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Can a Gentile theist be saved?
Judaism doesn't have a notion of "being saved". What we know is what is required of a righteous gentile. The Rambam (one of the greatest codifiers of Jewish law) writes explicitly (Mishne Torah ...
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Would Noahides be required to eat kosher meat?
Your question seems to be predicated on understanding Bereishit 9:4
אַךְ־בָּשָׂ֕ר בְּנַפְשׁ֥וֹ דָמ֖וֹ לֹ֥א תֹאכֵֽלוּ׃
You must not, however, eat flesh with its life-blood in it.
as a ...
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Does ever min hachai transfer to utensils?
This is a great question, which is debated by two of the great Acharonim. The gemara in Sanhedrin 74b considers that specific details of Jewish law might apply to Bnei Noach when they intersect with ...
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By what authority, and roughly when, did Judaism concede that adoption of Noachide laws was an acceptable alternative to conversion?
There seem to be a few underlying assumptions which need to be clarified.
All of mankind is obligated in the 7 Noahide laws, as the gemara teaches (Sanhedrin 56a-b.)
At Har Sinai, the Jews accepted ...
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Non-Jews' obligation to make berachot over food
The Noda Biyehudah (Tzlach, Berachos 35a, s.v. ואמנם), in the course of a discussion about the obligation to recite berachos on food (in particular, whether the logical basis that the Gemara states ...
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Source of the Noahide Laws
See R. Yehuda Halevi's Kuzari (3:73) where he writes:
The Rabbi: Let us rather assume two other possibilities. Either they employ secret methods of interpretation which we are unable to
discern, ...
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Do gentiles have the obligation of giving charity to help the needy?
As neglecting charity contributed to Sodom's destruction (per Yechezkel 16:49), they are apparently not only obligated but even held to task for it.
הִנֵּה זֶה הָיָה עֲוֺן סְדֹם אֲחוֹתֵךְ גָּאוֹן ...
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Can a Gentile Convert to Judaism AFTER the Coming of the Moshiach?
According to the Talmud (Yevamoth 24b), geruth (conversion) will no longer be performed in the messianic era:
ת"ר: אין מקבלין גרים לימות המשיח. כיוצא בו לא קבלו גרים לא בימי דוד ולא בימי שלמה. א"ר ...
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Is it forbidden for a noachide (Non-Jew) to be circumcised?
According to Rambam (Hilkhot Milah 3:7), not only is it permissible for a gentile to circumcise himself, it is a mitsvah!
As he writes in a responsum (ed. Blau # 148), this is in the category of eino ...
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Why are castrated animals slaughtered as Kosher beef?
Castration of an animal is forbidden to Gentiles (according to most opinions) so a Jew cannot tell him to do so. If he does he is forbidden to eat that animal. But if the gentile has already castrated ...
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How do most Rabbis justify teaching Torah to conversion candidates?
The Shulchan Arukh (YD 268:2) rules that someone who wants to convert to Judaism can be taught some of the basic mitzvot. The language there is borrowed directly from the Rambam in his Mishneh Torah (...
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How do most Rabbis justify teaching Torah to conversion candidates?
The rabbis didn't contradict Rambam, the rabbis are in Gemara, and Rambam himself report this law.
Rambam isure bia 14.2
יד,ב ומודיעין אותו עיקרי הדת, שהוא ייחוד השם ואיסור עבודה זרה; ומאריכין, ...
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Why would a non-Jew offer a sacrifice?
You are correct that they are not commanded to bring sacrifices. Your question is mentioned by Rambam in Mishnah Torah, Hilchot Melachim, chapter 10, halacha 10 which says:
בֶּן נֹחַ שֶׁרָצָה ...
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Is the "Sefer Sheva Mitzvot HaShem" by Rabbi Moshe Weiner an authoritative legal code for the Noahides?
asknoah.org sponsored the book you mention. They write that
Sheva Mitzvot HaShem was submitted for review by the world-renowned
rabbinic authority, Haga’on Rav Zalman Nechemiah Goldberg shlit”a,
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Are gentiles forbidden from consuming blood?
Rav Yirmiyahu Kaganoff writes,
Although a non-Jew may not eat the flesh of a living animal, he may
eat blood drawn from a living animal (Rambam, Hilchos Melachim 9:10;
cf. Gemara Sanhedrin 56b ...
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What mitzvot existed for humanity prior to Noach?
According to Rambam in Mishne Torah (Hilchot Melachim u'Milchamot 9:1) there was 6 laws prior to Noah and they were given to Adam (includind the prohibition of idolatry and murder). Therefore, yes ...
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Before the Matan Torah, did HaShem issue divorce regulations?
The Maggid Mishne (Rav Vidal of Tolosa, spain 14th century) on the Rambam Hilchot Ishut 1,1 says that before Mattan Torah (giving the Torah to Israel) everyone had a status of a gentile and he cross-...
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Are forbidden relations forbidden to the passive non-jew?
Both are liable if they are consenting adults.
The same prohibitions regarding to man also applies to woman . The reason is that all these references are derived from a verse which the talmud ...
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Why is eating meat from living animals wrong?
Rambam explains this prohibition as follows:
Guide for the Perplexed 3:48
It is prohibited to cut off a limb of a living animal and eat it,
because such act would produce cruelty, and develop it:...
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Apart from not murdering and not eating meat from a live animal, where are the Noachide laws derived from?
The logic is given by Rambam in Mishneh Torah Melakhim uMilchamot 9:1:
על ששה דברים נצטווה אדם הראשון [...] הוסיף לנח אבר מן החי שנאמר אך בשר בנפשו דמו לא תאכלו נמצאו שבע מצות
Six precepts were ...
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Are Noahide women permitted to undergo a tubal ligation?
According to sefer Sheva Mitzvot Hashem, (Vol II, helek 5, 9:1), a tubal ligation is permitted for bnot noach. And further says: that even more than this could be done for reasons of safety or health ...
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Teshuva for a Non-Jew?
Rambam in Hilchos Teshuva Chap 2 (2) specifies how to do teshuvah:
What constitutes Teshuvah? That a sinner should abandon his sins and
remove them from his thoughts, resolving in his heart, ...
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For a non-Jew, is there a punishment for not observing the 7 Noahide Laws?
Yes, they are punishable for violating any of these seven mitzvos; none of them are more or less severe than the others. The punishment for each of them is decapitation (Rambam, Hilchos Melachim 9:14)....
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Are father daughter relationships forbidden under 7 laws of Noach?
There's a dispute in Sanhedrin exactly which relationships are forbidden to Benei Noach.
Sanhedrin 58b brings the following statement of Rav Hunah:
אמר רב הונא כותי מותר בבתו
Rav Huna says: A gentile ...
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Korbonos of Bnei Noach
The Yerushalmi in Megillah 13 records:
אנטונינוס שאל לרבי מהו לבנות מזבח א"ל בניהו וגנוז אבניו.
Antoninus [Marcus Aurelius?] asked R. Yehudah ha-Nasi if he can build
a Mizbeah. He replied that ...
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Non-Jews' obligation to make berachot over food
The pashtus in most poskim is that brachos are rabbinic, therefore non jews would be exempt. (Not commanded in lo tasur or rabbis didn't command them).
The question is, that the gemara in brachos 35a
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Adultery in Gentile Marriage
Just to isolate your question.
If a non-jew had ביאה שלא כדרכה, unnatural relations, with another non-jewish married woman without the permission of her husband he is חייב מיתה. This is explicit in ...
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May one eat limb of a living Ben pekuah
The Simla Chadasha (13:2) says that while there is no prohibition of Ever Min Hachai of a Ben Pekuah, there is still a problem of "Bal Tishaktsu". There is a disagreement among the Poskim of ...
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Do noahides have a mitzvah to honor elders
The Gemara at least twice explicitly rules that a Noahide is not obligated in the commandment of honoring parents.
One Gemara is in Kiddushin 31a, where Doma ben Nesina is praised for his exemplary ...
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