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Lo (no), I say, but unless you make teshuva, you will all likewise perish.
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Or do you think that those shmonah asar (eighteen) upon whom the migdal (tower) in Shiloach fell and killed them, do you think that they were greater chote’im (sinners) than all the Bnei Adam living in Yerushalayim?
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Lo (no), I tell you, but unless you make teshuva, you will all likewise perish.
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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was speaking this mashal. A certain man had an etz te’enah (fig tree) which had been planted in his kerem, and he came seeking pri (fruit) on it, and he did not find any. [YESHAYAH 5:2; YIRMEYAH 8:13]
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So he said to the keeper of the kerem, Hinei shalosh shanim (three years) I come seeking pri on this etz te’enah (fig tree) and I do not find any. Therefore, cut it down! Why is it even using up the adamah (ground)?
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But in reply he says to him, Adoni, leave it also this year, until I may dig around it and may throw fertilizer on it,
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And if indeed it produces pri in the future, tov me’od (very well); otherwise, you will cut down it [Ro 11:23].
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Now in one of the shuls Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying shiurim on Shabbos.
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And an isha which had a ruach hamachla (a spirit of an infirmity, illness) shmonah asar (eighteen) years was bent double and was not able to straighten up at all.
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And when he saw her, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach called out to her and said, Isha (Woman), you have been set free from your machla (illness).
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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach placed his hands upon her. And ofen ort (immediately) she was straightened and she was crying, Baruch Hashem!