Yaakov letter 1

1Yaakov, a slave of Hashem and the L-rd Yehoshua the Moshiach, to the twelve tribes in Golus: peace!

2take it on for a great joy, my brothers, when you (PL) fall into in all kinds of trials, 3knowing, that the testing of your faith brings to perseverance. 4let however the perseverance have a mature work, so that you (PL) shall be perfected and complete, it shall you (PL) nothing lacking.

5if however anyone of you (PL) lacks wisdom, shall he ask to Hashem, who gives abundantly (to) every one and makes not with reproach, and it will him given be. 6but shall he ask with confident faith, nothing doubting; because the doubter is compared to a wave of the sea, who becomes carried and driven of the wind. 7because that man shall himself (even) not imagine, that he will anything receive by the L-rd. 8a man with two (opposite) minds is not firm in any of his ways.

9let the lowly brother however himself glory with his exhaltation; 10and the rich man with his abasement; because as a flower of the grass will he pass away. 11because the sun shines on with its heat, and withered the grass, and the flower falls thereof down, and the grace of its form becomes destroyed; exactly so will the rich man wither/fade in his ways.

12blessed the man, who endure over a temptation; because when he is tested, will he receive the crown of life, which the L-rd has promised those, who have Him loved. 13shall anyone not say, when he becomes tested: I am tempted by Hashem; because Hashem can not tempted be with evil things, and he Himself tempts anyone not out; 14every one however becomes tempted, when he becomes drawn away by his own lusts and is enticed. 15then it is the desire conceive and does give birth to sin; and the sin, when it is become ripe, gives birth (to) the death. 16go astray not, brothers my beloved. 17every good gift and every complete gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of light, with whom it is not there any change or a shadow of an alteration. 18of His own will has He us fathered through the word of truth, so that we should be a place of first fruits (first fruit) of His creatures.

19this know you (PL), brothers my beloved. ever let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to be in angry; 20because a man's anger does not work the righteousness of Hashem. 21therefore, discard (of self) every impurity and excess of evil doing, take on with humility the excess word, which is able to save your (PL) souls. 22be however doer of the word, and not only hearer, who deceives self alone. 23for if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not any doer, is the this one likened to a man, who looks on his personal face in a mirror; 24for he has looked on self and is gone away; and immediately forgets, what he has seen. 25the one however, who has looked in in the perfect Torah, the Torah of freedom, and abide/remain in therein, not being any hearer, who forgets, more a doer in actions (real), is blessed the this in his doing. 26if someone thinks, that he is frum/devout, and controls not his tongue in the bridle, but deceives his heart, is this very one's piety futile. 27a pure and undefiled piety before our G-d and Father is the these: charge/care/visiting auspices to give over orphans and widows in their afflictions, and oneself to keep unspotted from the world.

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