1I do not want you to be without da'as, Achim b'Moshiach, that Avoteinu all were under the anan ¹¹⁰(cloud) and passed through the sea, ¹¹¹

2And all into Moshe Rabbenu were given tevilah in the anan (cloud) and in the sea,

3And all of the same spiritual okhel (food) ate, ¹¹²

4And all of the same spiritual drink drank, for they were drinking from a spiritual TZUR following them, ¹¹³and that TZUR was Moshiach.

5But Hashem was not pleased with most of them, for they were strewn about in the desert, VAYISHCHATEM BAMIDBAR (then He slaughtered them in the desert). ¹¹⁴

6Now these things occurred as moftim (examples) for us, in order that we would not crave what is ra'ah as they did. ¹¹⁵

7Neither should you become ovdei elilim (idolaters), as some of them did, as it has been written, “And the people sat to eat and to drink and they got up to revel.” ¹¹⁶

8Neither should we commit zenut as some of them committed zenut and fell in one day twenty-three thousand. ¹¹⁷

9Neither let us tempt Moshiach, as some of them put Moshiach to the test, and by nechashim (serpents) were being destroyed. ¹¹⁸

10Neither should we murmur and grumble even as some of them VAYILONU (and they murmured) ¹¹⁹and they were destroyed by the destroyer. ¹²⁰

11Now, these things happened to those ones as moftim (examples), but it was written for our admonition, to whom the Kitzei HaOlamim has come.

12So then the one that presupposes that he stands, let him take care lest he fall.

13No nissayon (temptation) has overtaken you, except that which is common to Bnei Adam, but, Hashem is ne'eman (faithful), ¹²¹who will not let you to be brought into nissayon beyond what you are able, but will make with the nissayon also the derech [Tzaddikim] ¹²²as a way out for you to be able to endure.

14Therefore, my chaverim, flee from avodah zarah.

15I speak as to thinking men; you judge what I say.

16The Kos HaBracha (Cup of Blessing) over which we say the Bracha, is it not a [Mizbe'ach] sharing and deveykus participation in the Korban Pesach death and kapporah of Moshiach? The matzoh which we break, is this not a sharing and a deveykus participation in the Guf HaMoshiach?

17Because the matzoh is echad, we, many as we are, are one body, one new humanity, for we all partake of the matzoh echad.

18Observe Yisroel according to the basar. Are not the ones eating the korbanot (sacrifices) partakers of the Mizbe'ach ¹²³(altar)?

19What then am I saying? That a sacrifice to an elil (idol) is anything or that an idol is anything?

20No, the things which they sacrifice, YIZB'CHU LASHEDIM LO ELOHIM (They sacrificed to demons which were not G-d). ¹²⁴Now I do not want you to become sharers with the shedim (demons). ¹²⁵

21You are not able to drink from the Kos of Hashem and also from the Kos HaShedim; you are not able to partake of the shulchan of Hashem and the shulchan of shedim (demons).

22Or is it that you would move Hashem to kinah (jealousy)? ¹²⁶We don't think we are stronger than He, do we? ¹²⁷

23“All things are lawful?” But not all things are beneficial; “All things are lawful?” But not all things edify. ¹²⁸

24Let no one seek his own benefit but the benefit of the other.

25Everything being sold in a meat market eat without raising qualms of matzpun (conscience).

26For LAHASHEM HA'ARETZ UMELOAH (The earth is the L-rdʼs and the fullness thereof). ¹²⁹

27If anyone of the Apikorosim invites you and you want to go, eat everything being set before you without raising qualms of matzpun (conscience).

28But if anyone should say to you, “Zeh nizbach l'elil!” (This is sacrificed to an idol!), do not eat out of consideration for that man who informed you and because of matzpun (conscience).

29But I speak not about your matzpun but about the matzpun of the other man, for why is my cherut (freedom) brought into mishpat (judgment) by anotherʼs matzpun (conscience)?

30If I partake with Birkat Hamazon (grace after meals), why am I blamed for what I give todah (thanks)?

31Whether, therefore, you eat or you drink or whatever you do, do all things to the kavod (glory) of Hashem. ¹³⁰

32Be without michshol both to Yehudim and to Yevanim and to the Kehillah of Hashem,

33even as I also please Bnei Adam in all things, not seeking my own advantage but that of the many, that they may be brought to Yeshu'at Eloheinu.