Relacionamentos
Os relacionamentos são centrais na vida cristã. A Bíblia orienta sobre amizade, casamento, família e convivência, sempre tendo o amor como fundamento de toda relação.
Amor e amizade
O amigo ama em todo tempo. A Bíblia valoriza amizades verdadeiras que edificam, fortalecem e desafiam ao crescimento mútuo.
The re’a (friend) loveth at all times,
and a brother is born for tzarah (adversity).
Barzel (iron) sharpeneth barzel (iron);
so one ish sharpeneth another.
Two are better than one because they have a sachar tov for their amal.
For if they fall, the echad will lift up his partner, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
Though echad may be overpowered, shnayim shall withstand him; and a khoot hameshulash (threefold cord) is not quickly broken.
Casamento e família
O casamento é aliança sagrada. O marido deve amar a esposa como Cristo amou a Igreja, e ambos devem cultivar respeito e submissão mútua.
Ba’alim, have ahavah for your nashim, as also Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach has ahavah for the Brit Chadasha Kehillah and gave Himself up on behalf of her, That He might bring her to kedushah, having given her tohorah (purification) by the tevilah of the mikveh mayim of the Dvar Hashem,
So also the ba’alim ought to show ahavah for their own nashim as their own gufim; the one with ahavah for his own isha has ahavah for himself,
Each of you, however, should show ahavah for his isha as himself, and an isha should reverence her ba’al (husband).
Nashim (wives), make yourselves accountable to your ba’alim (husbands) as to Adoneinu, Because a ba’al (husband) is rosh of the isha as also Moshiach is rosh of the Brit Chadasha Kehillah, being Himself the Go’el (Savior) of HaGuf (the Body of Moshiach).
Nashim (wives), make yourselves accountable to your ba’alim (husbands), as is proper in Adoneinu. Ba’alim, have ahavah for your nashim and do not be bitter against them.
And Hashem Elohim said, It is not tov that the adam should be alone; I will make him an ezer (a helper) suitable for him.
But, because of the acts of zenut, let each Ben Adam have his own Isha, and let each Isha have her own Ba’al (Husband).
Bais and hon (wealth) are the nachalah avot,
and a prudent isha (wife) is from Hashem.
Who can find an aishes chayil (a woman of valor, an excellent wife)?
For her worth is far above rubies.
Thou art all yafeh, my love;
there is no mum (blemish, spot, defect, flaw) in thee.
Convivência saudável
Os relacionamentos florescem quando tratamos os outros como gostaríamos de ser tratados, com amor crescente e caráter maduro.
Therefore, everything that you wish Bnei Adam do for you, thus also you do for them. For this is the Torah and the Neviim.
KABEID ES AVICHA VES IMMECHA, V’AHAVTA L’REACHA KAMOCHA (Honor your father and your mother, and you shall love your neighbor as yourself).
And may Hashem cause you to grow and to overflow and abound in ahavah (agape) for one another and for kol Bnei Adam, just as also we have ahavah (agape) for you,
But if anyone does not get a parnasah to provide for his own mishpochah and especially his own bais, he has denied the emunah and is worse than an Apikoros (skeptic, unbeliever).
Do not become unequally yoked with koferim (unbelievers), for what shuttafut (partnership) has Tzedek with Lawlessness? Or where is the Brit (Covenant) between Ohr (light) and Choshech (darkness)?
Am 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.
For this very reason, you must apply all zerizut (diligence) to supply emunah with midah hatov (the attribute of virtue), and midah hatov with da’as (knowledge), And da’as with shlitah atzmit (self-control), and shlitah atzmit with chozek (fortitude) and chozek with chasidus (piety), And chassidus with ahavah shel achvah (brotherly love), and ahavah shel achvah with ahavah (agape).
A shem tov is rather to be desired than osher rav,
and chen (grace) rather than kesef and zahav.