orthjbc Luke:15:1-7
orthjbc@Luke:15:1 @ Now all the mochesim and the chote'im were coming near Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to listen to him.
orthjbc@Luke:15:2 @ And both the Perushim and the Sofrim were grumbling, saying, "This one welcomes chote'im and eats at tish with them."
orthjbc@Luke:15:3 @ And he told them this mashal, saying,
orthjbc@Luke:15:4 @ "What man of you, if he has me'ah kevasim (note:)a hundred sheep(:note) and has lost from them one, does not leave the tishim v'tish'ah ninety-nine in the open pasture, and go for the one which has been lost until he finds it?
orthjbc@Luke:15:5 @ "And when it has found it, he puts it on his shoulders with lev same'ach. [Tehillim 23;119; Yirmeyah strkjv@31:10; Yechezkel strkjv@34:11-16]
orthjbc@Luke:15:6 @ "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 (note:)sheep(:note), the one that was lost!
orthjbc@Luke:15:7 @ "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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