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1. The Parable of the Shrewd Manager

2. 1ENGOJBAnd Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying also to the talmidim, A certain oisher (rich man) had a sochen (steward, estate manager or agent), and the charge brought against him was that he was squandering the property of the oisher (rich man).BSBBSB: Jesus also said to His disciples, “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions.
3. 2ENGOJBAnd having called him, the oisher said to the sochen, What is this I hear about you? Submit to a bikoret beshbonot (audit) for that which is under your pekuddah (stewardship care), for you are no longer able to be sochen.BSBBSB: So he called him in to ask, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in an account of your management, for you cannot be manager any longer.’
4. 3ENGOJBAnd the sochen said to himself, What may I do, because Adoni takes away the pekuddah from me? I am not strong enough to dig, I am ashamed to beg.BSBBSB: The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my position? I am too weak to dig and too ashamed to beg.
5. 4ENGOJBOh! I have daas of what I may do, that when I am removed from the work of the sochen, they may receive me into their batim.BSBBSB: I know what I will do so that after my removal from management, people will welcome me into their homes.’
6. 5ENGOJBAnd having summoned his Adonʼs debtors one by one, he was saying to the first, How much do you owe Adoni?BSBBSB: And he called in each one of his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master?’ he asked the first.
7. 6ENGOJBAnd he said, One hundred jugs of olive oil. And the sochen said to him, Take your bill, sit down, quickly write fifty.BSBBSB: ‘A hundred measures of olive oil,’ he answered. ‘Take your bill,’ said the manager, ‘sit down quickly, and write fifty.’
8. 7ENGOJBThen to another he said, And you, how much do you owe? And he said, One hundred containers of wheat. He says to him, Take your bill and write eighty.BSBBSB: Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ ‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he replied. ‘Take your bill and write eighty,’ he told him.
9. 8ENGOJBAnd the Baal Bayit praised the unrighteous sochen because he acted with chochmah. Because the Bnei HaOlam HaZeh have more seichel in dealing with their own generation than the Bnei HaOhr.BSBBSB: The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.
10. 9ENGOJBAnd I say to you, use the mammon (the wealth of the Olam HaZeh) to make for yourselves yedidim (friends, chaverim), so that when unrighteous mammon fails, they may welcome you into the mishkenot olam (eternal dwellings of the Olam HaBah).BSBBSB: I tell you, use worldly wealth to make friends for yourselves so that when it is gone, they will welcome you into eternal dwellings.
11. 10ENGOJBThe one oisgehalten in little, also is neeman in much, and the one who is unrighteous in little, also in much is unrighteous.BSBBSB: Whoever is faithful with very little will also be faithful with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.
12. 11ENGOJBIf, then, you were not ne'eman with unrighteous mammon, who will entrust you with hon emes?BSBBSB: So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will entrust you with true riches?
13. 12ENGOJBAnd if you were not neeman with that which belongs to another, who will give you what is your own?BSBBSB: And if you have not been faithful with the belongings of another, who will give you belongings of your own?
14. 13ENGOJBNo eved is able to serve two adonim; for either he will have sinah (hatred) toward the one and he will have ahavah (love) toward the other, or one he will be devoted to and the other he will despise. Your avodas service cannot be for both Hashem and Mammon.BSBBSB: No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

15. The Law and the Prophets

16. 14ENGOJBAnd the Perushim, who were ohavei kesef (lovers of money), heard all this and they made leitzonus (fun) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.BSBBSB: The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all of this and were scoffing at Jesus.
17. 15ENGOJBAnd Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, You are the ones who in the sight of Bnei Adam credit yourself as being yitzdak im Hashem (justified with G-d), but Hashem has daas (knowledge) of your levavot. Because the thing highly esteemed among Bnei Adam is a to'eva (abomination) before Hashem.BSBBSB: So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.
18. 16ENGOJBThe Torah and the Neviim were proclaimed until Yochanan; since then it is the Malchut Hashem that is being preached as Besuras HaGeulah, and anyone entering it must strive to do so.BSBBSB: The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the gospel of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
19. 17ENGOJBBut it is easier for HaShomayim and HaAretz to pass away than for one tag (ornamental flourish) of the Torah to fail.BSBBSB: But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a single stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.
20. 18ENGOJBAnyone giving the get to his isha and taking another wife commits ni'uf (adultery), and the one marrying a gerusha (divorcee) commits ni'uf (adultery).BSBBSB: Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

21. The Rich Man and Lazarus

    (John 5:39–47)

22. 19ENGOJBNow there was a certain oisher (rich man). He was dressed in purple and fine linen, and yom yom (daily) he feasted sumptuosly and every day for him was to make a simcha.BSBBSB: Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
23. 20ENGOJBAnd there was a certain ish oni (poor man) covered with sores, El'azar by name, who had been laid at the oisherʼs sha'ar (gate).BSBBSB: And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores
24. 21ENGOJBAnd the ish oni El'azar longed to fill his mogen (stomach) with what fell from the oisherʼs tish. But even the kelevim (dogs) were coming and licking the sores of the ish oni (poor man).BSBBSB: and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
25. 22ENGOJBAnd it came to pass that El'azar died, and he was carried away by the malachim to the tish at the kheyk (bosom) of Avraham Avinu. And then the oisher (rich man) died also, and he was buried.BSBBSB: One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.
26. 23ENGOJBAnd lifting up his eynayim in Sheol, where he was in the torments of agony, he sees Avraham Avinu off in the distance and El'azar at tish at his kheyk (bosom).BSBBSB: In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.
27. 24ENGOJBAnd he called, Avraham Avinu! Chaneni na and send El'azar that he may dip the tip of his finger into the mayim and cool my tongue, because I am in torment in this moked (fire).BSBBSB: So he cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. For I am in agony in this fire.’
28. 25ENGOJBBut Avraham Avinu said, Beni, have zikaron (recollection) that you received your tov in the span of your days, and El'azar likewise received the ra'ah. But now he is given nechamah (comfort) here, but you, yisurim (sufferings, torments).BSBBSB: But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.
29. 26ENGOJBAnd, in addition to all these things, there has been fixed between us and you a tehom gedolah (a great abyss, chasm), so that the ones wishing to come over from here to you are not able, neither from there to us may they cross over.BSBBSB: And besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that even those who wish cannot cross from here to you, nor can anyone cross from there to us.’
30. 27ENGOJBAnd the oisher said, I ask you then, Avraham Avinu, that you may send El'azar to the bais of Avi,BSBBSB: ‘Then I beg you, father,’ he said, ‘send Lazarus to my father’s house,
31. 28ENGOJBfor I have chamesh achim (five brothers) that he may warn them, lest also they may come to this place of yisurim (torments).BSBBSB: for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also end up in this place of torment.’
32. 29ENGOJBBut Avraham Avinu says, They have Moshe Rabbeinu and the Neviim. Let them listen to them.BSBBSB: But Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let your brothers listen to them.’
33. 30ENGOJBBut the oisher said, Lo (no), Avraham Avinu, but if someone from the Mesim should go to them, they will make teshuva.BSBBSB: ‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone is sent to them from the dead, they will repent.’
34. 31ENGOJBBut Avraham said to him, If Moshe Rabbeinu and the Neviim they do not listen to, neither if someone should make his Techiyah from the Mesim should they be persuaded.BSBBSB: Then Abraham said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”