OrthJBC - Mark - 7

7:1  And, when they had come down from Yerushalayim, the Perushim and some of the Sofrim come together around Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach,

7:2  and they had observed that some of his talmidim were eating their lechem with yadayim temei'ot, that is, unwashed hands.

7:3  [For the Perushim, and indeed this was the Jewish minhag, do not eat without doing n'tilat yadayim and also observing the Masoret HaZekenim [the Torah Sheb'al peh].

7:4  And when they come from [the] marketplace, unless they do so, they do not eat. And there are many other things which they have received in order to observe, such as the tevilah of cups and pitchers and copperpots.]

7:5  And the Perushim and the Sofrim question Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Why do your talmidim not follow the halakhah according to the Masoret HaZekenim, but eat their lechem with yadaym temei'ot?"

7:6  And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Yeshayah rightly gave nevu'ah of you tzevu'im, as it has been written, HAAM HAZEH BISFATAV KIBDUNI V'LIBO RIKHAK MIMENI VATEHI YIRATAM OTI MITZVAT ANASHIM MELUMMADAH ("This people with [their] lips honor me, but their heart is removed far away from me.

7:7  And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the mitzvot of men.") [Yeshayah 29:13]

7:8  Abandoning the mitzvat Hashem, you are holding to the Masoret HaBnei Adam."

7:9  And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was saying to them, "You have a fine knack for setting aside the mitzvat Hashem in order that your own masorah might stand undisturbed.

7:10  For Moshe [Rabbeinu] said, `KABED ES AVICHA V'ES IMMECHA' ("Honor your father and your mother"), and, `The one reviling AVIV V'IMMO MOT YUMAT ("father or mother -- let him be put to death.' [Shemot 20:12, Devarim 5:16, Shemot 21:17, Vayikra 20:9]

7:11  But you say, `If a man says to his Av or to his Em, whatever by me you might have benefited is Korban' [that is, the taitsh (translation) is an offering to Hashem],

7:12  then no longer do you permit him to do anything for his Av or his Em.

7:13  You nullify and make void the dvar Hashem by means of your masorah you received. And you do many similar things."

7:14  And having summoned again the multitude, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was saying to them, "Give ear to me and have binah.

7:15  "There is nothing outside of a ben Adam (human being) entering into him which is able to make him tameh, but it is the things coming out from the ben Adam that make him tameh."

7:17  And when he left the multitude and entered a bais, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach's talmidim were asking him [about] the mashal.

7:18  And he says to them, "Are you so lacking in binah also? Do you not have binah that it is not what is outside and entering into the ben Adam that is able to make him tameh?

7:19  "Because it does not enter into his lev, but into his stomach and goes out into the latrine," making all the okhel tohar.

7:20  And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying, "It is the thing proceeding out of the ben Adam that makes him tameh.

7:21  "For from within the lev of the ben Adam comes evil cravings and makhshavot: then zenunim (fornications), thefts (gneyvot), murders (retzichot),

7:22  ni'ufim (adulteries), chamdanut (greediness), rishah (wickedness), nechalim (scheming deceitfulness), zimmah (lewdness, sensuality), an 'ayin horo or ro'ah 'ayin (an envious evil eye), lashon hora, ga'avah (pride), and ivvelet (foolishness).

7:23  All these evil things proceed from within and make the ben Adam tameh. THE EMUNAH OF THE GOYIM IN SPITE OF THE MECHITZAH OF GENDER AND NATIONALITY SEPARATING THEM FROM REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH (MT 15:21-28; MK7:24-30)

7:24  And from there Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach arose and departed to the district of Tzor and Tzidon. And having entered into a bais he wanted no one to have da'as, [yet] he was not able to escape notice.

7:25  But, after hearing about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, ofen ort (immediately), an isha, whose yaldah was having a ruach temei'ah, came and fell down at his feet.

7:26  Now the woman was a Yevanit (Greek), by birth a Syrophoenician, and she was asking Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to cast the shed out of her bat (daughter).

7:27  And he was saying to her, "Rishonah allow the banim to be satisfied, for it is not tov to take the lechem of the yeladim and throw it to kelevim."

7:28  But she replied, saying, "Ken, Adoni, but even the kelevim under the shulchan eat from the crumbs of the yeladim."

7:29  And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to her, "Because of this teshuva (answer), go your way, the shed has gone out from the bat of you."

7:30  And having departed to her bais, she found the yaldah lying on the bed, the shed having gone out. REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH DEPARTS TO LAKE KINNERET (MT 15:29-38; MK 7:31-8:9)

7:31  When he returned from the region of Tzor, and then went through Tzidon to Lake Kinneret within the region of the Decapolis,

7:32  they bring to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach [a man who was] cheresh-illem (deaf and mute) and they entreated him to lay hands on him.

7:33  And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach took him aside from the multitude by himself and put his fingers into his ears, and spat, and with that touched the tongue of the mute man;

7:34  and, looking up to Shomayim with a deep sigh, he says to him, "Ephphatha," (which means, "Be opened!").

7:35  Ofen ort (immediately) his ears were opened, and the impediment of his lashon was loosed and he was speaking properly.

7:36  And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was directing them not to tell anyone. But the more he ordered them, they were proclaiming [it] all the more.

7:37  And they were all astonished beyond all measure, saying, "He has done all things tov me'od, and he makes even the chereshim (deaf people) to hear and the illemim to speak. [Yeshayah 35:5,6]