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1 Corinthians 11:17-34

1 Corinthians 11:17-34 TOJB2011

But in giving the divrei Torah that follows I give no commendation, because when you assemble as the shul of Moshiach, it is not for the better that you assemble, but for the worse. Ershtins (first of all), indeed when you come together as the kehillah I hear there exist machlokot (divisions) and schisms among you, and partly I believe it. For it is necessary also for kitot (sects) of minut (heresy), of kefirah (heresy, denial) to be among you that also the approved ones may become manifest among you. Therefore, your farbrengen gatherings in one kahal (community) are not for the purpose of having Moshiachʼs Tish. For each one rushes ahead with his own seudah (meal). One is hungerik (hungry), one has passed out in his schnapps. Hey, you people, do you not have houses in which to eat and to drink? Or do you despise the Kehillah (congregation) of G-d? And do you bring bushah (shame), even humiliation, on the ones having nothing? What should I say to you? Will I commend you? In this I do not commend you people! For I received from Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu that which also I transmitted and handed on to you, that Adoneinu Yehoshua, on the very lailah (night) in which he was betrayed, took the Pesach matzoh, And, having made the HaMotzi, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach offered the betzi'at halechem (breaking of the bread) and said, ZEH HU VESARI HANNIVTZA BA'ADCHEM; ZOT ASU L'ZIKRONI. (This is my flesh, which is broken on your behalf. Do this in memory of me.) In like manner, after eating the [Pesach] seudah, also [after the bracha over] the [Kiddush] Cup, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, This Kos (Cup) is the BRIT CHADASHA in my DAHM (blood). This do, as often as you drink, in ZIKARON (remembrance) of me. For as often as you eat this Pesach matzoh and drink from this Pesach Kiddush Cup, you do proclaim the mavet of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu until the Bias HaMoshiach. Therefore, whoever eats the Pesach matzoh or drinks the Kiddush Cup of Adoneinu unworthily will be guilty and answerable for the basar and the dahm of Adoneinu. But let a ben Adam apply cheshbon hanefesh to himself and in that manner let him eat of the Pesach matzoh and let him drink of the Pesach Kiddush Cup. For the one eating and drinking is the one eating and drinking mishpat to himself when not discerning the basar (body). Because of this, many among you are weak and there are cholim (sick) and a number are sleeping the sleep of the mesim. But if we were judging ourselves, we would not be brought into mishpat (judgment). But, being brought into mishpat (judgment) by HASHEM, we are being disciplined, that we may not be condemned with the Olam Hazeh. Therefore, Achim b'Moshiach of mine, when you have your farbrengen gatherings and you gather for Tish, wait for one another. If anyone is so hungerik (hungry) [that he cannot wait], in his home let him eat, lest for mishpat you have kehillah. And as far as the hemshech (remaining part) is concerned, whenever I come I will set b'seder (in order).

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