#noahide law

[verilyverily]

So if I continue speaking out against Trump as I have been then that will be considered an act of treason punishable by death. Think I'll shut my mouth? 🤣 Nope 

The Coming Reality of Project 2025

[msclaritea]

The Texas Governor outlawing criticism of Jews is about laying the groundwork for Noahide laws.

Greg Abbot intends to punish those who criticise Jews by beheading.

[liberty1776]

The Talmud, Chabadism And Noahide Laws - Message by Dr. Chuck Baldwin on...

The UN was created to create the modern state of Israel. 

[shalom-iamcominghome]

Context: my rabbi was telling a story in our judaism and hebrew class about going to israel and a funny thing that happened with transliterating english into hebrew (we were learning alef)

Rabbi: So I was in front of this store reading the sign and spelling it out to myself *points to ס ו פּ on our alef chart* and I couldn't figure out what-

Me, obliviously interrupting: oh it was a supermarket???

Rabbi, amused: ........yeah, it was a supermarket, you'd do well in israel

[rabbiaharon]

”Can a Goy be among the Chasidei Umos Haolam (righteous among the nations) if they believe in one G-d, but have never heard of the Torah.” I’ve been asked this question recently in a few different places, I’d like to iron out my answer in brief. I’ll divide my answer into a section in the theory of the issue, and a section on the practicality of the issue.

In theory, a non-jew is held responsible fully for not keeping the obligations set out for them in the 7 Noahide Laws, regardless of whether or not they’ve had a chance to learn about them. This is outlined in many places in the Talmud, as well as in midrash, such as the section regarding the stones placed by the Jordan River by the Jewish people in their passage, on which the torah was written in 70 languages so that the non-jews could come and learn for themselves, and seek out the correct action. The midrash then comments that the Goyim will come before Hashem when Moshiach comes to judge them, and complain that they weren’t told the proper course of action, and that the answer to them is that the Torah was made public to them, and the responsibility of “not knowing” ultimately falls on them. This theoretical, higher expectation for responsibility comes in stark contrast to the responsibility placed on a Jew who does not know about the 613 commandments we have been charged with, as a Jew who does not know about the 613 is not held responsible. There may be a variety of reasons behind this, I’ll leave that issue for another day.

The practicality of the matter is quite different. The Rambam in Hilchos Malachim (The Laws Concerning Kings) discusses that in order for a non-jew to be considered among the Chasidei Umos Haolam, they must not only keep the 7 laws according to their proper details, but that they must do so because they were (re)received by Moshe at Mount Sinai in order to teach to the nations. Keeping them because they are logical, or because they are forced to keep them by their government (an unusual possibility indeed, as I don’t believe there is any government on Earth who enforces all of the 7 equally and without exception) does not qualify them as “Chasidei Umos Haolam”, and they will still be considered among idolaters in halachos which govern the way we interact with them.

There are other poskim which argue on the Rambam concerning the importance of intent to the classification of non-Jews in their observance of the 7 Laws, all agree that theoretically a non-Jew must keep all the laws, including all of their details (which are far more than 7), in order to be classified as “Righteous Among the Nations”. Ergo, someone who does follow the 7 commandments in all of their details, while they are classified as a noahide (insofar as the technicality of not being responsible for the violation of those commandments), they aren’t classified as “righteous among the nations”.

Nevertheless, many poskim (such as the Chazon Ish in Yoreh Deah) suggest by implication that there may not be a difference - in terms of Hashem’s mercies - between a Jew who was raised with the knowledge of a goy (no knowledge of halacha or torah), and a non-jew who lives in a situation where there is no accessibility or knowledge base for accessing the Torah, conceptually or practically. Hashem ultimately holds someone only responsible if they have the ability to learn, or if they have access to someone who can teach. If a non-jew in a corner of the world separates from and nullifies his idolatry and expresses his belief in the one G-d, they may still be considered a noahide, even if they have no access to a learning base to understand that they have an obligation of the 7 noahide laws. In modern times, there is certainly more access and learning opportunities than any other era, with the advent of the internet. However, as we have seen socially and politically, it can sometimes be extremely difficult to sort through information and disinformation on the internet to come to a single, true set of facts, so the existence of the internet may not, in fact, alter the equation in this situation.

The Lubavitcher Rebbe outlines our responsibility in educating the non-jews of the world in the observance of the 7 Noahide Laws in all of their details, and regardless of how I personally feel in light of the past years’ events, the spreading of knowledge of the 7 laws remains an integral part of preparing the world for Moshiach. Through our hard work in this area, and through Hashem’s great mercies upon those who do not know what to do, we should merit to see the world in it’s ideal state, as the Rambam concludes in the Mishnah Torah: “The world will be filled with the knowledge of Hashem like how the water fills the seas.”

[agreenroad]

Adam's 2 Laws, Noah's 7 Laws, 10 Laws Of Moses, Commandments Of Jesus Christ

FIRST ADAMIC COVENANT LAW AND 2 COMMANDMENTS – FIRST REBELLION, FIRST KILLING AND FIRST BLOOD GUILT ESTABLISHED FIRST LAWS OF GOD FOR MAN Genesis 2 16 And the Lord God [s]commanded the man, saying, [t]Thou shalt eat freely of every tree of the garden, 17 But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for [u]in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die…

[captious-solarian]

Your postie is obeying the commandment to destroy idolatry. He is earning his place in the world to come.

The fedex guy threw my package full of priceless fingerbones of various saints and apostles over the fence into a big puddle because he couldnt figure out how to use the front gate. This is the tenth or eleventh time this has happened now.

[paulthepoke]

Sanhedrin, Rabbis & Trump

The religious leaders in Israel are looking for the Messiah. There is demand for a leader to solve global problems and bring about peace and justice.

Ezra 1:2 Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth the LORD God of heaven has given me. And He has commanded me to build Him a house at Jerusalem which is in Judah. Let’s be up front and honest, there is an expectation for President Donald Trump to facilitate the building of the third Temple in Jerusalem. The Sanhedrin has previously connected the dots from King Cyrus to…

[vigilantkilliforniakatholixxx]

The Jewish Sanhedrin recently wrote a letter to Donald Trump asking him to establish an International Divine Court and global Noahide Law. Do you know what happens to Christians under Noahide Law?

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

Hang on, hang on, that's just not right. I can see how you might take a monolatrous interpretation from certain parts of the Bible, but there are just as many monotheist sections. I mean for heaven's sake:

שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל ה אֱלֹקינוּ ה אֶחָֽד

"Hear O Israel, Hashem is our God, Hashem is one."

Like. That's not an ambiguous statement.

Or later on, in Psalms 115:

עֲצַבֵּיהֶם, כֶּסֶף וְזָהָב; מַעֲשֵׂה, יְדֵי אָדָם פֶּה-לָהֶם, וְלֹא יְדַבֵּרוּ; עֵינַיִם לָהֶם, וְלֹא יִרְאוּ אָזְנַיִם לָהֶם, וְלֹא יִשְׁמָעוּ; אַף לָהֶם, וְלֹא יְרִיחוּן. יְדֵיהֶם, וְלֹא יְמִישׁוּן--רַגְלֵיהֶם, וְלֹא יְהַלֵּכוּ; לֹא-יֶהְגּוּ, ��ִּגְרוֹנָם Their idols are of silver and gold; they are the works of the hands of men. They have mouths and do not speak; they have eyes and do not see They have ears and do not hear; they have noses and do not smell They have hands and do not touch--they have feet and do not walk; they do not speak with their throats

"LOL check out these LOSERS worshipping shiny objects, unlike US who worship the REAL deal! *Duck Hunting dog laugh*"

And then there's stories like Eliyahu challenging the priests of Baal to a god-off, where the priests can't get any response from Baal no matter what rituals they perform (1 Kings 18). You could interpret that as a monolatrous story where Hashem is just waaaaaaay more powerful than Baal, I suppose. But the story strikes me more as a demonstration of the non-existence of Baal. Just look at verses 26 and 27:

They took the bull that was given them; they prepared it, and invoked Baal by name from morning until noon, shouting, "O Baal, answer us!" But there was no sound, and none who responded; so they performed a hopping dance about the alert that had been set up. When noon came, Elijah mocked them, saying, "Shout louder! After all, he is a god. But he may be in conversation, he may be detained, or he may be on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and will wake up."

That doesn't sound like a taunt about the power of Baal. That sounds like a mockery of the Canaanite conception of gods and godhood.

I do agree with that there's a monolatrous > monotheist drift in very, very early Judaism (Israelism?). But you're talking about the Tanakh like it's a purely monolatrous book when it isn't.

hey good faith question- do you mind elaborating on judaism’s belief of g-d not being the ‘one true g-d’ and just the ‘g-d of the hebrews?

sure, but keep in mind that I wasn't raised in a religious house, so I'm not an expert and this could be inaccurate, you could wait to see if other people would elaborate in reblogs or replies.

a lot of religions have the belief that they worship the true g-d(s) and everyone else is wrong and are worshipping (a) false g-d(s). I believe Christianity works like that.

in the Tanach, there is no claim that other religions' g-ds don't exist, in fact, there are instances were miracles from other g-ds happen, but the jewish g-d is described as unique and stronger than others.

for example, in the story of The Exodus (is that how יציאת מצרים is called in english), when Moses comes to the Pharaoh for the first time to ask to release the Hebrews, he showcases Hashem's (the Jewish g-d) strength by turning his staff into a snake, the Pharaoh's magicians(?) then proceed to also turn their staffs into snakes, but Moses's snake eats theirs. the story doesn't show their g-ds as non-existent, they gave the magicians the same powers as Hashem, but the power of Hashem was stronger and thus Moses's snake won over the other snakes.

foreign worship is banned in Judaism, not because the foreign g-ds are false, but because they're not Hashem, I don't know how to explain it but that's how it works.

[liberty1776]

The Talmud, Chabadism And Noahide Laws - Message by Dr. Chuck Baldwin on...

Truth will set you free. Jewish lies. everyone sins. Anyone that does not love Jesus is not a child of God. He that is of God hears God’s words. Israel is capital of New World Order. Orginization of 70 nations. UN was created to create the Zionist state of Israel.  The Sanhedrin that murdered Jesus is alive and well in Israel. Breaking Israel News is site for learning Israel’s latest lies. All 12 tribes of Israel are lost!

[girlactionfigure]

The Jewish concept of being the “Chosen People” is often misunderstood. It’s not about superiority, but a unique covenant with God—one that comes with extra responsibilities, not privileges. Jews are tasked with living by the Torah, upholding justice, and being a light unto the nations.

Judaism teaches that God has a relationship with all people. Non-Jews who follow the Seven Noahide Laws are seen as righteous with a share in the World to Come.

While some Christians and Muslims have their own interpretations of chosenness—like tahrif in Islam or replacement theology in Christianity—Judaism’s message remains clear: chosenness is about service, not separation.

Unfortunately, this idea has been distorted by antisemites who falsely claim it’s about supremacy.

But at its core, chosenness is a sacred mission to build a more just and compassionate world.

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[unsolicited-opinions]

You people and your obsession with monotheistic religions is what is holding us back as a species

Let's try to entertain this criticism as though it has validity.

"You people"

Let us assume that Anon means Jews.

"Obsessed with monotheistic religions"

~45% of Israelis are secular.

~30% of US Jews are secular.

Both groups still identify as Jews because they are, even if they don't observe any form of Judaism, the traditional religion of the people of Judea.

"holding us back as a species"

The accusation that “Jews are holding us back as a species” is a modern repackaging of longstanding antisemitic tropes that have historically framed Jews as impediments to progress, civilization, or moral order. This accusation came from, among others, Adolf Hitler, Henry Ford, and David Duke.

I suspect Anon incorrectly believes that the Jewish claim to Judea is based on a religious belief. It is not. Jews...are from Judea. This is why they're called Jews. The vast majority of Jews are Zionists not for religious reasons, but because they believe that they should have the right of self determination in their indigenous homeland.

While Christianity and Islam each preach that theirs is the only way to know, be loved by, or join with the divine, Jews do not share this attitude.

The religious position of Judaism towards other religions is that if they're following the Noahide laws, they're fine...and that people of other faiths are loved by God. At no time have Jews emulated the Christians and Muslims in demanding that others convert to their faith. On the contrary, Jews are forbidden to prostelytize or seek converts.

Jews have enjoyed exceptionally positive relationships with religions which do not seek to convert, wipe out, or replace Jews. Judaism is innately ecumenical in a way that the two "Abrahamic religions" which were based on parts of Judaism...are not.

But Monotheism, Anon, isn't limited to these three faiths. Other monotheistic religions include:

Zoroastrianism

Sikhism

Bábism

Baháʼí Faith

Tenrikyo

Some Hindu traditions

Yazidism

Druzism

You really think it makes sense to lump all of these together? Have you studied the theology it history of any of them? (Of course you haven't.)

I'm an atheist.

I agree with Christopher Hitchens that the net result of religion is negative for huanity.

I also agree with Hitchens that some religions are far more dangerous than others. Hitchens knew that in order to criticize religion, one needs to study an understand religions...and appreciate their enormous diversity.

Hitchens was close friends with all kinds of religious people. It is entirely possible to be an atheist without being an asshole to people of faith.

Don't take my word for it, Anon. Listen to some of the greatest atheists of the 20th and 21st centuries:

Be forthright when religion intrudes into public life, but always be polite to individuals.

- Richard Dawkins

We must find ways of criticizing beliefs without alienating people who hold them

- Sam Harris

Being intellectually honest doesn’t require being emotionally hostile

- Sam Harris

Attack the idea, not the person.

- Christopher Hitchens

Don’t condescend, don’t misrepresent—but don’t be silent either.

- Daniel Dennett

For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.

- Carl Sagan

I have a great deal of respect for the Jewish tradition of moral seriousness and intellectual inquiry.

-Christopher Hitchens

I am a partisan of the Jews, even if I am not one. Without them, there would be no concept of conscience.

- Christopher Hitchens

If I had to give up all other identities, I would probably keep Jewishness. Not the religion—I am an anti-theist—but the culture, the history, the resistance, the humor.

-Christopher Hitchens

The Jewish emphasis on education and argument is something I deeply admire, even if I don’t share the theology

- Richard Dawkins

Judaism has had the virtue of being more self-critical and less dogmatic than many other faiths

- Sam Harris

My Jewish heritage taught me to cherish learning, to ask questions, and to be skeptical of easy answers. These are the same values that guide science.

- Carl Sagan

Jews have contributed vastly to the Enlightenment, science, and modernity—not in spite of Judaism, but through cultural values Judaism long upheld: learning, debate, and moral responsibility.

- Steven Pinker

Anon hasn't read any of these thinkers. Anon is an edgy young atheist who believes that his atheisim justifies behaving like an asshole towards strangers in general...and Jews in particular.

And none of the atheists above share his views.

I hope he'll read more and grow a bit.

If you want reading suggestions, Anon, to help you learn enough about relgiions to criticize them intelligently, my Asks are open.

[saintmelangell]

i think a lot about how christians use the akedah as a foreshadowing of the crucifixion because god offers his son for a sacrifice as abraham does isaac. the problem with this idea is that its completely detached from its source material. i think the popular reading remains that abraham's faith in god was so complete that he would have killed isaac if it came to that, but there are some rabbinic readings that suggest abraham and isaac both knew god wouldn't follow through demanding isaac as a sacrifice. this is why abraham goes through with it up to the point that he does.

i think a lot about how christians use the akedah as a foreshadowing of the crucifixion because god offers his son for a sacrifice as abraham does isaac. the problem with this idea is that its completely detached from its source material. i think the popular reading remains that abraham's faith in god was so complete that he would have killed isaac if it came to that, but there are some rabbinic readings that suggest abraham and isaac both knew god wouldn't follow through demanding isaac as a sacrifice. this is why abraham goes through with it up to the point that he does.

i find this to not be as present in the paschal narrative. jesus does not seem aware of his resurrection. he speaks about glorification prior to the paschal narrative but seems unaware of how this will play out for him personally. nothing in his dialogues on the mount of olives or on the cross suggest to me someone who was aware that he was going to be resurrected. my caveat here is that both mark 8:31-33 and matthew 16:21 are obviously later redactions and i find it extremely doubtful that jesus ever said he would be raised in three days verbatim, especially since these verses are not spoken quotations from jesus.

my other caveat is that the notion of "complete faith" is deeply warped. jesus may have had complete faith in god, but this does not automatically signify that he understood the exact means of his glorification. (i also caution any christian from allegorizing his statement about the temple being rebuilt in three days given the problematic and antismeitic history of the book of hebrews.)

if we compare abraham and jesus' reactions to what god asks of them: abraham is calm and he isn't panicked. when isaac questions where they will get the sacrifice, abraham answers with certainty. jesus is far less composed even among his friends. he is deeply distressed throughout his experience, culminating in his dying statement: אֵלִ֣י אֵ֖לִי לָמָ֣ה עֲזַבְתָּ֑נִי, my god, my god, why have you foresaken me? interestingly, midrash on psalm 22 says that esther uttered the same thing when facing king xerxes to intervene on behalf of the jews in babylon, because she felt the shekinah disappear. to my mind in addition to a further feminization of christ, this also implies that jesus may only have thought that he was intervening on behalf of the jews in captivity, like esther, rather than on behalf of the world, an idea supported by statements such as matthew 15:26, matthew 10:5, and matthew 5:7.

the main issue that i have with the linking of the pashal narrative with the akedah is one of intervention: the climax of the akedah is that god intervenes on behalf of those he loves so that no blood needs to be shed. a consistent motif in god's covenants is creativity, to negate destruction: first the noahide covenant, then the abrahamic (note that this takes place during a famine, when abraham is in a strange land, on a knife's edge; it is under this covenant that isaac is not killed) and then the law passed down on sinai. the institution of mosaic law systematized sacrifice so that through right adherence to the law, bloodshed would be controlled and the people saved from harm. where the law is contravened- when one steps out of the safety which the shadow of god's word, like the wings of a mother bird, provides to her children- there is danger.

these covenants are not vertical outpourings of divine grace on humanity: they are wholly reciprocal. in leviticus 22, for instance, the lord states: it is i the lord who makes them sacred" and again at the end of the chapter: "you shall not profane my holy name, that i may be sanctified in the midst of the israelite people- i the lord who sanctify you." notice the reciprocity with rings from this second verse. the lord is sanctified by the people: the lord sanctifies the people. one cannot exist without the other. this reciprocal relationship is arguably the central tent of jewish law. micah 6:8, which to many rabbis is the single verse which best summarizes the law, also rings of this idea: to do the activity of מִשְׁפָּט֙ (justice), to love חֶ֔סֶד (mercy), and walk with god with צנַע, humbly, with modesty. the two main attributes of god are justice and mercy: thus we are asked to model ourselves after him in our behaviour, and to do so with humility.

god's relationship with his people moves continually nearer and nearer the prevention of destruction. whether you read the story of jesus as messianic or not (and i no longer do), the only way in which this story makes sense to me if i am to place it as part of a continual tradition with the jewish tradition of which jesus himself is part is to assume that that the actual crux of this story was one of intervention. if jesus is indeed the second isaac the way christianity cliams, it makes no sense for god to have intended him to be killed if isaac was never intended to be killed. if god provided the sacrifice for abraham, and his relationship with the world is reciprocal, then if jesus is the son of god it would stand to reason that the world would provide the replacement sacrifice for god's son in return.

abraham's faith that god would provide a sacrifice is very different from the type of faith often modelled in christianity, where you have faith in your suffering up to and through that suffering even to your own destruction. and this model of faith, which i do hold to be at best destructive and at worst incorrect, continually enables suffering both created and perpetuated by christianity as an institution. if god's mercy is the defining trait of every covenant up to christ, and we are expected to act with mercy in kind, shouldn't the aim of christianity be not the transformation of suffering (not to glorify the crucifixion of jesus, not to ensure that it goes unwasted,) but to live in the knowledge that the suffering of jesus, like all suffering, has the capacity to be prevented? is eschatology gesturing towards a new heaven and a new earth without suffering, or is it more likely that god (who made the world and saw that it is good) is aware that we have the capacity to prevent suffering in this world, here and now, by doing what we are asked by god?

we are asked to have abraham's faith: but we are also asked to, like abraham, seize the opportunity to alleviate someone else's suffering (including our own) when god presents it to us. more than mercy, that is the mark of a just god.

[thejewitches]

Are Noachides Messianic Jews?

While there can be overlap, generally, no.

Most Noahides do not profess themselves to be Jewish as the term itself acknowledges that the adherent is not Jewish. Messianics, however, are by-and-large Christians claiming to be Jewish.

A Noahide refers to a non-Jew who chooses to adhere to the following seven commandments known as the Seven Laws of Noah:

1) Do not deny God. 2) Do not blaspheme God. 3) Do not murder. 4) Do not engage in illicit sexual relations. 5) Do not steal. 6) Do not eat from a live animal. 7) Establish courts of justice and a legal system

The modern Noahide movement is very new and was only established in the 1990s by some religious Zionist organizations--Early promoters include convicted terrorist Meir Kahane. Despite its popularity online, it does not have a huge number of adherents, or do many Jews promote it.

[tamamita]

why jewish people say "theyre chosen by god" why? what did they do?

Abraham (as) was steadfast and remained in submission to the One True God in a society full of idol worshiping, as a result God gave him the task of fulfilling various errands to prove Abraham's (as) loyalty to Him. Abraham (as) succeeded in all of this and God promised him a great nation through Isaac (as) and Jacob (as).

The Israelites were named after Jacob (as), who would later be named Israel (as), after he wrestled with the agent of God. The Israelites were chosen by God because that was God's promise to Abraham (as). When He liberated the Israelites from Pharaoh, Moses (as) ascended Mount Sinai and claimed the Torah + the Ten commandments and being instructed with consecrating the Tabarnacle As long as the Israelites upheld God's laws, His promise to Abraham (as) and Moses (as) would remain. Failed step one; some of the Israelites immediately worshipped the Golden Calf, which led to God's punishment to wander the deserts of Egypt for 40 years until they reached the Holy Land. As you can see, being favoured by God comes at uhh a cost (?).

Anyways, the Israelites were not superior to other nations since they were given the task of upholding God's covenant. Think of it in the sense of your mother assigning you with the dishes, while your brother doesn't need to. The difference is that you get to have some candy after you finish your task. Either way, every other nation were given other commandments (see the Noahide laws), and as long as they upheld these seven laws, God would bless them. But the Israelites were specifically chosen for the task God had given them at Sinai, which is not as easy as it sounds when you read through the 613 Mitzvot. Nevertheless, as long as they abided by the Torah, God's favour would remain there. Of course, the Israelites would be challenged by difficulties, and the kingdom of Israel would suffer several setbacks as a result of various deviations from the Commandments according to the Tanakh. But despite these punishments, God's promise remained as long as they abided by the Torah.

The idea that Jewish people are the chosen people of God is affirmed by Christians and Muslims as well.