors</n> and chote'im <n>sinners</n> does he eat?"


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And having heard this, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, "It's not the strong ones that have need of a rofeh <n>physician</n> but rather the cholim.  I did not come to call [the] tzaddikim <n>righteous ones</n> but the chote'im <n>sinners</n> [to teshuva]. REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH GIVES HIS TALMIDIM MASHALIM ABOUT TZOMOT <n>FASTS</n><n>MT 9:14-17; MK 2:18-22; LK 5:33-39</n>


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And the talmidim of Yochanan and the Perushim came with tzomot.  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?"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, said to them, "Surely the Bnei HaChuppah of the Chosson <n>Bridegroom</n> 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.


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But yamim will come when the Chosson is taken away from them, and then they will undergo tzomot HaYom HaHu.


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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.


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And no one puts yayin chadash <n>new wine</n> into old wineskins; otherwise, the yayin will burst the wineskins and the yayin is lost and so are the wineskins.  Instead, yayin chadash <n>new wine</n> [is put] into new wineskins. REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH AND SHABBOS <n>MT 12:1-14; MK 2:23-3:6; LK 6:1-11</n>


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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]


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And the Perushim said to him, "Look, why are they on Shabbatot engaging in what is not mutar <n>permissible</n> in the Torah?"


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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?


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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 <n>permissible</n> 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]


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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]


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach entered again into the shul. And there was there a man having a withered hand.


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And they were watching Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach [to see] if on Shabbatot he will heal him, in order that they might accuse him.


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And he says to them, "Is it mutar <n>permissible</n> on Shabbatot to do tov or rah, to restore nefesh or to destroy [it]?" But they were silent.


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And having looked [at] them with ka'as and having agmat nafesh 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.


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And ofen ort <n>immediately</n> the Perushim went out and held consultation with the party of Herod against him as to how they might destroy him.


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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.


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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.


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And he said to his talmidim that a sirah <n>boat</n> should stand ready for him, lest the multitude might crush him.


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For he had brought refu'ah to many, with the result that as many as had afflictions pressed in on him in order to touch him.


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And the ruchot hatemei'ot <n>unclean spirits</n>, whenever they saw Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, were falling before him and were crying out, saying, "You are the Ben HaElohim!"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach goes up to the mountain and summons those whom he wanted, and they came to him.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach appointed and gave s'michah to Shneym Asar, whom also he designated Shluchim, that they might be with him [have chavurah with him], and that he might send them out as his maggidim to preach,


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and Ya'akov Ben-Zavdai and Yochanan, Ya'akov's brother. He gave to them the name "Bnei-Regesh," <n>Sons of Thunder</n>.


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And Andrew and Philippos and Bar-Talmai, and Mattityahu, and T'oma, and Ya'akov Ben-Chalfai, and Taddia, and Shimon the Zealot,


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and Yehudah from K'riot, the one who betrayed Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH ACCUSED OF CHILLUL HASHEM <n>MT.12:15-45; MK 3:19-30</n>


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach goes home; and again the multitude assembles, with the result that they were not able to have okhel.


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And when his own mishpochah heard of this, they went out to constrain him.  For they were saying, "He is meshuga."


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And the Sofrim <n>Scribes</n>, the ones coming down from Yerushalayim, were saying, "He is possessed by Ba'al-zibbul and by the Sar HaShedim he casts out shedim."


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But having called them, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was speaking to them in meshalim <n>parables</n>, "How is it possible for Hasatan to cast out Hasatan?


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And if Hasatan has risen up against himself and is divided, it is not possible for him to stand, but his end has arrived.


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But no one is able, having entered into the house of the strong man to plunder his possessions, unless first, he binds the strong man, and then he will plunder the house of the strong man. [Yeshayah 49:24,25]


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Omein, I say to you that everything--the averos and the Chillul Hashem, whatever they may commit--of the bnei Adam will be granted selicha.


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But whoever commits Chillul Hashem gidduf against the Ruach Hakodesh, can never have selicha, but is guilty of a chet Olam."


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For they were saying, "He has a ruach temei'ah." WHO ARE THE TRUE ACHIM OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH? <n>MT 12:46-50; MK 3:31-35;  LK8:19-21</n>


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And the Em <n>Mother</n> of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and his achim come and stand outside and they sent word to him.


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And a multitude was sitting around him, and they are saying to him, "Hinei! Your Em <n>Mother</n>! And your achim! and your achayot are outside looking for you."


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And in reply to them, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says, "Who is the Em <n>Mother</n> of me? And the achim of me?"


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And having looked around at the ones sitting around him, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says, "Hinei! The Em <n>Mother</n> of me and the achim of me!


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And again Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach began to teach Torah beside the lake. And a huge multitude gathered together to him so that he got into a sirah <n>boat</n> on the lake and sat down.  The whole multitude was by the lake on the shore.


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And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was teaching them with many meshalim <n>parables</n> and in the shiurim he said, he was saying to them:


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And it came about that when he went to sow, that some [seeds] fell beside the road. And the birds came and devoured it.


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And other [seeds] fell upon the rocky places where it did not have much soil, and ofen ort <n>immediately</n> it sprang up because it did not have depth of soil.


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And when the shemesh rose, it was scorched and, because it did not have a shoresh <n>root</n>, it withered.


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And other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them, and it did not yield p'ri.


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And other seed fell into the adamah tovah and it was giving p'ri, rising up and growing, thirty, sixty and one hundredfold."


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And when he was alone, the Shneym Asar were asking him for a hezber <n>explanation</n> of the meshalim.


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And he was saying to them. "To you the raz <n>secret</n> of the Malchut Hashem has been given.  But to the outsiders, everything remains in meshalim,


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in order that `YIRU they may see and not have da'as V'SHIM'U they may hear and not have binah, lest they should turn and they should receive refu'ah and selicha.'" <n>YESHAYAH 6:9-10, TARGUM HASHIVIM</n>


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And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach says to them, "Do you not have da'as of the meaning of this mashal? Then how will you have binah of all the meshalim?


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And these are the ones beside the road where the dvar Hashem is sown.  And when they hear it, ofen ort <n>immediately</n> Hasatan comes and takes the dvar that has been sown in them.


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And these are the ones sown upon the rocky places: when they hear the dvar, ofen ort <n>immediately</n> with simcha they receive it.


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Yet they do not have a shoresh <n>root</n> in themselves but are transitory; then when ES TZARAH comes or persecution on account of the dvar, ofen ort <n>immediately</n> they fall away, they become shmad. [Yirmeyah 30:7; Mattityahu 24:21]


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And the worries of the Olam Hazeh and the seduction of osher <n>wealth</n> and the desires for other things come in and choke the dvar Hashem and it does not bear p'ri.


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And these are the ones sown upon adamah tovah: they hear the dvar Hashem and are mekabel dvar Hashem and bear p'ri, thirty, sixty and one hundredfold."


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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?


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For there is not [anything] nistar <n>hidden, secret</n> except that it may be made hitgalut nor has it become nistar but that it may come into [the] open. [Yirmeyah 16:17]


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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.


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For whoever has, it will be given to him, and whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him."


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying, "Thus is the Malchut Hashem: like a man who casts seed upon the soil,


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and goes to sleep b'lailah and arises b'yom, and the seed sprouts up and grows in such a way that he does not have da'as of how it does so.


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On its own, the soil bears p'ri: first the blade, then a head of grain, then full wheat in the head.


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But when the crop is ripe, ofen ort <n>immediately</n> he puts forth the MAGGAL, KI VASHAL KATZIR ("sickle, for the harvest is ripe." [Yoel 3:13]


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying, "To what should we compare the Malchut Hashem or by what mashal may we present it?


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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.


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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."


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And with many such meshalim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshich was speaking to them the dvar Hashem as they were able to hear.


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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.        REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH THE BAAL MOFET <n>MIRACLE WORKER</n><n>THE STILLING OF THE STORM: MT 8:23-34; MK 4:35-5:20; LK 8:22-39</n>


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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."


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And leaving the multitude, they took Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, just as he was, in the sirah <n>boat</n>, and other sirot <n>boats</n> were with him.


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And there arose a fierce gale of wind and the waves were beating against the sirah <n>boat</n>, so that it was already filling up.


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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?"


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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.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Why do you have   morech lev <n>cowardliness</n>? Do you still not have emunah?"


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And they were afraid with a terrible pachad <n>fear</n>, and they were saying to one another, "Who then is this that even the wind and the sea obey him?"


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And as soon as Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach stepped out of the sirah <n>boat</n>, ofen ort <n>immediately</n>, a man with a ruach temei'ah from the kevarim <n>tombs</n> of the burial caves met him.


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This man had <n>his</n> dwelling among the kevarim. And no one could keep him tied any longer, even with a kaval <n>chain/fetter</n>;


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because often he had been bound with shackles and a kaval and the shackles and the kaval had been torn apart by him, and no one had the ko'ach to subdue him.


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And constantly, yomam valailah, among the kevarim and in the mountains, he was crying out and beating himself with stones.


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And having cried out with a kol gadol, he says, "Mah lanu valach, Yehoshua, Ben HaElohim HaElyon?  I implore you by Hashem, [do] not torment me."


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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!"


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And he begged Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach again and again not to exorcise him and banish him from that place.


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And they <n>the ruchot hatemei'ot, the shedim</n> implored Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying, "Send us into the chazirim, so that we may go into them."


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And he permitted them.  And having come out, the ruchot hatemei'ot 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]


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And the herdsmen feeding them fled and reported it in the village and in the sadot <n>fields</n>, and the people came to see what had come to pass.


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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.


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And the edat re'iyah <n>eyewitnesses</n> of what had happened to the man possessed by shedim and of what had happened to the chazirim reported it.


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And as Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was stepping into the sirah <n>boat</n>, the one who had been possessed by shedim was imploring him that he might accompany him.


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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] he had rachmanim <n>mercy</n> upon you."


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And the man left and began to preach in the Decapolis everything that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had done for him, and everyone was amazed.  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S TZITZIT AND TAHARAT HAMISHPOCHAH: EMUNAH AS THE MEANS OF BRINGING WOMEN BACK FROM THE STATE OF ESCHATOLOGICAL NIDDAH <n>SEPARATION</n><n>MT9:18-26; MK 5:21-43; LK 8:40-56</n>


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And when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had crossed over again in the sirah <n>boat</n> to the other side, a large multitude gathered together to him, and he was beside the lake.


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And one of the Roshei Beit HaKnesset comes -- Ya'ir was his name -- and, having seen Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, he falls down at his feet,


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and he begs him earnestly saying, "Biti <n>my daughter</n> is at the point of mavet.  Come and put your hand on her that she may receive refu'ah and may live."


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went with Ya'ir. And a large multitude were following him and they were pressing against Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.


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And having suffered much by many rofim <n>physicians</n> and having spent everything she had, instead of recovering, her condition deteriorated.


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And having heard about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, she came up  behind him in the multitude, and touched his garment.


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For she was saying, "If I may touch even the garments of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, I will receive refu'ah."


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And ofen ort <n>immediately</n>, the flow of her dahm was dried up and she felt in <n>her</n> guf <n>body</n> that she has been given refu'ah from the shrekliche <n>terrible</n> affliction.


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And ofen ort <n>immediately</n> Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having perceived  within himself that gevurah had gone forth from him, turned around in the crowd and said, "Who touched my garments?"


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And the talmidim of Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach were saying to him, "You see the multitude pressing against you, and you say, `Who touched me?'"


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Now the isha, B'YIR'AH <n>with fear</n> and BIRA'DAH <n>trembling</n>, aware of what had happened to her, came and fell down before Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and told him the Emes.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to her, "Bat, your emunah has brought you refu'ah.  Go in shalom and receive refu'ah from  your affliction."


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While Rebbe Malech HaMoshiach was still speaking, some came from the Rosh Beit HaKnesset, saying, "Your yaldah is niftar, are you still causing a shter <n>bother</n> for the rabbi?"


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having overheard what was being spoken, says to the Rosh Beit HaKnesset, "Do not be afraid, only have emunah."


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And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach did not permit anyone to follow after him, except Kefa and Ya'akov and Yochanan, the brother of Ya'akov.


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And they come into the bais of the Rosh Beit HaKnesset, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach beheld much commotion and weeping and loud wailing.


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And having entered, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, "Why are you distressed and weeping?  The yaldah is not niftar but is only sleeping."


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And they began making leitzonus of him.  But having put everyone out, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach takes the abba of the na'arah and the immah and the ones with him, and goes into where the na'arah was.


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And having grasped the hand of the na'arah, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to her, "Talitha Koum," which, being translated, means "Little girl, to you I say, arise!"


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And ofen ort <n>immediately</n> the na'arah arose and she was walking around. For she was twelve years old. And ofen ort <n>immediately</n> they were amazed with great wonder.


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And he gave orders to them earnestly that no one should have da'as of this.  And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to give her some okhel.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came out from there and comes into his shtetl and his talmidim follow him.


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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, and what [is] the chochmah that has been given to this one?  And what gevurot are being done by his hands?


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Is not this one the Naggar <n>Carpenter</n>, Ben-Miryam? The brother of Ya'akov, Yosef, Yehuda and Shimon?  And, are not  his achayot here with us?"  And they were taking offense at Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.


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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."


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And he was not able there to do many nissim, except on a few cholim he laid <n>his</n> hands and administered refu'ah to them. REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S TALMIDIM ARE EMPOWERED FOR ADMINISTERING REFU'AH   <n>MT 10:1-42; MK 6:6-13; LK 9:1-6</n>


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And he wondered on account of their lack of emunah. And he was going around the shtetlach in a circuit, saying shiurim.


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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 hatume'ot <n>unclean spirits</n>. [Devarim 17:6]


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave mitzot to them that they should take nothing on [the] derech except a mere walking stick -- not lechem, not a beggar's sack, nor a money belt;


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And whatever place does not give you the kabbalat panim, and does not listen to you, then, as you are leaving there, let it be NI'ER CHATZNO, shake off the dust of your feet, for an edut to them.


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And many shedim they were casting out, and they were anointing with shemen <n>oil</n> many cholim, and they were administering refu'ah to them.  HEROD'S PECHADIM <n>TERRORS</n><n>MT 14:1-12; MK 6:14-29; LK 9:7-9</n>


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And Herod the king heard of it, for the name of Yehoshua had become 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 <n>miracles</n> are at work in him."


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But others were saying, "It is Eliyahu."  And still others were saying, "He is a navi, like one of the nevi'im of old." [Malachi 4:5]


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But when Herod heard of it, he kept saying, "Yochanan whom I beheaded has stood up alive from the mesim!"


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For Herod himself had sent and had Yochanan arrested and bound in the beis hasohar, on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother, Philippos, for he had married her.


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But Yochanan was saying to Herod, "It is not mutar <n>permissible</n> according to the Torah for you to have your brother's wife." [Vayikra 18:16, 20:21]


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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.


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And, an opportune day having come, when Herod, on his birthday, gave a seudah for the court of his nobles, and the military commanders, and those of chashivut <n>prominence</n> of the Galil, [Esther 1:3, 2:18]


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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 the girl, "Ask me whatever you wish and I will give [it] to you."


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And he made an shevu'ah <n>oath</n> to her solemnly, "Whatever you ask me, I will give you, up to half of my Malchut. [Esther 5:3,6; 7:2]


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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."


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And having entered, ofen ort <n>immediately</n>, 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."


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And having become very sad, the king, on account of his shevu'ah and on account of the ones reclining at the seudah [with him], was unwilling to refuse her.


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And, ofen ort <n>immediately</n>, 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.


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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.


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And, having heard this, Yochanan's talmidim came and carried away his geviyah and placed it in a kever.     REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S TISH IN THE MIDBAR AND THE "MANNA" FROM SHOMAYIM SERVED AT HIS FARBRENGEN <n>INSPIRATIONAL GATHERING</n><n>MT 14:13-21; MK 6:30-44; LK9:10-17; JO 6:1-13</n>


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And the Shluchim gathered together with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and reported to him everything which they did and which they had taught.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, "Come away a while, you yourselves, for a yechidus in a quiet place for a Shabbaton."  For there were many coming and going, and they did not even have time for okhel.


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And the people, recognizing them, saw them departing, and from all the shtetlach they ran there and arrived ahead of them.


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And having gotten out of the sirah <n>boat</n>, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach  saw a large multitude and he had rachamanut on them, for they were KATSON ASHER AIN LAHEM RO'EH <n>"like sheep without a shepherd"</n>, and Rebbe Malech HaMoshiach began to teach them many things. <n>Bamidbar 27:17; Melachim Alef 22:17; Divrey Hayamim Bais 18:16; Yechezkel 34:8</n>


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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.


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Send them away, in order that, having departed to the surrounding farms and shtetlach, they may buy for themselves what okhel they may eat."


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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]


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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, and dagim, shenayim."


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach commanded them to recline at tish, as it were, everyone group by group, on the green grass.


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And, having taken the chamesh loaves and the shnei hadagim and looking up to Shomayim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said a berakhah, and having offered the betzi'at halechem, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was giving to his talmidim in order that they might set them before the people.  And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach divided the shnei hadagim among them all.


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And those who had eaten the loaves numbered chamesh elafim.  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH THE BAAL MOFET <n>MIRACLE WORKER</n>, WALKING AL PNEI HAMAYIM <n>MT 14:22-36; MK 6:45-56; JO 6:14-21</n>


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And ofen ort <n>immediately</n> Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach compelled his talmidim to embark into the sirah <n>boat</n> and to go before [him] to the other side to Beit-Tzaidah, while he dismisses the multitude.


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And having said a "Shalom" farewell to them, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach departed to the mountain to daven.


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And erev having come, the sirah <n>boat</n> was in [the] middle of the lake, and Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was alone on shore.


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And having seen them laboring at the oars, for the wind was against them, about the fourth watch of halailah, Moshiach comes to them, walking on the lake. And he wanted to go by them.


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for everyone saw him.  And ofen ort <n>immediately</n> Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach spoke with them, and they were filled with pachad <n>terror</n>. Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, "Chazak! Ani hu.  Do not be afraid."


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And he got into the sirah <n>boat</n> with them.  And the wind died down. And in themselves they were exceedingly amazed.


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And when they disembark from the sirah <n>boat</n>, the people ofen ort <n>immediately</n> recognized Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.


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And the people rushed everywhere in that whole region, and they began to carry about on their mats the cholim to where they heard he was.


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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 Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.  And as many as touched it were receiving refu'ah. [Bamidbar 15:38-41; Devarim 22:12]


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And, when they had come down from Yerushalayim, the Perushim and some of the Sofrim come together around Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach,


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and they had observed that some of his talmidim were eating their lechem with yadayim temei'ot, that is, unwashed hands.


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[For the Perushim, and indeed this was the Jewish minhag, do not eat without doing n'tilat yadayim and also observing the Masoret HaZekenim [the Torah Sheb'al peh].


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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 copperpots.]


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And the Perushim and the Sofrim question Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Why do your talmidim not follow the halakhah according to the Masoret HaZekenim, but eat their lechem with yadaym temei'ot?"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Yeshayah rightly gave nevu'ah of you tzevu'im, as it has been written, HAAM HAZEH BISFATAV KIBDUNI V'LIBO RIKHAK MIMENI VATEHI YIRATAM OTI MITZVAT ANASHIM MELUMMADAH ("This people with [their] lips honor me, but their heart is removed far away from me.


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And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was saying to them, "You have a fine knack for setting aside the mitzvat Hashem in order that your own masorah might stand undisturbed.


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For Moshe [Rabbeinu] said, `KABED ES AVICHA V'ES IMMECHA' <n>"Honor your father and your mother"</n>, and, `The one reviling AVIV V'IMMO MOT YUMAT ("father or mother -- let him be put to death.' [Shemot 20:12, Devarim 5:16, Shemot 21:17, Vayikra 20:9]


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But you say, `If a man says to his Av or to his Em, whatever by me you might have benefited is Korban' [that is, the taitsh <n>translation</n> is an offering to Hashem],


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You nullify and make void the dvar Hashem by means of your masorah you received. And you do many similar things."


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And having summoned again the multitude, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was saying to them, "Give ear to me and have binah.


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"There is nothing outside of a ben Adam <n>human being</n> 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."


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And when he left the multitude and entered a bais, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach's talmidim were asking him [about] the mashal.


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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?


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"Because it does not enter into his lev, but into his stomach and goes out into the latrine," making all the okhel tohar.


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"For from within the lev of the ben Adam comes evil cravings and makhshavot: then zenunim <n>fornications</n>, thefts <n>gneyvot</n>, murders <n>retzichot</n>,


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All these evil things proceed from within and make the ben Adam tameh.   THE EMUNAH OF THE GOYIM IN SPITE OF THE MECHITZAH OF GENDER AND NATIONALITY SEPARATING THEM FROM REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH <n>MT 15:21-28; MK7:24-30</n>


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And from there Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach arose and departed to the district of Tzor and Tzidon. And having entered into a bais he wanted no one to have da'as, [yet] he was not able to escape notice.


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But, after hearing about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, ofen ort <n>immediately</n>, an isha, whose yaldah was having a ruach temei'ah, came and fell down at his feet.


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Now the woman was a Yevanit <n>Greek</n>, by birth a Syrophoenician, and she was asking Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to cast the shed out of her bat <n>daughter</n>.


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And he was saying to her, "Rishonah allow the banim to be satisfied, for it is not tov to take the lechem of the yeladim and throw it to kelevim."


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But she replied, saying, "Ken, Adoni, but even the kelevim under the shulchan eat from the crumbs of the yeladim."


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to her, "Because of this teshuva <n>answer</n>, go your way, the shed has gone out from the bat of you."


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And having departed to her bais, she found the yaldah lying on the bed, the shed having gone out. REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH DEPARTS TO LAKE KINNERET  <n>MT 15:29-38; MK 7:31-8:9</n>


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they bring to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach [a man who was] cheresh-illem <n>deaf and mute</n> and they entreated him to lay hands on him.


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and, looking up to Shomayim with a deep sigh, he says to him, "Ephphatha," <n>which means, "Be opened!"</n>.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was directing them not to tell anyone. But the more he ordered them, they were proclaiming [it] all the more.


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And they were all astonished beyond all measure, saying, "He has done all things tov me'od, and he makes even the chereshim <n>deaf people</n> to hear and the illemim to speak. [Yeshayah 35:5,6]


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"I have rachamanut <n>compassion</n> on the multitude, because they already sheloshah yamim have remained with me and they do not have anything they may eat;


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and if I send them away hungry to their batim, they will give out on the way; and some of them have come from faraway."


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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]


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was asking them, "How many loaves do you have?" And they said, "Shevah."


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach directed the multitude to recline at tish, as it were, on the ground. And having taken the sheva kikrot <n>loaves</n>, he made a berakhah and offered the betzi'at halechem <n>the breaking of the bread</n> and was giving [them] to his talmidim to serve to them, and they served the multitude.


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And they also had a few small dagim.  And after he had made the berakhah over them, he directed these to be served as well.


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And they ate and were satisfied. And there was an abundance of shirayim <n>leftovers</n>, sheva baskets [full].


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And there were approximately arba'at elafim <n>four thousand [people]</n>. And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach sent them away. JEWISH MANHIGIM <n>LEADERS</n> TEST REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH  <n>MT 15:39-16:4; LK 8:10-12</n>


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And ofen ort <n>immediately</n>, having embarked onto the sirah <n>boat</n> with his talmidim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came into the region of Dalmanutha.


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And the Perushim came out and began to argue with him, seeking from him an ot min HaShomayim <n>a sign from heaven</n>, testing him.


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And sighing deeply in his ruach, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, "Why does hador hazeh <n>this generation</n> seek for an ot? Omein, I say to you, no ot shall be given to hador hazeh." REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH SHMOOZES OUT A SCOLDING AND CHIDES HIS TALMIDIM, WARNING THEM ABOUT TEACHING THAT PUFFS UP WITH BLINDING GA'AVAH <n>PRIDE</n><n>MT 16:5-12; MK 8:13-26</n>


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And his talmidim had forgotten to take lechem and did not have anything except one kikar <n>loaf</n> in the sirah <n>boat</n> with them.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was giving orders to them, saying, "Take care!  Beware of the se'or <n>leaven</n> of the Perushim and the se'or of Herod."


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And the talmidim were beginning to discuss among themselves that they do not have [any] kikrot <n>loaves</n>.


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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? nor comprehend?  Have your levavot fallen into timtum halev <n>hardening of the heart</n>, KESHI <n>stubbornness, hardness DEVARIM 9:27</n>? [Yeshayah 6:9,10]


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when I offered the bezi'at halechem with the chamesh kikrot for the chameshet ha'alafim, how many baskets of shirayim you picked up?"  And they say to him, "Shneym Asar."


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And when I offered the bezi'at halechem over the shevah for the arba'at haalafim, how many baskets full of shirayim did you pick up?" And they say to him, "Shiva."


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And they come to Beit-Tzaidah. And they bring to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach an ivver <n>blind man</n>, and entreated him to touch him.


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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?"


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Then again Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach placed his hands upon his eyes; and the man looked intently and was restored, and  was seeing everything clearly.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach sent the man to his bais, saying, "Do not even enter the shtetl."    THE ANI MA'AMIN OF THE CORRECT <n>ORTHODOX JEWISH</n> EMUNAH <n>FAITH</n>, THE EMUNAH OF THE TRUE DAT HAYEHUDIT <n>MT 16:13-20; MK 8:27-30; LK 9:18-21</n>


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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?"


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And the talmidim spoke to him, saying, "`Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva;' and others say, `Eliyahu;' but others, `One  of the nevi'im.'" [Malachi 4:5]


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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."


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And he warned them to tell no one about him. REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH BEGINS TO GIVE THE NEVU'AH <n>PROPHECY</n> OF HIS COMING MAVET AND TECHIYAS HAMESIM <n>MT 16:21-28; MK 8:31-38; LK 9:22-27</n>


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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 <n>the Chief Priests</n> and the Sofrim <n>Scribes</n>, and to be killed and after Shalosha Yamim to undergo the Techiyas HaMesim."


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was speaking about the matter plainly. And Shimon Kefa took him aside and began to rebuke him.


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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 <n>thoughts</n> on the interests of Hashem but on that of bnei Adam."


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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 hakhchashah <n>denial</n> of himself, and take up his aitz of mesiras nefesh <n>self-sacrifice</n>, and follow me.


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"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.


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"For how is the ben Adam nehneh <n>benefited</n> if he gain the kol haOlam, and forfeit his neshamah?


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"For whoever feels bushah <n>shame</n> regarding me and my dvarim in this dor hano'ef v'hachoteh <n>adulterous and sinful generation</n>, the Ben HaAdam will also have bushah regarding him, when Moshiach comes in the kavod of his Av with the malakhim hakedoshim."


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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." A PREVIEW OF THE BIAS HAMOSHIACH  <n>MT 17:1-13; MK 9:2-13; LK 9:28-36</n>


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And after shishah yamim Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach takes Kefa and Ya'akov and Yochanan, and brought them up a high mountain  by themselves. And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was transfigured before them;


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and his garments became like a dazzlingly brilliant kittel, gantz <n>exceedingly</n> white, more white than anyone on earth could bleach them.


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And Eliyahu Hanavi appeared to them along with Moshe <n>Rabbeinu</n>, and they were talking with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.


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And in reply, Kefa says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Rebbe, it is tov [for] us to be here, and let us make shalosh sukkot, one for you and one for Moshe <n>Rabbeinu</n> and one for Eliyahu Hanavi.


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Kefa did not know what he was answering, for they were tzufloigen <n>dazed</n> with pachad <n>terror</n>.


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And there came an anan <n>cloud</n> that was overshadowing them, and there came a bat kol out of the anan, "ZEH BENI AHUVI, ELAV TISHMA'UN <n>Listen to him!</n>" <n>Tehillim 2:7</n> [Shemot 24:16]


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And suddenly, when they looked around, they saw no one in their company any more, except only Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.


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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 arise in his Techiyas HaMesim.


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And they retained Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach's dvar, discussing among themselves what he might mean by "his Techiyas HaMesim."


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And they were questioning Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying, "Why is it that the Sofrim <n>Scribes</n> say it is necessary for Eliyahu Hanavi to come rishonah?"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Eliyahu Hanavi  indeed does come rishonah and brings tikkun to all things.  And yet how is it written of the Ben HaAdam that he must suffer many things and be NIVZEH VACHADAL <n>"despised and rejected"--Yeshayah 53:3</n>?


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"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 <n>4:5f)] REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH HEALS THE BOCHUR POSSESSED BY SHEDIM     MT 17:14-21; MK 9:14-29; LK 9:37-42</n>


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And when they returned to the talmidim, they saw a great multitude around them and [the] Sofrim <n>Scribes</n> arguing with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach's talmidim.


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And ofen ort <n>immediately</n>, as soon as the multitude saw Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, they were surprised and began running up to [him] with "Shalom" greetings.


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And one of the multitude answered Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Rabbi, I brought beni <n>my son</n> to you, because he has a shed that makes him illem <n>mute</n>.


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"And whenever it seizes him, it throws 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 ko'ach."


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In reply to them, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says, "O dor with emunah, how long will I be with you? How long will I put up with you? Bring the bochur to me!"


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They brought the bochur to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.  And when the shed saw Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, it threw the bochur into convulsions, and, falling to the ground, the bochur began rolling around foaming at the mouth.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach questioned the bochur's abba, "How long has this been happening to him?"  And he said, "From kinder-yoren.


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And also it has often thrown him into the aish and into the mayim that it might destroy him. But if you can do anything, grant rachamim upon us and help us!"


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Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, "`If you can?`!! All things are possible to him who has emunah!"


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Ofen ort <n>immediately</n> the abba of the bochur cried out and began saying, "Ani Ma'amin! Help my lack of emunah!"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having seen that a multitude was gathering, rebuked the ruach hatemei'ah, saying to it, "You cheresh-illem <n>deaf and mute</n> ruach hatemei'ah, I command you, come out from him and do not ever enter into him again!"


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And after shrieking out a shrai <n>scream</n> and throwing the bochur into violent seizures, the ruach hatemei'ah came it.  And the bochur was so like a geviyah <n>corpse</n> that many exclaimed he was niftar.


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having grasped the hand of the bochur, lifted him up; and the bochur stood up.


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And, having entered into a bais, his talmidim began questioning Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach privately, "Why were we not able to perform the gerush shedim <n>exorcism</n>?"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "This kind of gerush shedim is accomplished only by davening tefillos."  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S SECOND NEVU'AH OF HIS SUFFERING AND THE KAVOD TO FOLLOW  <n>MT 17:22-23; MK 9:30-32; LK 9:43-45</n>


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And from there they went forth and were passing through the Galil, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach did not want anyone to have da'as.


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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 <n>"Moshiach will be violently killed," Daniel 9:26</n>, and when he has been killed, he will rise in his Techiyas HaMesim on Yom HaShelishi."


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But they were did binah concerning this dvar, and they were afraid to inquire further. A QUESTION FOR REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH: WHO ARE THE GEDOLIM? <n>MT 18:1-5; MK 9:33-37; LK 9:46-48</n>


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And they came to K'far-Nachum; And when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was in the bais, he began questioning them, "What were you arguing about baderech?"


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But they were keeping silent, for baderech they were discussing with one another which of the talmidim was hagadol.


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And sitting down, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach called the having sat down he called the Shneym Asar and says to them, "If anyone wishes to be Rishon, he shall be Acharon, and mesharet of all."


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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,


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"Whoever receives one yeled such as this bishmi <n>in my name</n> receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not only me but the One who sent me."  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH SPEAKS OF THE MICHSHOLIM OF THE OLAM HAZEH  <n>MT 18:6-14; MK 9:38-50; LK 9:49-50</n>


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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]


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, "Do not stop him, for no one who will accomplish nifla'ot bishmi <n>in my name</n> will be able soon afterward to speak lashon hora about me.


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"For whoever gives you to drink a kos of mayim bishmi <n>in my name</n> because you are talmidim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, omein  I say to you, he shall not lose his sachar.


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"And whoever causes a michshol <n>stumbling block</n> for one of these little ones, the ma'aminim 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.


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"And if your yad <n>hand</n> 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 AISH LO TIKHBEH <n>"fire not [ever] extinguished" Yeshayah 66:24</n>.


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"And if your regel <n>foot</n> causes you a michshol, cut off you regel; it is better for you to enter Chayyei Olam lame, than, having both raglayim, to be cast into Gehinnom.


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"And if your ayin <n>eye</n> 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,


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"where their TOLA'AT LO TAMUT <n>"worm does not die"--Yeshayah 66:24</n> and AISH LO TIKHBEH <n>"the fire not [ever] extinguished"-- Yeshayah 66:24</n>.


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"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."


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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 <n>custom</n>, once more he was teaching them Torah. REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S TORAH ON THE GET <n>MT 19:3-12; MK 10:2-12</n>


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And, having approached, the Perushim, testing him, were asking him, "Is it mutar <n>permissible</n> for a man to give a get to his wife?"


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And they said, "Moshe Rabbeinu made it mutar <n>permissible</n> for a man to write SEFER KERITUT <n>a get, a sefer keritut, bill of divorcement</n> and to send her away <n>dismiss her, divorce her</n>." [Devarim 24:1-4]


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Because of the hardness of your levavot, he wrote you this mitzva. [Tehillim 95:8]


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"But from the Reshit of the Beri'ah <n>beginning of the creation</n> ZACHAR UNEKEVAH BARA OTAM <n>Hashem "made them male and female"</n>. [Bereshis 1:27,5:2]


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VHAYU L'VASAR ECHAD" (" A man will leave his father and his mother and he will be joined to his isha <n>wife), and the two will be one flesh;"</n> [Bereshis 2:24] For this reason, they are no longer Shenayim but Basar Echad.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, "Whoever gives a get to his isha and marries another, commits ni'uf <n>adultery</n> against his isha.


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And if she gets a gerushim <n>divorcement</n> from her ba'al and marries another, she commits ni'uf <n>adultery</n>. [Mattityahu 19:9] REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH ON THE SUBJECT OF CHINUCH HABANOS <n>MT 19:13-15; MK 10:13-16; LK 18:15-17</n>


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And they brought to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach yeladim that he might lay his hands on them.  But the talmidim rebuked them.


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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.


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"Omein, I say to you, whoever is not mekabel Malchut Hashem as a yeled would be mekabel Malchut Hashem, will by no means enter it."


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And having taken the yeladim into his arms, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach laid his hands on them and made a berakhah over them.  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH AND ONE OF THE BAALE-BATTIM OF YISROEL, WHO BECAUSE OF HIS LACK OF PERCEPTION OF TRUE RICHES, PASSES BY THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME MEKABEL MOSHIACH AND RECEIVE S'MICHAH AND THE AVODAS KODESH MINISTRY OF ONE OF MOSHIACH'S TALMIDIM. <n>MT 19:13-15; MK10:13-16; LK 18:15-17</n>


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And as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was setting out to travel, one running and falling down before him, was asking him, "Rabbi haTov, what mitzva may I do that I might inherit Chayyei Olam?"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, "Why do you call me `tov'? No one [is] tov except echad, Elohim."


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"You have da'as of the mitzvot, the Aseres Ha-Dibros <n>The Decalogue</n>, LO TIRTZACH, LO TINAF, LO TIGNOV, LO TA'ANEH V'REI'AC ED SHAKER, KABEID ES A'VICHA V'ES IMMECHAH ("Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness <n>do not defraud), honor your father and mother."</n>" [Shemot 20:12-16; Devarim 5:16-20]


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And the man was saying to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Rabbi, from kinder-yoren I have been shomer mitzvot, keeping all these things."


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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 <n>poor</n>, and you will have otzar <n>treasure</n> in Shomayim; and come, follow me [as my talmid].


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But at the dvar haMoshiach, his face turned gloomy and he departed with agmat nefesh, for he had many possessions.


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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]


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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.


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"It is easier [for] a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for an ashir <n>rich person</n> to enter the Malchut Hashem."


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And they were even more amazed, saying to one another, "Then who with the Yeshu'at Eloheinu is able to be saved?"


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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."


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Shimon Kefa began to say to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Hinei! We left everything and have followed you!"


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Yehoshua said, "Omein, I say to you, there is no one who left bais or achim or achayot or imma or abba or banim or sadot for the sake of me and for the sake of the Besuras HaGeulah,


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"but that he shall receive a hundredfold now in the Olam Hazeh, batim <n>houses</n> and achim and achayot and imahot and banim and sadot with redifot <n>persecutions</n>; and in Olam Habah, Chayyei Olam." THE RISHONIM <n>FIRST</n> AND THE ACHARONIM <n>LAST</n>


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"And many Rishonim will be Acharonim; and the Acharonim, will be Rishonim." REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH AND HIS THIRD NEVU'AH CONCERNING HIS MAVET AND TECHIYAS HAMESIM <n>MT 20:17-19; MK 10:32-34; LK 18:31-34</n>


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And they were on the derech making aliyah leregel 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,


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saying, "Hinei, we are making aliyah leregel to Yerushalayim, and the Ben Adam will be betrayed to the Rashei Hakohanim and the Sofrim <n>Scribes</n> and they will condemn him with onesh mavet and will hand him over to the Goyim,


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"And they will mock him and spit on him and scourge him and will kill [him], and on the Yom HaShelishi he in his Techiyas HaMesim stand up alive again." YOCHANAN AND YA'AKOV: SELFISH AMBITION AND THE KOS OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH <n>MT 20:20-28; MK 10:35-45</n>


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And Ya'akov and Yochanan, the banim of Zavdai, approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying to him, "Rebbe, we wish that whatever bakosha <n>request, pidyon nefesh</n> we may ask you, you may do for us."


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And they said to him, "Grant to us that one may sit limin of you <n>right hand</n> and one lismol <n>left hand</n> in the kavod of your kisse."


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "You do not have da'as of what you ask. Are you able to drink the kos which I drink or the tevilah in which I am submerged?" [Iyov 38:2]


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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.


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"But to sit limin or lismol of me is not mine to grant, but for the ones for whom it has been prepared."


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And having summoned them, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, "You have da'as that among the Goyim those whom they recognize as their moshlim <n>rulers</n> domineer them and their Gedolim exercise authority over them.


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For even the Ben HaAdam <n>Moshiach, Daniel 7:13-14</n> did not come to be served but to serve and to give his nefesh as a pedut ransom [for the Geulah] for many." [Yeshayah 53:10-11]  A MIRACLE: A JEWISH MAN ENABLED TO SEE REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH BEN DOVID <n>MT 20:29-34; 10:46-52; LK 18:35-43</n>


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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 kabbetsan <n>a blind beggar</n> was sitting beside the road.


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And when he heard that it was Yehoshua from Natzeret coming, he began to cry out and to shout, "Ben Dovid Yehoshua, chaneini!"


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And many were rebuking him that he should shekit, but he kept crying out all the more, "Ben Dovid, chaneini!"


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Having stopped, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, "Summon him here."  And they called the ivver, saying to him, "Chazak! Cheer up! He is calling you!"


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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."


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, "Go, your emunah  has brought you tikkun." And ofen ort <n>immediately</n> he regained his sight  and he began following Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach baderech.


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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,


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and says to them, "Go into the shtetl ahead of you, and ofen ort <n>immediately</n> as you enter it, you will find an AYIR <n>colt, Zecharyah 9:9</n> tied there, on which no one of men yet has ever sat; untie it and bring it here. [Bamidbar 19:2, Devarim 21:3, Shmuel Alef 6:7]


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And if anyone says to you, `Why are you doing this?` you say `The Adon has need of it and will send it again here.`"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach's talmidim left and found an AYIR <n>Zecharyah 9:9</n> tied at the sha'ar outside on the rehkov. And they untied him.


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And the talmidim spoke to them just as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had instructed them.  And the by-standers permitted them.


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And the talmidim brought the AYIR to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and they lay upon it their garments, and he sat upon it.


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And many spread their garments on the derech, but others spread leafy branches they had cut from the sadot.


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And the vanguard and rearguard of the procession were crying out, HOSHAN NAH <n>`Save now,` Tehillim 118:25-26</n> BARUCH HABAH B'SHEM ADONOI!


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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.  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH CLEANSES THE BEIS HAMIKDASH--THE AITZ TE'ENAH IS CURSED <n>MT 21:18-19; MT 11:12-18; LK 19:45-48</n>


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And having seen in the distance an aitz te'enah <n>fig tree</n> in leaf, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach approached it to see whether he might find p'ri on it.  But when he came to it, he found nothing except leaves. For it was not the te'enim season.


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And in reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to it, "May no one ever be nourished from p'ri from you again! And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach's talmidim were listening.


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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 <n>tables</n> of the machalifei hakesafim <n>money changers</n> and the chairs of the ones selling the yonim <n>doves</n>.


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And he was teaching Torah and he was saying to them, "Has it not been written, BEITI BEIT TEFILLAH YIKAREI L'KHOL HA'AMMIM <n>"My House shall be called a House of Prayer [for] all peoples"</n>  but you have made it a ME'ARAT PARITZIM <n>"den of robbers"</n>. [Yeshayah 56:7; Yirmeyah 7:11]


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And the Rashei Hakohanim <n>the Chief Priests</n> and the Sofrim <n>Scribes</n> 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.  WHATEVER IS WITHOUT P'RI IN REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH IS CURSED--THE WITHERED AITZ TE'ENAH AND THE POWER OF EMUNAH <n>MT 21:19-22; MK 11:19-26; LK 21:37-38</n>


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And in the boker early, as they passed by, they saw the aitz te'enah <n>fig tree</n> having been withered from [the] roots.


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And, having remembered, Shimon Kefa says to him, "Rebbe, look, the aitz te'enah <n>fig tree</n> which you cursed has been withered."


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"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 but has emunah that what he says happens, so it will be for him.


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"For this reason, I say to you, everything for which you daven tefillos, everything you request in prayer, have emunah that you have received it, and so it will be for you.


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And when you stand davening, grant selicha if something you hold against someone, in order that your Avinu sh'baShomayim may grant you selicha for your peisha'im.


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THE SAMCHUT OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH IS QUESTIONED BY THE SANHEDRIN <n>MT 21:23-46; 22:1-14; MK 11:27-12:12; LK 20:1-19</n>


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And again they come into Yerushalayim. And in the Beis Hamikdash, [when] Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was walking about, the Rashei Hakohanim <n>the Chief Priests</n> and the Sofrim <n>Scribes</n> and the Zekenim come to him.


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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?"


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "I will ask you one dvar <n>question</n>, and you answer me and I will tell you by what kind of samchut I do these things:


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And they were discussing among themselves, saying, "If we say, from Shomayim, he will say, `Why then did you not with him have emunah?'


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"But [if] we say from bnei Adam?--they were afraid of the multitude, for everyone was considering Yochanan b'emes a navi.


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And in reply to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, they say, "We do not have da'as."  And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, "Neither will I tell you by what kind of samchut I do these things."


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach began to speak to them in meshalim. "A man, a Ba'al Bayit, planted a kerem <n>vineyard</n>, and   he put around [it] a fence and dug a pit for the yekev <n>winepress</n> and built a migdal <n>tower</n>, and he leased it to koremim <n>vine-keepers</n> and then the man went on a journey. [Yeshayah 5:1-7]


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"And the Ba'al Bayit sent to the tenants, the koremim, in the season [of Katsir] an eved in order that from the koremim he might receive from the perot of the kerem.


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"And again the Ba'al Bayit sent to the tenants, the koremim, another eved; and that one they struck on the rosh and insulted.


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"And the Ba'al Bayit sent another; and that one they killed, and many others, some beating, and others killing.


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"Still he had one BEN AHUV [9:7]. Lemaskana <n>finally</n> the Ba'al Bayit sent him to them saying, `They will respect BENI.`


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"But those koremim said to themselves, `This one is the Yoresh <n>Heir</n>, the Bechor. Come, let us kill him, and the nachalah, the bechorah will be ours.`


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"What then will the Ba'al Bayit of the kerem do?  He will come and destroy the koremim and will give the kerem to others.


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Have you not read this Kitvei Hakodesh? "EVEN MA'ASU HABONIM HAY'TAH LEROSH PINAH; MEI'ET HASHEM HAY'TAH ZOT, HI NIFLAT B'EINEINU ("The stone which the ones building rejected, this one has come to be for [the] capstone of [the] corner."


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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.    REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH AND HIS GAINSAYERS: AN ATTEMPT TO ENTRAP REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH CONCERNING TAXES AND CAESAR <n>MT 22:15-22; MK 12:13-17; LK 20:20-26</n>


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And they send to him some of the Perushim and the Herodians in order that they might catch him in a dvar.


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And having come, they say to him, "Rabbi, we have da'as that you are an ish of Emes and you do not show deference toward anyone.  Ki ein masso panim with you. but rather on the Derech Hashem you give Divrei Torah in Emes. Is it mutar <n>permissible</n> to give a poll tax to Caesar or not?  Should we give or should we not give?"


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having seen their tzevi'ut <n>hypocrisy</n>, said to them, "Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius that I may look [at it]."


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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."


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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. THE SHEILAH <n>QUESTION</n> ABOUT THE TECHIYAS HAMESIM--A VAIN EFFORT TO CHALLENGE THE CHOCHMAH OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH; WHEN THE TZEDUKIM CALL HIM "RABBI" THEY INTEND IT AS A SHTOCH <n>MOCKING AND IRONIC JAB</n><n>MT 22:23-33; MK 12:18-27; LK 20:27-40</n>


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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,


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"Rabbi, Moshe <n>Rabbeinu</n> wrote to us that if an ACH of someone should die and leave behind an isha UVEN EIN LO <n>"and there is no son to him"</n> YEVAMAH YAVO ALEIHA ULEKAKHAH LO L'ISHA V'HAYAH HABECHOR ASHER TELED YAKUM AL SHEM ACHIV HAMET <n>"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</n>


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"In the Techiyas HaMesim, when they are made to stand up alive, of which of them will she be [the] isha? For shiva had her [as] wife."


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Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, said to them, "Is not this the reason you are in error, having da'as neither of the Kitvei Hakodesh nor of the gevurat Hashem?


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"But concerning the Mesim that are made to stand up alive, they do not marry nor are they given in nissuin <n>marriage</n>, but are like the malachim in Shomayim.


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"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 V'ELOHEI YA'AKOV <n>"I am the G-d of Avraham, the G-d of Yitzchak, and the G-d of Ya'akov," Shemot 3:6</n>


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"Hashem is not the G-d of the Mesim but of the Chayyim. You are greatly mistaken."  THE TALMID CHACHAM <n>BA'AL TORAH</n> ASKS REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH TO POINT TO THE GREATEST MITZVAH <n>MT 22:34-40; MK 12:28-34</n>


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And one of the Sofrim <n>Scribes</n> approached and heard them debating, and seeing that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach answered them well, asked him, "Which mitzvah is rishonah of all the mitzvot?"


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"And the shneyah is this, V'AHAVTA L'RE'A'CHA KAMOCHA [Vayikra 19:18].  There is not another mitzvah greater than these."


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And the Ba'al Torah said to him, "Well spoken, Rabbi, b'emes you have said that Hashem is ECHAD, and EIN OD ("one [Devarim 6:4] and there is no other" [Yeshayah 45:18] except him. [Devarim 4:35,39; Yeshayah 45:6,14; 46:9]


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"and to have ahavah for himBECHOL L'VAVCHA <n>"with all your heart"</n> and with all your binah U'VECHOL M'ODECHA <n>"with all your strength" Devarim 6:5</n> and L'RE'ACHA KAMOCHA <n>"your neighbor as yourself" Vayikra 19:18</n> is greater [than] all of the burnt offerings and sacrifices." [Shmuel Alef 15:22; Hoshea 6:6; Michoh 6:6-8]


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, when he saw that this Torah teacher answered with chochmah said to him, "You are not far from the Malchut Hashem."  And no one was daring to put a sh'eilah in front of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach again.    REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH GIVES US THE TRUE DAAS TORAH INTERPRETATION OF TEHILLIM 110:1 <n>MT.22:41-46; MK 12:35-37; LK 20:41-44</n>


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While Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying shiurim in the Beis Hamikdash, he was saying "How is it that the Sofrim <n>Scribes</n> say that Moshiach is [merely] ben Dovid?


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"Dovid himself said by the Ruach Hakodesh, `NE'UM HASHEM L'ADONI: SHEV LIMINI, AD ASHIT OYVECHA HADOM L'RAGLECHA` <n>"Hashem said to my L-rd, Sit at the right of me, until I make your enemies a the footstool for your feet."</n> [Shmuel Bais 23:2; Tehillim 110:1]


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"Dovid himself calls Moshiach `Adon;` how then is Moshiach [merely] ben Dovid?" And the large multitude found it a huge oneg to listen to him.   REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH ATTACKS VAIN TRAPPINGS OF CHASHIVUT IN THE SHUL AS WELL AS ABUSES OF SAMCHUT <n>MK 12:38-40; LK 20:45-47</n>


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And in his torah, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying, "Beware of the Sofrim <n>Scribes, Torah-teachers, rabbonim</n>, the ones enamored of strutting about in extremely long kaftans and equally lengthy `Shalom' greetings in the marketplaces,


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"Beware particularly of the ones devouring the batim <n>houses</n> of the almanot and making a grand show of davening long tefillos. Mishpat will fall more heavily on these."  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH COMMENTS ON THE ALMANAH AND HER TWO MITES <n>MK 12:41-44;LK 21:1-4</n>


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And having sat [down] opposite the Beis Hamikdash Otzar <n>Treasury</n>, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was observing how the multitude throws copper [coins] into the Otzar. And many ashirim <n>rich people</n> were throwing [in] much. [Melachim Bais 12:9]


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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 than all those contributing to the Otzar,


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"for everyone threw in from their abundance, but this almanah from her need has put in everything she had, all her michyah <n>subsistence</n>."


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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 <n>buildings</n>!"  THE CHURBAN FORETOLD BY REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, "Do you see these great binyanim?  Not one even <n>stone</n> will be left resting on another even <n>stone</n>.  All will be thrown down!"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the Beis HaMikdash having a yechidus with Kefa and Ya'akov and Yochanan and Andrew. THE BEGINNING OF THE CHEVLEI MOSHIACH


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"Tell us when these things will be and what [will be] the ot <n>sign</n> when all these things are about to be consummated?"


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For many will come in my name [arrogating my title and authority as Moshiach] saying "I am [here]."  And they will deceive many. [Yirmeyah 29:8]


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"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 <n>the End [of the Olam Hazeh]</n>.


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"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].


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"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 <n>governors</n> and melachim <n>kings</n> you will take your stand for the sake of me [Moshiach] as a solemn edut <n>testimony</n> to them.


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"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.


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"And ach will hand over ach to mavet, and Av [his] own yeled, and yeladim will rise up against horim and cause them to be condemned with onesh mavet. [Michoh 7:6]


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"And everyone will hate you with sinas chinam <n>baseless hatred</n> because of my name [Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua]. But the one having endured to HaKetz this one will be receive Yeshu'at Eloheinu.


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"And when you see the SHIKKUTS MESHOMEM <n>"the abomination of desolation," the abomination that causes desolation, Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11</n> standing where it ought not --let the one reading this, take heed!--then let the ones in Yehudah flee to the mountains.


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"And the one on the roof, let him not come down back inside and let him not enter his bais to take anything away.


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"For in those days will be Tzarah Gedolah <n>Great Tribulation</n> of such a kind as has not happened from [the] Reshit HaOlam <n>Beginning of Creation</n> which Hashem created until now and never again will be. [Daniel 9:26; 12:1; Yoel 2:2]


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"And unless Hashem makes the yamim mekatzer <n>shortened</n>, no one would be delivered in the Yeshu'at Eloheinu. But for the sake of the Bechirim <n>Chosen Ones</n>, whom Hashem chose, he shortened the yamim.


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"And, then, if someone says to you, "Hinei! Here [is] the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach!  Hinei! There!--do not have emunah in what they say.


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"For meshichei sheker <n>false moshiachs</n> will arise, and nevi'ei sheker <n>false prophets</n>, and they will perform otot and moftim so as to deceive and lead stray, if possible, the Bechirim. [Devarim 13:6,7,11,14]


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"But after the Tzarah [13:19] of yamim hahem, the shemesh will be darkened, and the yare'ach will not give the ohr <n>light</n> of it,


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"and the kokhavim <n>stars</n> will be falling out of Shomayim, and the kokhot, the ones in Shomayim [i.e. the cosmic structure],  will be shaken. [Yeshayah 13:10; 34:4; Yechezkel 32:7-8; Amos 8:9; Yoel 3:3f <n>2:30f</n>]


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"And then you will see the BEN HAADAM BA BA'ANANIM <n>"the Son of Man [Moshiach] coming in clouds" Daniel 7:13-14</n> with gevurah rabbah and kavod.


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"And then he will send the malachim and he will gather together his Bechirim [13:20] from the four winds, from the ends <n>extremities</n> of ha'aretz to the ends <n>extremities</n> of Shomayim. [Zecharyah 2:6]  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH FORETELLS THE KETS HAOLAM HAZEH KAYITS HARVEST OF KLAL YISROEL, ESPECIALLY OF THE RELIGIOUS GEDOLIM WHO THEN WILL BE NO LONGER IN THE WINTER OF THE CURSE OF REJECTION [MARKOS 11:21] AS AT THE TIME OF THE CHURBAN, WHICH REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH ALSO FORETOLD [MARKOS 13:2]


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"And from the aitz te'enah <n>fig tree</n> learn the mashal: when by that time its branch has become tender and it puts forth the leaves, you have da'as that Kayits <n>Summer</n> is near;


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"Omein, I say to you that by no means haDor HaZeh passes away until all these things take place.[Markos 13:24; Mattityahu 27:45]


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"Shomayim and ha'aretz will pass away, but the dvarim of me [Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach] will by no means pass away.[Yeshayah 40:8]


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"But concerning HaYom HaHu or the sha'ah, no one has da'as, neither the malachim in Shomayim nor HaBen, but only HaAv.


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"It is like a man, when departing on a journey and leaving his bais and, having put his avadim in charge, each with his assigned avodas, gives orders to the sho'er <n>gatekeeper</n> to be shomer."   UFITOM YAVO EL HEKHALO HAADON [REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH] ASHER ATEM MEVAKSHIM UMALACH HABRIT ASHER ATEM CHAFETZIM HINEH VA <n>MALACHI 3:1; CHAGGAI 2:7</n>;  THIS MESSAGE IS FOR ALL ESCHATOLOGICAL YISROEL AND ALL THE BECHIRIM AND ALL MA'AMINIM IN MOSHIACH <n>MK 13:37</n>, NOT FOR ONLY YEHUDIM OR YEHUDIM WITH EMUNAH IN REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH OR ONLY THE BRIT CHADASHA KEHILLAH, THIS MESSAGE IS FOR ALL--TAKE HEED!


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"Therefore you be shomer, for you do not have da'as when the Ba'al Bayit comes, either late in the yom or at chatzot halailah  or at cockcrow or baboker,


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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 <n>cunning</n> do away with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.


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For they were saying, "Not at the Chag, for fear that a riot break out among the am ha'aretz."     AN ACTED NEVU'AH <n>PROPHECY</n>: AN ISHA PREPARES HAGUF HAREBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH FOR KEVURAH <n>MT 26:6-13; MK 14:3-9; JO 12:2-8</n>


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And he was in Beit-Anyah at the bais of Shimon the leper, reclining at tish, and an isha came, having an alabaster flask of costly mishcha <n>ointment</n>, pure nard, and having broke open the alabaster flask, she poured [it on] the rosh of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.


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Now some were there who in ka'as said to one another, "For what reason has this waste of mishcha taken place?


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"For this mishcha was able to be sold for more than three hundred denarii and to be given to the aniyim."  And they were reproaching her.


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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?


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"For always the aniyim you have with you, and when you wish you are able to do ma'asim tovim for them, but me you do not always have. [Devarim 15:11]


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"With what she had she did all she could. She prepared ahead of time to anoint my basar for the kevurah <n>burial</n> [Tehillim 16:9-10; Iyov 19:25-27; Yeshayah 53:11].


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"And, omein, I say to you, wherever the Besuras HaGeulah is proclaimed in kol ha'aretz, also what this isha did will be spoken in zikaron of her."   BETRAYING THE REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH: THE ACT OF YEHUDAH FROM K'RIOT <n>MT 26:14-16; MK 14:10-11; LK 22:3-6</n>


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And Yehudah from K'riot, one of the Shneym Asar, went to the Rashei Hakohanim <n>the Chief Priests</n> in order that he might betray him to them.


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And there was chedvah <n>rejoicing</n> with the ones having heard and they gave the havtachah of a matnat kesef to Yehudah. And he was seeking how he might conveniently betray Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.  PREPARING FOR PESACH WITH REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH <n>MT 26:17-20; MK 14:12-17; LK 22:7-30</n>


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And at the rishon of the Chag HaMatzot [when it was customary to prepare the Pesach Korban for mo'ed 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]


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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;


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"and wherever he enters, tell the Ba'al Bayit that the Rebbe says, "Where is my mekom linah <n>guest room</n> where I can conduct the Pesach Seder with my talmidim?


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And he will show you a large upstairs room having been furnished and ready. And there prepare for us."


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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.


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And erev having come, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach arrives with the Shneym Asar.   THE NAMING OF THE BETRAYER <n>MT 26:21-25; MK 14:18-21; LK 22:21-23; JO 13:21-30</n>


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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 <n>9</n>.  THE TIME OF CHESHBON HANEFESH OF THE SHLUCHIM AND THE BEDIKAS CHOMETZ OF DENIAL AND BETRAYAL


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They began to have agmat nefesh, and, one by one, to say to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Sure I am not the one?"


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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].


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"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; Tehillim 41:10 <n>9</n>], 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."   REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S FINAL HAMOTZI AND BERAKHAH AT HIS SEUDAH <n>MT 26:26-29; MK 14:22-25; LK 22:17-20</n>


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And at the Seudah, while they were eating, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having taken the matzah, having made the ha-Motzi, he offered the betzi'at halechem <n>breaking of the bread</n> and gave to them, and said, "Take and eat, this is my BASAR. [SHEMOT 12:8]" THE FINAL KIDDUSH IN ZACHOR <n>REMEMBRANCE</n> OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH WHOSE TZAVVAAH <n>LAST WILL</n> IS THE BRIT CHADASHA KAPPARAH FOR OUR SELICHA <n>FORGIVENESS</n> AND DEVEKUS <n>COMMUNION WITH G-D</n>


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And having taken the Kiddush Cup <n>Kos</n> [and] having made the berakhah, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave the Kiddush Cup to them, and everyone drank of it.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "HINEI DAHM HABRIT <n>SHEMOT 24:8</n>, the dahm of me <n>Moshiach</n>, which is being poured out lama'an RABBIM <n>for the sake of "MANY" Yeshayah 53:11</n>.


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"Omein, I say to you, that no longer will I by any means drink of the p'ri hagefen <n>fruit of the vine</n> until Yom HaHu when I drink it chadash <n>new</n> in the Malchut Hashem."


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And having sung the Hallel, they went out to the Mount of Olives.  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S TALMIDIM TOLD THAT THEY WILL BE SCATTERED <n>MT 26:31-35; MK 14:27-31; LK 22:31-38</n>; KEFA ASSERTS THAT EVEN IF ALL BECOME SHMAD DESERTERS, NEVERTHELESS HE WILL STAND FIRM; THE HAKHCHASHAH FORETOLD


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, "All of you will fall away, for it has been written, "I will strike down ES HARO'EH UTEFUTEN HATZON <n>"the Shepherd and the sheep will be scattered"</n>. [Zecharyah 13:7]


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"But after I am made to stand up alive <n>Moshiach's Techiyas HaMesim</n>, I will go before you into the Galil."


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, "Omein, I say to you, that you today, balailah hazeh <n>during this night</n> before the tarnegol crows twice, you will make hakhchashah <n>denial</n> of me shalosh pa'amim <n>three times</n>.


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But Kefa kept saying with vehemence, "If it is neccessary for me to die for you al kiddush ha-Shem, by no means will I make hakhchashah <n>denial</n> of you." And likewise also everyone declared.  THE FINAL TEMPTATION OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH; THE ADAM HECHADASH IN THE GAN HANISYONOS <n>GARDEN OF TEMPTATION</n> GAINS THE ESCHATOLOGICAL MESSIANIC TITZACHON <n>VICTORY</n><n>BERESHIS 3:1-6; MT 26:36-40; MK 14:32-42; LK 22:39-46; JO 18:1</n>


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And they come to a place of which the name [was] Gat-Sh'manim and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to his talmidim, "Sit down here while I daven."


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And he takes Kefa and Ya'akov and Yochanan with him and he began to be distressed and to be troubled.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, "My agmat nefesh is great, even to the point of mavet. Remain here and stay awake and shomer."


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And having gone forth a little, he was falling on the ground and was davening tefillos that, if it is possible, this sha'ah might pass from him."


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying, "Abba, Avi, all things [are] possible for you. Take away this KOS [YESHAYAH 51:17] from me. But not what I will, but what you [will]."


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach comes and finds them sleeping, and he says to Shimon Kefa, "Are you sleeping? Were you not chozek to stay awake one hour?


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"Stay shomer and daven that you may not enter lidey nisayon. Indeed the ruach [is] ready but the basar [is] weak."


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And once again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were falling shut, and they did not have da'as of what they might answer him.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach comes the shlishit <n>third</n> time and says to them, "Sleep [for] the remainder and take your rest. It is enough. The sha'ah has come.  Hinei, the Ben HaAdam is betrayed in the hands of chote'im.


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"Get up, let us go. Behold the one betraying me has drawn near."     THE HANDING OVER OF THE SEH HAELOHIM, REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH, THE PESACH KORBAN  <n>MT 26:47-56;  MK 14:43-52; LK 22:47-53; JO 18:2-12; YESHAYAH 53:7</n>


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And, ofen ort <n>immediately</n>, bishas maise <n>at the same time</n> Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach is speaking, Yehudah arrives, one of the Shneym Asar, and with him a crowd with swords and clubs with Rashei Hakohanim <n>the Chief Priests</n> and the Sofrim <n>Scribes</n> and the Zekenim.


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Now the one betraying Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had given a signal to them, saying, "Whomever I may give the neshikah <n>kiss</n>, he is [the one], seize him, and lead [him] away under guard."


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And when he came, he ofen ort <n>immediately</n> approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and says, "Rebbe," and he gave him the neshikah."


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But one of those standing by drew his cherev and struck the servant of the Kohen Gadol and cut off his ear.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach answered and said to them, "Do you come out swords and clubs as against a ganav to arrest me?


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"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]


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And a certain bochur was following along with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and the bochur was wearing nothing but a linen garment around his naked body, and they seized the bochur.


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But the bochur ran away naked, leaving the linen garment behind.  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN, THE BEGINNING OF HIS TZA'AR <n>PAIN AND SUFFERING</n>: CONDEMNED ON THE BASIS OF PERJURED EDUT <n>MT 26:57-68; MK 14:53-65; LK 22:54, 63-65; JO 18:24</n>


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And they led away Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to the Kohen Gadol and all the Rashei Hakohanim <n>the Chief Priests</n> and the Zekenim and the Sofrim <n>Scribes</n> were assembled.


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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 aish.


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And the Rashei Hakohanim <n>the Chief Priests</n> and [the] entire Sanhedrin were seeking edut <n>testimony</n> against Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach in order to bring the onesh mavet, and they were not finding any.


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For many gave edut sheker against Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and the eduyot <n>testimonies</n> were not in agreement.


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"We heard him saying, `I will bring churban to this Beis Hamikdash made with human hands, and, after shalosha yamim, another, not made with hands, I will build."


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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 <n>testimony</n> against you?"


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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?"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, "Ani hu, and you will see the BEN HAADAM [Daniel 7:13-14] YOSHEV LIMIN HaGevurah [Tehilllim 110:1] UVA IM ANENEI HASHOMAYIM" <n>"the Ben HaAdam [Moshiach] sitting at the right hand of power and coming with the clouds of heaven"</n>.


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And the Kohen Gadol, making the keriah <n>ritual tearing</n> of his tunic, says, "What further need do we have of edim? [Vayikra 10:6; 21:10; 24:16; Bamidbar 14:6]


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"You heard him commit Chillul Hashem gidduf <n>blasphemy</n>. How does it seem to you?" And they all condemned Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to be deserving of mishpat mavet. [Vayikra 24:16]


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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 nevu'ah!" And the shomrim took custody of him by slapping Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.  KEFA MAKES HAKHCHASHAH <n>DENIAL</n> OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH        <n>MT 26:58,69-75; 14:54,66-72; LK 22:54-62; JO 18:15-18,25-27</n>


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And having seen Kefa warming himself, having looked him over, she says, "You also were with the one from Natzeret, Yehoshua!"


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But he denied [it], saying, "I do not have da'as nor binah of what you are saying." And he walked away and went outside into the entryway and a tarnegol crowed.


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And the maid, having seen him, began again to say to the ones having stood by, "This one is one of them!"


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But again he made hakhchashah <n>denial</n>. 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" <n>inhabitant of the Galil</n>.


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And Kefa began to speak a kelala and to swear, "I do not have da'as of this man--I don't know the one of whom you speak!"


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And ofen ort <n>immediately</n>, 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 pe'amim <n>three times</n> you will make hakhchashah <n>denial</n> of me." <n>Markos 14:30</n>. And having broken down, Kefa was weeping.


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And as soon as it was boker, the Rashei Hakohanim <n>the Chief Priests</n> with the Zekenim and Sofrim <n>Scribes</n> and [the] entire Sanhedrin, having performed the akedah <n>binding</n> of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, led [him] away and handed [him] over to Pilate. [Bereshis 22:9] REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH BEFORE PILATE <n>MT 27:3-14; MK 15:2-5;  LK 23:1-5; JO 18:28-38</n>


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And Pilate questioned Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Are you the Melech haYehudim?" And, in reply, he says, "You say so."


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And Pilate again questioned him, saying, "Do you not answer anything? Look how many things they accuse you [of]."


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach no longer answered anything, so Pilate was astounded. [Yeshayah 53:7]  THOUGH IT IS PESACH AND NOT YOM KIPPUR, REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH FULFILLS A YOM KIPPUR MOTIF IN THE QUESTION OF KAPPARAH IN TWO "SONS OF THE FATHER," ONE FOR HASHEM, ONE FOR AZAZEL <n>VAYIKRAH 16:6-9</n>; MOSHIACH MA SHE-EIN KEIN BAR-ABBA


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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 <n>Revolt, Uprising</n>, had committed retzach <n>murder</n>.


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But Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you wish [that] I should release to you the Melech haYehudim?"


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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?"


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But Pilate was saying to them, "Why? What ra'ah has he committed?" But they all the more cried out, "Let him be hanged on HaAitz!" [Devarim 21:22]


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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 hanged on HaAitz. [Devarim 21:22] REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S KETER OF THORNS [YESHAYAH 53:6]; THE  COHORT OF THE ARMY OF THE GOYIM IS GATHERED AGAINST MOSHIACH <n>TEHILLIM 2:1-2</n>


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And the chaiyalim <n>soldiers</n> led away Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach into the courtyard, which is [the] Praetorium, the governor's headquarters, and they called together [the] whole cohort.


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And they clothe him [in royal] purple and place upon him a keter of thorns that they had woven together.


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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]


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After mocking him, they stripped him of [royal] purple and clothed him in his garments. And they lead him out that they might pierce him and hang him on HaAitz. [Devarim 21:22]  BEING PRESSED INTO SERVICE TO HELP BEAR REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S AITZ <n>MT 27:31-34; MK 15:20-23; LK 23:26-33; JO 19:16-17</n>


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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 requisition him in order that he might carry Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach's Aitz . [Devarim 21:23; 27:26; Yeshayah 53:4-5]  THE HAGBA <n>LIFTING UP</n> OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH <n>MT 27:35-50; MK 15:24-37; LK 23:33-46; JO 19:18-30</n>


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And they bring Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to a place called Gulgotha, which means, being translated, `Place of the Skull.`


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And they were giving to him yayin having been mixed with myrrh, but this one did not take it. [Tehillim 69:22 <n>21</n>; Mishle 31:6]


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And they hanged Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach on HaAitz and YICHALLEKU VEGADAI <n>"they divide the garments"</n> of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and VAPPILU GORAL <n>"they cast lots"</n> for them, to decide what each might take." [Tehillim 22:19<n>18</n>]


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And with him they also nailed, each to his own aitz, shnei shodedim, one on [the] right and one on [the] left of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.


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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 shalosha yamim, [Tehillim 22:7; 109:25]


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"Likewise, also, the Rashei Hakohanim along with the Sofrim were also mocking him, saying. "He saved others, but himself he is not able to save." [Tehillim 22:7]


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"Let the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, let the Rebbe Melech Yisroel, let [him] come down now from the aitz, in order that we may see and have emunah!"  And the ones having been hanged on the aitz on either side of him were reproaching him. [Markos 8:31]


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And when the sixth hour came [high noon], it became choshech over kol ha'aretz until [the] ninth hour. [Amos 8:9]


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And at the ninth hour, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach cried out in a kol gadol, "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]


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And some of the ones having been standing nearby and having heard, were saying, "Hinei! He calls for Eliyahu HaNavi!"


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And someone having run and having filled a sponge with CHOMETZ <n>"vinegar" Tehillim 69:21</n>, 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."


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And the centurion, having stood nearby opposite Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and having seen that he expired this way, said "Truly, this man was the Ben HaElohim!"


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And there were also nashim looking on from a distance, among whom [were] Miryam from Magdala, and Miryam the Imma of the younger Ya'akov and of Yosi, and Shlomit. [Tehillim 38:11]


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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 up to Yerushalayim.        REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S OWN CHEVRAH KADDISHA FORMS TO MAKE PREPARATIONS FOR THE KEVURAH OF THE NIFTAR  <n>MT 27:57-60; MK 15:42-46; LK23:50-54; JO 19:31-42</n>


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And already, erev fast approaching, vi-bahlt <n>since</n> it was Preparation Day, which is the day before Shabbos,


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Yosef of Ramatayim, a member of the Sanhedrin and a man of chashivut <n>prominence</n> there, a man who was also himself looking forward to the Malchut Hashem, had the chozek to go into Pilate and ask for the guf Yehoshua.


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And Pilate was amazed that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was already niftar, and Pilate summoned the centurion to question him whether Yehoshua was niftar already.


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And having bought tachrichim linen cloths and having taken Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach down, he wrapped him in the tachrichim  and placed him in a kever which had been cut from rock, and he rolled a stone against the entrance of the kever.


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And Miryam of Magdala and Miryam the Imma of Yosi were observing [as eye-witnesses] of where Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach  had been laid.


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And when Shabbos had ended, Miryam Magdalene and Miryam Imma of Ya'akov, and Shlomit bought spices in order that they might go and anoint him.


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And at Shachrit on Yom Rishon, the first day of the shavu'a <n>week</n>, the shemesh just coming up, they come to the kever.


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And they were saying to themselves, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the kever?"


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And having looked up, they observe that the stone, which was extremely large, had already been rolled aside!


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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.


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But he says to them, "Do not be alarmed.  You seek Yehoshua from Natzeret, who has been hanged on HaAitz. He has been made to stand up alive.  He is not here. Hinei!  The place where they laid him.


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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."


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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.


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And now after Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach arose early on Yom Rishon, he appeared rishonah to Miryam of Magdala, from whom he had cast out shiva shedim.


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She went out and announced to the ones who had been with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach while they were in avelut <n>mourning</n> and weeping.


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And those who heard that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach lives and he was seen by her, refused to have emunah.


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And after these things, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach appeared in another demut to shenayim of them walking along into the country.


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But later Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach appeared to the Achad Asar 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, because they had no bittachon in those who saw Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach after he had been made to stand up alive.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Go into kol haOlam, and proclaim the Besuras HaGeulah to all HaBri'ah.


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"The one having had emunah and having submitted to a tevilah of teshuva will be delivered in the Yeshu'at Eloheinu, but the one not having emunah will come under the gezar din <n>verdict</n> of haresha'ah <n>condemnation as guilty</n>.


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"And these otot will accompany those that have emunah. Bishmi <n>In my name</n> they will cast out shedim; they will speak with leshonot chadashot <n>Acts 2:4</n>;


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"And with their hands they will pick up nechashim <n>Acts 28:3-5</n>; and, if any deadly poison they drink, it will in no way harm them; upon [the] cholim they will lay their hands and they will bring them refu'ah."  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH IS TAKEN UP INTO SHOMAYIM <n>LK 24:50-53; ACTS 1:9-11</n>


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And then Adoneinu Yehoshua, after speaking to them, was taken up into Shomayim and V'YASHAV LIMIN HASHEM <n>"sat down at the right hand of Hashem." [Tehillim 110:1]</n>


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And those having gone forth preached the Hachrazah <n>Proclamation, kyrygma</n> everywhere, [while] Adonoi was working with them, confirming through the accompanying otot.


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Vi-bahlt <n>since</n> many Messianic Sofrim have attempted to compile a sefer, a historical narrative, about the momentous events that have been fulfilled among us,


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just as these [masoret haShluchim] have been handed down to us by those who from HaReshit [of the Besuras HaGeulah] were edei re'iyah <n>eyewitnesses</n> and mesharetim [ministers] of the Dvar Hashem,


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I thought it expeditous also, having done an iyun, accurately and carefully being meayen in every source and and making a medakdeke investigation of every aspect from HaReshit, to write for you and to mesader <n>arrange, place in order or succession</n> an orderly account, most noble Theophilus,


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that you may have da'as of HaEmes regarding the Divrei Moshiach about which you took shiurim <n>lessons</n>. THE HULEDET OF KOHEN-NAVI YOCHANAN OF THE TEVILAH OF TESHUVA FORETOLD


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At the time of Herod king of Yehudah, there was an a certain kohen by the name Zecharyah, who belonged to the Aviyah division.  His isha was of the banot Aharon and her name was Elisheva. [Divrey Hayamim Alef 24:10]


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And they were both tzaddikim before Hashem, walking a derech tamim in all the mitzvot and chukim of the Torah of Adoneinu. [Bereshis 6:9; Devarim 5:33; Melachim Alef 9:4]


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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]


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according to the minhag <n>custom</n> of the kehunah, Zecharyah was chosen by lot to enter the Beis Hamikdash and to offer ketoket <n>incense</n>. [Shemot 30:7,8; Divrey Hayamim Alef 23:13; Divrey Hayamim Bais 29:11; Tehillim 141:2]


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And when the hour of the offering ot the ketoket came, all the multitude were davening outside. [Vayikra 16:17]


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And there appeared to Zecharyah a malach Hashem, standing on the right side of the Mitzbe'ach of ketoret. [Shemot 30:1-10]


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And, seeing the malach, Zecharyah was terrified, and pachad <n>fear</n> fell on him. [Shofetim 6:22,23; 13:22]


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But the malach said to him, "Do not have pachad, Zecharyah. Your tefillah was heard and your isha, Elisheva, will bear a ben to you and you will call his shem Yochanan.


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"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 <n>mother</n>, [Bamidbar 6:3; Vayikra 10:9; Shofetim 13:4; Yirmeyah 1:5]


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"And he will go forth before Adonoi in the Ruach and Ko'ach of Eliyahu, "VEHESHIV LEV AVOT AL BANIM" <n>"And he will turn the heart of the fathers to the children" Malachi 3:24 [4:6]</n> and those without mishma'at <n>obedience</n> to the chochmah of the tzaddikim to prepare for Adonoi an Am <n>People</n> having been made ready." [Malachi 4:5,6]


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And Zecharyah said to the malach, "Just how will I have da'as that this is so? For I am old and my isha is advanced in her yamim." [Bereshis 15:8; 17:17]


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And in reply, the malach said to Zecharyah, "I am Gavri'el, I stand before Hashem. And I was sent to speak to you and to announce these things to you. [Daniel 8:16; 9:21]


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"And --hinei!--, you will be ilem <n>mute</n> and not be able to speak, until the yom when these things come to pass, because you did not have emunah in my dvarim, which will be fulfilled in their time." [Shemot 4:11; Yechezkel 3:26]


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And the people were expecting Zecharyah and they were bewildered at his delay in the Beis HaMikdash.


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And when he came out, he was ilem <n>mute</n> and not able to speak to them, and they had da'as that he had seen a chazon <n>vision</n> in the Heikhal. He kept motioning to them and he remained ilem.


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And after these yamim, Elisheva, his isha, became "with child," and she kept herself in seclusion for chamesh chodashim, saying,


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"Hashem has done this for me.  In these yamim he looked with Chen V'Chesed on me to take away my reproach among bnei Adam." [Bereshis 30:23; Yeshayah 4:1]  THE HULEDET OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH FORETOLD <n>1:26-38</n>


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Now in the chodesh shishi the malach Gavri'el was sent from Hashem to a shtetl in the Galil called Natzeret,


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to a betulah given in erusin <n>betrothal, engagement</n> to an ish from the Beit Dovid named Yosef, and the shem of the betulah was Miryam.


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But she was greatly perplexed at the message, and kept pondering what sort of Shalom greeting this might be.


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And the malach said to her, "Do not have pachad, Miryam, for you have found chen before Hashem. [Bereshis 6:8]


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"And--hinei--in your womb you will conceive and bear BEN [Yeshayah 7:14] and you will call SHMO Yehoshua. [Zecharyah 6:11-12]


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"He will be gadol and will be called Ben HaElyon.  Adonoi Elohim will give him the kisse Dovid Aviv,


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"and he will rule over the Beis Yakov l'Olam va'ed, 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]


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But Miryam said to the malach, "How will be this, vi-bahlt <n>since</n> I do not have da'as of an ish?"


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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, Ben HaElohim.


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"And--hinei-- Elisheva your korev <n>relative</n> also has conceived a ben in her old age, and this chodesh is hashishi for her who is called barren.


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And Miryam said, "Hinei!--I am the shifcha <n>bond maid</n> of Hashem.  May it be done to me according to your dvar." And the malach departed from her.  SHIRIM OF ELISHEVA AND MIRYAM <n>LK 1:39-56</n>


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And in those yamim, Miryam got up and traveled into the hill country with haste to a shtetl of Yehudah.


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And it came about, when Elisheva heard the greeting of "Shalom!" of Miryam, the yeled leaped in Elisheva's womb, and Elisheva was filled with the Ruach Hakodesh.


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And Elisheva cried out with a kol gadol, and said, "Berukhah at miNashim, and Baruch p'ri <n>fruit</n> of your womb! [Shofetim 5:24]


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"For--hinei!--when the sound of your Shalom greeting came into my ears, the yeled leaped with simcha in my womb.


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"And ashrey is the one having had emunah that there will be a fulfillment to the things having been spoken to Miryam by Hashem."


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ALATZ LIBI BAHASHEM <n>"My heart rejoices in Hashem" Shmuel Alef 2:1</n> and my neshamah exalts in Hashem Moshi'i <n>my Savior</n>, [Tehillim 18:46; Yeshayah 17:10; 61:10; Chabakuk 3:18]


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"For HASHEM VISHAFAL YIREH <n>Tehillim 138:6</n>, he looked upon the humble state of his shifcha <n>bond maid</n> for--hinei-- from now on kol hadorot ishruni <n>"all generations will call me happy,"-- Bereshis 30:13</n> [Tehillim 138:6]


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"and the chesed of Hashem is DOR V'DOR [Tehillim 100:5] to those with yirat Shomayim. [Shemot 20:6; Tehillim 103:17]


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"Hashem has done nifla'ot with his zero'a [Yeshayah 53:1]. He scattered those who in the machshavot <n>thoughts</n> of their levavot are the Ge'im <n>the Haughty ones</n>. [Tehillim 98:1; Yeshayah 40:10; Bereshis 11:8; Shemot 18:11; Shmuel Bais 22:28; Yirmeyah 13:9; 49:16]


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And Miryam remained with Elisheva about shalosha chodashim, and then Miryam returned to her bais. HULEDET AND YOUTH OF YOCHANAN OF THE TEVILAH OF TESHUVA


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And Elisheva's shcheinim <n>neighbors</n> and kroivim <n>relatives</n>  heard that Adoneinu greatly demonstrated his rachamim to her and they had much simcha with her.


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And it came about on the yom hashemini they came for the Bris Milah of the yeled, and they were calling him by the name of  his abba, Zecharyah. [Bereshis 17:12]


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And having asked for a luach, Zecharyah wrote, saying, "Yochanan is his shem." And everyone was amazed.


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And Zecharyah's mouth was loosed at once and the lashon of him, and he began speaking, saying "Baruch Hashem!" [Yechezkel 24:27]


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And upon all their shcheinim came much yirat Shomayim, and in the entire mountain country of Yehudah everyone was talking about these matters.


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All who heard these things pondered them in their levavot, saying, "What then will this yeled become?"  For, indeed, the yad Hashem was with him. [Bereshis 39:2]


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And Zecharyah, his abba, was filled with the Ruach Hakodesh and brought forth a dvar nevu'ah, saying, [Yoel 2:28]


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"BARUCH HASHEM ELOHEI YISROEL [Tehillim 41:14 <n>13</n>], for Adonoi has visited his Am Berit and accomplished a pedut for the Geulah of them. [Bereshis 24:27; Melachim Alef 8:15; Tehillim 72:18; 111:9]


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"And Hashem raised up a Keren Yeshu'a, a mighty Moshi'a, 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]


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"that we should have Yeshu'at Eloheinu from our oyvim and from the hand of all the ones who regard us with sin'as chinom.


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"Thus Hashem has demonstrated his rachamim to Avoteinu and has shown zikaron of his Brit HaKodesh, [Michoh 7:20; Tehillim 105:8,9; 106:45; Yechezkel 16:60]


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"And you also, yeled, will be called Navi HaElyon; for you will go LIFNEI HAADON to prepare the DERECH HASHEM. [Malachi 3:1; Yeshayah 40:3]


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"through the rav rachamim of Eloheinu, by which will visit us the rising SHEMESH [Moshiach] from Shomayim, [Malachi 4:2]


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"to appear to the ones in CHOSHECH and YOSHVEI B'ERETZ TZALMAVET, to direct our feet into the Derech Shalom."  [Tehillim 107:14; Yeshayah 9:1-2; 59:9]


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And the yeled was growing and was being given chizzuk in the Ruach Hakodesh, and Yochanan was in the desolate places until the day of his manifestation to Yisroel.


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And it came about at that time that a dvar malchut was sent out from Caesar Augustus to register everyone in the entire Roman Empire.


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Now Yosef also went up from the Galil, from the shtetl of Natzeret, to Yehudah, to the Ir Dovid, which is called Beit-Lechem, because he was of the mishpochah and beis of Dovid.


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And Yosef went up to register with Miryam, who had been given to him in erusin <n>betrothal</n> and who was "with child."


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And she bore her ben, her Bechor; and she wrapped him in cloths, and laid him in an evus <n>animal feeding trough</n>, because for them there was not a place in the malon <n>inn</n>.  THE MALACH AND THE RO'IM <n>SHEPHERDS</n><n>LK 2:8-20</n>


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And ro'im were in the same region, living in the open outside, and keeping shomer over their eder <n>flock</n> balailah.


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And a malach Hashem suddenly stood before them, and the kavod  Hashem shone around them; and they were afraid with a yir'ah gedolah.


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And the malach said to them, "Do not have pachad; for-- hinei --I announce Besuras HaGeulah to you of great simcha which will be for kol Am Berit;


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"because hayom, in the Ir Dovid, has been born to you a Moshi'a <n>Savior</n>, who is Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach HaAdon. [Yeshayah 9:5<n>6</n>]


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"And this will be HaOt [The Sign] to you:  you will find an olal <n>infant</n> wrapped in cloths and lying in an evus."      [Shmuel Alef 2:34; Melachim Bais 19:29; Tehillim 86:17; Yeshayah 7:14]


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And suddenly there was with the malach a multitude of the Tz'va HaShomayim praising Hashem, and saying,


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"Kavod to Hashem bamarom; And on ha'aretz shalom among bnei Adam ratzon."  [Yeshayah 9:6; 52:7; 53:5; Michoh 5:5]


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And it came about, when the malachim departed from them to Shomayim, the ro'im were saying to one another, "Let us go now up to Bethlehem and let us see this thing that has come about which Hashem has made known to us."


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And the ro'im went back, and as they returned, they cried, `Baruch Hashem" as they gave kavod to G-d for all which they had heard and seen, just as it had been foretold to them.  THE BRIS MILAH AND NAMING CEREMONY CONFERRING A HEBREW NAME ON REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH


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And when shemonah yamim were completed for his Bris Milah, his shem was called Yehoshua, the shem by which he was called by the malach, before he was conceived in the womb. [Zecharyah 6:11-12]  THE PIDYON-HABEN OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH, THE TOHORAH OF MIRYAM, AND THE PRESENTATION IN THE BEIS HAMIKDASH; MASHMIDIM <n>DEVOTEES</n> IN THE BEIS HAMIKDASH


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And when the yamim for their tohorah according to the Torah of Moshe Rabbeinu were completed, they brought him up to Yerushalayim to present him to Hashem [Vayikra 12:2-8]


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(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]


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and to offer a korban according to the thing having been said in the Torat Hashem, "SH'TEI TORIM O SHNEI BENI YONAH <n>a pair of turtle doves or two young pigeons</n>." [Vayikra 12:8]


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And--hinei--there was an ish in Yerushalayim whose shem was Shim'on, a tzaddik, a chasid, awaiting the Nechamat Yisroel, and the Ruach Hakodesh was upon him. [Yeshayah 52:9]


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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.


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And Shim'on came in the Ruach Hakodesh into the courts of the Beis HaMikdash; and when the horim <n>parents</n> brought in the yeled, Yehoshua, to do concerning him the customary mitzva of the Torah,


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"an Ohr to give hitgalut <n>revelation</n> to the Nations and the kavod of your Am, Yisroel."  [Yeshayah 42:6; 49:6]


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And Shim'on said a berakhah over them and said to Miryam his em, "Hinei--this one is destined for the michshol <n>stumbling</n> and tekumah <n>revival</n> of RABBIM [Yeshayah 53:11-12] in Yisroel and for an Ot that will be opposed <n>against which there will be mitnaggedim, opponents</n>. [Yeshayah 8:14; 53:3]


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"and a cherev will pierce the neshamah of you yourself also so that the machshavot of many levavot will be revealed." CHANAH THE TZADDEKES <n>PIOUS AND RIGHTEOUS WOMAN</n>


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And there was a ne'viah <n>prophetess</n> named Chanah Bat-P'nu'el, of the shevet <n>tribe</n> of Asher.  This isha was advanced in age, having lived with her ba'al sheva shanim from her betulim <n>virginity</n>,


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and then to the age of eighty-four she had lived as an almanah who was not departing from the Beis HaMikdash, serving yomam valailah with tzomot <n>fastings</n> and tefillos.


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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 of Yerushalayim. [Yeshayah 40:2; 52:9]


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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.   THE BAL KISHRON REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH, ON THE THRESHOLD OF ADULT LIFE, WITH THE RABBONIM IN THE COURTS OF THE BEIS HAMIKDASH, LIKE A BOCHUR BEING PREPARED FOR HIS ENTRY INTO THE RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY, WHICH TOOK PLACE WHEN HE BECAME BAR MITZVAH AT THIRTEEN <n>P. ABOTH 5:21</n>; REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH THE YESHIVA BOCHUR IN THE BEIS HAMIKDASH, AWARE OF HIS AV SH'BASHOMAYIM


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And the yeled continued growing and was given chozek <n>strength</n>, being filled with chochmah, and the Chen v'Chesed Hashem was upon him.


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And his horim used to make aliyah leregel to Yerushalayim shanah b'shanah for Chag HaPesach <n>the Feast of Pesach</n>. [Shemot 23:15; Devarim 16:1-8]


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And when he became a bochur of sheteym esreh shanim, they made aliyah leregel, as usual according to the mitzva and minhag of the Chag;


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and as they were returning, having fulfilled the prescribed number of yamim, the bochur Yehoshua stayed behind in Yerushalayim.  And his horim did not have da'as of this,


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but supposed him to be in the caravan, and went a day's journey; and they began looking for him among the kroivim <n>relatives</n> and acquaintances.


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And it came about, that after shelosha yamim they found him in the courts of the Beis HaMikdash, sitting in the midst of the rabbis, both listening to them and asking them she'elot <n>kashes, questions</n>.


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And when his horim saw him, they were astounded, and his em <n>mother</n> said to him, "Beni, why did you do thus to us? Hinei-- your abba and I were anxiously looking for you."


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And he said to them, "Why is it that you were looking for me? Did you not have da'as that I must be in the Beis Avi?"


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And he went down with them, and they came to Natzeret; and he continued in mishma'at to his horim.  And his em <n>mother</n> was treasuring all these things in her lev <n>heart</n>.


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And Yehoshua kept increasing in chochmah V'GADEL VATOV GAM IM HASHEM V'GAM IM ANASHIM <n>"and stature and favor with Hashem and men" Shmuel Alef 2:26</n>.


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In the shenat chamesh esreh <n>15th year</n> 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,


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and when, during the same historical period, Anan and Caiapha were Kohanim Gedolim, then it was that the dvar Hashem came to Yochanan Ben-Zecharyah bamidbar <n>in the wilderness</n>. THE KOHEN-NAVI YOCHANAN OF THE TEVILAH OF TESHUVA COMES AS REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S MAGGID IN THE MIDBAR <n>MT. 3:1-12; MK 1:2-8</n>


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And Yochanan went into all the surrounding region of the Yarden preaching a tevilah of teshuvah for the selichat avon,


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as it has been written in the sefer divrei Yeshayah Hanavi, KOL KOREY BAMIDBAR <n>"A voice of one shouting in the wilderness," YESHAYAH 40:3</n>: `Prepare the Derech Hashem <n>the Way of the L-rd</n>. Make his paths straight!'"


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KOL GEY YINNASE V'KHOL HAR V'GEVAH YISHPALU <n>"Every valley will be filled in and every mountain and hill will be leveled off"</n>, V'HAYAH HE'AKOV LEMISHOR V'HARKHASIM L'VIKAH <n>"The crooked will be made straight the rough paths made into smooth roads"</n>;


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V'RA'U KHOL BASAR ES YESHU'AT ELOHEINU <n>"And all basar will see the salvation of our G-d"</n>. [Yeshayah 40:3-5; Tehillim 98:2; Yeshayah 42:16; 52:10]


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Therefore, Yochanan was saying to the multitudes coming out to have the tevilah supervised by him, "You yeladim of nachashim,  who warned you to flee from the charon af [Hashem] habah <n>the coming burning wrath of Hashem</n>?


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"Therefore, produce p'ri tov l'teshuva <n>fruit worthy of repentance</n>, and do not begin to presume within yourselves, saying, `We have the zechut Avot <n>merit of the Fathers</n> of Avraham Avinu,' for, I say to you, that Hashem is able from these avanim <n>stones</n> to raise up banim to Avraham Avinu.  [Yeshayah 51:2]


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"And already the ax is laid at the shoresh haAitzim <n>the root of the trees</n>.  Therefore, every aitz not producing p'ri tov is cut down and is thrown into the Aish."


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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 do likewise."  [Yeshayah 58:7; Yechezkel 18:7]


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Now came also mochesim <n>tax-collectors</n> to receive the tevilah of teshuva, and they said to him, "Rabbi, what should we do?"


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And also chaiyalim <n>soldiers</n> 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 <n>slander</n>. And be satisfied with your gehalt <n>wages</n>." [Yechezkel 23:1; Vayikra 19:11]


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As the Am [Berit] were filled with expectation, all wondering in their levavot concerning Yochanan, whether perhaps he might be the Moshiach,


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Yochanan answered everyone, saying, "I give you a tevilah with a mikveh mayim, but Hu HaBa <n>Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach</n> has more ko'ach <n>power</n> 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 aish.


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"The winnowing fork is in his hand to clean out his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the MOTZ <n>"chaff," Tehillim 1:4</n> he will burn up with an AISH LO TIKHBEH <n>fire not [ever] extinguished--Yeshayah 66:24</n>. [Yeshayah 30:24; Ruth 3:2]


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Therefore, with many other dvarim Yochanan was exhorting them, preaching the Besuras HaGeulah to the Am [Berit].  FINAL YAMIM OF THE AVODAS KODESH MINISTRY OF THE KOHEN-NAVI YOCHANAN <n>JO 4:1-3</n>


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Now Herod the tetrarch, when he was reproved by Yochanan about Herodias, the wife of his brother, and about all the resha'im which he did,


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Herod added this also on top of everything else: he locked up Yochanan in the beit hasohar <n>prison</n>. REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S TEVILAH IN THE MIKVEH MAYIM OF THE YARDEN RIVER  <n>MT.3:13-17; MK 1:9-11</n>


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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,


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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 B'CHA CHAFATSTI ("You are my Son, the beloved one, with you I am well pleased." [Bereshis 22:2; Yeshayah 42:1; Tehillim 2:7] TOLDOT OF REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH  <n>Mt.1:1-17</n>


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And Yehoshua himself was about shaloshim shanah, at the beginning of his avodas kodesh ministry,  being the ben, as it was being thought, of Yosef ben Eli,


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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]


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where for ARBA'IM YOM Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was being tempted by Hasatan. And he had no okhel in those yamim.  And when the yamim had been completed, he was famished. [Shemot 34:28]


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And Hasatan said to Rebbe Melech Melech HaMoshiach, "If you are the Ben HaElohim, command this even <n>stone</n> that it become lechem."


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And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach answered Hasatan, "It has been written, LO 'AL HALECHEM L'VADOH Y'CHE-YEH HAADAM, <n>"Not by bread alone will man live." [Devarim 8:3]</n>


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And Hasatan led Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach up and showed him, in a moment of time, all the mamlakhut <n>kingdoms</n> of the Olam Hazeh;


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and Hasatan said to Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, "To you I will give all this shilton and their kavod, because it has been given to me; and to whomever I desire, I give it.


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"Therefore, if you will KOREI'A U'MISHTACHAVEH <n>"bow down and worship," ESTHER 3:5</n> before me, everything will be yours."


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And in reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to Hasatan, "It has been written, ES HASHEM ELOHEICHA TIRAH V'OTO TA'AVOD <n>"Es Hashem Eloheicha you shall fear and him alone you shall serve." Devarim 6:13</n>


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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;


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For it has been written, MALACHAV Y'TZAV-VEH LACH ("His angels he will command concerning you" to protect you,


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"and upon their hands they will lift you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone."  [Tehillim 91:11,12]


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And in reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to Hasatan, "It is said, LO TENASSU ES HASHEM ELOHEICHEM, ("Do not put to the test Hashem your G-d." [Devarim 6:16]


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And after Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach completed all nisayonot, Hasatan went away from him until an opportune time. REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH RETURNS TO THE GALIL  <n>MT. 4:12; MK 1:14; JO 4:43-45</n>


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And in the ko'ach of the Ruach Hakodesh, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach returned to the Galil. And a report went out throughout all the surrounding countryside about him.    GO'ALEINU ADONOI TZ'VA'OT SHMO KEDOSH YISROEL! REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH CALLED UP TO READ AT THE ALMEMAR <n>RAISED PLATFORM</n> AS THE BA'AL KORAY OF THE HAFTARAH <n>MT.4:17; MK 1:15</n>


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And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was saying shiurim in their shuls and eliciting a peledike reaction from everyone.


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And he came to Natzeret, the shtetl of his guddal <n>being brought up</n> and he entered according to his minhag on Yom haShabbos into the shul and was given an aliyah as the Ba'al Koray.


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And at the Hagba, 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,


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RUACH ADONAI ELOHIM ALAI YA'AN MASHACH ADONAI OTI LEVASER ANAVIM SHELACHANI LIKRO LISHVUYIM DEROR, and to the blind PEKACH KO'ACH, L'SHLEI'ACH 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],


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LIKRO SHENAT RATZON LAHASHEM <n>"To preach the year of Hashem's favor."</n>[Yeshayah 61:1,2 Targum Ha-Shivim; Vayikra 25:10; Tehillim 102:20, 103:6; Yeshayah 42:7,49:8,9]


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And doing the gelilah 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.


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And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach began to speak to them, "Hayom <n>today</n> this dvar of the Kitvei Hakodesh has been fulfilled in your hearing."


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And everyone was speaking well of him and they were amazed at the divrei Chen coming out of his mouth and they were saying, "Can this be Yosef's ben?"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Muz zain <n>no doubt</n> you will speak this mashal to me: `Rofeh, heal yourself.` Everything  we heard that happened in K'far-Nachum, do also here in your shtetl."


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, "Omein, I say to you that no navi is welcome in his own shtetl, in his own eretz moledet <n>homeland</n>.


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"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, when a great famine occurred over all the land, [Melachim Alef 17:1]


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"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]


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And many metzora'im <n>lepers</n> 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]


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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]


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went down to K'far-Nachum, a shtetl of the Galil. And he was saying them shiurim on the Shabbatot.  SHABBOS IN KFAR-NACHUM  <n>MT 8:14-17; MK 1:21-34</n>


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And in the shul there was a man having a ruach hatameh <n>unclean spirit, shed, demon</n> and he cried out with a kol gadol.


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"Ah, mah lanu v'lach, Yehoshua of Natzeret? Did you come to destroy us? I have da'as of who you are, HaKadosh of Hashem."


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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.


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And astonishment came upon everyone.  And they were talking to one another saying, "What is this dvar Torah, for with samchut and ko'ach he commands the ruchot hatemei'ot <n>unclean spirits</n> and they come out!


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach got up from the shul and  entered into the bais of Shimon. And the chamot <n>mother-in-law, shviger</n> of Shimon was fever-stricken, and they asked him about her.


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And having stood over her, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach rebuked the kaddachat <n>fever, DEVARIM 28:22</n> and it left her. And at once, having got up, she was functioning as their mesharetet <n>servant, keli kodesh, minister</n>.


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And while the shemesh was setting, all who had cholim, all with various machalot brought them to Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach.  And he, laying his hands upon each one of them, was administering refu'ah to them.


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And also shedim were coming out from many, shrieking a shrai <n>scream</n> and crying out, "You are HaBen HaElohim!" And rebuklng them, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was not allowing them to speak, because they had da'as of his identity as Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach.    REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH MAKES HIS FIRST ITINERARY THROUGH THE GALIL <n>MT 4:23-25; MK 1:35-39</n>


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And in the boker, 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.


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But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "It is necessary for me to preach the Malchut Hashem in the other shtetlach, because for this purpose I was sent."


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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,


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and he saw two sirot <n>boats</n> having been beside the lake. But the daiyagim had left them and were cleaning the nets.


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And embarking into one of the sirot <n>boats</n>, which was Shimon's, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach asked Shimon to put out from the land a little; and having sat down, from the sirah <n>boat</n> Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was teaching Torah to the multitudes.


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And when he stopped speaking, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to Shimon, "Put out into the deep <n>water</n> and let down your nets for a catch."


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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."


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And they signaled for their chaverim <n>partners</n> in the other sirah <n>boat</n> to come and help them. And they came and they filled both sirot <n>boats</n> so much that they began to sink.


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And having seen this, Shimon Kefa fell down before Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, saying, "Depart from me, Adoni, for an ish choteh <n>sinful man</n> am I."  [Bereshis 18:27; Iyov 42:6; Yeshayah 6:5]


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For astonishment seized Shimon Kefa and all the ones with him on account of the catch of dagim <n>fish</n> which they took;


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and likewise also Ya'akov and Yochanan the banim of Zavdai, who were business shuttafim <n>partners</n> with Shimon. And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to Shimon, "Do not be afraid. From now on you will catch bnei Adam."


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And having left behind the sirot <n>boats</n> on the shore, they forsook all and followed him [as talmidim]. REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S REFU'AH OF THE ISH METZORAH   <n>MT 8:2-4; MK 1:40-45</n>


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And it came about, while he was in one of the shtetlach --hinei!--there was an ish metzorah <n>a leper</n> full of leprosy. And having seen Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, having fallen on his face, he begged him saying, "Adoni, if you are willing, you are able to make me tahor."


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And having stretched out his hand, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach touched him, saying, "I am willing.  Be made tahor."  And, ofen ort <n>immediately</n>, the leprosy departed from him.


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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 as Moshe Rabbeinu gave mitzva; do this for an edut <n>solemn testimony</n> to them." [Vayikra 14:2-32]


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But the man was spreading even more the dvar about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and many multitudes were assembling to listen and to receive refu'ah from their machalot.  REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH REJECTED <n>YESHAYAH 53:3; MT 4:13-16</n>; REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH GIVES REFU'AH TO A PARALYTIC IN KFAR-NACHUM <n>MT. 9:1-8; MK 2:1-12; LK 5:17-26</n>


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And it came about, on one of the yamim when he was teaching Torah, that the Perushim and Sofrim who had come from every shtetl of the Galil and Yehudah and Yerushalayim, were sitting down.  And the power of Hashem was with Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach to bring refu'ah.


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And-- hinei!--bnei Adam 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.


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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.


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And having seen their emunah, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, "Ish <n>man</n>, your chatta'im have received selicha."


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And the Sofrim began to raise kashes <n>questions</n>, and also the Perushim, saying, "Who is this who is speaking Chillul Hashem gidduf <n>blasphemy</n>? Who is able to grant selicha to chatta'im but Hashem alone?" [Yeshayah 43:25]


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But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach having had da'as of their thoughts, said to them in reply, "Why are you reasoning in your levavot?


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"But in order that you may have da'as that the Ben HaAdam has samchut <n>authority</n> on ha'Aretz to grant selicha to chatta'im," 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."


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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!"


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And astonishment seized everyone, and they were shouting "Baruch Hashem!" And they were filled with yirat Shomayim, saying, "Hayom our eyes have beheld nifla'ot!" THE KERI'AH <n>CALLING</n> OF MATTITYAHU THE MOCHES--THE SICHAS SEUDAH SHEL TALMIDE CHACHAMIM <n>THE TABLE TALK OF THE WISE</n><n>MT9:9-13; MK 2:13-17</n>


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And after these things Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach went out and saw a moches <n>tax collector</n> named Levi sitting in the tax office, and he said to him, "Follow me."


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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.


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And the Perushim and their Sofrim were murmuring against Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach's talmidim, saying, "Why with the mochesim and chote'im are you eating and drinking?"


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And in reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "It is not the bari'im <n>healthy ones</n> who have need of a rofeh <n>physician</n>, but the cholim;


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"I have not come to call the tzaddikim but chote'im to teshuva."     REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH GIVES HIS TALMIDIM MASHALIM ABOUT TZOMOT <n>FASTS</n><n>MT 9:14-17; MK 2:18-22</n>


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But they said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Yochanan's talmidim undergo tzomot <n>fasts</n> often and offer tefillos; likewise also the ones of the Perushim; but your talmidim eat and drink."


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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?


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"But yamim will come when the Chosson is taken away from them; then, in those yamim, they will undergo tzomot."  A DERECH CHADASHA IN REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH IS NECESSARY FOR JUDAISM'S BRIT CHADASHA, EVEN THOUGH SOME ARE COMPLACENT AND CONTENT WITH WHAT IS NOT CHADASH <n>SEE ACTS CHAPTERS 15 AND 21</n>


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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 old garment. Otherwise, both the new will be torn, and the patch from the new will not match the old.


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"And no one puts yayin chadash into old wineskins; otherwise, the new wine will burst the wineskins and it will be spilled and the wineskins will be destroyed.


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"And no one having drunk the old desires the chadash, for he says, `The alter <n>old</n> is beser <n>better</n>.'"


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And it came about on Shabbos that Rebbe Melech 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]


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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]


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"how he entered into the Beit Hashem and took the Lechem HaPanim <n>the Bread of the Presence</n>, and he ate and gave to the ones with him, which is mutar <n>permissible</n> to eat only by the kohanim?"  [Vayikra 24:5,9]


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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.


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Now the Sofrim and Perushim were watching Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to see if he brings refu'ah on Shabbos, in order that they might find something to accuse him.


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But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach knew their thoughts, and said to the man having the withered hand, "Rise and stand in the midst."  And the man got up and stood.


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And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "I ask you whether it is mutar <n>permissible</n> on Shabbos to do haTov or to do haRah, to save nefesh or destroy it?"


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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.


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But they <n>the Sofrim and the Perushim</n> were filled with fury, and they were discussing with one another what they might do to him.  REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH SUMMONS HIS SHNEYM ASAR TALMIDIM WITH SHIMON KEFA AS HIS GABBAI [ASSISTANT]  <n>MT 10:1-4; MK 3:14-19; 6:12-16</n>


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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.


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And when boker came, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach summoned his talmidim, and having chosen from them Shneym Asar, whom he also named Shluchim:


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Shimon, whom also he called Kefa, and Andrew his brother, and Ya'akov and Yochanan and Philippos and Bar-Talmai,


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and Yehudah Ben-Ya'akov, and Yehudah from K'riot, who became the boged <n>traitor, betrayer</n> of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.


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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 from all Yehudah and Yerushalayim and the coastal region of Tzor and Tzidon,


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came to hear him and to receive refu'ah from their machalot, and the ones being troubled by ruchot hatemei'ot <n>unclean spirits, shedim</n> were given refu'ah,


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and all were seeking to touch Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach because ko'ach <n>power</n> was going out from him, and he was giving refu'ah to everyone.


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And lifting up his eyes to look at his talmidim, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, "Ashrey are the the aniyim <n>poor</n>, for yours is the Malchut Hashem.


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"Ashrey are the ones ra'evim <n>hungering</n> now, for you will eat your fill. Ashrey are the ones weeping now, for you will laugh [Yeshayah 55:1,2; 61:2,3]


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"Ashrey are you when bnei Adam have sinas chinam for you and when they ostracize you and they reproach you and cast out your name as rah <n>evil</n> on account of the Ben HaAdam <n>Moshiach, Daniel 7:13-14</n>.


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"Have simcha in that day and leap for chedvah <n>rejoicing</n>, for--hinei--your sachar is gadol in Shomayim. According to the same things their Avot were doing to the nevi'im.


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"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]


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"Woe when all bnei Adam speak well of you. For according to the same things were their Avot doing to the nevi'ei hasheker <n>false prophets</n>.


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"But to you I say, to the ones listening, show ahavah to the your oyvim <n>enemies</n>, do mitzvahs for the ones with sinas chinam for you,


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"To the one hitting you on the cheek, offer also the other, and from the one taking away your kaftan <n>coat</n>, also the tunic and gartel do not withhold.


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"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]


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"And if you show ahavah to the ones showing ahavah to you, what kind of shvakh <n>commendation</n> to you is that? For even the chote'im show ahavah to the ones showing ahavah to them.


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"For even if you do mitzvahs for the ones doing mitzvahs for you, what kind of shvakh to you is that?


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"And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what kind of shvakh to you is that?  Even chote'im lend to chote'im, that they receive in return the same amount.


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"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 <n>sons of the Most High</n>, because he is kind to anashim ra'im and those without hodayah.


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"Be anashim of rachamanut <n>compassion</n> just as also your Elohim HaAv is rachum <n>compassionate</n>." [Tehillim 103:8] ON GIVING UP A FARIBEL <n>GRUDGE</n>


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"Judge not, lest you be judged. And do not condemn, and by no means may you be condemned. If you pardon with mechila <n>forgiveness</n>, you will be pardoned with selicha <n>forgiveness</n>.


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"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 lap. For by what measure you measure it will be measured in return to you." [Tehillim 79:12; Yeshayah 65:6,7]


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Now Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach told also a mashal to them.  "Surely an ivver <n>blind man</n> is not able to guide an ivver, is he? Will not both fall into a pit?


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"A talmid is not above his moreh <n>teacher</n>. But everyone, having been fully trained, will be like his moreh <n>teacher</n>.


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"And why do you see the speck in the eye of your ach, but the log in your own eye you do not notice?


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"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?  Tzevu'a, remove first the log from your eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck in the eye of your ach.  THE SOURCE OF LASHON HORAH: THE AITZ AND ITS P'RI


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"For each aitz by its own p'ri will be known. For not from thorns do they gather figs nor from a thorn bush do they pick grapes.


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"The ish tov from the good storehouse of the lev <n>heart</n> produces tov, and the ish rah out of the evil storehouse produces rah. For from the abundance of the lev the mouth speaks." REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH EXPLAINS THE CAUSE OF THE CHURBAN


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"Everyone coming to me and hearing my divrei Torah and putting them into practice, I will show you to whom he is likened.


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"He is likened to the man building a bais who dug and went down deep and laid a yesod <n>foundation</n> upon the av sela <n>bed rock</n>.  And a flood having come, the river struck against that bais, and the flood was not strong enough to shake it, because its binnuy <n>construction</n> was firm.


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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 upon the ground without a yesod, which the river struck against, and ofen ort <n>immediately</n> the bais collapsed, and gadol was the churban of that bais.


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When he completed all his divrei torah in the oznei haAm <n>ears of the people</n>, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach entered into K'far-Nachum.


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And having had da'as of Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, the centurion sent to him zekenim of the Yehudim, asking him to come and to give refu'ah to his eved.


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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.


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"For he is one of the hasidei ummot haOlam who loves our Jewish people and he built for us our shul."


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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 re'im, saying to him, "Adoni, do not trouble yourself further, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof;


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"Therefore, I did not consider myself worthy to come to you.  But just say the dvar, and my eved will receive refu'ah. [Tehillim 107:20]


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"For I too am a man placed under the yad memshalah <n>the hand governing authority</n>, having chaiyalim <n>soldiers</n> 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."


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And having heard these things, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was mispoyel <n>marvelling</n> 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."


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And when the ones having been sent returned to the bais, they found the eved being shalem b'guf <n>healthy</n>.  A LEVAYE <n>FUNERAL</n> IN THE GALIL AND THE RAISING OF THE BEN OF THE ALMANAH OF NA'IM <n>JO 7:11-17</n>


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And it came about on the next day that Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach proceeded to a shtetl called Na'im, and his talmidim were traveling along with him as well as a great company of people.


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Now as Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach approached the sha'ar of the shtetl--hinei!--an ish met <n>dead man</n> was been carried out for kevurah <n>burial</n>; he was the ben yachid of his em, and she was an almanah, and a considerable crowd from the shtetl was with her.


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And when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu saw her, he had rachmonus over her and said, "Do not weep."


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And having approached, he touched the aron met <n>coffin</n>; and the bearers stood still, and he said, "Bochur, to you I say, get up."


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And the niftar sat up and he began to speak, and Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach gave him to his em <n>mother</n>.


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And everyone was filled with yirat Shomayim and they were shouting, "Baruch Hashem!" And they were saying, "A navi gadol is among us, and Hashem has visited his people."


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And this shema <n>report</n> about him went out in all Yehudah and in all the surrounding countryside.  CONFIRMATION FROM TANACH AFTER FARHERERS <n>EXAMINERS</n> ARE SENT TO REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH  <n>MT 11:2-19</n>


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And Yochanan's talmidim reported to him about all these things. And when he had summoned a certain two of his talmidim, Yochanan


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sent them to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu, saying, "Are you Hu HaBah [Moshiach] or should we be looking for another?"


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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?'"


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At genoi <n>exactly</n> that time, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave refu'ah to many with machalot and afflictions and ruchot ra'ot and to many ivverim he granted sight.


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And in reply he said to them, "Go and tell Yochanan what you have seen [as edey re'iyah]. IVRIM RO'IM, pisechim <n>lame persons</n> walk, the metzorim <n>lepers</n> are cleansed, and chereshim <n>deaf persons</n> hear, the mesim are restored to life, ANIYIM <n>poor</n> have the Besuras HaGeulah preached to them. [Yeshayah 29:18,19; 35:5,6; 61:1,2]


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"And ashrey <n>happy</n> is whoever does not find a michshol <n>stumbling block, obstacle, Yeshayah 57:14</n> in me [as Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach]."


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And when the messengers of Yochanan had departed, he began to say to the multitudes about Yochanan, "What did you go out bamidbar to see?  A reed shaken by the wind?


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"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.


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"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]


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"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."


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(And when kol haAm and the mochesim heard this, they acknowledged the Tzidkat Hashem, having been submitted to the tevilah of teshuva of Yochanan.


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But the Perushim and the Ba'alei HaTorah rejected the tachlis of Hashem for their lives, refusing the tevilah of teshuva of Yochanan.)


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"Therefore, to what will I compare the people of haDor hazeh <n>this generation</n> and what are they like?


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"They are like yeladim sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another; and they say, `We played the chalil <n>flute</n> for you and you did not dance;  we sang a kina <n>lament, funeral dirge</n> and you did not weep.'


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"For Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva has come not eating lechem nor drinking yayin, and you say, `He has a shed <n>demon</n>!'


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"The Ben HaAdam [Moshiach, Daniel 7:13-14] has come eating and drinking, and you say, `Hinei!  A man who is a zolel <n>glutton</n> and a soveh <n>drunkard</n>, a friend of mochesim and chote'im.'


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"Yet chochmah is justified by all of her yeladim." REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH IN THE BAIS OF SHIMON, ONE OF THE PERUSHIM; A CRITIQUE OF THE PERUSHIM VIS A VIS MOSHIACH; THE SOFEK <n>SUSPICION</n> WITH WHICH THEY VIEWED HIM AND THE EVIL NATURE OF IT


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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.


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And--hinei--an isha <n>woman</n> was in the shtetl, an isha chota'at <n>a woman of sin</n>, and, when she had da'as that Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach reclines at tish in the bais of the Parush, she brought an alabaster flask of shemen bosem <n>perfume</n>.


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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 MaMoshiach and she was drying them with her hair, and she was kissing his feet and was anointing them with shemen bosem <n>perfume</n>.


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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 da'as who and what sort of isha is touching him, because she is an isha chotet <n>woman of sin</n>.'


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And in reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to him, "Shimon, I have something to say to you."  And he said, "Speak, Rabbi."


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"Two persons were debtors to a certain creditor; the one was owing a choiv <n>debt</n> of chamesh me'ot <n>five hundred</n> denarii and the other a choiv <n>debt</n> of chamishim <n>fifty</n>.


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"Not being able to repay, the creditor graciously forgave both debts.  Therefore which of them will have more ahavah for him?"


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In reply, Shimon said, "I suppose the one whom the creditor forgave more." And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to him, "Your judgment is in gantzen nachon <n>entirely correct</n>."


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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. [Bereshis 18:4; Shofetim 19:21]


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"You did not give me neshikah <n>kiss</n>, but she, from the time I entered, did not stop kissing my feet.


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"With shemen my rosh you did not anoint. But she with shemen bosem <n>perfume</n> anointed my feet. [Tehillim 23:5; Kohelet 9:8]


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"Oib azoi <n>consequently</n>, I say to you, her chatta'im, which are many, have been granted selicha <n>forgiven</n>, for with rabbah ahavah she loved. But he who is mekabel selicha only a little, has ahavah only a little."


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And the ones reclining at tish with Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach began to say to themselves, "Who is this who even grants selicha to averos?"


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And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to the isha, "Your emunah has gained you Yeshu'at Eloheinu. L'chi L'shalom. <n>Go in shalom!</n>"


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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.


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And there were some nashim who had received refu'ah from ruchot ra'ot and machalot: Miryam <n>called Magdalit</n>, from whom shivah shedim had gone out,


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and Yochanah the wife of Kuza, the steward of Herod; Shoshanah, and many others who were giving maamadot <n>contributions</n> for Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach from their private means.   THE MASHALIM OF REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH  <n>MT 13:1-53; MK 4:1-34; LK 8:4-18</n>  WILL YOU OR WON'T YOU BEAR P'RI IN MOSHIACH?


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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:


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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.


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And other seed fell upon the rock, and as soon as it grew up,  it dried up because it has no moisture.


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And other seed fell in the adamah tovah and, having grown up, produced p'ri a hundredfold.  As Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said these things, he was calling out, "The one having oznayim <n>ears</n> to hear, let him hear."


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And he said, "To you it has been granted to have da'as of the razei Malchut Hashem <n>mysteries of the Kingdom of G-d</n>, but to the others I speak in mashalim, in order that `YIRU they may see and V'SHIM'U they may not have binah.'" [Yeshayah 6:9]


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"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 and come to Yeshua'at Eloheinu.


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"Now the ones upon the rock are those who when they hear, with simcha they receive the dvar; and these have no shoresh <n>root</n>.  They have emunah for a while, but in time of nisayon, they become shmad and they fall away.


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"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 da'agot <n>worries, anxieties</n> and osher <n>riches</n> and ta'anugot <n>pleasures</n> of the Olam Hazeh and they bring no p'ri to maturity.


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"Now the one in the adamah tova, these are those who have heard the dvar Hashem with a lev tov and yeshar, and retain the dvar Hashem and bear p'ri with zitzfleisch <n>patience</n>.


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"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 <n>light</n>.


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"For nothing is nistar <n>hidden</n> which will not become nikar <n>evident</n>, nor anything nelam <n>hidden</n> which shall not be made known and come to ohr <n>light</n>.


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"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."  WHO ARE THE TRUE ACHIM OF REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH?  <n>MT 12:46-50; MK 3:31-35</n>


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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.


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And it was announced to him, "Your em <n>mother</n> and your achim have been standing outside waiting to see you."


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But in reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "My em and my achim are these: the ones who are shomei dvar Hashem and also shomrei dvar Hashem."  REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH THE BAAL HANES AND THE BAAL MOFET


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Now it came about on one of those yamim that he and his talmidim embarked into a sirah <n>boat</n> that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Let us go over to the other side of the lake."  And they launched out.


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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 pikuach nefesh <n>imminent danger</n>.


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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]


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And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach 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]


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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.


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And having seen Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach and having cried out, he fell down before him and said in a kol gadol, "Mah li ul'chah, Yehoshua Ben El Elyon? <n>"What to me and to you, Yehoshua Son of the Most High G-d?"</n>  I beg you, do not torment me."


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For Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach had been commanding the ruach hatemeiah <n>unclean spirit, shed</n> 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.


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And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach questioned him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Legion."  For many shedim had entered him.


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And the shedim were entreating Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, lest he might command them to depart into the abyss.


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Now there was there 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.


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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.


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And when the herdsmen saw what had happened, they fled and reported it in the town and on the farms.


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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.


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And the edat re'iyah <n>eyewitnesses</n> reported to them how the one who had been possessed with shedim, was given refu'ah.


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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.  So he embarked into a sirah <n>boat</n> and returned.


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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


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"to your bais and tell what great things Hashem has done for you."  And the man went away, preaching throughout the whole town, what great things Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach had done for him.         REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S TZITZIT AND TAHARAT HAMISHPOCHAH: EMUNAH AS THE MEANS OF BRINGING NASHIM BACK FROM THE STATE OF ESCHATOLOGICAL NIDDAH <n>SEPARATION</n><n>MT 9:18-26; MK 5:21-43</n>


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Now as Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach returns, the multitude gave him kabbalat panim <n>welcome</n>, for they had all been expecting him.


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And--hinei!--there came an ish named Ya'ir 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;


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for he had a bat yachidah about shteym esreh shanah in age, and she was dying. But as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went, the multitudes were pressing around him,


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and an isha having a flow of dahm for shteym esreh shanah, and who had spent all she had on rofim <n>physicians</n> but could not  receive refu'ah from anyone, [Vayikra 15:25-30]


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approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach from behind, and she touched the tzitzit of his garment; and ofen ort <n>immediately</n> the flow of her dahm stopped.


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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."


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But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, "Someone did touch me, for I had da'as that ko'ach had gone out from me."


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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 <n>immediately</n> she received refu'ah.


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And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to her, "Biti <n>my daughter</n>, your emunah brought your refu'ah. L'chi l'shalom <n>Go in shalom</n>."


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While he was still speaking, someone comes from the bais of one of the Roshei Beit HaKnesset [Ya'ir], saying, "Your bat has died. No longer trouble the rabbi."


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But when Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach heard this, he answered him, "Do not be afraid; only have emunah, and she will receive refu'ah."


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And having come to the bais, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach did not permit anyone to enter with him, except Kefa and Yochanan and Ya'akov, and the yaldah's abbah and em.


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And all were weeping and mourning for her; but Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, "Stop weeping, for she has not died, but is sleeping."


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And her ruach returned, and she got up ofen ort <n>immediately</n>; and Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach gave orders that something be given to her to eat.


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And her horim were amazed; but Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach instructed them to tell no one what had happened.


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And having called together the Shneym Asar, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach gave to them ko'ach and samchut over all the shedim and to give refu'ah to their illnesses.


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Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach sent them out as his maggidim to preach the Malchut Hashem and to administer refu'ah to the cholim <n>heal the sick</n>,


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And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Take nothing for the journey, neither walking stick nor beggar's bag nor lechem nor kesef, nor a extra kaftan.


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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.


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And they departed and were itinerating throughout the shtetlach, preaching the Besuras HaGeulah and healing everywhere.  HEROD'S PECHADIM <n>TERRORS</n><n>MT 14:1-12; MK 6:14-29</n>


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Now Herod the Tetrarch heard all the things happening and he was perplexed because it was said by some that Yochanan had experienced the Techiyas HaMesim and come back,


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But Herod said, "Yochanan I beheaded. Who then is this about whom I hear such things?"  And he was seeking to see him. REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S TISH AND THE "MANNA" FROM SHOMAYIM SERVED AT HIS FARBRENGEN <n>INSPIRATIONAL GATHERING, CELEBRATION</n><n>MT 14:13-21; MK 6:30-44 JO 6:1-13</n>


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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.


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But the multitudes, having realized this, followed him.  And having given them a kabbalat panim <n>welcome</n>, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was speaking to them about the Malchut Hashem, and to the ones having need of it, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was administering refu'ah.


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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."


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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 and dagim, shenayim, unless we go and buy for all this people okhel."


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For there were about chamesh elafim anashim. But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to his talmidim,  "Have them recline [as at tish], chamishim in a group." [Tehillim 23:2]


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And having taken the chamesh kikrot and the shnei hadagim and having looked up to Shomayim, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said a berakhah over them and offered the betzi'at halechem and was giving to the talmidim to set before the multitude.


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And they ate and all were satisfied, and they picked up shirayim, shneym asar baskets full. THE ANI MA'AMIN OF THE CORRECT <n>ORTHODOX JEWISH</n> EMUNAH, THE EMUNAH OF THE TRUE DAT HAYEHUDIT  <n>MT 16:13-20; MK 8:27-30</n>


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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?"


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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."


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And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "And you, whom do you declare me to be?"  And in reply, Kefa said, "The Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach of Hashem."


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And having warned them, he gave orders to tell no one this  REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH BEGINS TO GIVE THE NEVU'AH <n>PROPHECY</n> OF HIS COMING MAVET AND TECHIYAS HAMESIM; HIS TALMID'S BEIN ADAM LE-ATMOD <n>RELATIONSHIP TO THE SELF</n><n>MT16:21-28; MK 8:31-38</n>


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saying, "It is necessary for the Ben HaAdam [Moshiach, Daniel 7:13-14] to suffer much and to be rejected by the Ziknei HaAm <n>the Elders of the People</n> and Rashei Hakohanim and Sofrim and to be killed, and on the Yom HaShelishi to undergo the Techiyas HaMesim."


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And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was saying to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me <n>Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach</n>, let him deny himself and lift up his aitz shel hinnazrut <n>tree of self-denial</n> yom yom and let him follow me.


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"For whoever wishes to save his nefesh will lose it.  But whoever loses his nefesh on account of me <n>Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach</n>, this one will save it.


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"For what is the revach <n>profit</n> to a ben Adam who has gained the whole of the Olam Hazeh, but has lost his own self, forfeited his neshamah?


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"For whoever is ashamed of me <n>Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach</n> and my dvarim, this one the Ben HaAdam <n>Moshiach, Daniel 7:13-14</n> will be ashamed of, when Moshiach comes in his Kavod and the Kavod of HaAv of him and of the malachim hakedoshim.


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"But I say to you, Omein, there are some standing here who will by no means taste mavet until they see the Malchut Hashem." A PREVIEW OF THE BIAS HAREBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH  <n>MT 17:1-13; MK 9:2-13; LK 9:28-36</n>


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And it came to pass, about shemonah yamim after these divrei Moshiach, that when he had taken Kefa and Yochanan and Ya'akov, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach went up to the har <n>mountain</n> to daven.


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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.


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And--hinei--two men were conversing with Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, and these two men were Moshe Rabbeinu and Eliyahu HaNavi,


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who appeared in kavod and were speaking of Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach's Exodus, which he was about to fulfill in Yerushalayim.


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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.


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And it came about, just as they departed from Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, Kefa said, "Adoni, it is good for us to be here; let us make shalosh sukkot, one for you and one for Moshe Rabbeinu and one for Eliyahu HaNavi." <n>Kefa did not know what he was saying.</n>


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And while Kefa was saying these things, an anan <n>cloud</n> came and was overshadowing them, and while they entered into the anan they were afraid.


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And a Bat Kol came from the anan <n>cloud</n>, saying "ZEH BENI BECHIRI, ELAV TISHMA'UN ("This is my Son the Chosen One, listen to him." [Yeshayah  42:1; Tehillim 2:7]


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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.  REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH HEALS THE BOCHUR POSSESSED BY SHEDIM   <n>MT 17:14-21; MK 9:14-29</n>


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And it came about on the following day, when they had descended from the har <n>mountain</n>, a large throng met Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach.


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And--hinei--an ish from the multitude cried out saying, "Rabbi, I beg you to look at beni, for to me he is a ben yachid,


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"and--hinei--a shed seizes him and suddenly lets out a shrai and throws the bochur into a convulsion with foam at the mouth and it mauls him and will scarcely depart from him.


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And in reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, "O perverse dor <n>generation</n> 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]


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Even now as the bochur was approaching Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, the shed threw him down and convulsed him.  But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach rebuked the shed <n>the ruach hateme'ah</n> and administered refu'ah to the bochur, and gave him back to his abba.  REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S SECOND NEVU'AH OF HIS SUFFERING AND THE KAVOD TO FOLLOW  <n>MT 17:22-23; MK 9:30-32</n>


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And all were amazed at the gedulat Hashem. And while all were beholding the peledike way he was doing everything, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to his talmidim,


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"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."


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But they had no binah concerning this dvar of Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, and it had been hidden from them in order that they might not understand it, and they were afraid to ask him about this dvar.  A SHEILAH FOR REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH: WHO ARE THE GEDOLIM?    <n>MT 18:1-5; MK 9:33-37</n>


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Now an argument arose among the talmidim of Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, as to who might be the Gadol among them.


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And Rebbe Melech Melech HaMoshiach, having perceived the thought of their levavot, took a yeled into his arms and stood him at his side.


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And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Whoever receives this yeled in ha-Shem of me <n>Moshiach</n>, is mekabel of me. And whoever is mekabel of me is mekabel of the One who sent me. For whoever is the least among all of you, this one is the Gadol." REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH SPEAKS OF THE MICHSHOLIM OF OLAM HAZEH <n>MT 18:6-14; MK9:38-50</n>


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And in reply Yochanan said, "Adoni, we saw someone casting out shedim b'Shem of you and we were trying to stop him, because he is not following as one of the anshei shlomeinu <n>men of our fraternity</n>."


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But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to him, "Do not stop him. For whoever is not against you, is for you."  REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH REBUKES THE SHLUCHIM YA'AKOV AND YOCHANAN FOR KA'AS; HIS TAFKID <n>MISSION</n> DEMANDING RESOLUTENESS, HE SETS HIS FACE LIKE A FLINT TO GO TO YERUSHALAYIM


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And it came about that as the Yom of Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach's aliyah to Shomayim approaches, he set his face bedavka <n>deliberately</n> and resolutely to go up to Yerushalayim.


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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.


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And the people of Shomron did not receive Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, because his face was set to go to Yerushalayim.


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And when Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach's talmidim, Ya'akov and Yochanan, witnessed this, they said, "Adoneinu, do you want that we should call aish to come down from Shomayim to consume them?" [Melachim Bais 1:10,12]


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And they went to another village. IN THE OLAM HAZEH, THE REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH OF YISROEL REQUIRES TOTAL ALLEGIANCE, WITHOUT WHICH ONE CANNOT BE MEKABEL MOSHIACH


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And as they were going on the road, a certain one said to Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, "I will follow you wherever you go."


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And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to him, "Foxes have dens and the OF HASHOMAYIM <n>birds of heaven, IYOV 7:13-14</n> have nests, but the Ben HaAdam <n>Moshiach, Daniel 7:13-14</n> does not have a place where he may lay down his head."


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And he said to another, "Follow  me."  But the ish said, "Adoni, allow me to go first and bury the Av of me."


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But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to him, "Leave the mesim <n>dead ones, spiritually unregenerate ones without hitkhadeshut</n> to bury their mesim <n>dead ones</n>, but you go and proclaim the Malchut Hashem."


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And another said also, "I will follow you, Adoni. But first allow me to say l'hitraot to the ones in my bais." [Melachim Alef 19:20]


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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." [Bereshis 19:26]


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And after these things, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu gave s'michah to shivim <n>seventy</n> others and sent them on ahead of him shnayim shnayim <n>two by two</n> into every shtetl and place where he was about to arrive.


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And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was saying to them, "Indeed the Katzir is plentiful, but the po'alim of the Katzir are few; therefore, ask the Adon of the Katzir that he might send out po'alim into his Katzir.


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"Do not carry a bag for kesef, nor a beggar's bag, nor sandals, and, along the derech, dispense with time-consuming `Shalom Alechem's.'


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"And if there is a ben hashalom there, your shalom will rest upon him. Otherwise, on you it will return. REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH ORDERS THAT HIS TALMIDIM NOT MOVE FROM BAIS TO BAIS SEEKING BETTER ACCOMMODATIONS AND TRYING TO MAKE A GOOD THING OUT OF THEIR VOCATION AS IF CHASSIDUS WERE A MEANS TO PROFITEER


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"Remain in the same bais eating and drinking the things with them. For worthy is the po'el <n>worker</n> of his wage. Do not move from bais to bais.


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"and administer refu'ah <n>healing</n> to the cholim and say to them, `The Malchut Hashem has come near you.'


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"And into whatever shtetl you enter and they do not receive you, having gone out into the rehkovot <n>streets</n> of that shtetl,


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"Say, `Even the [the Goyishe unclean] dust from your shtetl, which clings to us, we shake off from our feet as an omen of din <n>judgment</n> against you. But have da'as of this, that the Malchut Hashem has come near.'


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"I <n>Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach</n> say to you, that for S'dom in Yom HaHu [Yom HaDin] it will be more bearable than it will be for that shtetl.


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"Woe to you, Korazin, oy to you, Beit-Tzaidah, because if in Tzor and Tzidon had occurred the gevurot <n>might works of G-d</n> that have happened in you, long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes, they would have made teshuva.


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"And you, K'far-Nachum, surely not up to Shomayim will you be exalted? To Gehinnom you will descend!


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"The one listening to you, listens to me <n>Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach</n>, and the one rejecting you, rejects me <n>Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach</n>. But the one rejecting me <n>Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach</n>, rejects the One [the G-d of Yisroel] who sent me." THE MAPPALAH <n>FALL, DEFEAT</n> OF HASATAN


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And the Shivim returned with simcha, saying, "Adoneinu, even the shedim submit to us b'Shem of you <n>Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua</n>."


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And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "I was seeing Hasatan falling like lightning from Shomayim. [Yeshayah 14:12]


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"Hinei--! I have given to you the ko'ach and the samchut to walk on nechashim and akrabim, and on all the ko'ach of HaOyev [Hasatan], and nothing may by any means injure you. "KATVENU B'SEFER HACHAYYIM LEMA'ANCHA ELOHIM CHAYYIM"  <n>"INSCRIBE US IN THE BOOK OF LIFE FOR THY SAKE, O LIVING G-D, ROSH HASHANAH AMIDAH; MORNING SERVICE YOM KIPPUR</n>


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"But in this do not have a lev same'ach, on account of the ruchot <n>spirits</n> submitting to you, but have a lev same'ach that your shemot have been inscribed in Shomayim." HAVING DA'AS OF HABEN OF HAAV


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In the same hour Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was full of simcha by the Ruach Hakodesh and he said, "Baruch Hashem, Avi, Adon HaShomayim v'haAretz, that you concealed these things from those with chochmah and saichel and you revealed them to yeladim, ken, Avi, for thus it was well-pleasing in your sight.


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"Everything was handed over to me by Avi, and no one has da'as of HaBen except HaAv.  And no one has da'as of HaAv except HaBen, and whomever HaBen wishes to reveal [him]."


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And, having turned to the talmidim in a yechidus, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, "Ashrey [are] the eyes seeing what you see.


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"For I say to you that many nevi'im and melakhim wanted to see what you see and they did not see them, and to hear what you hear and they did not hear them.  MASHAL OF THE SHOMRONI HATOV


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And--hinei--a certain Talmid Chacham, a Ba'al Torah, stood up, testing Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, saying, "Rabbi, what mitzva must I do to inherit Chayyei Olam?"


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And in reply the Ba'al Torah said, "V'AHAVTA ES ADONOY ELOHECHA B'KHOL L'VAVCHA UVECHOL NAFSHECHA UVECHOL M'ODECHA [Devarim 6:4,5] and L'RE'ACHA KAMOCHA [Devarim 6:5; Vayikra 19:18]


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, "Your answer is frum. Richtik <n>correct</n>. Do this and you will live."


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But because the Ba'al Torah wanted to justify himself, to be yitzdak im Hashem <n>justified with G-d, Iyov 25:4</n> on the basis of his own zchus <n>merit</n>, he said to Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, "And who is my re'a <n>neighbor</n>?"  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH CHARGES HIS TALMIDIM TO BE ACHRAI <n>ACCOUNTABLE</n> FOR THE RE'A <n>NEIGHBOR</n>


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In reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, "A certain ish was coming down from Yerushalayim to Yericho, and he encountered shodedim <n>robbers</n>.  They stripped him and inflicted a klap <n>blow</n>, more than one--they went away and left him half dead.


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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]


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And likewise also a Levi happened upon the place, but when he came and saw him, he passed by on the other side.


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But a certain Shomroni, traveling along on the derech, came upon him; and when he saw him, he was filled with rachamim <n>compassion</n>.


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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 <n>inn</n> and cared for him.


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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."


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Who of these shalosha seems to you to have become a re'a <n>neighbor</n> to the one having fallen among the shodedim?"


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And the Ba'al Torah answered, "The one having shown the man rachamim." And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to him, "Go and do likewise." REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH RECEIVED BY MARTA AND MIRYAM AT BEIT-ANYAH <n>LK 10:38-42</n>; ON WHAT IS AND IS NOT A BRACHA LEVATULLA <n>FRUITLESS PURSUIT</n>


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And while they were on the derech, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach entered into certain shtetl.  And a certain isha by the name Marta received him.


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And this isha had an achot <n>sister</n> named Miryam, who sat down at the feet of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu listening to his dvar.


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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."


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And in reply Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu said to her, "Marta, Marta, you are anxious and worried about many things,


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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."


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "When you daven, say, `Avinu, yitkadash shmecha` <n>`hallowed be thy Name'</n>. `Tavo malchutechah' <n>`thy kingdom come'</n>.


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`u-s'lach lanu al chatta'einu' <n>`And forgive us our sins'</n> `Ki gam anachnu solechim lekhol hachote'im lanu' <n>`for we ourselves are forgiving everyone who is indebted to us.'</n> `v'al tevi'einu lidei nissayon' <n>`And lead us not into temptation'</n>."


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And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Who among you will have a chaver and will come to him at chatzot halailah <n>midnight</n>, and say to him,  `Chaver, lend me shalosh kikrot;


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"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.'


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"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 persistence he will get up and give to him as much as he needs.


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"And I tell you, ask, and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you.


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"For everyone asking receives; and he who is seeking, finds; and to the one knocking, it shall be opened.


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"And what av among you is there who will ask his ben for a dag <n>fish</n>, and instead of a dag <n>fish</n> will give to him a nachash <n>snake</n>?


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"If, therefore, you, though you are ra'im, have da'as of how to give matanot tovot to your yeladim, how much more will HaAv sh'baShomayim give the Ruach Hakodesh to the ones asking him." CHILLUL HASHEM AGAINST REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH


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And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was casting out a shed from a ish illem <n>mute man</n>. And it came to pass when the shed had come out, the ish illem spoke and the multitudes were amazed.


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And others, to test him, were demanding of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach an ot <n>sign</n> from Shomayim.


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But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, having had da'as of their makhshavot <n>thoughts</n>, said to them, "Every Malchut divided against itself is laid waste; and a bais divided against itself  falls.


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"And if Hasatan also was divided against himself, how shall Hasatan's Malchut stand?  Because you say by Ba'al-zibbul I cast out shedim.


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"But if I by Ba'al-zibbul cast out the shedim, by whom do your banim cast them out?  Consequently, they shall be your shofetim <n>judges</n>.


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"But, if I, by the finger of Hashem, cast out the shedim, then the Malchut Hashem has come upon you. [Shemot 8:19]


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"When a Gibbor <n>Strong Man</n>, fully armed, is shomer over his armon <n>palace</n>, his possessions are left in shalom;


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"but when someone stronger than him overpowers him, he takes away from him all his shiryon kaskasim <n>coat of scale armor</n> on which he had depended, and distributes his plunder." A WARNING AGAINST ANY JUDAISM THAT IS NOT MOSHIACH'S JUDAISM AND IS NOT FILLED WITH THE RUACH HAKODESH


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"The one who is not with me is against me <n>Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach</n>; and he who does not gather with me, scatters.


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"When the ruach hatameh goes out from the ish, it goes through waterless places seeking a menukhah <n>resting place</n> and, not finding any, it says, `I will return to my bais from where I came out.


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"Then it goes and takes another sheva shedim more ra'ot <n>evil</n> than itself, and they enter it and dwell there; and the acharit <n>last</n> condition of that ish becomes worse than the reshit <n>first</n>."    REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH REFUSES TO ALLOW HIS TRUE TALMIDIM TO RELIGIOUSLY VENERATE HIS EM <n>MOTHER</n>


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And it came about while Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach says these things, 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."


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But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, "Aderaba <n>to the contrary</n>; ashrey are the ones hearing the dvar Hashem and being shomer mitzvot!"  [Mishle 8:32]


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And as the multitudes are gathering even more, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach began to say, "HaDor HaZeh <n>this generation</n> is a Dor Rah!  It is seeking an ot, and an ot will not be given to it except the Ot HaYonah.


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"For just as Yonah became to the Ninevites an ot, so also the Ben HaAdam will be an ot to HaDor HaZeh.


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"The Queen of the South will be made to stand up alive at the [Yom HaDin] judgment with the men of HaDor HaZeh and she will declare a gezar din <n>verdict</n> of ashem <n>guilty</n>, of haresha'ah <n>condemnation as guilty</n>, 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]


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"Men of Nineveh will stand up at the mishpat <n>judgment of the Yom HaDin</n> with HaDor HaZeh and will condemn it, because they made teshuva at the preaching of Yonah, and--hinei--one greater than Yonah is here.


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"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."  THE FATAL MISTAKE OF RABBINIC JUDAISM WITHOUT HITKHADESHUT <n>AS OPPOSED TO BRIT CHADASHA ORTHODOX JUDAISM</n>


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"The menorah of the guf <n>body</n> is your ayin <n>eye</n>. When your ayin is sound, then your entire guf <n>body</n> is full of ohr. But when it is rah, then your guf <n>body</n> is full of choshech.


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"If therefore, your whole guf <n>body</n> is full of ohr and not having any part choshech, it will be all full of ohr as when the menorah with the ohr <n>light</n> shines on you."


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Now while Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach spoke, a Parush asks him that he might have betzi'at halechem <n>have a meal, breaking of bread</n> with him. And, having entered, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach reclined at tish.


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And the Parush, having seen this, was amazed that Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach did not first do n'tilat yadayim before the meal.


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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 gazel <n>robbery</n> and resha.


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"But as far as what is inside, give tzedakah, and --hinei-- everything is tahor <n>clean</n> to you.


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"But oy to you, Perushim, because you give as ma'aser <n>tithe</n> 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]


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"Oy to you Parush! Because your ahavah is for the moshavot harishonim in the shuls and the sh'elat shalom greetings in the market places.


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"Woe to you, because you are like the unmarked kevarim <n>graves</n>, and bnei Adam walk over them without having da'as."


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And, in reply, one of the Ba'alei Torah says to him, "Rabbi, by saying these things you insult us also."


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But Rebbe, Melech, HaMoshiach said, "Also woe to you Ba'alei 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].


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"Woe to you, because you build the matsevot <n>tombstone monuments</n> for the kivrot haNevi'im <n>the sepulchres of the prophets</n>, but it was your avot who killed them.


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"Therefore, you are edim <n>witnesses</n> and in agreement with the deeds of your avot, because they do the killing of them part  and you do the providing of the matsevot part.


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"Therefore, also the Chochmah of Hashem said, `I will send to them Nevi'im and Shluchim, some of whom they will kill and persecute, [Lu.20:9-19]


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`that the Dahm of all the Nevi'im that has been poured out from the hivvased haOlam may be charged to HaDor HaZeh,


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`from the blood of Hevel to the blood of Zecharyah who was killed al Kiddush ha-Shem between the Mitzbe'ach and the Beis Hashem;' ken, I tell you, it will be required from HaDor HaZeh." [Bereshis 4:8; Divrey Hayamim Bais 24:20,21]


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"Woe to you Ba'alei Torah, because you took the mafte'ach of da'as; you yourselves did not enter in; and the ones entering in you hindered."


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And when he went from there, the Sofrim and the Perushim began to be terribly hostile and to hock <n>pose constant questions</n> Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and to subject him to a wide ranging cross-examination,


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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 Se'or of the Perushim, which is their tzeviut <n>hypocrisy</n>.


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"And nothing that men hide in a "cover up" is concealed which will not be revealed, and nothing held in secret which will not be laid bare.


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"So then, what things you said in the choshech, will be heard in the ohr; and what you whispered in the ear in the secret chadarim <n>rooms</n> will be shouted from the roof tops.


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"I say to you, my chaverim, do not have pachad of the killers of the guf <n>body</n>, who after that have nothing more they can do.


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"But I will show you Someone of whom you should have yir'ah; fear the one who after killing the body has the samchut to throw into Gehinnom. Ken, I say to you, have yir'ah of this One.


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"Are not chamesh sparrows sold for two assarion? And not even one of them has been overlooked in the eynayim of Hashem.


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"But even the hairs of your rosh have all been counted.  Never fear. You are of more worth than many sparrows.


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"And I say to you, whoever will declare publicly the Ani Ma'amin of me [as Moshiach] before bnei Adam, the Ben HaAdam [Moshiach, Daniel 7:13-14] will make hoda'ah <n>acknowledgement</n> of him before the malachim of Hashem.


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"But the one having made hakhchashah <n>denial</n> of me [as the Ben HaAdam Moshiach, Daniel 7:13-14] before bnei Adam will be denied before the malachim of Hashem.


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"And everyone who will say a dvar against the Ben HaAdam <n>Moshiach, Daniel 7:13-14</n>, he will be given selicha. But the one  having committed Chillul Hashem gidduf <n>blasphemy</n> against the Ruach Hakodesh will not be given selicha." WHEN THEY BRING YOU BEFORE BATEI MISHPAT <n>COURTS OF LAW</n>


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"And when they bring you in before the shuls and the rulers and the manhigim, do not have a lev rogez <n>anxious heart</n> about what you should speak in your own defense, or about your legal brief.


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"For the Ruach Hakodesh will be your rabbi teaching you in the same hour what it is necessary to say." [Shemot 4:12]    COVETOUSNESS AND THE MASHAL OF THE RICH MAN <n>ON THE FOLLY OF GASHMIUS [MATERIALISM]</n>


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And some one out of the multitude said to him, "Rabbi, speak to my ach to share with me the yerushah <n>inheritance</n>.


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, "Ben Adam, who appointed me a shofet or an arbitrator over you?"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Take care and be shomer against all chamdanut, because the Chayyei HaAdam does not consist in the abundance of his possessions." [Iyov 20:20; 31:24; Tehillim 62:10]


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach spoke a mashal to them saying, "An aza <n>certain kind of</n> ish ashir <n>rich man</n> had land that produced a good crop.


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"And he was thinking to himself saying, `What should I do? Because I do not have a place where I will store my crops.'


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"And he said, `This I will do, I will tear down my asim <n>barns</n> and I will build larger asim. And there I will gather all my grain and my produce.


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`And I will say to my neshamah, "Neshamah, you have an ample  store of goods for many years to come.  Take your ease, LE'EKHOL, V'LISHTOT, V'LISHMO'ACH ("to eat, to drink, and to be merry" <n>Kohelet 8:15</n>


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"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]


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"Such is the one hoarding up for himself and not being osher  toward Hashem." THE RAVENS AND LILIES  <n>LK 12:22-34</n>


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And Rebbe, Melech, HaMoshiach said to his talmidim, "Therefore, I say to you: do not have a LEV ROGEZ <n>Devarim 28:65</n>, for your Chayyim, about your okhel or your guf <n>body</n>, what you might put on.


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"For the neshamah is more than okhel and the guf <n>body</n> more than kaftan and gartel. [Bereshis 47:18; Tehillim 16:9-10; Iyov 19:25-27; Yeshayah 53:11]


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"Consider the ravens! They do not sow nor reap, they have no storeroom or asam <n>barn</n>, yet Hashem feeds them.  Of how much more worth are you than the OF HASHOMAYIM [Iyov 38:41; Tehillim 147:9]


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"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]


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"And if Hashem so enrobes the grass of the field, which is here hayom and thrown into the aish makhar <n>tomorrow</n>, how much more will Hashem enrobe you, you ones of little emunah.


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"And don't keep striving after okhel <n>food</n> and skikuy <n>drink</n>, and don't have a lev rogez.


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"For all these things the Goyim of the Olam Hazeh strive after, but your Av [sh'baShomayim] has da'as that you need these things.


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"Do not have pachad, Eder Katan <n>Little Flock</n>, because it is the ratzon, the chefetz of your Av [shba'Shomayim] to give you the Malchut.


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"Sell your possesions and give tzedakah. Make for yourselves the baitel <n>wallet</n> that don't wear out, an inexhaustlble otzar in Shomayim, where no ganav comes near nor moth destroys.


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"And you should be like bnei Adam who expectantly khakeh le'bo'o shel <n>await the arrival of</n> their Adon when he returns from the Chassuna, in order that, when he comes and knocks, ofen ort <n>immediately</n> they may open the delet for him.


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"Ashrey are those avadim <n>servants</n>, whom, having come, the Adon will find keeping shomer. Omein, I say to you, that he will fasten his gartel, and have those avadim sit down to tish, and he will come and serve them.


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"But have da'as of this, that if the Ba'al Bayit had had da'as in what hour the ganav comes, he would not have allowed his bais to be broken into.


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"So you be shomer, for the Ben HaAdam <n>Moshiach, Daniel 7:13-14</n> comes in a hour you do not think."


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And HaAdon said, "Who then is the sochen hane'eman and navon <n>faithful and wise steward</n> whom HaAdon will appoint over his avadim to give them their food allowance at the proper time?


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"But if that eved says in his lev, `Adoni delays to come to me,' and he begins to beat ha'avadim and hashefakhot, and to gluttonize and get down in his schnapps,


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"HaAdon of that eved will come on a day which he does not expect and at an hour of which he does not have da'as, and will cut him in pieces and assign him the Apikoros' portion with the unbelievers.


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"That eved, who had da'as of the ratzon of his Adon and did not get prepared or do according to his ratzon, will be beaten with klap <n>blow</n> not a few. [Devarim 25:2]


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"But the one not having had da'as, 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 <n>accountability</n> will be required." [Vayikra 5:17; Bamidbar 15:27-30] REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S DESIRE FOR HIS TEVILAH OF MAVET TO BE COMPLETED <n>LK 12:49-59</n> AND THE DIVISION BETWEEN THOSE WITH HITKHADESHUT AND THOSE WITHOUT HITKHADESHUT


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"Do you think that I came to bring Shalom on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather machaloket <n>division</n>,


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"For there will be from now chamesh in one bais having been divided, shalosha against shenayim and shenayim against shalosha,


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"`AV will be divided against BEN and BEN against AV, EM <n>mother</n> against BAT and BAT against EM, KALLAH BACHAMOT <n>daughter-in-law against mother-in-law</n> and CHAMOT against KALLAH.'" [Michoh 7:6]


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying also to the multitudes, "When you see the anan rising over the ma'arav <n>west</n>, ofen ort <n>immediately</n> you say `A geshem is coming,' and so it happens.


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"Tzevu'im! You have da'as how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky; how is it, then, that you do not have da'as of how to interpret HaZman HaZeh?


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"For as you go with your ish riv <n>opponent in a lawsuit</n> 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 will hand over you to the shoter, and the shoter will throw you into the beit hasohar.


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"I say to you, by no means may you come out, until even the last peruta <n>small coin</n> you pay back."


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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 <n>sacrifices</n>.


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And, in reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, "Do you think that these men of the Galil were greater chote'im than all others of the Galil, because they suffered this shud <n>misfortune</n>?


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"Or do you think that those shmonah asar <n>eighteen</n> upon whom the migdal <n>tower</n> in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were greater chote'im that all the bnei Adam living in Yerushalayim?


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And he was speaking this mashal.  "A certain man had an aitz te'enah <n>fig tree</n> which had been planted in his kerem, and he came seeking p'ri on it, and he did not find any. [Yeshayah 5:2; Yirmeyah 8:13]


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"So he said to the keeper of the kerem, `Hinei--shalosh shanim I come seeking p'ri on this aitz te'enah <n>fig tree</n> and I do not find any.  Therefore, cut it down!  Why is it even using up the adamah?'


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"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,


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`And if indeed it produces p'ri in the future; otherwise, you will cut down it.'"  REFU'AH ON SHABBOS <n>LK 13:10-21</n>; PIKKU'ACH NEFESH DOCHEH SHABBOS <n>THE DUTY OF SAVING LIFE OVERRIDES THE SHABBOS LAWS</n>


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And--hinei--an isha which had a ruach hamachla shmonah asar <n>eighteen</n> years was bent double and was not able to straighten up at all.


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And when he saw her, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach called out to her and said, "Isha, you have been set free from your machla <n>illness</n>."


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach placed his hands upon her. And ofen ort <n>immediately</n> she was straightened and she was crying, "Baruch Hashem!"


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And in reply the Rosh of the Beit HaKnesset, being indignant that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had healed on Shabbos, was saying to the multitude, "There are sheshet yamim <n>six days</n> in which melakhah <n>work</n> should be done; therefore, come during them and be healed; but not on Shabbos!" [Shemot 20:9]


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu answered him and said, "Tzevu'im!  Does not each of you on Shabbos untie his ox or his donkey from the evus and lead it away to water him?


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"But ought not this isha, a bat Avraham Avinu as she is, whom Hasatan has bound--hinei, nebbach--these shmonah asar <n>eighteen</n> long years, should she not have been set free from this bond on Shabbos?"


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And as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said these things, all his mitnaggedim <n>opponents</n> were put to bushah <n>shame</n>, and all the multitude was having simcha with chedvah <n>rejoicing</n> over all the  things of kavod being accomplished by him. [Yeshayah 66:5]


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Therefore, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying, "What is the Malchut Hashem like?  And to what shall I make a tzushtel <n>comparison</n> of it?


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"It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and threw into his own garden, and it grew and became an aitz, and the OF HASHOMAYIM nested in its branches."


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"It is like se'or <n>leaven</n>, which an isha took and hid in shalosh measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened."  A QUESTION FOR REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH: WILL THOSE WHO RECEIVE THE YESHUAT ELOHEINU BE FEW?  <n>LK 13:22-35</n>  REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH PREDICTS THE EMUNAH OF YISROEL IN HIM AND HIS BIAS HAMOSHIACH ARE CONNECTED


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was itinerating throughout the shtetlach <n>towns</n> and villages saying shiurim and heading on toward Yerushalayim.


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And someone said to him, "Adoni, are there only a few coming to Yeshu'at Eloheinu?" And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them,


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"Strive to enter through the delet hatzarut <n>door of narrowness</n>, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter and they will not be able to.


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"After the Ba'al Bayit gets us 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 da'as of you, of from where you are from.'


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"And he will speak, saying to you, `I do not know you, from where you are from. Go away from me, kol po'alei resha!'


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"There will be weeping and gnashing of the teeth, when you will see Avraham Avinu and Yitzchak and Ya'akov and all the Nevi'im in the Malchut Hashem, but yourselves being thrown out.


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"And they will come from mizrach and ma'arav and from tzafon and darom and they will bimesibba recline at tish in the Malchut Hashem.


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"And--hinei--there are some acharonim who will be rishonim and there are some rishonim who will be acharonim."


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In the same hour some Perushim approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying to him, "Depart and go from here, because Herod wants to kill you."


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Go and tell that fox, `Hinei-- behold I cast out shedim and I accomplish refu'ot <n>healings</n> hayom <n>today</n> and makhar <n>tomorrow</n> and Yom HaShelishi I reach my goal.'


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"Nevertheless, it is necessary for me to travel on hayom and makhar and the yom following, because it cannot be that a navi should perish outside Yerushalayim.


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"O Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim, she who kills the Nevi'im 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!


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"Hinei-- your Beis is left to you desolate; and I say to you, you shall by no means see me until the zman comes when you say, BARUCH HABAH B'SHEM ADONAI [Yirmeyah 12:17; Tehillim 118:26]


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And it came to pass when he went into a bais of a certain one of the Rashei HaPerushim on Shabbos for betzi'at halechem, and they were watching him closely.


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And in reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach spoke to the Ba'alei Torah and Perushim, saying, "Is it mutar <n>permissible</n> on Shabbos to administer refu'ah or not?"


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But they kept silent.  And having taken hold of him, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach granted him refu'ah and sent him away.


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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 <n>immediately</n> pull him out on Shabbos?"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach began speaking a mashal to the seudah invitees, when he noticed how they had been picking out the rashei hamoshavot <n>chief seats</n> at the tish, saying to them,


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"When you are invited by someone to a Chassuna, you should not recline at tish in the rashei hamoshavot <n>chief seats</n>, lest a more distinguished person than you may have been invited by him,


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"and he who invited you both shall come and say to you, `Give place to this one,' and then in bushah you proceed to occupy the moshav shafel <n>low seat</n>.


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"But when you are invited, go and recline at tish in the moshav shafel, 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.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was speaking also to the one who him invited him, "When you prepare a seudah or a Melave Malkah, do not invite your chaverim or your achim or your krovey mishpokhot <n>relatives</n> or your sh'khenim ha'ashirim <n>rich neighbors</n>, lest they also should invite you in return and   repayment come to you.


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"and birkat Shomayim will befall you, because they do not have the means to repay you; for you will be repaid in the Yom Tekumat haTzadikkim."


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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]


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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, "A certain man was preparing a big seudah, and he invited many;


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"And at the dinner hour, he sent his eved to say to the seudah invitees, `Come, because everything is ready now.'


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"But each began to come up with a ptur <n>excuse</n>.  The rishon said to him, `I bought a sadeh and I am compelled to go out and look at it.  Please accept my ptur <n>excuse</n>.


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"And another said, `I have bought chamesh pair of oxen, and I am going to try them out.  Please accept my ptur <n>excuse</n>.'


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"And the eved returned and reported this to his Adon.  Then the Ba'al Bayit became angry and said to his eved, `Go out quickly into the rehkovot and lanes of the shtetl and bring in here the aniyim and the ba'alei hamum, and the ivrim and the pisechim.'


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"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.


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`For I say to you that no one of those bnei Adam who were invited will taste my seudah.'"    REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S TALMIDIM MUST PUT MOSHIACH ABOVE ALL  <n>IF THEY "COME TO HIM" AS TALMIDIM AND THIS CAUSES FAMILY TO REJECT THEM, THEY MUST NOT CHOSE FAMILY OVER MOSHIACH.  HOWEVER, HERE THERE IS USE OF RABBINIC HYPERBOLE AND NO LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF THE WORD "HATE" WOULD HAVE BEEN MADE BY THE JEWISH LISTENERS FAMILIAR WITH THIS FIGURE OF SPEECH</n>; IN APPROACHING THE MATTER OF BEING MOSHIACH'S TALMID, A MENTALITY THAT IS OISGERECHENED <n>CALCULATED</n> AND SOBER IS NECESSARY; MOSHIACH IS TELLING THEM TO TRACHT OIS <n>THINK THROUGH</n> THE BIG DECISION OF BECOMING ONE OF HIS TALMIDIM


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"If someone comes to me, and does not hate his own abba and em <n>mother</n> 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 talmid.


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"Whoever does not carry his own aitz [of self-denial] and come after me [Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach] is not able to be my talmid.


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"For who among you, wanting to build a migdal <n>tower</n>, wlll not first sit down and figure out the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?


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"Otherwise, having laid his yesod <n>foundation</n> and not being able to finish it, everyone seeing it may begin to ridicule him,


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"Or what melech, going out to engage another melech in milkhamah <n>war</n>, will not first sit down and consider if he is able with aseret alafim <n>ten thousand</n> to meet the one with esrim elef <n>twenty thousand</n> coming against him?


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"Or else, while the other is noch <n>still</n> far away, he sends a delegation and seeks terms for shalom.


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"Therefore, melach <n>salt</n> is tov;  but if even melach should become tasteless, with what will it be seasoned?


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"It is useless either for adamah or for the dung hill; they throw it away.  The one who has ears to hear, shema!"


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And both the Perushim and the Sofrim were grumbling, saying, "This one welcomes chote'im and eats at tish with them."


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"What man of you, if he has me'ah kevasim <n>a hundred sheep</n> and has lost from them one, does not leave the tishim v'tish'ah <n>ninety-nine</n> in the open pasture, and go for the one which has been lost until he finds it?


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"And when it has found it, he puts it on his shoulders with lev same'ach. [Tehillim 23;119; Yirmeyah 31:10; Yechezkel 34:11-16]


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"And when he returns to his bais, he calls together his chaverim and his sh'khenim, saying to them, "Have simcha with me, because I have found my keves <n>sheep</n>, the one that was lost!


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"I say to you that in the same way there will be more simcha in Shomayim over one chot'eh who becomes a ba'al teshuva than over tishim v'tish'ah tzaddikim who have no need of teshuvah.


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"Or what isha having asaret <n>ten</n> drachmas, if she loses one drachma, will not light a licht <n>candle</n> and sweep the bais and search carefully until she finds it?


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"And having found it, she calls together chaverim and sh'khenim saying, `Have simcha with me, for I have found the drachma which I lost.'


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"In the same way, I say to you, there is simcha in the presence of the malachim Hashem over one chot'eh who becomes a ba'al teshuva."  THE MASHAL OF THE BEN HAOVED <n>LOST SON</n>


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"And the younger of them said to his abba, `Avi, give to me the share of the estate that falls to me.' And he distributed his property to them.


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"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 ashires with loose living.


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"And when he had spent everything, there came a severe ra'av <n>famine</n> throughout that aretz, and he began to be nitzrach <n>needy</n>.


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"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]


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"and he was longing to fill his stomach with the pods which the chazirim were eating, and no one was giving anything to him.


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"When he came to his senses, his saichel told him, "How many of my abba's hired men have more than enough okhel and I am perishing here with hunger.


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"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]


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"And when he arose he came home to his own abba. And while he was still a long way off, his abba saw him, and was filled with rachamim and tears and fell upon his neck and kissed him. [Bereshis 45:14]


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"And his ben said to him, `Avi, I sinned against Shomayim and in your sight, no longer am I worthy to be called your ben.' [Tehillim 51:4]


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"But his abba said to his avadim, `Hizdarez <n>Hurry up!</n> Bring out the best kaftan and clothe him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals for his feet, [Zecharyah 3:4; Bereshis 41:42]


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`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.


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"But the abba's alterer ben was in the sadeh. And as he was coming, he drew near to the bais, and he heard the zemirot, and the sound of the klezmer <n>musician</n> and the dancing,


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"And the eved said to him, `Your ach is present, and your abba sacrificed the fattened calf, because your abba received him back bari v'shalem <n>safe and sound</n>.'


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"And the alterer ben was angry, and he did not want to enter.  But his abba came out and was pleading with him.


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"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 have a simcha.


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`But when this ben of yours, the one having devoured your property with zonot, came, you sacrificed for him the fattened calf.' [Mishle 29:3]


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`But now it was necessary for us to have lev samei'ach and make a simcha, because the ach of you was dead and he has returned l'Chayyim!  He has been lost and now is found.'" [Malachi 3:17]


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying also to the talmidim, "A certain ish ashir <n>rich man</n> had a sochen <n>steward, estate manager or agent</n>, and the charge brought against him was that he was squandering the property of the ish ashir.


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"And having called him, he said to him, `What is this I hear about you?  Render a cheshbon <n>an account, audit</n> for that which is under your pekuddat <n>stewardship, care</n>, for you are no longer able to be sochen.'


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"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.


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`Oh! I have da'as of what I may do, that when I am removed from the work of the sochen, they may receive me into their batim <n>houses</n>.'


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"And having summoned his Adon's debtors one by one, he was saying to the first, `How much do you owe Adoni?'


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"And he said, `One hundred jugs of olive oil.'  And the sochen said to him, `Take your bill, sit down, quickly write fifty.'


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"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.'


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"And the Ba'al Bayit praised the unrighteous sochen because he acted with chochmah.  Because the Bnei HaOlam HaZeh have more saichel in dealing with their own generation than the Bnei HaOhr. [Tehillim 17:14; 18:26]


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"And I say to you, use mammon to make for yourselves chaverim, so that when it fails, they may welcome you into the mishkenot olam.


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"The one ne'eman <n>oisgehalten, trustworthy</n> in little, also is ne'eman in much, and the one who is unrighteous in little, also in much is unrighteous.


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"And if you were not ne'eman with that which belongs to another, who will give you what is your own?


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"No eved is able to serve two adonim; for either he will have sin'ah <n>hatred</n> toward the one and he will have ahavah toward the other, or one he will be devoted to and the other he will despise. You are not able to serve Hashem and Mammon."


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And the Perushim, who were ohavei kesef <n>lovers of money</n>, heard all this and they made fun of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "You are the ones who in the sight of bnei Adam credit yourself as yitzdak im Hashem, but Hashem has da'as of your levavot.  Because the thing highly esteemed among bnei Adam is a to'eva <n>abomination</n> before Hashem.


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"The Torah and the Nevi'im were proclaimed until Yochanan; vi-bahlt <n>since</n> then it is the Malchut Hashem that is being preached as Besuras HaGeulah, and anyone entering it must strive to do so.


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"But it is easier for HaShomayim and HaAretz to pass away than for one tag <n>ornamental flourish</n> of the Torah to be dropped.


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"Anyone giving the get to his isha and taking another wife  commits ni'uf <n>adultery</n>, and the one marrying a gerusha <n>divorcee</n> commits ni'uf <n>adultery</n>. THE MASHAL OF EL'AZAR AND THE ISH ASHIR


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"Now there was a certain ish ashir <n>rich man</n>.  He was dressed in purple and fine linen, and yom yom he feasted sumptuosly and every day for him was a simcha. [Yechezkel 16:49]


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"And there was a certain evyon ish <n>poor man</n>, a kaptzan covered with sores, El'azar by name, who had been laid at the rich man's gate.


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"And the kaptzan El'azar longed to fill his stomach with what fell from the rich man's tish. But even the kelevim were coming and licking the kaptzan's sores.


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"And it came to pass that El'azar died, and he was carried away by the malachim to the kheyk <n>bosom</n> of Avraham Avinu.  And then the ish ashir <n>rich man</n> died also, and he was buried.


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"And lifting up his eynayim in She'ol, where he was in the torments of agony, he sees Avraham Avinu off in the distance and El'azar at his kheyk.


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"And he called, `Avraham Avinu!  Chaneni na and send El'azar that he may dip the tip of his finger into the mayim and cool my leshon, because I am in torment in this moked <n>fire</n>.'


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"But Avraham Avinu said, `Beni, have zikaron that you received your tov in the chayyim of you, and El'azar likewise the ra'ah.  But now he is given nechamah <n>comfort</n> here, but you, yisurim <n>torments</n>. [Tehillim 17:14]


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"`And, in addition to all these things, there has been fixed between us and you a tehom gedolah <n>a great abyss, chasm</n>, so that the ones wishing to come over from here to you are not able, neither from there to us may they cross over.'


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`for I have chamesh achim!--that he may warn them, lest also they may come to this place of yisurim <n>torments</n>.'


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"But he said, `Lo, Avraham Avinu, but if someone from the Mesim should go to them, they will make teshuva.


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"But Avraham said to him, `If Moshe Rabbeinu and the Nevi'im they do not listen to, neither if someone from the Mesim should come back again will they be persuaded.'"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to his talmidim, "It is impossible for the nissayon to sin not to come, but oy through whom it comes.


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"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 <n>stumbling block</n> for these little ones.


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"Pay attention to yourselves. If your ach sins and you rebuke him, and if he makes teshuva,  grant him selicha <n>forgiveness</n>.


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"And if shevah pe'amim <n>seven times</n> during the yom he sins against you and shevah pe'amim he turns around to you saying, `I make teshuva,' you will grant him selicha.


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu said, "If you have emunah like a mustard seed, you would have said to this mulberry aitz, be uprooted and be planted in the sea, and it would have given you mishma'at.


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"But who among you, having an eved plowing or tending kevesim, when he comes in from the sadeh, will say to him, `Here, come ofen ort <n>immediately</n> and recline at tish.'


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"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'?


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"There is no obligatory effusive todah, when the eved only did his chiyuv <n>duty, what was commanded, that which one does to be yoitzeh</n>.


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"So also you, when you do all these things which are given you as mitzvot, say, `We are useless avadim, we only did our duty.'"  REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH AND PESACH IN YERUSHALAYIM; ONLY ONE OF THE ANASHIM METZORA'IM IS MAKIR OF MOSHIACH; THE MONUMENTAL INGRATITUDE OF THE AM YISROEL FOR THEIR REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH; BE MAKIR DO NOT LOOK FOR ANOTHER!


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And it came about while Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach goes to Yerushalayim, he was traveling through the middle of Shomron and the Galil.


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And entering into a certain shtetl, some anashim metzora'im <n>leprous men</n> met Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and there were asarah <n>ten</n> of them.  Keeping their distance, [Vayikra 13:45,46]


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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 <n>clean</n>. [Vayikra 14:3]


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And one of them, having seen that he had received refu'ah, returned with a kol gadol, saying "Baruch Hashem!"


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And he fell on his face at the feet of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach giving todot.  And he was a Shomroni <n>Samaritan</n>.


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And in reply Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, "Were there not asarah <n>ten</n> who were made metoharim? Now the tishah <n>nine</n>, where are they?"


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"Was none of them found to return and to give kavod <n>glory</n> to Hashem except this nokhri <n>foreigner</n>?"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, "Get up and go. Your emunah <n>faith</n> has delivered you."


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Now having been asked by the Perushim, "When comes the Malchut Hashem?" he replied, "The Malchut Hashem is not coming with things observable,


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nor will they say `Hinei, here it is,' or `There it is,' for hinei, the Malchut Hashem is within you."


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And he said to the talmidim, "Yamim are coming when you will long to see one of the yamim of the Ben HaAdam <n>Moshiach, Daniel 7:13-14</n> and you will not see it.


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"They will say to you, `Hinei, there it is!' or, `Hinei, here it is!'  Do not go out after them nor pursue them.


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"For as the lightning flashing out of one part under Shomayim lights up the other part under Shomayim, thus will be the Ben HaAdam <n>Moshiach, Daniel 7:13-14</n> in his Yom.


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"And just as it was in the yamim of Noach, thus will it be also in the yamim of the Ben HaAdam <n>Moshiach, Daniel 7:13-14</n>. [Bereshis 6:5-8; 7:6-24]


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"They were eating, drinking, marrying, and being given in marriage, until the yom when Noach entered into the Tevah <n>Ark</n> and haMabbul <n>the Flood</n> came and destroyed everything.


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"Likewise, just as it was in the yamim of Lot. They were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, and building. [Bereshis 19:1-28]


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"But on the yom when Lot went out from S'dom, from Shomayim it rained down aish and gofrit <n>sulphur</n> and destroyed everything.


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"On that yom let not anyone on the rooftop come down back inside for any of his property in the bais, and the one in a sadeh likewise let him not turn back for things left behind.


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"I say to you, in this lailah there will be two in one bed:  one will be taken and the other will be left.


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And in reply they say to him, "Where, Adoneinu?" But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Where the guf <n>body</n> is, there also the nesharim <n>vultures, eagles [popularly]</n> will be gathered together."


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Now he was speaking a mashal <n>parable</n> to them about how it is necessary always for them to daven and not to lose chozek, [Yeshayah 40:31]


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Saying, "A certain dayan <n>judge</n> was in a certain shtetl. Now this dayan had no fear of Hashem nor any respect for bnei Adam.


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"Now an almanah was in that shtetl and she was coming to him saying, "Grant me yashrus <n>justice</n> against my ish riv <n>opponent in a lawsuit</n>. [Yeshayah 1:17]


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"And for a zman he was not willing. But after these things he said to himself, `If indeed Hashem I do not fear nor bnei Adam I respect,


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`yet because this almanah causes me tzoros and is such a nudge, I will grant yashrus <n>justice</n> to her, lest in the end she may wear me out by her constant coming.'"


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"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]


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"I say to you that Hashem will bring about their mishpat swiftly, but when the Ben HaAdam <n>Moshiach, Daniel 7:13-14</n> comes, will he then find emunah <n>faith</n> on ha'aretz?" WOE TO YOU WHEN YOU THINK YOU ARE ONE OF THE BAALEI BATIM <n>UPRIGHT AND RESPECTED PEOPLE</n> AND ONLY OTHERS ARE CHOTE'IM, NOT YOURSELF! YOUR PRAYER MUST BE, "ADONOY, RACHEM NA AL CHOTEH KAMONI!"


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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said this mashal also to some, who have become soimech <n>confident, putting their trust and being dependent</n> on themselves that they are tzaddikim and who are despising others. [Yeshayah 65:5]


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"Shnei anashim went up to the Beis Hamikdash to daven, one was a Perush and the other, a moches <n>tax-collector</n>.


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"The Perush was standing by himself, davening, and his tefillah went like this: `Adonoi, Modeh Ani that I am not like other men, swindlers, resha'im, mena'afim <n>adulterers</n>, or even as this moches <n>tax-collector</n>.


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`I undergo a tzom <n>fast</n> twice during the week, I give the ma'aser <n>tithe</n> of everything as much as I get.' [Yeshayah 58:3, Malachi 3:8]


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"But the moches <n>tax-collector</n> 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! <n>L-rd, have mercy on a sinner like me!</n>' [Yeshayah 66:2; Yirmeyah 31:19]


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"I say to you, this one, rather than the other one, went down to his bais having been made yitzdak im Hashem. Because everyone lifting himself up will be brought low, but the one bringing himself low will be uplifted."  REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH ON THE SUBJECT OF CHINUCH HABANOS <n>MT 19:13-15; MK 10:13-16</n>


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Now also they were bringing to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach ollelim <n>infants</n> that he might place his hands on them. But having seen this, the talmidim were rebuking them.


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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.


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"Omein I say to you, whoever does not welcome the Malchut Hashem as a yeled, may by no means enter into it." REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH AND ONE OF THE BAALE-BATTIM OF YISROEL, WHO BECAUSE OF HIS LACK OF PERCEPTION OF TRUE RICHES, PASSES BY THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECEIVE REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S S'MICHAH AND MINISTRY


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And a certain one of the manhigim <n>leaders</n> questioned Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying, Mori HaTov <n>Good Teacher</n>, what mitzvah must I do to inherit Chayyei Olam?"


