OrthJBC - Luke - 16

16:1  And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying also to the talmidim, "A certain ish ashir (rich man) had a sochen (steward, estate manager or agent), and the charge brought against him was that he was squandering the property of the ish ashir.

16:2  "And having called him, he said to him, `What is this I hear about you? Render a cheshbon (an account, audit) for that which is under your pekuddat (stewardship, care), for you are no longer able to be sochen.'

16:3  "And the sochen said to himself, `What may I do, because my Adon takes away the pekuddat from me? I am not strong enough to dig, I am ashamed to beg.

16:4  `Oh! I have da'as of what I may do, that when I am removed from the work of the sochen, they may receive me into their batim (houses).'

16:5  "And having summoned his Adon's debtors one by one, he was saying to the first, `How much do you owe Adoni?'

16:6  "And he said, `One hundred jugs of olive oil.' And the sochen said to him, `Take your bill, sit down, quickly write fifty.'

16:7  "Then to another he said,`And you, how much do you owe?' And he said, `One hundred containers of wheat.' He says to him, `Take your bill and write eighty.'

16:8  "And the Ba'al Bayit praised the unrighteous sochen because he acted with chochmah. Because the Bnei HaOlam HaZeh have more saichel in dealing with their own generation than the Bnei HaOhr. [Tehillim 17:14; 18:26]

16:9  "And I say to you, use mammon to make for yourselves chaverim, so that when it fails, they may welcome you into the mishkenot olam.

16:10  "The one ne'eman (oisgehalten, trustworthy) in little, also is ne'eman in much, and the one who is unrighteous in little, also in much is unrighteous.

16:11  "If, then, you were not ne'eman with unrighteous mammon, who will entrust you with true riches?

16:12  "And if you were not ne'eman with that which belongs to another, who will give you what is your own?

16:13  "No eved is able to serve two adonim; for either he will have sin'ah (hatred) toward the one and he will have ahavah toward the other, or one he will be devoted to and the other he will despise. You are not able to serve Hashem and Mammon."

16:14  And the Perushim, who were ohavei kesef (lovers of money), heard all this and they made fun of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.

16:15  And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "You are the ones who in the sight of bnei Adam credit yourself as yitzdak im Hashem, but Hashem has da'as of your levavot. Because the thing highly esteemed among bnei Adam is a to'eva (abomination) before Hashem.

16:16  "The Torah and the Nevi'im were proclaimed until Yochanan; vi-bahlt (since) then it is the Malchut Hashem that is being preached as Besuras HaGeulah, and anyone entering it must strive to do so.

16:17  "But it is easier for HaShomayim and HaAretz to pass away than for one tag (ornamental flourish) of the Torah to be dropped.

16:18  "Anyone giving the get to his isha and taking another wife commits ni'uf (adultery), and the one marrying a gerusha (divorcee) commits ni'uf (adultery). THE MASHAL OF EL'AZAR AND THE ISH ASHIR

16:19  "Now there was a certain ish ashir (rich man). He was dressed in purple and fine linen, and yom yom he feasted sumptuosly and every day for him was a simcha. [Yechezkel 16:49]

16:20  "And there was a certain evyon ish (poor man), a kaptzan covered with sores, El'azar by name, who had been laid at the rich man's gate.

16:21  "And the kaptzan El'azar longed to fill his stomach with what fell from the rich man's tish. But even the kelevim were coming and licking the kaptzan's sores.

16:22  "And it came to pass that El'azar died, and he was carried away by the malachim to the kheyk (bosom) of Avraham Avinu. And then the ish ashir (rich man) died also, and he was buried.

16:23  "And lifting up his eynayim in She'ol, where he was in the torments of agony, he sees Avraham Avinu off in the distance and El'azar at his kheyk.

16:24  "And he called, `Avraham Avinu! Chaneni na and send El'azar that he may dip the tip of his finger into the mayim and cool my leshon, because I am in torment in this moked (fire).'

16:25  "But Avraham Avinu said, `Beni, have zikaron that you received your tov in the chayyim of you, and El'azar likewise the ra'ah. But now he is given nechamah (comfort) here, but you, yisurim (torments). [Tehillim 17:14]

16:26  "`And, in addition to all these things, there has been fixed between us and you a tehom gedolah (a great abyss, chasm), so that the ones wishing to come over from here to you are not able, neither from there to us may they cross over.'

16:27  "And he said, `I ask you then, Avraham Avinu, that you may send El'azar to the bais of Avi,

16:28  `for I have chamesh achim!--that he may warn them, lest also they may come to this place of yisurim (torments).'

16:29  "But Avraham Avinu says, `They have Moshe Rabbeinu and the Nevi'im. Let them listen to them.'

16:30  "But he said, `Lo, Avraham Avinu, but if someone from the Mesim should go to them, they will make teshuva.

16:31  "But Avraham said to him, `If Moshe Rabbeinu and the Nevi'im they do not listen to, neither if someone from the Mesim should come back again will they be persuaded.'"