Mitzvah for Non Jews

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We are all aware of the 10 Commandments but how about the seven Mitzvot?

G‑d “created the world that it might be settled”. (Isaiah 45:18) This implies a level of civilized conduct, which can be achieved only when non-Jews also observe their mitzvot. Indeed, the perfection of the world that leads to the Messianic Era requires the spreading of the seven commandments that G‑d through the Torah provided for all the nations of the world.

These are the Seven Noahide Laws, as enumerated in the Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 56a:
  1. carry out justice - An imperative to pursue and enforce social justice, and a prohibition of any miscarriage of justice.
2.no blasphemy - Prohibits a curse directed at the Supreme Being.
no idolatry - Prohibits the worship of any human or any created thing. Also prohibited is the

3.making of idols and involvement with the occult. This necessitates an understanding of the One G‑d of Israel and His nature.
  1. no illicit intercourse - Prohibits adultery, incest, homosexual intercourse and bestiality, according to Torah definitions.
5, no homicide - Prohibits murder and suicide. Causing injury is also forbidden.
  1. no theft - Prohibits the wrongful taking of another’s goods.
  2. don’t eat a limb of a living creature - Promotes the kind treatment of animal life. It also encourages an appreciation for all kinds of life and respect for nature as G‑d’s creation.
The authority of these laws derives from the verse, “And the Lord G‑d commanded it upon the man…” (Gen. 2:16). They were given again to the nations of the world through the teachings of Moses at Marah (Ex. 15:25-16), but are known by the name of Noah because they first became fully applicable in his time, when meat-eating became permitted.

chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/380332/jewish/The-Mitzvot-of-Non-Jews.htm
 
I was aware of these. They are not bad standards for living, and they are all biblical. However, this Jewish source gives them in this order:


  1. *]Do not deny God.
    *]Do not blaspheme God.
    *]Do not murder.
    *]Do not engage in illicit sexual relations.
    *]Do not steal.
    *]Do not eat from a live animal.
    *]Establish courts/legal system to ensure obedience to the law.
 
Michael_Mayo said:
We are all aware of the 10 Commandments but how about the seven Mitzvot?

G‑d “created the world that it might be settled”. (Isaiah 45:18) This implies a level of civilized conduct, which can be achieved only when non-Jews also observe their mitzvot. Indeed, the perfection of the world that leads to the Messianic Era requires the spreading of the seven commandments that G‑d through the Torah provided for all the nations of the world.

These are the Seven Noahide Laws, as enumerated in the Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 56a:
  1. carry out justice - An imperative to pursue and enforce social justice, and a prohibition of any miscarriage of justice.
2.no blasphemy - Prohibits a curse directed at the Supreme Being.
no idolatry - Prohibits the worship of any human or any created thing. Also prohibited is the

3.making of idols and involvement with the occult. This necessitates an understanding of the One G‑d of Israel and His nature.
  1. no illicit intercourse - Prohibits adultery, incest, homosexual intercourse and bestiality, according to Torah definitions.
5, no homicide - Prohibits murder and suicide. Causing injury is also forbidden.
  1. no theft - Prohibits the wrongful taking of another’s goods.
  2. don’t eat a limb of a living creature - Promotes the kind treatment of animal life. It also encourages an appreciation for all kinds of life and respect for nature as G‑d’s creation.
The authority of these laws derives from the verse, “And the Lord G‑d commanded it upon the man…” (Gen. 2:16). They were given again to the nations of the world through the teachings of Moses at Marah (Ex. 15:25-16), but are known by the name of Noah because they first became fully applicable in his time, when meat-eating became permitted.

chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/380332/jewish/The-Mitzvot-of-Non-Jews.htm
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Sorry but I have to ask. Why do you type G-d? You do realise that God is not his name so there is no issue with speaking or typing God.
 
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Sorry but I have to ask. Why do you type G-d? You do realise that God is not his name so there is no issue with speaking or typing God.
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I cut and pasted from the Jewish link and they still do it.

I found the last one most interesting, being one who is vegetarian for the sake of animals. Of course it does not prohibit eating them, but compassion for them.
 
The Noahide laws are interesting, because it has a similar idea of "salvation"or a place for righteous non-Jews in the world to come, similar to the Vatican 2 idea that an atheist living in accordance to natural law might have a chance at salvation.

More “Orthodox Jews” would say that we are doomed by the law idolatry, but that Muslims can be righteous.
 
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