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1 Become imitators of me as I also am an imitator of Moshiach.*
2 Now, I commend you that in all things you have remembered me and you hold fast to the masoret torat haShlichim just as I transmitted and handed them over to you.† 3 But I want you to have da'as that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach is the rosh (head) of every one of the Bnei Adam, and the rosh of an isha is the ben Adam (Man, Ba'al),‡ and the rosh of Moshiach is Hashem.§ 4 Every ben Adam davening or speaking forth a nevu'ah (prophecy) having anything hanging down over his rosh brings bushah (shame) upon his rosh. 5 But every isha davening or speaking forth a nevu'ah (prophecy) in shul, begile rosh (with head uncovered), brings bushah (shame) upon her rosh, for it is one and the same thing to uncover the rosh as it is for the rosh of the isha having been shaved.* 6 For, if an isha is not covered, also let her be shorn. But als (since) it is in fact a thing of bushah (shame) for an isha to be shorn or to be shaved, let her be covered. 7 For a ben Adam indeed ought not to be covered on the rosh, being the demut HASHEM† and the kavod Hashem, and the Isha being the kavod (glory), the glorious reflection of Adam.‡ 8 For Adam is not out of the Isha but Isha out of Adam (Man).§ 9 Indeed, Adam was not created because of the Isha, but the Isha because of Adam (Man).* 10 Because of this, the Isha ought to have a kesut rosh (head covering) of marut (authority, discipline) on her rosh because of the malachim. 11 However, neither is Isha without Adam (Man) nor Adam (Man) without Isha in Hashem. 12 For just as the Isha comes out of Adam (Man),† so also the ben Adam (Man) comes through the Isha‡ but all things are of Hashem.§ 13 You yourselves be the dayan (judge): is it fitting for an isha to offer tefillos to Hashem* begile rosh (with head uncovered)? 14 Does not teva (nature) itself give you the shiur (lesson) that if a ben Adam wears a long hair-do of a ladyʼs coiffure, it is a dishonor to him? 15 But if an isha wears a long hairdo of a ladyʼs coiffure, it is her kavod?† Because the long hair has been given to her instead of the sterntichel (kerchief) or kesut rosh (head covering). 16 But if anyone presumes in his thinking to be contentious, we have no such minhag, nor do the kehillot of Hashem.‡
17 But in giving the divrei Torah that follows I give no commendation,§ because when you assemble as the shul of Moshiach, it is not for the better that you assemble, but for the worse. 18 Ershtins (first of all), indeed when you come together as the kehillah* I hear there exist machlokot†(divisions) and schisms among you, and partly I believe it. 19 For it is necessary also for kitot (sects) of minut (heresy), of kefirah (heresy, denial) to be among you that also the approved ones may become manifest among you.‡ 20 Therefore, your farbrengen gatherings in one kahal (community) are not for the purpose of having Moshiachʼs Tish. 21 For each one rushes ahead with his own seudah (meal). One is hungerik (hungry), one has passed out in his schnapps. 22 Hey, you people, do you not have houses in which to eat and to drink? Or do you despise the Kehillah (congregation) of G-d? And do you bring bushah (shame), even humiliation, on the ones having nothing? What should I say to you? Will I commend you? In this I do not commend you people!
23 For I received from Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu that which also I transmitted and handed on to you, that Adoneinu Yehoshua, on the very lailah (night) in which he was betrayed, took the Pesach matzoh, 24 And, having made the HaMotzi, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach offered the betzi'at halechem (breaking of the bread) and said, ZEH HU VESARI HANNIVTZA BA'ADCHEM; ZOT ASU L'ZIKRONI. (This is my flesh, which is broken on your behalf. Do this in memory of me.) 25 In like manner, after eating the [Pesach] seudah, also [after the bracha over] the [Kiddush] Cup, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, This§ Kos (Cup) is the BRIT CHADASHA* in my DAHM (blood).† This do, as often as you drink, in ZIKARON‡(remembrance) of me. 26 For as often as you eat this Pesach matzoh and drink from this Pesach Kiddush Cup, you do proclaim the mavet§ of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu until the Bias HaMoshiach.
27 Therefore, whoever eats the Pesach matzoh or drinks the Kiddush Cup of* Adoneinu unworthily will be guilty and answerable for the basar and the dahm of† Adoneinu. 28 But let a ben Adam apply cheshbon hanefesh to himself and in that manner let him eat of the Pesach matzoh and let him drink of the Pesach Kiddush Cup. 29 For the one eating and drinking is the one eating and drinking mishpat to himself when not discerning the basar (body). 30 Because of this, many among you are weak and there are cholim (sick) and a number are sleeping the sleep of the mesim. 31 But if we were judging ourselves,‡ we would not be brought into mishpat (judgment).§ 32 But, being brought into mishpat (judgment) by Hashem, we are being disciplined, that we may not be condemned* with the Olam Hazeh.†
33 Therefore, Achim b'Moshiach of mine, when you have your farbrengen gatherings and you gather for Tish, wait for one another. 34 If anyone is so hungerik‡(hungry) [that he cannot wait], in his home let him eat, lest for mishpat you have kehillah. And as far as the hemshech (remaining part) is concerned, whenever I come I will set b'seder (in order).
* 11:1 see Ac 21:18-26 † 11:2 see Yd 1:3 ‡ 11:3 Gn 3:16 § 11:3 Gn 3:16 * 11:5 Dt 21:12 † 11:7 Gn 1:26 ‡ 11:7 Gn 1:26; 5:1; 9:6 § 11:8 Gn 2:21-23 * 11:9 Gn 2:18 † 11:12 Gn 2:21-23 ‡ 11:12 Gn 3:15-16 § 11:12 Gn 1:1; Ps 24:1; 50:12; 89:11 * 11:13 in shul † 11:15 Song 4:1 ‡ 11:16 throughout the world § 11:17 11:2 * 11:18 Ex 12:6 † 11:18 1C 1:10 ‡ 11:19 Dt 13:3 § 11:25 Kiddush * 11:25 Jer 31:31; 32:40 † 11:25 Ex 24:6-8; Zech 9:11 ‡ 11:25 Josh 4:7 § 11:26 Isa 53:8-9; Dan 9:26 * 11:27 Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach † 11:27 Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach ‡ 11:31 in teshuva § 11:31 Ps 32:5 * 11:32 to Onesh Gehinnom † 11:32 Ps 115:5; 118:18; Prov 3:11,12 ‡ 11:34 1C 11:21