OrthJBC - II Corinthians - 11

11:1  I would that you might bear with me in a little tipshus (foolery). Do bear with me!

11:2  For I have kinah for you a kinat Hashem, for, as a shadhan (marriage-broker), I betrothed you to one ish (husband) to present you as a chaste betulah to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach; [Hoshea 2:19; Shir Ha-Shirim; Eph, 5:26-27]

11:3  but I fear lest somehow as the Nachash deceived Chavah by his cunning [Bereshis 3:1-6,13] your machshavot should be led astray from a simple and pure devekut to Hashem's Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.

11:4  For if someone shows up and preaches another Moshiach, another "Yehoshua," than the one in our drashot, or if you receive a different "Ruach Hakodesh" from the one you received or a different Besuras HaGeulah from the one regarding which you were mekabel, you put up with that well enough. [Gal.1:8-9]

11:5  For I consider to have come behind the most groise (eminent) shluchim in absolutely nothing. [I Cor 15:10; IICor 12:11; Gal 2:6,9]

11:6  But if indeed I am unskilled in lashon [I Cor 1:17; 2:1,13] yet I am not in da'as (knowledge) [Eph 3:4] but in all ways and all things I have made this abundantly clear to you.

11:7  Or--anshuldiks! (pardon!)--did I commit averos by humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I proclaimed Hashem's Besuras HaGeulah to you free of charge? [I Cor. 9:12,18]

11:8  I robbed other of Moshiach's Kehillot, did I, in taking wages from them for the avodas kodesh work I did for you? [Php 4:15]

11:9  And when I was present with you and I had lack, I did not burden anyone [II Cor. 12:13], for my lack was made up by the Achim b'Moshiach who came from Macedonia. So I was shomer not to make myself a buden to you and in that I will remain shomer.

11:10  As HaEmes of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach is in me, that particular boasting of mine will not be silenced [I Cor 9:15] in in the regions of Achaia!

11:11  Why? Because I do not have ahavah for you? Hashem knows that I do!

11:12  But what I do I will also continue to do in order to deny an opening to those who are looking for an opening by their boasting to be recognized as equals with us.

11:13  For such ones are shlichei sheker, deceitful po'alim, [Php 3:2], transforming themselves in a masquerade as shluchim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.

11:14  And no wonder! For even Hasatan transforms himself into a malach of ohr (light);

11:15  It is no big megillah, therefore, if also Hasatan's ministers transform themselves as ministers of Tzedek [DANIEL 9:25]. Their end will be according to their ma'asim. THE QUALIFICATIONS OF THE TRUE SHLIACH ENTAIL MORE THAN BEING MERELY FARNUMEN (BUSY) AND FARMAHTERT (EXHAUSTED) FROM THE TZOROS OF THE CARES OF THE KEHILLAH, BUT ENTAIL ALL KINDS OF MESSIANIC SUFFERING; THE SAKANA (RISK, HAZARD) OF RAV SHA'UL'S AVODAS KODESH SERVICE TO MOSHIACH

11:16  Listen here, let no one think me a tipesh (idiot). But if you do think me a yold (fool), then receive me as a yold that I, too, may boast ki hu zeh (a small amount). [II Cor 12:6]

11:17  What I speak in this bittachon of boasting, I speak not according to Moshiach Adoneinu, but as a yold.

11:18  Als (since) many boast according to the basar, I also will boast.

11:19  For magnanimously you put up with fools, being such talmidei chachomim yourselves!

11:20  For you put up with it quite well, if anyone trades you into slavery, if anyon turns you into their supper, if anyone lifts your wallet, if anyone exalts himself into your macher, if anyone gives you a klop in the ponem.

11:21  To my bushah, I say that we were too weak for that! But, nevertheless, in whatever way anyone may have chutzpah in foolishness, I also will speak with chutzpah.

11:22  Are they Ivrim? So am I. Are they Yisre'elim? So am I. Are they Zera Avraham? So am I. [Php 3:5]

11:23  Are they mesharetei HaRebbe, Melech HaMoshiach? (I am talking like someone who is meshuga.) [I Cor 15:10] I can outdo them: in labors more abundantly, in imprisonments more frequently, in beatings more by far, and often near death.

11:24  By Yehudim chamash p'amim I had the arba'im lashes minus one! [Devarim 25:3]

11:25  Shloshah p'amim I was beaten with rods, [Act 16:10] pa'am achat I was stoned [Act 14:19], shloshah p'amim I was shipwrecked, spending a lailah and a yom in the open sea;

11:26  in journeys often, Pikuach nefesh (imminent danger) from rivers, pikuach nefesh from robbers, pikuach nefesh from my own people [Act 9:23], pikuach nefesh from Goyim [Act 14:5], pikuach nefesh in the city, pikuach nefesh in the country, pikuach nefesh in the sea, pikuach nefesh among achei sheker;

11:27  in labor and toil, in watchings, often in famine and thirst, in tzomot often, in cold and nakedness; [II Cor 6:5];

11:28  beside the things from without, there is the pressure on me yom yom, the care of all of Moshiach's Kehillot.

11:29  Who is weak and I am not weak? [I Cor 9:22] Who is caused to fall into chet (sin), and I do not burn?

11:30  If it is necessary for me to boast, then I will boast of my weaknesses. [II Cor 12:5]

11:31  Hashem, Elohim HaAv of Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua knows (Hamevorach l'olmei olamim!) that I am not speaking sheker. [II Cor 1:23]

11:32  In Damascus the Ethnarch under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus to arrest me,

11:33  and I was let down through the wall through a window in a basket, and escaped his hands. [Act 9:24-25]