Galatians 1

¹From Sha'ul, a Shliach, not from Bnei Adam, nor through Bnei Adam, but through Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua and Hashem , Elohim Avinu, the One of whom [we say] Mechayyei Mesim Atah (Thou Revivest the Dead) , even the Moshiach,

²And from all the Achim B'Moshiach with me; to the Kehillot of Galatia.

³Chen v'Chesed Hashem to you and Shalom Hashem from Elohim Avinu and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu,

⁴The one having made a matnat Elohim of himself, on behalf of chattoteynu (our sins) , so that he might rescue us out of the Olam Hazeh [Yom Tzarah], this age, this present evil age, according to the ratzon Hashem (will of G-d) , even Avinu,

⁵Lo hakavod l'olmei olamim. Omein.

⁶I am shocked that so quickly you are being turned from the One who granted you the kri'ah (calling) , summoning you by the Chen v'Chesed Hashem of Moshiach. I am shocked that so quickly you are being turned from this to a different “Besuras HaGeulah.”

⁷Not that there is another, mind you! Except that there are some individuals disturbing and troubling you, desiring to twist and pervert the Besuras HaGeulah of Moshiach.[#1:7 Ga 5:12; #1:7 Isa 40:9; 60:6]

⁸But even if we or a malach from Shomayim should pose as maggidim [for Moshiach] and make a hachrazah (proclamation) to you of a “Besuras HaGeulah” other than that Besuras HaGeulah which we preached to you, let such a one be ARUR HAISH (Cursed is the man) and set under cherem (ban of destruction) and onesh Gehinnom (damnation) .[#1:8 Shlichim, emissaries of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach; #1:8 Josh 6:26]

⁹As we have previously said, and now again I say, if any one preaches a “Besuras HaGeulah” to you other than that which you received, let him be ARUR HAISH and be consigned to onesh Gehinnom.

¹⁰Am I now seeking the ishshur (approval) of Bnei Adam? Or the haskama (approval) of Hashem ? Or am I seeking to be a man-pleaser? If [and this is not the case] I were still pleasing Bnei Adam, I would not have been the eved of Moshiach.

¹¹For I mefarsem (make known) to you, Achim B'Moshiach, the Besuras HaGeulah having been preached by me, that it is not according to Bnei Adam;

¹²For neither did I receive it from Bnei Adam nor was I taught it, but no, it was through a chazon (revelation) of Moshiach Yehoshua.

¹³For you heard of my derech, my halakhah, my hitnahagut (conduct) in earlier times in Yahadut (Judaism) , how I was to an extraordinary degree bringing redifah (persecution) upon the Kehillah of Hashem and was making havoc of it,

¹⁴And I was shtaig (working my way up, advancing, progressing) in Yahadut (Judaism) beyond many of my landsmen, being more abundantly machmir and a kannai (zealot) bekius for the minhagim, the Masorot haAvot, the kabbalah (oral tradition) , the Torah Sheb'al Peh, the Halakhah of my Avot.

¹⁵But when Hashem was pleased, when it was the ratzon Hashem , Hashem being the One who separated me as kodesh KERA'ANI MIME'EI IMMI (He called me from the womb of my mother) and granted me the kri'ah (calling) , summoning me through the Chen v'Chesed of Hashem ,[#1:15 Isa 49:1]

¹⁶To reveal His Zun fun der Oybershter in me, that I might preach Him among the Goyim, immediately, then, I did not consult with basar vadahm (flesh and blood) ,

¹⁷Nor did I go up to Yerushalayim to those who were Moshiachʼs Shlichim before me, but I went away hitbodedut into Arabia and again I returned to Damascus.

¹⁸Then, after shalosh shanim (three years) ,I went up to Yerushalayim to get acquainted with Kefa, and I stayed with him chamishah asar yamim (fifteen days) .

¹⁹But other of the Moshiachʼs Shlichim I did not see except Ya'akov achi Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu.[#1:19 T.N. Ya'akov and Sha'ul were both unbelievers before the appearance of the Moshiach to them after His histalkus — see 1C 15:7]

²⁰Now, what things I write to you, hinei, before Hashem I do not speak sheker.

²¹Next I went into the regions of Syria and of Cilicia,

²²But I was unknown panim el panim by the Kehillot of Moshiach in Yehudah;

²³Only they were hearing that “the one once bringing redifah (persecution) upon us is now preaching the Emunah which once he was pillaging.”[#1:23 Messianic Orthodox Jewish]

²⁴And they were glorifying Hashem in me.[#1:24 by means of]