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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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Issues of lifnei iver with non-Jews
Bavli AZ 6b
מנין שלא יושיט אדם כוס של יין לנזיר ואבר מן החי לבני נח ת"ל ולפני עור לא תתן מכשול
Whence [do we know that] a man shouldn't pass a cup of wine to a Nazir nor a limb-from-a-live-animal ...
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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 the gentile seeking conversion have more obligations than a Noahide Person?
God expects Jews to follow the torah and gentiles to follow the Noachide laws. Until you've converted you're still a gentile and don't have additional heavenly obligations.
Perhaps you have heard of ...
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is idolatry one of the noachide laws? there is a discrepancy between websites
The source for these laws is traditional from Chazal, and they explicitly list them in Sanhedrin 56a:
תנו רבנן שבע מצות נצטוו בני נח דינין וברכת השם ע"ז גילוי עריות ושפיכות דמים וגזל ואבר מן החי
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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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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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Why do some of the Ten Commandments include Noahide Laws?
The new covenant replaced the old one. The reason the Jews keep the 7 Noachide laws is not because of the commandments to their pre-Mosaic ancestors, but because of the covenant at Sinai. In fact, ...
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Issues of lifnei iver with non-Jews
All rishonim agree that if it is real aver min hachai (it is included in the Torah prohibition) than it is absolutely forbidden to give to a non-Jew.
If it is only a rabbinical prohibition, there is ...
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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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What was the sin of the builders of the tower of Bavel?
The Rasa"g (probably based on the simple reading of Perek 11, Passuk 4) explains that their sin was that they wanted to stay in one singular area and not filling the earth as Hashem commanded them ...
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Can a Non-Jew attain the highest levels of connectedness to G-d?
The Yalkut Shimoni (Shoftim Ch. 4), commenting on the prophetess Devorah, says:
מעיד אני עלי את השמים ואת הארץ, בין גוי בין ישראל, בין איש בין אשה,
בין עבד בין שפחה, הכל לפי מעשיו של אדם רוח הקדש ...
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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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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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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 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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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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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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7 Mitzwot and Gentiles in Hell for the Sins of Israel
It seems to me that you have an odd amount of facts. And by that I mean, your information seems to be scattered bits of disjointed facts that don't fit together. Judaism like most religions is best ...
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Gentiles marriage
Rabbi Moshe Weiner’s ‘The Divine Code’ (2020) is, to my knowledge, considered the authoritative code when it comes to the Noachide laws. Part VI treats of laws pertaining to sexual relations, and ...
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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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