1Become imitators of me as I also am an imitator of Moshiach. ¹³¹

2Now, 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. ¹³²

3But 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), ¹³³and the rosh of Moshiach is Hashem. ¹³⁴

4Every ben Adam davening or speaking forth a nevu'ah (prophecy) having anything hanging down over his rosh brings bushah (shame) upon his rosh.

5But 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. ¹³⁵

6For, 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.

7For a ben Adam indeed ought not to be covered on the rosh, being the demut HASHEM ¹³⁶and the kavod Hashem, and the Isha being the kavod (glory), the glorious reflection of Adam. ¹³⁷

8For Adam is not out of the Isha but Isha out of Adam (Man). ¹³⁸

9Indeed, Adam was not created because of the Isha, but the Isha because of Adam (Man). ¹³⁹

10Because of this, the Isha ought to have a kesut rosh (head covering) of marut (authority, discipline) on her rosh because of the malachim.

11However, neither is Isha without Adam (Man) nor Adam (Man) without Isha in Hashem.

12For just as the Isha comes out of Adam (Man), ¹⁴⁰so also the ben Adam (Man) comes through the Isha ¹⁴¹but all things are of Hashem. ¹⁴²

13You yourselves be the dayan (judge): is it fitting for an isha to offer tefillos to Hashem ¹⁴³begile rosh (with head uncovered)?

14Does 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?

15But if an isha wears a long hairdo of a ladyʼs coiffure, it is her kavod? ¹⁴⁴Because the long hair has been given to her instead of the sterntichel (kerchief) or kesut rosh (head covering).

16But if anyone presumes in his thinking to be contentious, we have no such minhag, nor do the kehillot of Hashem. ¹⁴⁵

17But in giving the divrei Torah that follows I give no commendation, ¹⁴⁶because when you assemble as the shul of Moshiach, it is not for the better that you assemble, but for the worse.

18Ershtins (first of all), indeed when you come together as the kehillah ¹⁴⁷I hear there exist machlokot ¹⁴⁸(divisions) and schisms among you, and partly I believe it.

19For 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. ¹⁴⁹

20Therefore, your farbrengen gatherings in one kahal (community) are not for the purpose of having Moshiachʼs Tish.

21For each one rushes ahead with his own seudah (meal). One is hungerik (hungry), one has passed out in his schnapps.

22Hey, 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!

23For 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,

24And, 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.)

25In like manner, after eating the [Pesach] seudah, also [after the bracha over] the [Kiddush] Cup, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, This ¹⁵⁰Kos (Cup) is the BRIT CHADASHA ¹⁵¹in my DAHM (blood). ¹⁵²This do, as often as you drink, in ZIKARON ¹⁵³(remembrance) of me.

26For as often as you eat this Pesach matzoh and drink from this Pesach Kiddush Cup, you do proclaim the mavet ¹⁵⁴of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu until the Bias HaMoshiach.

27Therefore, whoever eats the Pesach matzoh or drinks the Kiddush Cup of ¹⁵⁵Adoneinu unworthily will be guilty and answerable for the basar and the dahm of ¹⁵⁶Adoneinu.

28But 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.

29For the one eating and drinking is the one eating and drinking mishpat to himself when not discerning the basar (body).

30Because of this, many among you are weak and there are cholim (sick) and a number are sleeping the sleep of the mesim.

31But if we were judging ourselves, ¹⁵⁷we would not be brought into mishpat (judgment). ¹⁵⁸

32But, being brought into mishpat (judgment) by Hashem, we are being disciplined, that we may not be condemned ¹⁵⁹with the Olam Hazeh. ¹⁶⁰

33Therefore, Achim b'Moshiach of mine, when you have your farbrengen gatherings and you gather for Tish, wait for one another.

34If anyone is so hungerik ¹⁶¹(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).