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Mattityahu 22:23-46

Mattityahu 22:23-46 TOJB2011

On that day some Tzedukim (Sadducees) approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying, There is no Techiyas HaMesim! And they interrogated Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Saying, Rabbi, Moshe Rabbenu said that if someone dies, not having banim, his brother shall marry his isha (wife) to raise up zera (seed) for his brother. Now there were among us shiva achim (seven brothers), and the first, having married, died. And not having zera (offspring), left his isha to his brother. Likewise, also the second brother, and the third, up to the seventh. And last of all, the isha died. In the Techiyas HaMesim, therefore, she will be the wife of which of the seven? For all had her. And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply to them, You are in error, not having known the Kitvei Hakodesh or the gevurat HASHEM (power of G-d). For in the Techiyas HaMesim they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like the malachim in Shomayim. But concerning the Techiyas HaMesim, have you not read the thing spoken to you by HASHEM, saying, ANOCHI ELOHEI AVRAHAM ELOHEI YITZCHAK VEELOHEI Ya'akov (I am the G-d of Avraham, the G-d of Yitzchak, and the G-d of Ya'akov)? HASHEM is not the G-d of the Mesim (dead ones) but the G-d of the Chayyim (living). And having heard this, the multitudes were amazed at Moshiachʼs torah (teaching). But the Perushim, having heard that he silenced the Tzedukim, assembled together, And one of them, a Baal Torah (learned Torah scholar, a Ben Torah), tried to trip up Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach with a she'elah (question): Rabbi, which mitzvah is gedolah (great) in the Torah? And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave this teshuva (answer) to the Baal Torah, VAHAVTAH ES ADONOI ELOHEICHA BCHOL LEVAVCHA UVCHOL NAFSHECHA UVCHOL MODECHA (And thou shalt love the L-rd thy G-d with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might). This is the gedolah and rishonah mitzvah. And the second mitzvah is like it: VAHAVTAH L'REIACHA KAMOCHA (And thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself). On these two mitzvot hang the entire Torah and the Neviim. And, the Perushim, having been assembled, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach confronted with this she'elah, Saying, What do you think concerning the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach? Whose Ben is he? The Perushim gave this teshuva (answer) to him: Ben Dovid. Moshiach says to them, How then can Dovid, in the Ruach Hakodesh, call Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adon? …saying NEUM HASHEM LADONI, SHEV LIMINI AD ASHIT OYVECHA HADOM LERAGLECHA (Utterance of HASHEM to my L-rd, Sit at My right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet). Therefore, if Dovid calls him Adon, how is Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach [merely] Ben Dovid? And no one was able to give an answer to him, nor did anyone dare to pose another she'elah (question) to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach from that day on.

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