OrthJBC - Galatians - 3

3:1  O senseless Galatians, who bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Moshiach Yehoshua was publicly shown forth as having been pierced on the Aitz (DEVARIM 21:23).

3:2  This one thing only I want to learn from you: did you receive the Ruach haKodesh by means of chukim of the Torah (laws of Torah) or by means of the hearing of emunah?

3:3  You lack seychel; having begun in the Ruach haKodesh, will you now be perfected in the basar?

3:4  Did you suffer so many things lashav (in vain)?--if it really was lashav.

3:5  So then, Hashem who is supplying to you the Ruach haKodesh and producing nifla'ot (miracles) among you, by what means does he do it, by chukim of the Torah or by the hearing of emunah?

3:6  Just as Avraham Avinu HE'EMIN BA'HASHEM VAYACHSHEVEHA LO TZDAKAH ("believed Hashem and it was accounted to him for righteousness" BERESHIS 15:6),

3:7  know then, that the ones of emunah, these ones are the Bnei haAvraham Avinu! THE BERACHAH OF AVRAHAM AVINU AND "YITZDAK IM HASHEM" COMES ONLY TO THE MA'AMINIM B'MOSHIACH, THE ONE WHO BECAME A KELALAH FOR US, THE ONE, THE ONLY ONE, WHO "YA'ASEH OTAM VACHAI" (VAYIKRA 18:5); THOSE WHO SEEK "YITZDAK IM HASHEM" THROUGH CHUKIM OF THE TORAH ARE OVERTAKEN BY A KELALAH AND NO ONE CAN BE JUSTIFIED BY THE CHUKIM OF THE TORAH

3:8  And the Kitvei haKodesh, having foreseen that Hashem would yatzdik (justify) the Goyim by emunah, preached the Besuras HaGeulah beforehand to Avraham Avinu, saying "VENIVRECHU VO KOL GOYEI HA'ARETZ ("All the familes/peoples of the earth will be blessed in you" BERESHIS 18:18; 12:3).

3:9  For this reason, the ones of emunah receive the berachah (blessing) with Avraham Avinu hama'amin (the believer).

3:10  For as many as are (seeking "YITZDAK IM HASHEM") by chukim of the Torah are under a kelalah (curse); for it has been written, ARUR ASHER LO YAKIM ES DIVREI HATORAH HAZOT LA'ASOT OTAM ("Cursed is everyone who does not uphold/abide by all the words of this Torah to do them/to carry them out" DEVARIM 27:26; cf Jam.2:10).

3:11  Now it is clear that not one person is YITZDAK IM HASHEM ("justified with G-d") by the Torah, because V'TZADDIK BE'EMUNATO YICHEYEH ("the righteous by his faith will live" CHABAKUK 2:4). ONLY MOSHIACH CAN FULLY SATISFY THE TORAH'S LEGAL DEMANDS FOR OBEDIENCE AND WORKS OF MA'ASEI MITZVOT HATORAH, ALL IMPLIED IN "HAADAM YA'ASEH OTAM VACHAI," (VAYIKRA 18:5) INCLUDING THE OBEDIENCE OF GIVING HIMSELF AS A KELALAH ON OUR BEHALF, WHICH IS TORAH OBEDIENCE (DEVARIM 21:23) REQUIRED OF THE MOSHIACH AND REWARDED BY LIFE, ACCORDING TO YESHAYAH 53:4-5,10-11, IN ORDER THAT THE NACHALAH OF THE RUACH HAKODESH AND THE MALCHUT HASHEM AND THE BRI'A CHADASHA MIGHT BE FULFILLED TO ALL, YEHUDIM AND GOYIM ALIKE, THROUGH BERACHAH AND HAVTACHAH AND EMUNAH

3:12  But the Torah is not of emunah, but the man YA'ASEH OTAM VACHAI ("who does these things will live" by them VAYIKRA 18:5).

3:13  Moshiach redeemed us from the kelalah (curse) of the Torah, having become a kelalah (curse) on behalf of us, because it has been written, KILELAT HASHEM NIVLATO TALLUY AL HA-AITZ ("Curse of G-d is on the NEVELAH (corpse) being hung on the tree" DEVARIM 21:23),

3:14  al menat (in order that) to the Goyim the Berachah of Avraham Avinu might come by Moshiach Yehoshua, that the havtachah (promise) of the Ruach haKodesh we might receive through emunah. RAV SHA'UL IS MEDAYEK (INFERRING A CONCLUSION OR INTERPRETATION) BASED ON THE WORD FOR "SEED." THE HAVTACHAH OF YESHU'AT ELOHEYNU, WITH ITS PRIORITY AND PERMANENCE, SET FORTH IN THE TORAH OF MOSHE RABBENU, POINTS TO THE MESSIANIC BASIS FOR RECEIVING THE NACHALAH OF OLAM HABAH THROUGH EMUNAH, AND THE GREATER GLORY OF THIS HAVTACHAH IS THAT IT COMES DIRECTLY FROM HASHEM TO AVRAHAM AVINU WITHOUT THE NEED OF INTERMEDIARIES, SO YOU GOYIM IN THE FIELD OF MINISTRY OF MY SHLICHUT SHOULD BE PUTTING YOUR EYES ON THE HAVTACHAH MADE TO AVRAHAM AVINU ABOUT THE MOSHIACH RATHER THAN CHUKIM OF THE TORAH, WHICH ALONG WITH THE BRIS MILAH, ARE THE COVENANT PRIVILEGES AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE YEHUDIM AS A PEOPLE OF G-D AND NOT THE PURVIEW OF GOYIM NOR THE MEANS OR POWER OF SALVATION FOR ANYONE

3:15  Achim B'Moshiach, I speak according to human dimyon (analogy). Even a berit (covenant) having been confirmed by Bnei Adam no one sets aside or adds to it.

3:16  Now to Avraham Avinu were spoken the havtachot (promises) and to his ZERAH ("seed" BERESHIS 22:18). He does not say V'LIZERAEHCHAH ("and to your seeds"), as concerning many, but as concerning one, "and to the ZERAH of you", and that ZERAH is Moshiach.

3:17  And this I say: a berit (covenant), which was previously confirmed by Hashem, cannot be annulled so as to abolish the havtachah (promise) by the mattan Torah (which was given arba me'ot usheloshim shanah [four hundred and thirty years--SHEMOT 12:40] later).

3:18  For if the nachalah (inheritance) is based on Torah, it is no longer based on havtachah (promise); but Hashem has given the nachalah to Avraham Avinu by havtachah (promise).

3:19  Why then the Mattan Torah? The Torah was added because of pesha'im, until the ZERAH (Moshiach) should come to whom the havtachah had been made (BERESHIS 22:18). Now the Torah was administered through malachim (Devarim 33:2; Tehillim 68:18) by the hand of a sarsor (middleman/agent--VAYIKRA 26:46; BAMIDBAR 36:13), an ish benayim.

3:20  Now the sarsor, the ish benayim, the metavvech, is not for only one, but Elohim hu echad (Devarim 6:4). IS THERE A CONFLICT BETWEEN TORAH AND HAVTACHAH? LET'S EXAMINE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BANIM AND AVADIM

3:21  Is the Torah, mimeila (resultantly, as a consequence), against the havtachot (promises) of Hashem? Chas v'Shalom (G-d forbid!)! For if Torah had been given that had the ko'ach (power) to affect hitkhadeshut (regeneration), then to be YITZDAK IM HASHEM ("justified with G-d") would indeed have been based on chukim of the Torah.

3:22  But the Kitvei haKodesh consigned all things under HaChet (Sin) [Rom.3:9], that the havtachah (promise) might be given by emunah in Moshiach Yehoshua to the ma'aminim.

3:23  But before Emunah came, we were being held in custody, being confined and guarded for the about-to-be-revealed Emunah.

3:24  This is the result: the Torah functioned as our omenet (governess) to lead us to Moshiach, that by emunah we might be YITZDAK IM HASHEM.

3:25  But Emunah having come, we are no longer under an omenet.

3:26  For through emunah in Moshiach Yehoshua, you are all bnei Elohim. THE MIKVEH MAYIM OF MOSHIACH AND THE TEVILAH INTO HIM WITH THE NEW ESCHATOLOGICAL EXISTENCE OF THE OLAM HABA INTO WHICH WE BY EMUNAH ARE JUSTIFIED-REGENERATED EVEN NOW, WITH THE TURNING OF THE AGES IN MOSHIACH CHANGING EVERYTHING, SINCE MOSHIACH IS AVRAHAM'S ZERAH, AND SINCE WE, WHETHER YEHUDIM OR GOYIM, PARTICIPATE IN MOSHIACH BY EMUNAH, AND ARE THEREFORE ALSO ABRAHAM'S OFFSPRING; CONCLUSION: YOU GALATIAN GOYIM ARE ABRAHAM'S OFFSPRING BY EMUNAH IN MOSHIACH AND DON'T NEED THE MOHALIM HAGOYIM, AND THIS IS THE TRUE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH, SO DON'T SUBMIT TO THEIR "BESURAS HAGEULAH" OR THEIR BRIS MILAH

3:27  For as many as have had a tevilah immersion into Moshiach have clothed yourselves with Moshiach.

3:28  There is not Yehudi nor Yevani (Greek), there is not eved nor ben chorin, there is not zachar nor nekevah, for you are all echad in Moshiach Yehoshua.

3:29  And, if you belong to Moshiach (YESHAYAH 53:10), then you are of the ZERAH of Avraham Avinu, you are yoreshim (heirs) according to the havtachah (promise).