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Markos 12:28-44

Markos 12:28-44 TOJB2011

And one of the Sofrim approached and heard them debating, and seeing that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach answered them well, asked him, Which mitzvah is rishonah of all the mitzvot? Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach answered, SHEMA YISROEL ADONOI ELOHEINU ADONOI ECHAD is harishonah. VAHAVTA ES ADONOI ELOHEICHA BKHOL LVAVCHA UVECHOL NAFSHECHA UVECHOL MODECHA. And the shneyah is this, VAHAVTA LREACHA KAMOCHA. There is not another mitzvah greater than these. And the Baal Torah said to him, Well spoken, Rabbi, beemes you have said that HASHEM is ECHAD (one), and EIN OD and there is no other except him. and to have ahavah for him BECHOL LVAVCHA (with all your heart) and with all your binah UVECHOL MODECHA (with all your strength) and LREACHA KAMOCHA (your neighbor as yourself) is greater [than] all of the burnt offerings and sacrifices. And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, when he saw that this torah teacher answered with chochmah (wisdom), said to him, You are not far from the Malchut HASHEM. And no one was daring to put a she'elah (question) in front of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach again. While Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying shiurim (Torah talks) in the Beis Hamikdash, he was saying: How is it that the Sofrim say that Moshiach is [merely] ben Dovid? Dovid himself said by the Ruach Hakodesh, NEUM HASHEM LADONI: SHEV LIMINI, AD ASHIT OYVECHA HADOM LRAGLECHA. Dovid himself calls Moshiach Adon; how then is Moshiach [merely] ben Dovid? And the large multitude found it a huge oneg (pleasure) to listen to him. And in his torah, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying, Beware of the Sofrim (Scribes, Torah teachers, rabbonim), the ones enamored of strutting about in extremely long kaftans and with equally lengthy Birkat Shalom greetings in the marketplaces, And places of honor in the shuls and places of honor at the seudot (banquet dinners). Beware particularly of the ones devouring the batim (houses) of the almanot (widows) and making a grand show of davening long tefillos. Mishpat (Judgment) will fall more heavily on these. And having sat [down] opposite the Beis Hamikdash Otzar (Treasury), Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was observing how the multitude throws copper [coins] into the Otzar. And many ashirim (rich people) were throwing [in] much. And a poor almanah (widow) came and threw [in] two leptas, which is a kodrantes. And having summoned his talmidim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them: Omein, I say to you that this poor almanah has put in more tzedakah (charity contribution) than all those contributing to the Otzar, For everyone threw in from their abundance, but this almanah from her need has put in everything she had, all her michyah (subsistence).

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