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Lukas 10:25-37

Lukas 10:25-37 TOJB2011

And a certain Talmid Chacham, a Baal Torah, stood up, testing Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, saying, Rabbi, what mitzvah must I do to inherit Chayyei Olam? And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, In the Torah what has been written? How do you read it? And in reply the Baal Torah said, VAHAVTA ES ADONOI ELOHEICHA BKHOL LVAVCHA UVECHOL NAFSHECHA UVECHOL MODECHA and L'REACHA KAMOCHA. And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Your answer is frum. Richtik. Do this and you will live. But because the Baal Torah wanted to justify himself, to be yitzdak im HASHEM (justified with G-d) on the basis of his own zokheh (merit), he said to him, And who is my REA (neighbor)? In reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, A certain ish was coming down from Yerushalayim to Yericho, and he encountered shodedim. They stripped him and inflicted a klap, more than one, and they went away and left him half dead. It so happened that a certain kohen was coming down by that derech, and, having seen him, he passed by on the other side. And likewise also a Levi happened upon the place, but when he came and saw him, he passed by on the other side. But a certain Shomroni, traveling along on the derech, came upon him; and when he saw him, he was filled with rachmei shomayim. And when this Shomroni approached, he bandaged the manʼs wounds, pouring shemen and yayin over them; and when he had placed him upon his own donkey, he brought the man to a malon and cared for him. And on the next day he produced two denarii and gave them to the inn keeper of the malon and said, Take care of him, and whatever you spend additionally, I will take care of, when I return. Who of these shalosha seems to you to have become a re'a to the one having fallen among the shodedim? And the Baal Torah answered, The one having shown the man rachamim. And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Go and do likewise.

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