OrthJBC - Galatians - 1

1:1  From Sha'ul, a Shliach, not from Bnei Adam, nor through Bnei Adam, but through Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua and Hashem, Elohim Avinu, the One of whom [we say] Mechayyei Mesim Atah (Thou Revivest the Dead), even the Moshiach,

1:2  and from all the Achim B'Moshiach with me; To the kehillot of Galatia. THE BESURAS HAGEULAH OF ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH IN A WORD

1:3  Chen v'Chesed Hashem to you and Shalom Hashem from Elohim Avinu and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu,

1:4  the one having made a matnat Elohim of himself, on behalf of chattoteynu (our sins), so that he might rescue us out of the Olam Hazeh [Yom Tzarah], this age, this present evil age, according to the ratzon Hashem, even Avinu,

1:5  lo hakavod l'olmei olamim. Omein. I AM SHOCKED THAT SO QUICKLY YOU GOYIM ARE BECOMING SHMAD BY TURNING FROM THE ONE AND ONLY BESURAS HAGEULAH (YESHAYAH 40:9; 60:6), FOR THERE IS NO OTHER BESURAS HAGEULAH

1:6  I am shocked that so quickly you are being turned from the One who granted you the keri'ah (calling), summoning you by the Chen v'Chesed Hashem of Moshiach..I am shocked that so quickly you are being turned from this to a different "Besuras HaGeulah,"

1:7  which is not another, except that there are some disturbing and troubling (5:12) you and are desiring to twist and pervert the Besuras HaGeulah of Moshiach.

1:8  But even if we [shluchim] or a malach from Shomayim should pose as maggidim [for Moshiach] and make a hachrazah (proclamation) to you of a "Besuras HaGeulah" other than that Besuras HaGeulah which we preached to you, let such a one be ARUR HAISH (YEHOSHUA 6:26) and set under cherem (ban of destruction) and onesh Gehinnom (damnation).

1:9  As we have previously said, and now again I say, if any one preaches a "Besuras haGeulah" to you other than that which you received, let him be ARUR HAISH and be consigned to onesh Gehinnom. NOW, HAVING PRONOUNCED THE PUNISHMENT OF CHEREM, AM I TO BE JUDGED A MAN-PLEASER? YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW I BECAME A SHLIACH OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH!

1:10  Am I now seeking the ishshur (approval) of Bnei Adam? Or the haskama (approval) of Hashem? Or am I seeking to be a man-pleaser? If (and this is not the case) I were still pleasing Bnei Adam, I would not have been the eved of Moshiach.

1:11  For I mefarsem (make known) to you, Achim B'Moshiach, the Besuras HaGeulah having been preached by me, that it is not according to Bnei Adam;

1:12  for neither did I receive it from Bnei Adam nor was I taught it, but no, it was through a chazon (revelation) of Moshiach Yehoshua. MY LIFE BEFORE I CAME TO HAVE ZEAL FOR THE MOSHIACH OF TRUE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH: THEN I HAD BEKIUS IN HALACHA MORE THAN MOST OF MY CONTEMPORARIES AND COMBINED HORRENDOUS ZEAL FOR THE MINHAGIM AND MASOROT HAAVOT HANDED DOWN IN THE YESHIVAS OF THE PERUSHIM (WHICH I NOW BY NO MEANS REVILE--SEE ACTS 21:21-25) AND A MISPLACED ZEAL FOR REDIFAH (WHICH I BROUGHT UPON THE KEHILLAH OF HASHEM)

1:13  For you heard of my derech, my halichah, my hitnahagut (conduct) in earlier times in Yahadut (Judaism), how I was to an extraordinary degree bringing redifah (persecution) upon the kehillah of Hashem and was making havoc of it,

1:14  and I was shtaig (working my way up, advancing, progressing) in Yahadut (Judaism) beyond many of my landsmen, being more abundantly machmir and a kannai (zealot) for the kabbalah (oral tradition), the Torah Sheb'al Peh, the Halachah of my Avot. HOW SHA'UL BECAME MOSHIACH'S SHLIACH WITH MOSHIACH'S AUTHORITATIVE BESURAS HAGEULAH

1:15  But when Hashem was pleased, when it was the ratzon Hashem, Hashem being the One who separated me as kadosh KERA'ANI MIME'EI IMMI ("He called me from the womb of my mother" YESHAYAH 49:1) and granted me the keri'ah (calling), summoning me through the Chen v'Chesed of Hashem

1:16  to reveal His Ben haElohim in me, that I might preach him among the Goyim, immediately, then, I did not consult with basar vadam (flesh and blood),

1:17  nor did I go up to Yerushalayim to those who were Moshiach's Shluchim before me, but I went away into Arabia and again I returned to Damascus.

1:18  Then, after shalosh shanim (three years), I went up to Yerushalayim to get acquainted with Kefa, and I stayed with him chamishah-asar yamim (fifteen days).

1:19  But other of the Moshiach's Shluchim I did not see except Ya'akov achi Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu.

1:20  Now, what things I write to you, hinei, before Hashem I do not speak sheker.

1:21  Next I went into the regions of Syria and of Cilicia;

1:22  but I was unknown panim el panim by the kehillot of Moshiach in Y'hudah;

1:23  only they were hearing that "the one once bringing redifah (persecution) upon us is now preaching the (orthodox Jewish) Emunah which once he was pillaging."

1:24  And they were glorifying Hashem in me.