OrthJBC - Acts - 2

2:1  And when the day of Shavuos is fulfilled, they were all together at the same place. [Vayikra 23:15,16]

2:2  And there was mitamuhl (suddenly) from Shomayim a sound like the rushing of a violent wind and it filled the whole bais where they were sitting.

2:3  And leshonot appeared to them, being divided as aish (fire), and rested on each one of them,

2:4  and all were filled with the Ruach HaKodesh, and they began to speak in other leshonot as the Ruach HaKodesh was giving the ability to them to speak.

2:5  Now there were in Yerushalayim frum, Charedi Yehudim from all the nations under Shomayim.

2:6  And at this sound, the multitude assembled and was bewildered, because they were hearing, each one in his own native language, the Achim b'Moshiach speaking.

2:7  And they were mishpoyel (standing in awe) and marveled, saying, "Hinei! Are not all of these Galileans speaking?

2:8  "And how are we hearing, each in our own language in which we were born

2:9  "--we Parthians and Medes and Elamites; the ones living in Mesopotamia, Yehudah, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,

2:10  Phrygia, Pamphylia, Mitzrayim (Egypt), and the regions of Libya around Cyrene; and the visiting Romans,

2:11  both Yehudim and Gerim (Proselytes), Cretans, and Arabs--we hear them speaking in other languages [than their own] of the Gevurot (mighty acts) of Hashem?"

2:12  And all had real hispailus (overwhelming awe) and were bewildered, saying one to another, "What can this mean?" THOSE WITHOUT EMUNAH SEEK TO AINZETZ (RATIONALIZE) THAT THE PLAUSIBLE EXPLANATION FOR THE BEHAVIOR OF THE MOSHIACH'S TALMIDIM WAS THAT THEY WERE INTOXICATED

2:13  But others, mocking, were saying, "Of sweet wine they have been filled." SHIMON KEFA'S DRASHAH AT SHAVUOS; THE MOSHIACH'S SHLIACH WAS MOIDIA (MAKING KNOWN, ANNOUNCING) TO KLAL YISROEL THAT HASHEM TOOK THEIR AVEIRAH (SIN) AND TURNED IT AROUND (BERESHIS 50:20) AND WORKED IT FOR THE GEULAH OF THE NATIONS OF THE OLAM HAZEH; NOW THAT THE MAGGIDIM ARE FILLED WITH THE RUACH HAKODESH, MOSHIACH'S PROGRAM OF KIRUV RECHOKIM (BRINGING NEAR THE FAR AWAY ONES) AND MEKAREV HAYEHUDIM BEGINS IN EARNEST

2:14  But Kefa, having stood with the Achad Asar, lifted up his voice and declared to them, "Anashim Yehudim! And the ones inhabiting Yerushalayim, have da'as of all this and be goires to my dvarim.

2:15  "For these ones are not, as you assume, in their schnaps, for it is only the third hour of the day (nine o'clock in the morning).

2:16  "But this is what has been spoken by Yoel HaNavi,

2:17  `And it shall be in the Acharit Hayamim, ne'um Hashem, ESHPOCH ES RUCHI AL KOL BASAR V'NIB'U BNEICHEM U'VENOTEICHEM ZIKNEICHEM CHALOMOT YACHALOMUN BACHUREICHEM CHEZYONOT YIRU ("I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams and your bochrim will see visions" --Yoel 3:1f (2:28f)] [Bamidbar 11:25; Yeshayah 44:3; Yechezkel 39:29]

2:18  `and upon my avadim and upon my shefachot in BAYYAMIM HAHEMMAH ESHPOCH ES RUCHI ("In those days I will pour out my Ruach Hakodesh") and they will prophesy.

2:19  `And I will give MOFTIM BASHOMAYIM and signs on ha'aretz below DAHM VA'AISH V'TIMROT ASHAM ("blood and fire and billows of smoke")

2:20  `HASHEMESH YEHAFECH L'CHOSHECH V'HAYYAREIACH L'DAHM LIFNEI BO YOM HASHEM HAGADOL V'HANNORAH V'HAYAH KOL ASHER YIKRA B'SHEM ADONOI YIMMALET. ("The shemesh (sun) will be transformed into choshech (darkness) and the moon into blood before the great and dreadful YOM HASHEM.")

2:21  ("And it will be that everyone whoever calls upon the Name of Adonoi will be saved".)' [Bereshis 4:26; 26:25; Tehillim 105:1; Yoel 3:1-5 (2:28-32)]

2:22  "Anshei Yisroel, listen to these dvarim: Yehoshua of Natzeret, a man having been attested by Hashem to you by gevurot and moftim which Hashem did through him in your midst, just as you yourselves have da'as--

2:23  "this one, delivered up by the determined cheshbon (plan) and Yedi'ah mukdemet (foreknowledge) of Hashem, you nailed to HaAitz (Devarim 21:22) by the hand of lawless bnei Adam and put Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to death. [Yeshayah 53:10]

2:24  "But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach in fact Hashem made to stand up alive again, having destroyed the chevlei haMavet, because it was impossible for Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to be held by death's ko'ach.

2:25  "For Dovid Hamelech says of him, SHIVVITI HASHEM L'NEGDI TAMID KI MIMINI BAL EMMOT ("I set Adonoi before me always, because he is at my right hand I will not be shaken.") [Tehillim 16:8-11]

2:26  LAKHEN SAMACH LIBI VAYYAGEL KEVODI AF BESARI YISHKON LAVETACH ("Therefore my heart was cheered up and my tongue exulted and in addition also my flesh, my body, will live in secure [hope].") [Bereshis 47:18; Tehillim 16:9-10; Iyov 19:25-27; Yeshayah 53:11]

2:27  KI LO TA'AZOV NAFSHI LISHE'OL LO TITEN CHASIDCHA LIR'OT SHACHAT ("Because you will not abandon the nefesh (soul) of me to destruction nor will you give your Chassid [i.e. Moshiach the ultimate Chassid] to see corruption.")

2:28  TODIEINI ORACH CHAYYIM SOVA SEMACHOT ES PANECHA ("You made known to me the path of Chayyim, you will fill me with simcha with your presence.") [Tehillim 16:8-11]

2:29  "Anashim Achim, it is permitted to speak with bittachon to you benoigeia (regarding) Dovid Avinu, that also he died and was buried and his kever is with us until this day. [Melachim Alef 2:10; Nechemyah 3:16]

2:30  "Therefore, being a Navi and having da'as that with a shevu'ah (an oath) HASHEM swore to him that from his loins his zera would sit upon his KISSEH. [Tehillim 132:11; 89:3-4; Shmuel Bais 7:12-13]

2:31  "Foreseeing this, Dovid Hamelech spoke about the Techiyas HaMesim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach: neither was he "abandoned to destruction nor did his BASAR see corruption." [Bereshis 47:18; Tehillim 16:9-10; Iyov 19:25-27; Yeshayah 53:11]

2:32  "This Yehoshua in fact Hashem made to stand up alive again, of which we all are edim (witnesses unto mavet al Kiddush Hashem).

2:33  "Having been exalted to the right hand of Hashem and having received the havtachah of the Ruach Hakodesh from HaAv, Moshiach poured out this which you also see and hear.

2:34  "For Dovid Hamelech did not ascend into Shomayim, but he says, "Hashem says to Adoni, SHEV LIMINI ("sit down at my right hand")

2:35  until I make OYVECHA ("your enemies") your footstool." [Tehillim 110:1]

2:36  "Therefore, assuredly let Klal Yisroel have da'as that this Yehoshua, whom you hanged on HaAitz (Devarim 21:22), Hashem has made both Adoneinu and Rabbeinu, Melech HaMoshiach." THE RESPONSE OF THE SHE'ARIT (REMNANT) OF KLAL YISROEL TO THE BESURAS HAGEULAH, WHICH IS THE VANGUARD MODEL FOR THE CORRECT RESPONSE OF ALL PEOPLES AND OF THOSE WHO WOULD FOLLOW THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH

2:37  And when they heard this, they were pierced with conviction in their levavot, and they said to Kefa and to the other of Moshiach's Shluchim, "Achim, what shall we do?"

2:38  And Kefa said to them, "Make teshuva (repentance, turning from chet to Hashem) and each of you submit to a tevilah of teshuvah in the Shem of Yehoshua, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, for the selichat avon of you, and you will receive the matanah of the Ruach Hakodesh.

2:39  "For to you is the havtachah and to your yeladim and to all the ones at a distance, as many as may YIKRAH B'SHEM HASHEM ELOHEINU." [Yoel 3:5; 2:28; Yeshayah 44:3; 65:23; 57:19] ATAH KADOSH V'SHIMECHA KADOSH U'KEDOSHIM B'KHOL YOM YEHALELUCHA; BARUCH ATAH ADONOI HAEL HAKADOSH

2:40  And with many other dvarim, Kefa gave solemn edut (testimony) and was warning them, "Receive yeshu'at Eloheinu from this DOR IKESH U'FETALTOL (warped and crooked generation)!" [Devarim 32:5]

2:41  Those, who were Mekabel Besuras HaGeulah and welcomed his dvar, submitted to a tevilah of teshuvah and there were added in that day nefashot (souls) beerech (approximately, dacht zich) shloshet alafim (three thousand).

2:42  And they were keseder (constantly) shtark (steadfastly) devoting themselves to the torah of Moshiach's Shluchim and to being mishtatef in a chavura (becoming involved, joining a fellowship) and to the Betzi'at HaLechem and to the Tefillos. RADICAL TESHUVA AMONG THE MA'AMINIM HAMESHICHIYIM; COVETOUS GASHMIYUS (MATERIALISM) REPENTED OF AS AN ASPECT OF ZEAL FOR THE IMMINENT BIAS HAMOSHIACH; THIS IS NOT COMMUNISM BUT KANOUS

2:43  All were filled with yira't Shomayim and mishpoyel (awe), and many moftim and otot through Moshiach's Shluchim were taking place.

2:44  And all the ma'aminim hameshichiyim were together and they were having all things in common.

2:45  And they were selling their properties and possessions and were distributing tzedakah to everyone as someone had need.[Devarim 28:1-14]

2:46  And yom yom, devoting themselves with one mind in the courts of the Beis Hamikdash, and from bais to bais, offering the betzi'at halechem, they were together at tish with single-hearted exultation and hislahavus (enthusiasm, fervor),

2:47  praising Hashem, and having favor with all the people while G-d was adding to their number yom yom those receiving Yeshu'at Eloheinu.