Romans:14

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* But welcome the one who is weak in emunah (note :)faith (:note ). But not for the purpose of setting him straight in arguments . * For example , one person has emunah (note :)faith (:note ) to eat every potential food ; but the weak practice vegetarianism . * Let the one who eats not hold in contempt or despise the one who does not eat , and let not the one who does not eat pass judgment on the one who eats , for Hashem treats him as an oreach ratzuy (note :)welcome guest (:note ). * Who are you to condemn the 'eved (note :)house slave (:note ) of someone else ? In relation to his own RIBBONO SHEL OLAM he stands or falls . And he shall stand , for RIBBONO SHEL OLAM is able to make him stand . * One person judges one day to be more important than another ; another person judges every day to be alike . Let each be fully convinced in his own mind . * The one who holds an opinion on the day does so to Hashem . And the one who eats does so to Hashem , for he does the benching of the Birkat Hamazon to Hashem . And the one who does not eat does so to Hashem and give the hodayah (note :)thanksgiving (:note ) to Hashem . * For no one of us lives for himself and no one dies for himself . * For if we live , we live for Hashem ; and if we die , we die for Hashem . So whether we live or whether we die , we belong to Hashem . * For it was for this tachlis that Moshiach died and lived again , in order that he might have charge as Moshiach Adoneinu over both the mesim (note :)dead ones (:note ) and the chayyim living ones . * So you , why do you judge your ach b 'Moshiach ? Or you , why do you despise your ach b 'Moshiach ? For we shall all stand in the Bet Din (note :)Court of Law (:note ) of Hashem see II Cor .5:10 before His Kisse Din judgment seat , His Kisse Mishpat , * for it is written , "As I live , says Hashem , before Me KOL BERECH (note :)every knee (:note ) will bow and KOL LASHON every tongue shall give praise to Hashem " [YESHAYAH strkjv @49:18 ]. * So then each of us will give account of himself to Hashem . * Let us therefore no longer pass judgment on one another , but decide this rather : not to put an occasion for michshol (note :)stumbling , offense , downfall strkjv @9:32-33 (:note ) in the way of the ach b 'Moshiach . * I know and am convinced in Adoneinu Yehoshua that nothing is tamei (note :)profane , unclean (:note ) beetzem intrinsically , except that to the one who reckons something profane , to that person it is profane . * For if your brother is deeply upset on account of okhel (note :)food (:note ), you are no longer conducting yourself in terms of ahavah agape . Do not by your okhel destroy that one for whom Moshiach died . * Therefore , do not let haTov of you be brought into contempt . * For the Malchut Hashem is not a matter of eating and drinking , but of tsedek (note :)righteousness (:note ), shalom peace and simcha b 'Ruach Hakodesh . * For he who serves Moshiach in this is pleasing to Hashem and approved by people in general . * So then we pursue what makes for shalom and for the building up of one another . * Do not for the sake of okhel bring churban to the work of Hashem . NOW RAV SHA 'UL ADDRESSES THE GOYIM ABOUT MATTERS OF MATZPUN (note :)CONSCIENCE (:note ), ESPECIALLY WHERE A DIVISIVE SPIRIT MIGHT ERUPT WHEN GOYIM ARE SITTING AT TABLE AT BETZI 'AT HALECHEM BREAKING OF BREAD ; EVERYTHING IS TAHOR RITUALLY CLEAN , INCLUDING NON-JEWS , BUT HERE ESPECIALLY THE NEW EPOCH OF THE RUACH HAKODESH SEES EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD AS CLEAN IN THE SENSE THAT IT IS CREATED BY G-D AND IS SUMMONED TO THE BRI 'AH CHADASHA GEULAH IN MOSHIACH HOSHEA strkjv @13:14 , BUT SOMETHING EATEN MAY BE QUITE WRONG FOR THE PERSON WHO EATS WITH A CAUSE OF STUMBLING BECAUSE HE IS WEAK IN HIS FAITH AND HAS OFFENDED HIS OWN MATZPUN BY WHAT HE HAS EATEN . * It is a fine thing not to eat meat nor drink wine nor anything by which your ach b 'Moshiach stumbles . * The emunah (note :)faith (:note ) that you have , keep beshita as a matter of conviction or principle to yourself before G-d . Ashrey is the man who does not condemn himself by the things he approves . A FURTHER WORD TO GOYIM : BUT THE MAN WHO DOUBTS AND VIOLATES HIS MATZPUN VIS A VIS HIS COVENANT NE 'EMANUT [FAITHFULNESS ] TO G-D IS CONDEMNED IF HE EATS , BECAUSE IT IS NOT OF EMUNAH (THAT IS , IT IS NOT OF FAITH UNDERSTOOD AS CREATURELY DEPENDENCE ON G-D ISSUING IN MISHMA 'AT , OBEDIENCE , TO WHAT G-D WANTS ; AND WHATEVER IS NOT OF EMUNAH IS AVERAH * But in the man who doubts there is found in him a dvar ashmah (note :)a thing of guilt /condemnation (:note ) if he eats , because it is not of emunah faith . And whatever is not of emunah faith is Averah sin .

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