|10| Now in one of the shuls Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying shiurim on Shabbos.
|11| And--hinei--an isha which had a ruach hamachla (a spirit of an infirmity, illness) shmonah
asar (eighteen) years was bent double and was not able to straighten up at all.
|12| And when he saw her, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach called out to her and said, Isha (Woman),
you have been set free from your machla (illness).
|13| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach placed his hands upon her. And ofen ort (immediately) she
was straightened and she was crying, Baruch Hashem!
|14| And in reply the Rosh of the Beit HaKnesset, being indignant that Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach had given refuah (healing) on Shabbos, was saying to the multitude, There are
sheshah yamim (six days) in which melachah (work) should be done; therefore, come during
those sheshah yamim and get your refuah; but not on Shabbos! [SHEMOT 20:9]
|15| But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu answered him and said, Tzevuim! Does not each
of you on Shabbos untie his ox or his donkey from the evus (animal feeding trough) and lead it
away to water him?
|16| But ought not this isha, a bat Avraham Avinu as she is, whom Hasatan has bound--hinei,
nebbach (regrettably)--these shmonah asar (eighteen) long years, should she not have been set
free from this bond on Shabbos?
|17| And as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said these things, all his mitnaggedim (opponents) were
put to bushah (shame), and all the multitude was having simcha with chedvah (rejoicing) over all
the things of kavod being accomplished by him. [YESHAYAH 66:5]
|18| Therefore, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying, What is the Malchut Hashem like? And
to what shall I make a tzushtel (comparison) of it?
|19| It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and threw into his own garden, and it grew and
became an etz (tree), and the OF HASHOMAYIM nested in its branches.
|20| And again Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, To what shall I compare the Malchut Hashem?
|21| It is like chametz (leaven), which an isha took and hid in shalosh (three) measures of wheat
flour until the whole batch was leavened.
|22| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was itinerating throughout the shtetlach (towns) and
villages saying shiurim and heading on toward Yerushalayim.
|23| And someone said to him, Adoni, are there only a few coming to Yeshuat Eloheinu? And
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them,
|24| Strive to enter through the shaar hatzarut (gate of narrowness), because many, I say to you,
will seek to enter and they will not be able to.
|25| After the Baal Bayit gets up and shuts the delet, and you begin to stand outside and to knock
on the delet, saying, Adoneinu, open up for us! and in reply, he will say to you, I do not have
daas of you; from where you are from?
|26| Then you will begin to say, We ate and drank in your presence, and in our rehkovot (streets)
you taught.
|27| And he will speak, saying to you, I do not know you, from where you are from? Go away
from me, kol poalei resha (all workers of evil)!
|28| There will be weeping and gnashing of the teeth, when you will see Avraham Avinu and
Yitzchak and Yaakov and all the Neviim in the Malchut Hashem, but you yourselves being
thrown out.
|29| And they will come from mizrach (east) and maarav (west) and from tzafon (north) and
darom (south) and they will be the ones bimesibba (reclining at tish) in the Malchut Hashem.
|30| And--hinei--there are some acharonim who will be rishonim and there are some rishonim
who will be acharonim.
|31| In the same hour some Perushim approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying to him,
Depart and go from here, because Herod wants to kill you.
|32| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Go and tell that fox, Hinei-- behold I cast out
shedim and I accomplish refuot (healings) hayom (today) and makhar (tomorrow) and Yom
HaShlishi (The Third Day) I reach my goal.
|33| Nevertheless, it is necessary for me to travel on hayom (today) and makhar (tomorrow) and
the yom following, because it cannot be that a navi should have his violent death and his
histalkus (passing) outside Yerushalayim.
|34| O Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim, she who kills the Neviim and stones the ones sent to her!
How often I wanted to gather your yeladim just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and
you were not willing!
|35| Hinei-- your Beis [HaMikdash] is left to you desolate; and I say to you, you shall by no
means see me until the zman (time) comes when you say, BARUCH HABAH BSHEM ADONAI [YIRMEYAH 12:17; TEHILLIM 118:26]
PEREK YOD DALET (CHAPTER FOURTEEN)
And it came to pass when he went into a bais of a certain one of the Rashei HaPerushim on
Shabbos for betziat halechem, and they were watching him closely.
|2| And--hinei--there in front of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was a certain ish suffering from
dropsy.
|3| And in reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach spoke to the Baalei Torah and Perushim, saying, Is
it mutar (permissible) on Shabbos to give refuah or not?
|4| But they kept silent. And having taken hold of him, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach granted him
refuah and sent him away.
|5| And to them Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Who of you having a ben or an ox fall into a
well and will not ofen ort (immediately) pull him out on Shabbos?
|6| And they were not able to make a counterargument keneged (against) this.
|7| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach began speaking a mashal to the seudah (banquet supper)
invitees, when he noticed how they had been picking out the rashei hamoshavot (chief seats) at
the tish, saying to them,
|8| When you are invited by someone to a Chassuna, you should not recline at tish in the rashei
hamoshavot (chief seats), lest a more distinguished person than you may have been invited by
him,
|9| and he who invited you both shall come and say to you, Give place to this one, and then in
bushah (shame) you proceed to occupy the seat of humiliation, the low seat.
|10| But when you are invited, go and recline at tish in the moshav hashafel (low seat), so that
when the one who has invited you comes, he may say to you, Chaver,
move up to a higher place; then you will have kavod in the sight of all who are with you at the
tish.
|11| For everyone exalting himself shall be humbled, and the one humbling himself shall be
exalted.
|12| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was speaking also to the one who invited him, When you
prepare a seudah or a Melave Malkah, do not invite your chaverim or your achim or your krovey
mishpochot (relatives) or your shchenim haashirim (rich neighbors), lest they also should invite
you in return and repayment come to you.