OrthJBC - I Corinthians - 14

14:1  Pursue ahavah (agape), and eagerly desire the things of Ruach Hakodesh (matnot haRuach Hakodesh), and especially that you may speak forth a dvar hanevu'ah (word of prophecy).

14:2  For the one speaking in a lashon (tongue) speaks not to bnei Adam but to Hashem; for no one grasps with their ears, but the speaker speaks sodot (mysteries).

14:3  However, the one speaking forth divrei nevu'ah (words of prophecy) speaks to bnei Adam for chizzuk (strengthening) and immutz (encouragement) and nechamah (comfort).

14:4  The one speaking in a lashon (tongue) edifies himself; but, the one speaking forth a dvar hanevu'ah (word of prophecy) edifies a kehillah.

14:5  Now I desire all of you to speak in leshonot (tongues), and even more that you may speak forth a dvar hanevu'ah (word of prophecy) (Bamidbar 11:29). Now greater is the one speaking forth a dvar nevu'ah (word of prophecy) than the one speaking in leshonot, unless he gives the petron (interpretation) of the leshonot (tongues), that the kehillah (congregation) may receive the edification.

14:6  But now, Achim b'Moshiach, if I come to you speaking in leshonot (tongues), what will I benefit you unless I speak to you either with a dvar hitgalut (a dvar of revelation) or with a dvar da'as or with a dvar nevu'ah or with a dvar hora'ah (word of teaching)?

14:7  You have da'as about the inanimate flute or harp: they speak sounds but but if they do not articulate a distinction in the notes, how will it be known what is being played on the flute or on the harp?

14:8  Indeed, if a shofar gives an unclear trumpet-call, who will prepare himself for kerav (battle)? [Bamidbar 10:9; Yirmeyah 4:19]

14:9  So also unless you by your lashon (tongue) render an intelligible dvar Torah, how will the thing being uttered be known? For you will be merely speaking into the air.

14:10  There are doubtless many kinds of foreign languages in the Olam Hazeh, and not one is meaningless.

14:11  If, therefore, I do not have da'as the meaning of the language, I will be to the speaker a foreigner and the speaker will be a foreigner with me. [Bereshis 11:7]

14:12  So also you, als (since) you have a kinat hamatnot haRuach Hakodesh (zeal for gifts of the Ruach Hakodesh), endeavor to abound in them for the edification of the Kehillah (congregation).

14:13  Therefore, the speaker in a lashon (tongue), let him offer tefillos that he may give the petron (interpretation).

14:14  For if I daven (pray) in a lashon, my nashamah davens, but my sikhliyut (rationality) lies shemitah (fallow).

14:15  Nu? (Well?) I will daven [in leshonot] with my nashamah, and I will daven also with my sechel; I will sing [in leshonot] with my nashamah, and I will sing niggunim also with my seichel.

14:16  Otherwise, if you make a beracha [in leshonot] with your neshamah, how will the am haAretz, who have no idea what you are saying, answer the "Omein"? [Devarim 27:15:26; Divrey Hayamim Alef 16:36; Nechemyah 8:6; Tehillim 106:48]

14:17  For indeed you make the beracha well enough, but the other is not being edified.

14:18  Modeh Ani Hashem that I speak in leshonot more than all of you,

14:19  but in a kehillah I want to speak five words with my sikhliyut (rationality), that also others I may instruct with a dvar hora'ah (word of teaching), rather than speak ten thousand words in a lashon (tongue).

14:20  Achim b'Moshiach, be not yeladim in your machshavot (thoughts); infantile in kavvanah ra'ah (malice), perhaps, but in your binah, oisvaks (mature, develop). [Yirmeyah 4:22]

14:21  In the Torah it stands written, KI BELA'AGEI SAFAH UVELASHON ACHERET YEDABER EL-HAAM HAZEH...V'LO AVU SH'MO'A ("Then with ones of foreign lip and with strange tongue He will speak to this people.. but they were not willing to listen" YESHAYAH 28:11-12; DEVARIM 28:49), says the L-rd.

14:22  So then the leshonot (tongues) are for an ot (miraculous sign), not to the ones believing, the ma'aminim in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, but an ot (miraculous sign) to the Apikorosim; but divrei hanevu'ah (words of prophecy) are not for the Apikorosim, but for the ones believing, the ma'aminim in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.

14:23  If, therefore, the kehillah has a farbrengen gathering and all speak in leshonot (tongues), and then in walks the am haAretz or the Apikorosim, will they not say that you are all meshuggah?

14:24  However, if all speak forth divrei hanevu'ah (words of prophecy), and then in walks some Apikorosim or am haAretz, such a visitor is brought under conviction by all, he is brought into mishpat (din (judgment)) by all,

14:25  what is hiding in his lev (heart) becomes manifest, and, having fallen on his face, he worships Hashem, declaring that G-d is among you (Zecharyah 8:23; Yeshayah 45:14; Daniel 2:47). [Yeshayah 45:14; Zecharyah 8:23] ALL THINGS TO BE DONE IN THE KEHILLAH B'SEDER (IN ORDER)

14:26  Nu? Well? Achim b'Moshiach, when you come together, each one a mizmor (hymn, psalm), a musar (teaching with an ethical point), a dvar hitgalut (a dvar of revelation), a lashon (tongue), or a petron (interpretation) of a lashon (tongue); let all things be for edification.

14:27  If anyone speaks in a lashon (tongue), let the speakers be shenayim (two) or at most shloshah (three), and by turn, and let one give the petron (interpretation).

14:28  But if there is no one to give the petron, let the one with the lashon (tongue) be silent in the kehillah and let him instead speak to himself and to Hashem.

14:29  And let shenayim or shloshah nevi'im speak and let the other nevi'im be used with discernings of ruchot (spirits) (12:10).

14:30  And if a dvar hitgalut (a dvar of revelation) is given to a navi sitting by, let the first navi become silent.

14:31  For you all are able one by one to to speak forth a dvar hanevu'ah (word of prophecy), in order that all may learn and receive chizzuk. ON HITLAHAVUT (ENTHUSIASM) IN THE KEHILLAH

14:32  And the neshamot of nevi'im are subject to the nevi'im.

14:33  For Hashem is no Elohei haMevucha (the G-d of Confusion, Tohu); He is Elohei haShalom, and this is so in all the kehillot of the kedoshim. DISORDERLY SPEECH BY NEVIIM (14:30) OR SPEAKERS IN LESHONOT (14:28) OR ANY OTHER SPEECH THAT BRINGS TOHU V'VOHU (CHAOS--BERESHIS 1:2) INTO THE KEHILLAH MUST BE REPLACED WITH SILENCE, PARTICULARLY IN THE CASE OF WIVES WHO "GO OVER THE HEAD OF THEIR MAN" (THEIR "ADAM" OR HUSBAND--BERESHIS 2:16-17; 3:1-6), SCANDALOUSLY REMOVING THE SIGN OF TZNIUS (MODESTY/PIETY) AND KENI'AH (SUBMISSION) AS THEY DARE NOT JUST TO BREAK A DRESS CODE (11:2-16) BUT BRAZENLY CREATE A NISSAYON (TEMPTATION) WHERE SALACIOUSNESS AND MORAL MUTINY CAN ARISE IN THE KAHAL, EVEN AS THEY "GO OVER THE HEAD OF THEIR MAN," THEIR "HEAD" (11:5) WHO IS THE KOHEN OF HIS BAIS, AND BLURT OUT BOLD AND SHAMEFUL WORDS NOT OF THE RUACH HAKODESH (2:13) WHICH SHOULD BE SILENCED, AS OPPOSED TO WORDS OF THE RUACH HAKODESH THAT WOMEN GIVE AS DIVREI NEVU'AH (11:5); HERE IT IS NOT SHA'UL'S DESIRE TO LIMIT THE AVODAS KODESH OF NASHIM, BUT RATHER HIS RABBINIC INTENTION IS TO LOCK THE DOOR ON WHAT COMES KNOCKING IN REV. 2:20-23, SINCE "JEZEBEL" (IZEVEL) SINNED AGAINST TZNIUS AND KENI'AH AND SILENCE TO OUT-OF-ORDER AND UNSPIRITUAL SPEECH BEFORE SHE TOOK FURTHER STEPS DOWNWARD INTO THE DUNGEON OF GEHINNOM, TAKING THE KEHILLAH WITH HER.

14:34  Let the nashim in the kehillot be silent, for it is not permitted for them to blurt out, but let them become nichna (submissive), as it says in the Torah (Bereshis 3:16). [Bereshis 3:16]

14:35  And if the nashim wish to inquire about something, let them inquire of their own be'alim b'bayis (husbands at home), for it is a bushah (shame) for an isha to blurt out in the kehillah (Bereshis 3:2).

14:36  Or from you did the dvar Hashem go forth (Yeshayah 2:3), or to you only did it reach?

14:37  If anyone thinks himself to be a navi or a man of the Ruach Hakodesh (2:13), let him have full da'as that the things I wrote to you are a mitzvoh of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu.

14:38  But if anyone does not recognize this, he is not recognized.

14:39  So then, Achim b'Moshiach of mine, earnestly desire to speak forth a dvar hanevu'ah (word of prophecy), and do not forbid speaking in leshonot (tongues).

14:40  Let let all things be done b'seder and without bushah (shame).