OrthJBC - Hebrews - 10

10:1  For the Torah, als (since) it has only a shadow of the tovot ha'atidot (good things to come) and is not the very demut of things, can never by the same yearly zevakhim (sacrifices), which they offer continually, make shalem (whole, complete) those drawing near.

10:2  Otherwise, would these zevakhim (sacrifices) not have stopped being offered, because the worshipers, having experienced tohorah (purification, cleansing) even once, would no longer have had consciousness of averos?

10:3  But by those zevakhim there is a zikaron (remembrance) and a reminder of averos year after year.

10:4  For it is impossible for the dahm of parim (young bulls) and se'irim (goats) to take away chatta'im (sins).

10:5  Therefore, when he comes into the Olam Hazeh, he says "ZEVACH UMINCHAH LO CHAFATZTA ("SACRIFICE AND OFFERING"--Tehillim 40:7 (6) you did not desire but a body you prepared for me; (Tehillim 39:7 Targum Ha-Shivim)

10:6  OLAH V'CHATA'AH LO SH'ALTA ("Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required")

10:7  AZ AMARTI HINEH VATI BIMEGILLAT SEFER KATUV ALAY ("Then I said, `Look, here I am, I have come--it is written about me in the megillah [scroll]`) LA'ASOT RETZONECHAH ELOHAY CHAFATZTI ("I desire to do your will, O G-d.")

10:8  When he said above, "ZEVACH and MINCHAH and OLAH and CHATA'AH you have not desired, nor have you taken pleasure in them" (these are offered according to the Torah),

10:9  then he said, "I have come LA'ASOT RETZONECHAH." He takes away HaRishonah (the way of the zevakhim of the kehunah of Levy) in order to establish HaSheniyah (the way of the zevach of the kehunah of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach).

10:10  And it is by the ratzon Hashem that we will have been set apart for kedushah through the korban of HaGuf HaRebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, once and for all.

10:11  And every kohen stands daily at his avodas kodesh sherut ministering and offering again and again the same korbanot that can never take away chatta'im;

10:12  but Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having offered up one korban for chatta'im for all time, YASHAV LIMIN HASHEM ("Sat down at the right hand of G-d"--Tehillim 110:1),

10:13  waiting from that time onward until "OYVAV ("His enemies) be made HADOM L'RAGLAV ("a footstool for his feet").

10:14  For by one korban he has perfected forever HaMekudashim (the ones being set apart as kedoshim).

10:15  And the Ruach Hakodesh also bears solemn edut to us; for after saying,

10:16  ZOT HABERIT ASHER EKHROT with them ACHAREI HAYAMIM HAHEM, NE'UM ADONOI, NATATI ES TORATI BEKIRBAM V'AL-LIBAM EKHTAVENNAH ("This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days," says the L-rd, "I will put my Torah in the mind of them and I will inscribe it on their heart"--Yirmeyah 31:33). He then says,

10:17  LA'AVONAM ULECHATTATAM LO EZKAR ("And their wickedness and their sin I will remember no more"--Yirmeyah 31:34).

10:18  Now where there is selicha (forgiveness) for these things, there is no longer a korban for chatta'im. WARNING: WE HAVE A KOHEN GADOL OVER THE BEIS HASHEM IN SHOMAYIM AND OURS IS THE TRUE ORTHODOX JEWISH EMUNAH: DO NOT TURN AWAY AND APOSTATIZE AND BECOME SHMAD DEFECTORS!

10:19  Therefore, Achim b'Moshiach, having bittachon for haSha'ar laHashem (gate to approach G-d's presence, access of the tzaddikim--Tehillim 118:20) into the Kodesh HaKodashim by HaDahm HaYehoshua,

10:20  which he opened for us as a Derech Chadasha, a Derech Chayyah, through the parokhet, that is to say, the parokhet of the basar of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. [Tehillim 16:9-10; Daniel 9:26; Yeshayah 53:5-12]

10:21  And als (since) we have a Kohen Gadol over the Beis Hashem,

10:22  let us approach and draw near to Hashem with a lev shalem, with full assurance and bittachon of emunah, our levavot having been sprinkled clean (tehorim) [YAZZEH, "MOSHIACH WILL SPRINKLE," Yeshayah 52:15] from an evil matzpun (conscience) and our bodies plunged kluhr (pure) into a tevilah in a mikveh mayim [Yechezkel 36:25-26].

10:23  Let us, without wavering, hold firmly to the Ani Ma'amin of the Tikveteinu (our Hope), for Ne'eman is the One having given the havtachah (promise).

10:24  And let us consider how to meorer (stimulate, motivate, shtarken) one another to ahavah and mitvos,

10:25  and let us not turn away as shmad defectors from our noiheg daily minyan, as some are doing, let us impart chizzuk (strengthening, encouragement) to one another, and by so much the more as you see the Yom HaDin (Day of Judgment) approaching.

10:26  For when we intentionally commit chet b'yad ramah ["wilful sin with a high hand of defiance" Bamidbar 15:30] after having received the full da'as of HaEmes, there remains no longer a korban for chattoteinu,

10:27  but only a terrible expectation of Din and Mishpat and of a blazing AISH TZARECHA TOKHLEM ("Fire that will consume the enemies of Hashem" Yeshayah 26:11).

10:28  Anyone who was doiche (rejecting or setting aside) the Torah of Moshe Rabbeinu, upon the dvar of SHNI EDIM O AL PI SHLOSHA EDIM ("Testimony of two or three witnesses"--Devarim 19:15), dies without rachamim.

10:29  By how much worse onesh do you think the one will be considered worthy who trampled on the Ben HaElohim and also treated as mechallel kodesh (profane) the Dahm HaBrit which set him apart mekudash and also committed Chillul Hashem gidduf against the Ruach Hakodesh of Hashem's chesed?

10:30  For we have da'as of the One who said, LI NAKAM V'SHILEM ("Vengeance is mine and I will repay" [Devarim 32:35] and again YADIN HASHEM AMMO ("The L-rd will judge his people" Devarim 32:36).

10:31  It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Elohim Chayyim.

10:32  But have zikaron of the yamim mikedem in which, when you had received the Ohr Hashem, you endured a great tzoros, a great kristallnacht of innuyim (suffering),

10:33  sometimes being publicly abused with baleidikung (insult) and fargolgung (persecution) yourselves; other times being oppressed Chavrusa partners with the ones so treated.

10:34  For you showed Gemilut Chasadim for the Achim b'Moshiach in the beis hasohar and with simcha you accepted the pogrom-like confiscation of your property because you have da'as that you possess a better and more enduring bechorah.

10:35  Do not discard, then, your bittachon which has gadol sachar.

10:36  You are nitzrach (needy) of the kind of zitzfleisch (patience) that has endurance, in order that, having accomplished the ratzon Hashem, you will receive the havtachah (promise),

10:37  for yet a little while and Hu HaBah [Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach] YAVO LO YE'ACHER ("He will come, he will not delay")

10:38  V'TZADDIK VE'EMUNATO YICHEYEH ("And my tzaddik will live by emunah"--Chabakuk 2:3-4) and, if he shrinks back a shmad defector, LO YASHRAH NAFSHO BO ("his desire is not upright in him").

10:39  But we are not of those shrinking back as shmad defectors toward churban destruction, but we are of those with emunah whose neshamah is preserved in Yeshu'at Eloheinu.