1. Then Moshiach spoke to the multitudes and to his Talmidim,
2. Saying, Upon the Kisei Moshe (Chair of Moses) sit the Sofrim and the Perushim.
3. Therefore, everything whatever they may tell you, be frum and be shomer, but according to their ma'asim (works) do not be shomer, for they do not practice what they preach.
4. And they tie up heavy [extra-Biblical, Mt 4:4; 15:3,6-9; 22:29] loads, hard to bear, and they place them upon the shoulders of men, but they, with so much as a finger, are not willing to lift the oppressive burdens.
5. And all their maasim hamitzvot (works of the commandments) they do in order to be seen by Bnei Adam, for they broaden their tefillin and lengthen their tzitziyot
6. and they love the places of honor at the seudot (banquet dinners), and the shuls,