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Overview continued
Once the non-Jew
recognizes the unity of God, and recognizes that the observance of the
mitzvot is what unites mankind, he will then understand how he
can cleave to God and have a share in the Olam haBa. "When
a person becomes separate from sin and takes up the yoke of Heaven,
then that person becomes Mine."5
- Mishneh
Torah: Laws of Idolatry, chapter 1, laws 2,3.
- The rabbis referred
to are only those who accept Torah meSinai - the absolute authority
of the Written and the Oral Torah as given to Moses on Mt.
Sinai.
- Jerusalem. Noahides
should also pray for the peace of Yerushalayim (Tehillim
- Psalms 122:6).
- Talmud: Kiddushin
30a. A person doing something because he feels like it is different
from a person doing the same thing because he is commanded to do it.
What makes it a mitzvah is what one is commanded, and what
one is thinking, feeling, hoping or intending when one does it. For
what reason, why, and when one does something
determines whether it is an observance of a mitzvah or not.
- Sifra: Kiddushin
11:22. One has to bend his will to God's will, and to be concerned
with the needs of his fellow man. We have to use our inner power to
turn our specific action into a mitzvah - we have to freely
choose to do God's will. We have the power to turn what is ordinary
and mundane into something extraordinary and righteous.
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