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1 For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.
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0 For the Torah, als (since) it has only a shadow of the tovot ha’atidot (good things to come) and is not the etzem (actual) things, can never by the same yearly zevakhim (sacrifices), which they offer continually, make shleimut (whole, complete) those drawing kiruv (near).
2 For if this had been possible, would there not have been an end of those offerings, because the worshippers would have been made completely clean and would have been no longer conscious of sins?
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Otherwise, would these zevakhim not have stopped being offered, because the worshipers, having experienced tohorah (purification, cleansing) even once, would no longer have had consciousness of averos?
3 But year by year there is a memory of sins in those offerings.
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But by those zevakhim there is a zikaron (remembrance) and a reminder of averos year after year.
4 Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.
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For it is impossible for the dahm of parim (young bulls) and se’irim (goats) to take away chatta’im (sins).
5 So that when he comes into the world, he says, You had no desire for offerings, but you made a body ready for me;
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Therefore, when he comes into the Olam Hazeh, he says "ZEVACH UMINCHAH LO CHAFATZTA ("sacrifice and offering" Ps 40:7 (6) You did not desire but a body you prepared for me; (Ps 39:7 TARGUM HA-SHIVIM)
6 You had no joy in burned offerings or in offerings for sin.
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OLAH V’CHATA’AH LO SH’ALTA ("Burnt offering and sin offering you have not desired")
7 Then I said, See, I have come to do your pleasure, O God (as it is said of me in the roll of the book).
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Then I said, 'Look, here I am, I have come?it is written about me in the megillah [scroll’) LA’ASOT RETZONECHAH ELOHAI CHAFATZTI ("I desire to do your will, O G-d.")
8 After saying, You had no desire for offerings, for burned offerings or offerings for sin (which are made by the law) and you had no pleasure in them,
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When he said above, "ZEVACH and MINCHAH and OLAH and CHATA’AH you have not desired, nor have you taken pleasure in them"?these are offered according to the Torah
9 Then he said, See, I have come to do your pleasure. He took away the old order, so that he might put the new order in its place.
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—Then he said, "I have come LA’ASOT RETZONECHAH ("to do your will.") He takes away HaRishonah (the way of the zevakhim of the kehunah of Levi) in order to establish HaSheniyah (the way of the zevach of the kehunah of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach).
10 By that pleasure we have been made holy, by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for ever.
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And it is by the ratzon Hashem that we will have been set apart for kedushah through the korban NEFESH (YESHAYAH 53:10 cf. ASHAM KORBAN) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, once and for all.
11 And every priest takes his place at the altar day by day, doing what is necessary, and making again and again the same offerings which are never able to take away sins.
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And every kohen stands daily at his avodas kodesh sherut ministering and offering again and again the same korbanot that can never take away chatta’im;
12 But when Jesus had made one offering for sins for ever, he took his place at the right hand of God;
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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having offered up one korban for chatta’im for all time, YASHAV LIMIN HASHEM ("Sat down at the right hand of G-d Ps 110:1),
13 And has been waiting there from that time, till all who are against him are made a foot-rest for his feet.
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Waiting from that time onward until "OYVAV ("His enemies) be made "a footstool for his feet".
14 Because by one offering he has made complete for ever those who are made holy.
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For by one korban he has perfected forever HaMekudashim (the ones being set apart as Kadoshim).
15 And the Holy Spirit is a witness for us: for after he had said,
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And the Ruach Hakodesh also bears solemn edut to us; for after saying,
16 This is the agreement which I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws in their hearts, writing them in their minds; he said,
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ZOT HABRIT ASHER EKHROT with them "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days," says the L-rd, "I will put my Torah in the mind of them and I will inscribe it on their heart" Jer 31:33). He then says:
17 And I will keep no more memory of their sins and of their evil-doings.
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LA’AVONAM U’LECHATTATAM LO EZKAR ("And their wickedness and their sin I will remember no more" Jer 31:34).
18 Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no more offering for sin.
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Now where there is selicha (forgiveness) for these things, there is no longer a korban for chatta’im.
19 So then, my brothers, being able to go into the holy place without fear, because of the blood of Jesus,
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Therefore, Achim b’Moshiach, having confidence for bevitachon (confidently) entering haSha’ar laHashem (gate to approach G-d’s presence, access of the tzaddikim TEHILLIM 118:20) into the Kodesh HaKodashim by HaDahm HaYehoshua,
20 By the new and living way which he made open for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
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Which he opened for us as a Derech Chadasha, a Derech Chayyah, through the parokhet, that is to say, the parokhet of the basar of Moshiach. [Ps 16:9-10; Dan 9:26; Isa 53:5-12]
21 And having a great priest over the house of God,
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And als (since) we have a Kohen Gadol over the Beis Hashem,
22 Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:
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Let us approach and draw near to Hashem with a lev shalem, with full assurance and bitachon of Emunah, our levavot having been sprinkled clean (tehorim) [YAZZEH, "MOSHIACH WILL SPRINKLE," YESHAYAH 52:15] from an evil matzpun (conscience) and our bodies plunged kluhr (pure) into a tevilah in a mikveh mayim [YECHEZKEL 36:25-26].
23 Let us keep the witness of our hope strong and unshaking, for he is true who has given his word:
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Let us, without wavering, hold firmly to the Ani Ma’amin of Tikveteinu (our Hope), for Ne’eman is the One having given the havtachah (promise).
24 And let us be moving one another at all times to love and good works;
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And let us consider how to meorer (stimulate, motivate, shtarken) one another to ahavah and mitzvos,
25 Not giving up our meetings, as is the way of some, but keeping one another strong in faith; and all the more because you see the day coming near.
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And let us not turn away and defect from our noiheg (habitually) conducted daily minyan, as some are doing; let us impart chizzuk (strengthening, encouragement) to one another, and by so much the more as you see the Yom [HaDin (Day of Judgment)] approaching.
26 For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins,
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For when we intentionally commit chet b’yad ramah ["wilful sin with a high hand of defiance" BAMIDBAR 15:30] after having received the full da’as of HaEmes, there remains no longer a korban for chattoteinu,
27 But only a great fear of being judged, and of the fire of wrath which will be the destruction of the haters of God.
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But only a terrible expectation of Din and Mishpat and of a blazing EISH TZARECHA TOKHLEM ("Fire that will consume the enemies of Hashem" YESHAYAH 26:11).
28 A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses:
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Anyone who was doiche (rejecting or setting aside) the Torah of Moshe Rabbeinu, upon the dvar of SHNI EDIM O AL PI SHLOSHA EDIM ("Testimony of two or three witnesses" DEVARIM 19:15), dies without rachamim.
29 But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment?
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By how much worse onesh (penalty) do you think the one will be considered worthy who trampled on the Ben HaElohim and also treated as mechallel kodesh (profane) the Dahm HaBrit which set him apart mekudash and also committed Chillul Hashem gidduf against the Ruach Hakodesh of Hashem’s chesed?
30 For we have had experience of him who says, Punishment is mine, I will give reward. And again, The Lord will be judge of his people.
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For we have da’as of the One who said, LI NAKAM V’SHILEM ("Vengeance is mine and I will repay") [DEVARIM 32:35] and again YADIN HASHEM AMMO ("The L-rd will judge his people" DEVARIM 32:36).
31 We may well go in fear of falling into the hands of the living God.
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It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Elohim Chayyim.
32 But give thought to the days after you had seen the light, when you went through a great war of troubles;
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But have zikaron of the yamim mikedem (earlier days) in which, when you had received the Ohr Hashem, you endured a great tzoros, a great “Kristallnacht” of yissurim (suffering),
33 In part, in being attacked by angry words and cruel acts, before the eyes of everyone, and in part, in being united with those who were attacked in this way.
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sometimes being publicly abused with baleidikung (insult) and fargolgung (persecution) yourselves; other times being oppressed chavrusa partners with the ones so treated.
34 For you had pity on those who were in prison, and had joy in the loss of your property, in the knowledge that you still had a better property and one which you would keep for ever.
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For you showed Gemilut Chasadim for the Achim b’Moshiach in the beis hasohar and with simcha you accepted the pogrom-like confiscation of your property because you have da’as that you possess a better and more enduring yerushah (inheritance).
35 So do not give up your hope which will be greatly rewarded.
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Do not discard, then, your bitachon (confident trust) which has gadol sachar (great reward).
36 For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.
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You are nitzrach (needy) of the kind of zitzfleisch (patience) that has endurance, in order that, having accomplished the ratzon Hashem, you will receive the havtachah (promise).
37 In a very little time he who is coming will come; he will not be slow.
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For yet a little while and Hu HaBah [Rebbe MelechHaMoshiach] YAVO LO YE’ACHER ("He will come, he will not delay")
38 But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.
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V’TZADDIK VE’EMUNATO YICHEYEH ("And my tzaddik will live by Emunah"?CHABAKUK 2:3-4) And, if he shrinks back as a shmad defector, LO YASHRAH NAFSHO BO ("his desire is not upright in him").
39 But we are not of those who go back to destruction; but of those who have faith even to the salvation of the soul.
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But we are not of those who shrink back as shmad defectors toward churban destruction, but we are of those with Emunah whose neshamah is preserved in Yeshu’at Eloheinu.
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