the Kitvei Hakodesh or the gevurat Hashem...

|30| For in the Techiyas HaMesim they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like the
malachim in Shomayim.
|31| But concerning the Techiyas HaMesim, have you not read the thing spoken to you by
Hashem, saying,
|32| ANOCHI ELOHEI AVRAHAM ELOHEI YITZCHAK VEELOHEI YAAKOV (I am the
G-d of Avraham, the G-d of Yitzchak, and the G-d of Yaakov, [SHEMOT 3:6])? Hashem is not
the G-d of the Mesim (dead ones) but the G-d of the Chayyim (living).
|33| And having heard this, the multitudes were amazed at Moshiach's torah (teaching).
|34| But the Perushim, having heard that he silenced the Tzedukim, assembled together,
|35| and one of them, a Baal Torah (learned Torah scholar, a Ben Torah), tried to trip up Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach with a sheelah (question):
|36| Rabbi, which mitzvah is gedolah (great) in the Torah?
|37| And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave this teshuva (answer) to the Baal Torah,
VAHAVTAH ES ADONAI ELOHECHA BCHOL LEVAVCHA UVCHOL NAFSHECHA
UVCHOL MODECHA (And thou shalt love the L-rd thy G-d with all thy heart and with all thy
soul and with all thy might [DEVARIM 6:5]).
|38| This is the gedolah and rishonah mitzvah.
|39| And the second mitzvah is like it: VAHAVTAH LREIACHA KAMOCHA (And thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself, [VAYIKRA 19:18]).
|40| On these two mitzvot hang the entire Torah and the Neviim.
|41| And, the Perushim, having been assembled, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach confronted with
this sheelah (question),
|42| saying, What do you think concerning the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach? Whose Ben is he?
The Perushim gave this teshuva (answer) to him: Ben Dovid.
|43| Moshiach says to them, How then can Dovid, in the Ruach Hakodesh, call Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach Adon?... saying
|44| NEUM HASHEM LAADONI, SHEV LIMINI AD ASHIT OYVECHA HADOM
LERAGLECHA (Utterance of Hashem to my L-rd, Sit at my right hand until I make your
enemies a footstool for your feet TEHILLIM 110:1).
|45| Therefore, if Dovid calls him Adon, how is Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach [merely] Ben
Dovid? [cf. MALACHI 3:1; ZECHARYAH 4:14]
|46| And no one was able to give an answer to him, nor did anyone dare to pose another sheelah
(question) to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach from that day on.
�PEREK KAPH GIMEL (CHAPTER TWENTY- THREE)
Then Moshiach spoke to the multitudes and to his Talmidim,
|2| saying, Upon the Kisei Moshe (Chair of Moses) sit the Sofrim and the Perushim.
|3| Therefore, everything whatever they may tell you, be frum and be shomer, but according to
their maasim (works) do not be shomer, for they do not practice what they preach.
|4| And they tie up heavy [extra-Biblical, Mt 4:4; 15:3,6-9; 22:29] loads, hard to bear, and they place them upon the shoulders of men, but they, with so much as a finger, are not willing to lift the oppressive burdens.
|5| And all their maasim hamitzvot (works of the commandments) they do in order to be seen by
Bnei Adam, for they broaden their tefillin and lengthen their tzitziyot
|6| and they love the places of honor at the seudot (banquet dinners), and the shuls,
|7| and the [obsequious] Birkat Shalom greetings in the market places, and to be called by Bnei
Adam, Rebbe.
|8| But you are not to have pretentious titles like Rebbe, for One is your Rebbe [Moshiach], and
all of you are Achim [b'Moshiach].
|9| And do not refer to anyone in the Olam Hazeh as your Abba, for One is your Av
shbaShomayim.
|10| Neither be called Moreinu, for One is your Moreh (teacher)--the Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach.
|11| And the greatest among you will be your eved mesharet (servant/ minister).
|12| But whoever will lift up himself will be humbled, and whoever will humble himself will be
lifted up.
|13| But oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevuim (hypocrites), for in front of Bnei Adam you
shut the Malchut HaShomayim. You do not go in yourselves, and the ones entering, you do not
permit to enter.
|14| Oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevuim! You devour the batim (houses) of almanot
(widows) and for the sake of chashuve (importance) appearance you make long tefillot; therefore
your gezar din (verdict) will be more severe.
|15| Oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevuim. You travel over the sea and the dry land for the
giyyur (proselytization) of one proselyte; then, when he becomes one, you make him twice as
much a son of Gehinnom as you.
|16| Oy to you, morei derech ivrim (blind guides), the, ones saying, Whoever swears by the Beis
Hamikdash, it is a worthless shevuah (oath): but whoever swears by the gold of the Beis
Hamikdash, he is obligated.
|17| Ivrim! (blind ones), for which is greater, the gold or the Beis Hamikdash which gives the
gold its kedushah (holiness, sanctity)?
|18| And whoever swears by the Mitzbeach (altar), it is worthless; but whoever swears by the
korban upon it, he is obligated.
|19| Ivrim, blind ones, for which is greater, the korban or Mitzbeach which gives the korban its
kedushah (holiness, sanctity)?
|20| Therefore, the one having sworn by the Mitzbeach swears by it and everything upon it.
|21| And the one having sworn by the Beis Hamikdash swears by it and by everything indwelling
it.
|22| And the one having sworn by Shomayim swears by the kes malchut of Hashem and by the
One sitting upon the kes malchut.
|23| Oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevuim, for you give maasros (tithe) of mint and dill and
cumin, and you have neglected the matters of the Torah of greater consequence: mishpat, chesed,
and emunah. These things it was necessary to do and those [others] not to neglect.
|24| Morei derech ivrim (blind guides), the ones that strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.
|25| Oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevuim, you cleanse the outside of the kos (cup) and the
dish, but inside they are full of chamdanut (greed) and taavanut (lust).
|26| Blind Parush, first cleanse the inside of the kos, that perhaps also the outside may become
clean.
|27| Oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevuim, for you are like kevarim (graves) having been
whitewashed, which on the outside indeed appear ois vaist (ostensibly) shein (beautiful), but on
the inside are full of the unclean bones of the mesim (dead ones) and every trayfnyak.
|28| Thus on the outside you indeed appear tzodek (righteous) to Bnei Adam, but on the inside
you are full of tzeviut (hypocrisy) and you are lawlessly against the Torah.
|29| Oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevuim, for you build kevarim of the Neviim and decorate
matsevot (gravestones) of the tzaddikim,
|30| and you say, If we were in the yamim (days) of Avoteinu (our Fathers), we would not have
been shuttafim (partners) with them in the dahm haNeviim (blood of the Prophets).
|31| Therefore, you give edut (testimony) against yourselves that you are the banim (sons) of the