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How To Be A Righteous NOAHIDE?

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I shall regard didn't know how cause this is a  this is the end the Torah and so on this is the   explanation the Gemara in Messiah kahega entr'acte  Tafoya says that Shem wrote the Torah with black   fire on white fire nine hundred and seventy  four generations before creating the world   and then he looked at the Torah and created the  world based on it meaning he saw that there are   let's say for example kosher laws that therefore  he created kosher animals he saw that there is   a different aspects of the Torah and therefore he  created based on it meaning that the Torah is the   blueprint of the world and there are two ways of  complying with the Torah one way as a righteous   Noahide one way is a righteous Jew now until  natontour until the time of the giving of the   Torah the world was not obligated to follow it as  a Jew because it wasn't formalized yet even though   it existed and our 'vote are patriarchs knew the  Torah and even actually more extended version   of the Torah that we even have today they did not  follow a Torah per se like we do today because it   wasn't formalized the same extent so and it wasn't  a law yet meaning it existed but it wasn't the the   on bun wasn't put on fall of mankind so from the  time of Adam only showing the first human being   that ever existed Hashem already gave these laws  now the first the first formalization was for Adam   only show me we gave him six laws and then to know  off he gave him the seventh law and therefore it's   called a seven Noahide laws instead of the seven  laws of ad Emily show because the anything is   usually is called by the person that completes  it so the seven Noahide laws were implemented   officially at the time of Noah after the mobile  to the flood which means that a vomit sucking out   cough technically were considered Noah hides and  they were not allowed to keep Shabbat the same way   that we keep today because a lotta is is that a  non Jew that observe Shabbat is its death penalty   because it's considered as if they're stealing  so the sages explained to us that a vomit sucking   alcove kept Shabbat in a way because they knew  the law and knew you know they they were the   fathers of Judaism that was going to come to the  world they kept it 99% similar to how a convert   keeps it until the time they actually officially  convert now the this all had to eventually get   to the point of the climatic event of the world  which was Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai it became   official to implement the second aspect of this  Torah and separate the Jews from the rest of the   world until then everyone was obligated to follow  the Noahide laws of course most people did not   most people idolaters but the the righteous the  the sons of Yaakov follow the Noahide laws but   at the time of Mount Sinai it something drastic  happened which formalized the law and obligated   the sons of Yaakov been a slave into becoming Jews  which means they had to now elevate themselves to   a higher level by complying with much more laws  that they didn't have to comply with until now   meaning Shabbat kosher you know Turkish Baja which  is family purity and so on and so forth so at that   time that I polish up eat all the the Polish are  called Utah which is the section of the table   where we get the the Torah we got three things at  Mount Sinai and you see it in the verses where it   says that Michela been received the law did the  Ten Commandments the - I in the meets thought   meaning the written Torah and the oral torah so  you got three things announced tonight you got   the Ten Commandments you got the written Torah  and which is what we have today what we call the   homage and then we got also the oral law because  the oral law explains how to implement the written   law one cannot survive without the other one  depends on the other there is no such thing as   just a written law there is no such thing as just  oral law they go together and anyone usually the   Christians and the a all the other heretics in  the world usually tried to go against the oral   law because that's the one that obligates the  written law but anyway at that moment we were   called the chosen people a Shem says that he chose  us to comply with this higher law so until that   moment no one was obligated to comply with the  oral law as far as the aspect of it you know the   meats vote kosher and things of that nature and  the what ended up happening at Mount Sinai is that   a Shem separate us from the rest of the nation  and he said okay you from now on have to comply   with the entire Torah the rest of mankind has  to continue doing what they've been doing since   since the creation of mankind since the creation  of mankind and actually one of the obligations   that the Jews have as far as bringing light of  the world is by them complying with the law that   will also influence the the Gentiles around the  world to also comply with the law and vice-versa   part of the job of the Gentiles in the world is  to help and influence the Jews to comply with the   with the law as well with their part of the law  now a so this is in essence the the culmination   of events now if you fast-forward from that moment  until reviewed on a sea that you mentioned be done   at the the sea means Prince he was the head of a  resale what changed from that moment to then is   that at Mount Sinai we got a written law and oral  law oral law meaning that we were transferring it   from generation to generation from father to  son father the son from rabbi to student and   so on and so forth weren't allowed to write all  of the details well you know at that time we had   the wisdom and the ability to remember all of it  and but since there was the downshift of humanity   specifically with within our Messiah as well our  be Adonis II saw that we weren't able to remember   it and the details that were able to remember it  in the past and therefore the he implemented the   the power instilled in him in the sages by a Shem  in the written law in the Torah which is to put a   fence around the fence and also to protect the  Torah and he actually wrote down parts of the   oral law he write all of the oral law down because  that would literally consume every single piece of   paper that ever existed from the beginning of  mankind to the end of mankind but he wrote the   foundation you wrote the foundation that explains  how to fulfill this written law had occur fulfill   this flora so he didn't change anything he didn't  add anything what he did is that he wrote the   foundation of it which was called the Mishnah  okay and from there several generations later   the sages saw that again the new generation is  deteriorating either for even further and is not   able to understand completely the Mishna this  oral law because the Mishnah was written in a   very very simplistic in a very very minimalized  way the least amount of words but they had the   wisdom at that time to understand the 50 million  you know roots that go from it they at that point   they start seeing that some people not able to  understand it so they elaborated it by showing   by writing the Gemara the Gemara is what explains  what the Mishnah is actually saying but also how   they got to it and how all of the other opinions  that you would think by rationalizing it are wrong   so it's not just about telling you what to do  but how to understand what to do even you know   in order to implement this same law in other way  that are applicable and that's the Gemara later   on they fast forward some more generations and we  get to the time of the Rambam the Rambam which is   about 900 years ago somewhere around six seven  hundred years after the kymaro was put together   the Rambam saw that many people are not able to  comprehend a tomorrow to the extent of actually   knowing what to do you know they under they can  read it but they don't know ok what's the bottom   line see simplified it and he took out all of the  meats vote the yes no yes no yes no yes no across   the entire Torah which actually also includes the  Noahide laws and everything else more includes no   I had lost nine clues everything include all ways  include the hotel both the for the Jews and for   the non-jews and the Rambam just took out the  yes nose yes to this don't do this yes do this   don't do this and what's called the Mishneh  Torah or yet kazakh or the Rambam it's called   three names called after his name Ramba and he  pretty much simplified it fast forward a again   without removing anything but just simplifying it  to accommodate the generation that we have then   you fast forward and again another four hundred  years about five hundred years ago a BIOS avocado   took it and narrowed it down even further again  not not removing anything but by simplifying it   even further and also applying it to the tanks  applying it to the times and he made something   called Suhana who was also another sage called the  gamma that also did it so there's two honolulu i   was one aspect is tama added commentary q the  shoe honolulu but point being is that we have   our tradition from today from the rabbis you have  today all the way to michelle many we know exactly   every single person that you know talk to torah  delivered it to the next generation what he said   what didn't say where did he get it from what  is it all based off and when you learned the   Gemara or the Mishnah or any of the commentary in  a machine you're always gonna find that there has   to be a verse from the Rin Toa that it's based  off of or from the oral tradition called Mishima   scene I meaning that Moses got it from Mount Sinai  but in general the overwhelming majority of things   have to have a verse in the toy in the five books  of Moses and the prophets not in the writings but   in the five books of Moses we don't make a la  based on the Psalms or Proverbs we learn things   from them but we don't make the laws from there  the laws are only from the five books of Moses   and the five books of Moses alone and here we say  that every time they mention something yes or no   to do something then they have to get that from  understanding from somewhere that teaching from   somewhere where is the actual original source and  they provide the source and explain exactly how   they got to it and so on and so forth so again  the the no hides us in essence their job in the   world hasn't changed at all from the beginning  of mankind nothing has changed for them the only   thing that I would say has increased their ability  to increase merit is that there's a much greater   need for them to influence a misled to fulfill  the thought today than there ever was before   which is a extraordinary extraordinary job to  do because that can give the Noahide you know   the status of you know being a giant and Allah  Allah some examples of it for example that are   in the Torah again we have to always have a source  one example of it is Geoghan job was a Noah height   he was in Ohio he was also a prophet he spoke  to a Shannon yet he's one of the foundational   teachers that we have in our Tana even though he  wasn't no hide he was a righteous no height now   this responsibility that no hides have which  is a two-fold responsibility one is to comply   with the law and the second aspect of it is to  influence I'm excited to comply with the law is   an enormous responsibility that if they fulfilled  they have a share of the world to come that is   as extraordinary as it gets the problem today is  that people are constantly forcing themselves to   compare everything to what they know so they know  let's say for example Christianity or a little   Judaism or a little bit of a few different things  and what I'm selling is that they try to reinvent   the wheel if you will by that I mean reinventing  the wheel by they're trying to make the you know   certain procedures or ascertain a ways to show  their beliefs in an exterior way you know a   certain they start to create customs and they add  to what was actually the responsibility what's   written into law and that is problematic and  the reason why is because if you're just adding   something simplistic like for example you decide  that you want to get together with your family   every week seven days a week once a week three  times a week doesn't make a difference to learn   to learn the Torah to learn your obligations  there's no problem with it but if you decide   that note this we're going to decide that from  now on every I don't know let's say every June   first we're gonna celebrate the you know the  the Noahide day or something like that that's   a serious problem why because that according to  the Rambam which means according to the Kabbalah   which means according to the Mishnah which means  according to the are written on oral torah that   means that you are adding and therefore changing  the Torah which means that the person is now   creating a new religion why because the religion  itself the creative religion itself is Judaism as   is as the aspect of the Jews and no height is the  the status for the rest of the Gentiles by taking   parts of the tour and then adding to them adding a  holiday adding a certain things that's not written   in there they're now creating a new religion  because it's not the same thing it is something   I did once it's added it's a completely different  different thing you know it's like saying oh wait   no it's only just a little small addition no no  it's not a small addition it's like for example   if a person makes a juice he decides to make  a juice a bunch of oranges and you know and he   makes a nice orange juice and then his friend says  yeah no this is good orange juice but let's put a   little bit of rum in there let's belittle the rum  in there it's still orange juice no my friend it's   not orange juice it's now an alcoholic beverage  it's not an alcoholic beverage that is not it   tastes like orange juice but it's not orange juice  it's an alcoholic beverage so once a person starts   adding things that are not part of the Noahide  laws they're creating a new religion which is   you know horrible horrible sin you know so that's  a very serious problem with many of the people   that are simply guiding themselves and not in the  corner table because they want to in essence live   like a Jewish life with the ceremonies and things  of that nature but don't necessarily want or can't   or whatever the case may be actually formally  convert and keep everything and that is a very   serious problem because now they're taking the  Torah that they're obligated to follow all the   way from the time of Adam Ellie Shawn and they're  now distorting it playing with it manipulating it   adding things that they is their own opinion  now the Rambam which all of the religions all   of the people that know he is no he's one of the  greatest human beings that ever lived said the   following he said that a righteous Noahide or  Noahide that follows the laws of naath follows   the the laws in the Torah according to as far as  the Gentile laws if he follows the Noahide laws   because it makes sense to him not because it God  said it not because it's written not because it's   an obligation but rather because it makes sense  to him not to kill it makes sense to him not to   eat an animal while still alive it makes sense  they're not the worship by a statue or a man it   makes sense to him not to you know commit adultery  it makes sense tempted to do to not do all those   things and comply the rambam who specifically  says not only does he not get a share of the   world to come but he's actually considered one  of the biggest fools in the world he's considered   in his language one of the fools of the of the  nation's not one of the wise of the nations of   the righteous of the nations why because he's  doing all the work but he's not going to get   a single reward for it why because the reason why  you followed you have to follow the Torah whether   Jew or Gentile is simply because God said so now  because you like it now because you don't like it   now because you agree with it or disagree with it  but simply because God said so that's the reason   to do all of it so when a person follows the  law based on God said so he's considered special   he's considered wise he's considered amazing why  because once they faint Rambam says if the Noahide   follows the laws of not because God said it not  only is he considered one of the righteous and   wise among the nation's but also he is actually  as a share of the wall to come which is written   in the prophets you'll see that at the end of days  one out of every one of the nation 10 out of every   one of the 70 nations will come to the Jews that  a righteous Jews that have done too bad that are   you know that are righteous and follow the Torah  and ten from each nation will come and ask them   you know they're our forefathers had lied to us  and please you know teach us and every Jew that   wears that seat seat will have twenty eight  hundred righteous know to teach as a students   because they earn their spot why they earn their  spot by again fulfilling their twofold obligation   one obligation is to fulfill the Torah that's  according to that's that's applicable to them the   Noahide laws and - is that a there are fulfilling  the Torah as far as helping Jews fulfill their   aspect to the door because they're eventually  going to become their teachers they're the other   chosen that's supposed to be their teachers so  what are the Noahide laws Noahide laws are not   only seven and not only seven this is also another  confused thing it's not only seven things there's   somewhere around maybe sixty laws I don't know  the number of top man it's almost around sixty   laws but they're all generally moral laws that  break off of the seventh similar to how the Ten   Commandments breaks off into 613 commandments you  know the Ten Commandments are not separate from   the 613 laws it's in essence the same thing it's  an essence the same thing but it's let's say for   example there is the tree and then there is all  of the roots same thing with the seven laws of   not seven laws of not whole moral laws that every  normal human being if you thinks about it would   arrive at the same conclusion anyway but it's a  formalization of that law you have to follow it   because God said so therefore a person that learns  to be a righteous Noahide won't spend an enormous   amount of time learning both the written Torah  the rental R which is the homage that's enough   with the commentary from the Jewish sages like  Rashi Rambam brown bond and so on that part and   they will learn moose are why moose are because  moose are is ethical laws that are applicable   to all of mankind applicable to all of mankind if  a person truly wants to do the will of Hashem and   learn they'll learn this and they'll realize  there's so many things that a person needs to   fix when it comes to ethics that there's no time  for them to play around what the Torah and try to   add some extra thing to it why because they're  not doing the minimum requirement as it is if   they're not learning it so the point is is that  there is a moral laws that both Jews and Gentiles   need to comply with that they have in common and  they're both taught in the teachings of Musa so   with that being said a you know this gives a lot  of work to anyone that wants to be a righteous   know height because now we they see that they  don't need necessarily a special holiday to to   service em they're obligated to do it every day  every day is a holiday they don't need a special   food to to you know to service them every day the  food is special every day why because every day   they're supposed to eat food that meets certain  requirements meaning that it's not the animal that   is still alive it's a this ethical ethics behind  it it's you know again it's a even even the things   that a person does it's not just a the way they  talk the way they behave needs to be ethical so   the point being is that a person that wants to  be a righteous Noahide has to our righteous Jew   has to review what is the ethics in accordance to  the Torah meaning in accordance with the ship and   when a person does that he has his work cut out  for him she has a word cut out for her with a lot   of work with a lot of learning and Zelda sharing  a lot of success to follow hopefully this gives   you a good understanding of what what it means  to be a righteous know hi again the the amount   of moose art that a person needs to learn in their  life just to give you a small tiny example abusive   cow the one that wrote the Johanna who he he had  a separate book called Maggie Shaheen where it was   the knesset like a journal that he wrote about  what would what happened you know what was the   conversations between him and his study buddy  who was a study buddy a angel an angel would   study with him and one day he writes that the  angel rebuked of her see why he says how come   you didn't study more moose are today not that  he didn't study himself he studied a few hours   and who saw everyday said how come you didn't  study enough today they rebuked him harshly if   abusive cow that was at such a high level to be  able to have the merit to study with an angel   if he was rebuked only studying a few hours of  Mustafa that day needless to say your average   Jew or your average Gentile that's trying to be  righteous no hide how much we sell do they need   to listen to and learn and implement and so on  so the point being is that when a person really   sees how much obligation they have based on the  minimum requirement of a Jew or a Gentile they   simply will find themselves in a position where  they do not have an interest or an inclination   or even the time to add any of their own opinion  or any of their own anything to it because first   you have to fulfill the obligation and then you  go for the extras you know first you have to pay   the rent of the mortgage then you start worrying  about your savings account you don't worry about   a savings account until you pay the the basic  requirements to live even more so when it come   to talk first you fulfill the basic minimum of  being a Jew basic minimum of being a Gentile   or righteous no height then you worry about other  things and the reality is in our generation Alvie   we wish everybody just simply did the minimum we  wish that they just did the minimal because the   minimum requires people to connect to a Shem to  connect akhul islam who every day all day all the   time in every way every she performed whether  there are juror gentile that's minimum minimum   just if we do that already already that puts  us at a different level than most people in the   world so hopefully this gives everybody a rundown  of what's the responsibility please feel free to   ask any more questions details and so on and again  thank you again for learning with me call to Baba