OrthJBC - Philippians - 3

3:1  As to the rest, Achim b'Moshiach of mine, have simcha in Adoneinu [1:25; 2:18,28,29; 4:4]. To keep writing the zelba thing [l:4,18; 1:25; 2:2,17, 18, 28,29] to you is not an irksome bother to me, but for you it is a safe-guard.

3:2  Be shomer and on your guard and watch out for those [unclean, prowling] kelevim (dogs--Tehillim 22:17(16),20; Rev.22:15), watch out for the evil po'alim (workers), watch out for the circumutilators (Gal.6:12).

3:3  For we are the Bnei haMilah [Rom.2:29; Col.2:11-12], the ones whose avodas kodesh is by the Ruach Hakodesh [Joh.4:23; Rom.8:4] and whose kavod is in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua and who take no bittachon in the basar. AS TO HIDDUR MITZVAH (CAREFUL AND PUNCTILIOUS OBSERVANCE OF THE LAW) IN TORAH-JUDAISM, PUT ME DOWN AS FRUMEH YIDDEN, CHAREIDI, SHOMER DATI, A HEILIGER YID (HOLY JEW) WITH PEYOT, BEKESHE AND SHTREIMEL, KEEPING WITH IRREPROACHABLE FRUMKEIT ALL THE TRADITIONAL MINHAGIM AND HIDURIM (STRINGENCIES) IN THE WORLD OF CHASSIDUS PIETY OF MY GENERATION

3:4  Even though I could be having bittachon also in the basar. If any other person thinks he has grounds to have bittachon in the basar, I have more (II Cor.11:18-12:10): *

3:5  bris milah on the eighth day [Luke 1:59; 2:21], *from Bnei Yisroel by birth, *of the tribe of Benjamin, *a speaker of Lashon HaKodesh, Ivrit of Ivrit-speaking parents; a Hebrew of Hebrews (II Cor.11:22), *with regard to the Torah, from the kat haPerushim (Act 23:6; 26:5), *

3:6  with regard to kanous (zealousness), persecuting the adat haMoshiach (Act 8:3; 22:4; 26:9-11), *with regard to [my own, eigene] Tzidkat haTorah [3:9; Rom.2:27-29], unreproachable [glatt kosher frum and shomer mitzvot]. ALTHOUGH SHA'UL IS STILL LOYAL TO HIS PEOPLE AND IS STILL A PRACTICING (SHOMER MITZVOT) JEW WHO IS PROUD OF HIS HERITAGE, YET THE PRAISE OF THE MEN OF JUDAH HE CONSIDERS NOTHING COMPARED TO THE PRAISE OF HASHEM; THE RABBI WHO ONCE KNEW THE ADULATION OF THE YESHIVAH AND PRAISE OF THE COURT OF THE KOHEN GADOL, CONSIDERS ALL THIS NOW AS NOTHING COMPARED TO THE DEVEKUT WITH HASHEM HE NOW KNOWS AND THE DA'AS OF THE TZIDKAT HASHEM THAT COMES NOT FROM YICHUS OR ZCHUS OF MA'ASEI MITZVOT (ROM.4:4-6; GAL.5:6; EPH.2:8-9) OR A LEGALISTIC MISINTERPRETATION OF THE TORAH BUT FROM THE TORAH-TRUE EMUNAH OF AVRAHAM AVINU IN REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH (BERESHIS 15:6); NOW SHA'UL IS SHOMER MITZOT OUT OF HIS JEWISH LOYALTY TO THE COVENANT OF THE TORAH AND NOT AS A MEANS TO EARN HIS OWN PERSONAL REDEMPTION APART FROM THE GEULAH SHLEIMAH PURCHASED FOR HIM BY REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH

3:7  But what things were revach (gain, profit, toeles) to me, these things I considered loss, on account of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach (Mt. 13:44-46; Luk.14:33).

3:8  But even more so, I consider all to be loss on account of the excellency of the da'as of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu [3:10; Yirmeyah 9:23-24], on account of whom all things I suffered loss and I consider them as nothing, in comparison, that I may gain Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach [Tehillim 73:25],

3:9  and be found in him, not having my own Tzedek (self-achieved righteousness, a self-righteousness) based on chumra (legalism [a misinterpretation of the Torah]), but the Tzedek [Yirmeyah 33:16] through emunah [Rom.3:21-22] in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, the Tzidkat Hashem based upon emunah [Bereshis 15:6; Rom.9:30].

3:10  I want to have da'as of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and of the gevurah (power) of his Techiyas haMesim and the devekut (attachment to G-d) of Moshiach's innuyim (sufferings -- 1:29;Rom.8:17; Gal.6:17), being formed into the mode of being of Moshiach's death [death to the sinful Olam Hazeh and the unregenerate basar--Rom.6:3-5],

3:11  if somehow I may oiftu (attain) to the Techiyas Hamesim [Act 4:2; Rev.20:5-6]. PRESSING TOWARD THE MARK OF KEDUSHA AND ALIYAH TO GAN EDEN IN REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH

3:12  Not that already I oispoyel (achieved, obtained) or already have been made shleimut, but I pursue this tochnit (master plan) that I may lay hold of [I Tim.6:12,19 cf.Php 2:6] that for which I was laid hold of by Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua [Act 9:5-6].

3:13  Achim b'Moshiach, I do not consider myself to have laid hold (3:12); but one zach (thing) I do, forgetting the things behind, and stretching forward to the things before,

3:14  according to the tachlis I pursue the prize of the Aliyah of Hashem, the k'riah (call) of HaShem b'Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua (II Pet.1:10; 2:12).

3:15  Therefore, as many as would be shlemut, let us think like this (2:5-8): and if in anything your makhshavot (thoughts) are different [Mt.5:48; I Cor.2:6], even this Hashem will reveal to you.

3:16  Fort (nevertheless), let us march in line with what we have attained, let us hold to the same [Gal.6:16].

3:17  Achim b'Moshiach, together be imitators of me [I Cor.4:16; 11:1]. Take note of the ones walking as you have a mofet (Zech 3:8) in us [2:5-8,19-30; I Thes.1:7; I Pet.5:3].

3:18  For many, of whom I was often telling you, and now also I say with weeping, walk as oyvim (enemies) of the Aitz [Devarim 21:23; 27:26; Gal.3:13; I Cor.1:23; Gal.6:12] of Moshiach [2:8].

3:19  Their destined end [Tehillim 73:17] is churban (destruction, Gehinnom). Their g-d is their appetite [Rom.16:18], and their kavod, what they glory in, is their bushah (shame). Their makhshavot are set on the Olam Hazeh [Rom.8:5-6]. WE ARE BNEI AVRAHAM BY EMUNAH AND OUR TORAT HAEZRAKHUT (CITIZENSHIP) IS OF THE OLAM HABAH, NOT THE OLAM HAZEH

3:20  But the torat haEzrakhut (citizenship--see 1:27) we practice exists in Shomayim [Eph.2:6; eb.12:22; Gal.4:26; 6:16], from where also we eagerly await a Moshi'a (Savior), a Go'el, Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua,

3:21  who will transfigure the guf (body) of our humiliation into the demut of the mode of being of the guf (body) of his kavod, according to the pe'ulah (action--1:6; 2:13) of his ko'ach power) [Rom.8:29; I Cor.15:43-53], even to the subjecting of all things to himself [I Cor. 15:28].