Noahide and Reading the Weekly Torah Portion
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GOOD Morning time! A adult female once made an engagement to meet with Rabbi Ya'akov Weinberg, of blessed retention, who was the Rosh HaYeshiva (head) of Yeshivat Ner Yisroel. Asked the woman, "Must I buy Kosher meat?" Rabbi Weinberg was puzzled. If the woman was Jewish and knew enough to know that in that location is Kosher meat (meat from an brute that chews its cud, has split hoofs and is slaughtered in the manner dictated by the Torah and properly salted to describe out the blood - unless the meat was going to exist barbecued which does not require salting as the burn draws out the blood), why was she asking him, an Orthodox rabbi, whether she should observe this mitzvah? If, on the other mitt, she wasn't Jewish, why would she even enquire this question?
So, like all skillful rabbis, Rabbi Weinberg answered her question with a question to clarify: "Why do yous ask whether y'all should buy Kosher meat?"
Responds the woman, "I understand that one of the vii Noahide Commandments is not to eat meat removed from an fauna while it is still live (a common practice in the ancient earth where there was no refrigeration). I accept heard that in almost slaughtering houses they use stun guns to impale the animals. Perchance they start cutting up the animals before they are really dead?"
I exercise not know how not-Kosher meat is slaughtered today or if stun guns are still used. I do know how the woman happened to come to Rabbi Weinberg. Her Jewish roommate at higher was given a copy of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch'due south magnificent piece of work Horeb: A Philosophy of Jewish Laws and Observances. Her roommate never read the volume; she did.
The above story is a long way around to writing about the 7 Noahide Commandments which are also known every bit the 7 Universal Commandments. Tradition has it that the laws were really given to Adam and Chava (Eve) the first mean solar day (Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Idolatry, chapter ix, law i). They were reaffirmed afterward the flood ("Every bit for Me, behold, I institute My covenant with you lot and with your seed afterward you lot" - Genesis nine:viii) and are an intrinsic function of the Divine Revelation on Mt. Sinai. They are called the "vii Laws of the Children of Noah" or "7 Noahide Commandments" - because afterward the alluvion Anybody is a descendent of Noah.
From the Jewish experience our history is filled with other nations telling us to convert to their organized religion and all volition be well ... however, in that location was normally a caveat near "or else" that followed the "offer" to convert us. The Jewish people, yet, always maintained that y'all don't take to exist Jewish - either to consume Levy'due south rye bread or to have a portion in the World to Come.
If a non-Jew recognizes that in that location is a God Who commands all non-Jews to proceed the 7 Noahide Commandments (which are categories for additional commandments) ... and he observes the commandments, he is guaranteed a place in the World to Come, Heaven. What are the seven Noahide Commandments?
- Do non murder. (Man life is sacred; information technology tin can merely be taken with legal sanction.)
- Do not steal. (Respect the rights and property of others.)
- Do not worship false gods. (Only the Almighty is the Creator, Sustainer, Supervisor and can respond prayers.)
- Do not be sexually immoral. (Married woman of another homo, male homosexuality, incest and unmerciful relations are out.)
- Do not eat the limb of an animal earlier it is killed. (Do not be roughshod to animals.)
- Practise not expletive God. (Speech is unique to humans; using it to limited ingratitude is wrong. Gossip, obscenity and lies are also forbidden nether this commandment.)
- Set up courts and bring offenders to justice. (Society cannot exist in anarchy; due procedure is required.)
At that place is a growing movement of Noahides. Ane tin larn more than via the net. For a list of sites: http://world wide web.rb.org.il/links.htm. Ii expert books: The Path of the Righteous Gentile: Introduction to the 7 Laws of the Children of Noah past Chaim Clorfene & Rabbi Yakov Rogalsky, and The Seven Colors of the Rainbow: Torah Ideals for Not-Jews past Rabbi Yirmeyahu Bindman (at that place is an innuendo that the 7 colors of the rainbow refer to vii Noahide Laws in verse "And God said, '... My bow I am placing in the deject and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth'" [Gen. 9:12,xiii]. Both available at judaicaenterprises.com or 877-758-3242).
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Torah Portion of the Week
Noah
The story of 1 righteous homo in an evil generation. The Omnipotent commands Noah to build the ark on a hill far from the h2o. He built information technology over a period of 120 years. People deride Noah and ask him, "Why are you building a boat on a hill?" Noah explains that there volition be a flood if people do not right their ways. We come across from this the patience of the Omnipotent for people to correct their ways and the genius of arousing people'southward curiosity and so that they will ask a question and hopefully hear the answer.
The generation does non do Teshuva, returning from their evil ways, and God brings a flood for 40 days. They leave the ark 365 days later when the earth has once again become habitable. The Almighty makes a covenant and makes the rainbow the sign of the covenant that He volition never destroy all of life again by water (hence, James Baldwin'south volume, The Fire Next Fourth dimension). When one sees a rainbow it is an omen to practice Teshuva - to recognize the mistakes you are making in life, regret them, correct them/make restitution, and enquire for forgiveness from anyone you have wronged as well equally from the Almighty.
Noah plants a vineyard, gets drunk and and so occurs the mysterious incident in the tent after which Noah curses his grandson, Canaan. The Torah portion concludes with the story of the Belfry of Babel and and then a genealogy from Shem to Abram.
Dvar Torah
based on Dearest Your Neighbour past Rabbi Zelig Pliskin
The Torah states:
"And God said to Noah: 'The stop of all flesh is come before Me, for the globe is filled with corruption (chomos).' " (Genesis 6:xiii)
Rabbi Yochanan said, "Come and see the power of abuse. The generation of the flood violated everything, but the concluding decree against them was non signed until they were guilty of stealing" (Talmud Bavli, Sanhedrin 108a).
Rabbi Alexander Ziskind explained the severity of stealing in the post-obit manner: When one steals a few dollars from some other person, he is actually causing more than damage than might initially appear. The victim might accept invested the money and received a profit, and when his children would accept inherited his money, they too could have gained profit from information technology. The same with their children and children'southward children until the finish of time. This could amount to a fortune and ultimately the thief will be judged in the heavenly court for this accounting. Nosotros must realize the gravity of stealing fifty-fifty small sums and resolve to continue far away from this criminal offence.
The Midrash defines the term chomos, found in this poetry, as stealing less than the value of a prutah, an amount and then monetarily insignificant that courts do non force a thief who has but stolen this amount to render it.
In Noah'due south generation, when a person would accept out a box full of beans to sell, someone would come forth and grab less than a prutah'due south worth. So another would do the same, and then another; and although the victim would be left without whatever beans, he could not accept anyone to court for the thefts. (Braishis Rabba xxx). This was done publicly and condoned.
Our lesson: When yous're in a fruit store don't sample the grapes -without permission!
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