orthjbc - James:3-5

orthjbc@James:3:1 @ Not many of you, Achim b'Moshiach, should be Morim for Moshiach, als (note:)since(:note), as far as concerns Mishpat Hashem, you have da'as that we morim will have the chomer haDin rigor of the Law fall on us more severely.

orthjbc@James:3:2 @ For all of us stumble variously. If anyone as far as lashon hora is concerned, does not stumble, this one is an ish tamim able to bridle also the entire guf (note:)body(:note). [Melachim Alef strkjv@8:46; Tehillim strkjv@39:1; Mishle strkjv@10:19]

orthjbc@James:3:3 @ And if we put bits into the mouths of susim to bring them into mishma'at (note:)obedience(:note), in just this way we direct their whole gufot bodies. [Tehillim strkjv@32:9]

orthjbc@James:3:4 @ Hinei! also the oniyot (note:)ships(:note), even though gedolot and driven by gales, are guided by a very small rudder wherever the impulse of the one steering directs.

orthjbc@James:3:5 @ So also the lashon (note:)tongue(:note), an evar katon small member speaks of RAVREVAN "boastful things"--Daniel strkjv@7:8,20. Hinei! an aish ketanah small fire and yet how great a forest it can set ablaze! [Tehillim strkjv@12:3,4; strkjv@73:8,9]

orthjbc@James:3:6 @ And the lashon is an Aish, the lashon is made an Olam HaAvel (note:)World of Iniquity(:note) among our evarim members, defiling with a stain the kol haGuf whole body, and setting ablaze the course of life, and is itself set on fire by Gehinnom. [Mishle strkjv@16:27]

orthjbc@James:3:7 @ For every species both of wild animals and bird, reptiles and marine creatures is tamed and has been tamed by the species of bnei Adam.

orthjbc@James:3:8 @ But the Lashon no one of bnei Adam is able to tame, an uncontrollable ra'ah (note:)evil(:note), full of deadly eres poison, venom.

orthjbc@James:3:9 @ With this we say a berucha to Hashem, Adoneinu and Avoteynu, and with this we say a curse to bnei Adam, who have been created according to the demut Elohim [Bereshis strkjv@1:26,27f).

orthjbc@James:3:10 @ Out of the same PEH comes forth berakhah and also kelalah. My Achim b'Moshiach, these things ought not to be.

orthjbc@James:3:11 @ Surely not out of the same makor (note:)fountain(:note) pours forth mayim both sweet and bitter?

orthjbc@James:3:12 @ Surely an aitz te'enah (note:)fig tree(:note) cannot yield olives, my Achim b'Moshiach, or a grapevine figs? Neither can salt water yield sweet water? WHO HAS CHOCHMAH AND BINAH AMONG YOU?

orthjbc@James:3:13 @ Who has chochmah and binah among you? let him show by his hitnahagut hatovah (note:)good conduct(:note) that the ma'asim of him are of the shiflut lowliness of chochmah.

orthjbc@James:3:14 @ But if bitter kina (note:)jealousy(:note) you have and anochiyut selfishness in your levavot, do not boast and speak sheker against HaEmes.

orthjbc@James:3:15 @ This is not the Chochmah coming down and descending from above, but is of the Olam Hazeh, of this world and of shedim.

orthjbc@James:3:16 @ For where kina and anochiyut are, there is tohu vavohu (note:)disorder, chaos(:note) and every ra'ah.

orthjbc@James:3:17 @ But the chochmah from above is berishonah (note:)in the first place(:note) tehorah pure, then ohevet shalom, then eidel gentle and considerate, then full of rachamim and p'ri tov, and without maso panim and tzevi'ut.

orthjbc@James:3:18 @ And the p'ri haTzedek is shalom sown by the ones making shalom. [Mishle11:18; Yeshayah strkjv@32:17; Hoshea strkjv@10:12]

orthjbc@James:4:1 @ From where do milchamot (note:)wars(:note) come? What is their goirem driving force? And from where come fights among you? Is it not from here, from the ta'avot of you warring in your evarim members?

orthjbc@James:4:2 @ You lust for something and you do not have it; you kill and you envy and you are not able to obtain. You get involved in machalokot (note:)divisions of dissension(:note) and fights. You do not have because you fail to daven with your request.

orthjbc@James:4:3 @ Or you make techinot (note:)petitions(:note) and you do not receive, because you ask wrongly, that on the ta'avot of you you may spend what you receive. [Tehillim strkjv@18:41; strkjv@66:18]

orthjbc@James:4:4 @ No'afim (note:)Adulterers(:note) and mena'afot Adultresses! Do you not have da'as that shaichus closeness, friendship with the Olam Hazeh is eyvah im HASHEM? Therefore, whoever chooses to make the Olam Hazeh his Chavrusa Study Partner is made an Oyev Enemy of Hashem. [Yeshayah strkjv@54:4; Yirmeyah strkjv@3:20; Hoshea strkjv@2:2-5; strkjv@3:1; strkjv@9:1]

orthjbc@James:4:5 @ Or do you think that in vain the Kitvei Hakodesh attests that Hashem yearns jealously over the Ruach Hakodesh He causes to dwell in us?

orthjbc@James:4:6 @ But He gives all the more Chen v'Chesed! Therefore it says, "Hashem LALETZIM HU YALITZ V'LA'ANAVIM YITEN CHEN (note:)"Hashem opposes the proud mocker but gives grace to the humble" [Mishle strkjv@3:34](:note).

orthjbc@James:4:7 @ Submit yourselves in mishma'at (note:)obedience(:note) to Hashem. Resist Hasatan. And he will flee from you.

orthjbc@James:4:8 @ Draw near to Hashem and Hashem will draw near to you. Cleanse your yadayim (note:)hands(:note), you chote'im sinners! And purify your levavot, you anashim of double mind! [Tehillim strkjv@73:28; Zecharyah strkjv@1:3; Malachi strkjv@3:7; Yeshayah strkjv@1:16; Tehillim strkjv@24:4; strkjv@119:113; Yirmeyah strkjv@4:14]

orthjbc@James:4:9 @ Lament and mourn and weep. Let the sechok (note:)laughter(:note) of you be changed to avelut mourning, and the simcha of you be turned to gloom.

orthjbc@James:4:10 @ Be humbled before Hashem and He will exalt you. [Iyov strkjv@5:11] YOU ARE NOT THE SHOFET OF KOL HA'ARETZ (note:)BERESHIS strkjv@18:25(:note) AND YOU ARE NOT THE SHOFET OF YOUR ACH B'MOSHIACH

orthjbc@James:4:11 @ Do not speak lashon hora against an Ach b'Moshiach. The one speaking against an Ach b'Moshiach or setting himself up as a shofet (note:)judge(:note) of his Ach b'Moshiach speaks against the Torah and sets himself up as shofet of the Torah. Now if the Torah you judge, you are not Shomrei HaTorah but a shofet.

orthjbc@James:4:12 @ One is HaMechokak (note:)Law-Giver(:note) and HaShofet, the One who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you, the one who has set yourself up as the shofet of your re'a neighbor? A WARNING FOR THE BARIMER BOASTER

orthjbc@James:4:13 @ Come now, you who say, "Hayom (note:)today(:note) or makhar tomorrow we will go into this or that city and we will do business there a year and will sell and make a revach profit."

orthjbc@James:4:14 @ Yet you do not even have da'as of what tomorrow's "yom" may bring. Look at your kiyum (note:)existence(:note)! For you are an ed mist, appearing a short time, then indeed disappearing! [Iyov strkjv@7:7; Tehillim strkjv@39:5; strkjv@102:3; strkjv@144:4; Yeshayah strkjv@2:22]

orthjbc@James:4:15 @ Instead of this, you ought to say "Im yirtzeh Hashem" (note:)"if the L-rd wills"(:note) "we will live, also we will do this or that."

orthjbc@James:4:16 @ But now you boast in your pretensions. All such ravrevanut (note:)boastfulness(:note) is ra'ah.

orthjbc@James:4:17 @ To the one having da'as, therefore, knowing to do tov and not doing it, to him is it chet.

orthjbc@James:5:1 @ Come now, you who have osher (note:)riches(:note), weep, howling over your miseries coming upon you. [Yeshayah strkjv@13:6; Yechezkel strkjv@30:2]

orthjbc@James:5:2 @ The osher of you has rotted and your malbush has become moth-eaten. [Iyov strkjv@13:28; Tehillim strkjv@39:11; Yeshayah strkjv@50:9]

orthjbc@James:5:3 @ The gold of you and the silver has been corroded and the corrosion of them will be for a solemn eidus (note:)witness(:note) against you, and will eat the basar of you as aish. You stored up otsar treasure in the Acharit Hayamim.

orthjbc@James:5:4 @ Hinei! The wages of the po'alim (note:)workers(:note) who cut your fields, the wages you fraudulently withheld, those wages cry out, and the cries of the harvesting po'alim have reached the ears of Adonoi Tz'vaot. [Vayikra strkjv@19:13; Yirmeyah strkjv@22:13; Malachi strkjv@3:5; Devarim strkjv@24:15]

orthjbc@James:5:5 @ You lived in indulgence upon ha'aretz and lolled in a life of luxury, you fattened your levavot as in a Yom Tivchah (note:)"Day of Slaughter," Yeshayah strkjv@53:7(:note). [Yechezkel strkjv@16:49; Amos strkjv@6:1; Yirmeyah strkjv@12:3; strkjv@25:34]

orthjbc@James:5:6 @ You condemned, you killed the tzaddik. He does not resist you. ZITZFLEISHCH (note:)PATIENCE(:note) AND TEFILLAH

orthjbc@James:5:7 @ Have zitzfleishch, therefore, Achim b'Moshiach until the Bias HaMoshiach, the Coming of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu. Hinei! The ikar (note:)farmer(:note) awaits the precious p'ri haAdamah fruit of the earth, having zitzfleishch patience for it until it receives the Yoreh first Autumn rain and the Malkosh Spring rain. [Devarim strkjv@11:14; Yirmeyah strkjv@5:24; Yoel strkjv@2:23]

orthjbc@James:5:8 @ You must also have zitzfleishch. Strengthen your levavot, because the Bias HaMoshiach, the Coming of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu, has drawn near.

orthjbc@James:5:9 @ Do not murmur, Achim b'Moshiach, against one another, lest you be judged. Hinei! HaShofet is standing before the delet! [Shemot strkjv@15:24; strkjv@16:2; strkjv@17:3; Bamidbar strkjv@14:2,29; strkjv@16:41; Tehillim strkjv@94:2]

orthjbc@James:5:10 @ Take as an example, Achim b'Moshiach, of innuyim (note:)suffering(:note) evil and of zitzfleisch the Nevi'im who spoke in the name of Hashem.

orthjbc@James:5:11 @ Hinei! We call blessed the ones having endured: the savlanut (note:)long-suffering(:note) of Iyov you heard of and the toitzaa outcome from Hashem you saw, that Hashem is full of rachamim and channun. [Iyov strkjv@1:21,22; strkjv@2:10; strkjv@42:10,12-17; Shemot strkjv@34:6; Bamidbar strkjv@14:18; Tehillim strkjv@103:8]

orthjbc@James:5:12 @ But, above all, my Achim b'Moshiach, do not swear shevuot (note:)oaths(:note) neither by Shomayim nor by ha'aretz nor any other shevu'ah but let be your "ken" be "ken," and your "lo" be "lo," for fear that you fall under HaDin.

orthjbc@James:5:13 @ If anyone is suffering among you, let him daven. If anyone has simcha, let his sing niggunim. [Tehillim strkjv@50:15]

orthjbc@James:5:14 @ Are there any cholim (note:)sick ones(:note) among you? Let him summon [for Bikkur Cholim visiting the sick] the ziknei haKehillah and let them daven tefillos over him, having applied the shemen mishchah anointing oil, b'Shem Adoneinu. [Tehillim strkjv@23:5; Yeshayah strkjv@1:6]

orthjbc@James:5:15 @ And the tefillah of emunah will deliver the choleh (note:)sick person(:note), and Hashem will raise him up. And if he may have been committing pesha'im, he will be given selicha forgiveness.

orthjbc@James:5:16 @ Therefore, make vidduy (note:)confession(:note) to one another, and daven tefillos on behalf of one another, so that you may have refuah sheleimah complete healing. The tefillah of a tzaddik is powerful and effective.

orthjbc@James:5:17 @ Eliyahu [Hanavi] was a man of like nature to us, and with tefillah he davened for it not to rain, and it did not rain upon ha'aretz for shalosh shanim (note:)three years(:note) and shishah chodashim six months; [Melachim Alef strkjv@17:1]

orthjbc@James:5:18 @ and again Eliyahu davened, and Shomayim gave geshem (note:)rain(:note) and ha'aretz caused its p'ri of it to sprout. [Melachim Alef strkjv@18:41-45]

orthjbc@James:5:19 @ My Achim b'Moshiach, if anyone among you wanders vait (note:)astray(:note) from HaEmes and someone turns a choteh sinner to make teshuva

orthjbc@James:5:20 @ you should have da'as that the one having helped a choteh (note:)sinner(:note) to make teshuvah from the toyus of his derech, from setiyah HaDerech Hashem turning aside from the Way of Hashem will save the neshamah of him from mavet and will cover a multitude of chatta'im.