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The Path of the Righteous Gentile: An Introduction to the Seven Laws of the Children of Noah

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I struggled with Christianity for years until I found out about the Noahide covenant. This book is wonderful for anybody who wants to learn more about the 7 Noahide laws. I am now under the direction of an orthodox rabbi, and moving forward on the path that G-d wants me to follow. Most importantly, everything makes sense...no strange doctrines such as the trinity, just common sense straight from G-d through the rabbis. The Noahide movement is growing, and more and more Christians are returning to G-d alone. This book will get you off on the right foot.

Shalom!

The law as given to Adam and then Noah and applicable to all mankind. Predates the laws given to the Jewish people at mount Sinei and everything else. A moral guide for man, simple, effective and was signed into law by former president George Bush.

If you are looking for a path to the GOD of Abraham, Noah, Moses and Issac then this book will give you the information you need. It is Torah wisdom for the Gentiles. Easy to read and understand yet consise and to the point. A great book to start you on your path to rightousness. It changed my life!

This was the absolute best book I have yet to read summarizing, not only what it means to be a Righteous Gentile, but also the best of Judaism itself!

This is absolutly MUST READING for anyone returning to, turning to, or just plain interested in Judaism and what it means to be a Jew or a Righteous Gentile.

The Path of the Righteous Gentile is, no doubt, on the short list of practical, introductory books on universal morality, as handed down from Jewish antiquity, it should only be studied face-to-face with an Orthodox Rabbi. For example, one might think that all thefts, no matter what the value of what is stolen, constitute a capital offense. It's not that simple in practice, given strict rules of evidence, court process, and so on. It is much like the unschooled think the Torah text of "an eye for an eye, etc." codifies lex talonious (retribution); where in fact, it is only for monitary damages, as in "the value of an eye for the value of an eye". In otherwords, the literal text "an eye for an eye" was (and is) never applied literally. The Laws of Noah are full of mitigating circumstances that require contextual explination by an Orthodox Rabbi. The princial problem is the non-jewish reader's theological dictionary is materially different than the Talmudic dictionary for the same terms. If the reader truly wants to understand this book, buy it and present it to an Orthodox Rabbi and ask them to teach it to you, page by page. (They cannot -- well, should not refuse, by the way!) It is their mitzvah to teach these to the Nations.

This book explains, in a clear and reverent manner, the world's oldest monotheistic religion, the Seven Universal Laws, six given to Adam and a seventh given to Noah, and all reaffirmed to Moses at Mt. Sinai, laws for humankind for eternity. Noahism is a universal religion that is a blessing for all people but in particular for people searching for their place in spirituality. Two other good books on the subject are The Rainbow Covenant by Michael Dallen, and Palliere's book, The Unknown Sanctuary.

I was studying the Jewish faith to see if there where any commonalities between what I believed and what they believed, and when I was doing my research I found that there are no commonalities at all, in fact I came across this term called Noahide. So I started to research Noahide and came across the Noahide faith, this led me to a link for this book and so I went ahead and got it. This book showed me that there is indeed a way of believing in the God of the Jews without being Jewish. It is the only way that was sanctioned by God from the beginning of mankind to now.

I highly recommend this book to those who seek to know the truth of the God of the Jews but don't want to join the Jewish faith. This book is well written and an easy read.

The product was received in a timely Manner. It is an outstanding educational book for Bible and Jewish students.

If you are looking for a way to get back on track with G-ds salvation plan, this is the book. It is written in a way that's easy to read and understand. There are laws Gentiles are supposed to live by and if you live these laws, and do so because they were given to Noah by G-d after the flood, then you are placing yourself on the right path to salvation. This book is a very good foundation and gives many opportunities to ask questions, just make sure you ask the right person. I am not Jewish and I have not made contact with a Rabbi yet, but I will to get the answers I need. I recommend this book to all who have found the current state of Christianity lacking in depth and the contradictions found in the New Testament to be concerning...we are talking about eternity here. I would also recommend this to the Gentiles who are thinking about taking the Noahide way.

The authors of this book starts off by telling their non-Jewish readers that they are not bound by the 613 laws of the Torah, just the seven Noachide laws. They then proceed to indicate that in order to properly follow these seven laws, these same readers are bound to all of the rabbinical interpretations found in the Talmud. They continually call for the death penalty for various offenses mentioned throughout the book, and call for stoning and strangling as appropriate penalties. In one place, the authors state that it is a violation not to stone an offender. Many other actions are called forbidden in an apparently arbitrary manner. There are frequent not so subtle references to Christianity and other belief systems throughout the book that are quite uncomplimentary. Truth should stand on its own without these kind of inflammatory comparisons.

My opinion is that this book does not represent mainstream Judaism and should never have been published.

First a sobering quote from this very book:

"If a Noahite is striving in the learning of Torah... reveals new aspects of Torah, he may be PHYSICALLY RESTRAINED and informed that he is liable for CAPITAL PUNISHMENT... If the court that is established in consonance with the Seven Universal Laws gives the death penalty to a Noahite, the EXECUTION is an atonement for the person's past transgression... Furthermore, the Noahite must experience REINCARNATION to be able to atone for transgressions he has done." Chaim Clorfene & Yakov Rogalsky, "The Path of the Righteous Gentile: An Introduction to the Seven Laws of the children of Noah," (Feldheim Publishers, 1987) p. 42 (The book bears an official letter of approval of its contents by Rabbi Mendel Feldman, Shearith Israel Congregation.)

"PHYSICALLY RESTRAINED"! "EXECUTION"!
"REINCARNATION"!!!

The Noachide penalty for idolatry is death. Practicing Christians worship Jesus as True God and True man, hence, under Torah law, are idolaters liable for execution. Care to cut your own throat by embracing "Noachide Law"?

"The Christians are idolaters, and Sunday is their holiday..." [Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Avodah Zorah, 9;4]

"The Christians are worshipers of Avodah Zorah ["idolatry"]" [Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Ma'akhalot Assurot, 11:7]

"It is a mitzvah [religious duty], however, to eradicate Jewish traitors, minim [Christians], and apikorsim, ["heretics," that is, sincere Jewish converts to Christianity] and to cause them to descend to the pit of destruction, since they cause difficulty to the Jews and sway the people away from God, as did Jesus of Nazareth and his students, and Tzadok, Baithos, and their students. May the name of the wicked rot." [Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Chapter 10]

"... a gentile who worships false gods is liable, [for the death penalty] provided he worships them in the accepted manner [in other words, insincere worship such as (1) the mere appearance of worshipping to obtain business or social advantage, as did the Marranos, or (2) denying Jesus' divinity, does not earn the death penalty] . A gentile is executed for every type of foreign worship which a Jewish court would consider worthy of capital punishment." [Maimonides, Hilchot Melachim XI, Mishneh Torah]

The Jewish Encyclopedia affirms that the punishment for Christian "idolatry" is beheading: "Laws, Noachian," Jewish Encyclopedia entry, http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=113&letter=L

The "Noah" of the Noachide Law is not even the biblical Noah. Much like the word "Torah" makes a Christian wrongly think that the rabbis are referring to the Pentateuch or Tanakh, but actually refer to "Torah SheBeal Peh" (the Oral "Torah" that was later compiled into the Talmud and Kabbalistic books), Christians think that the "Noah" of "Noachide Law" is the biblical Noah, but wrong again. No, the Noah of the Noachide Law is most unbiblical, mocked in the rabbinical literature as an incompetent drunk incapable of fulfilling God's commission, and who compounded the sin of Adam.

"Three had a passion of agriculture [N.B. farming is an occupation of disrepute in Judaism] and no good was found in them: Cain, Noah, and Uzziah." Midrash Rabbah: Genesis I, translated by Rabbi Dr. H. Freedman (Soncino, 1983) vol. 1, p. 289.

"The rabbis teach that Noah ended as a castrate. One story has it that he was castrated by a lion while he was drunk and on his way to have intercourse and this `scattered his semen.' Alternatively the Midrash says that it was actually Ham who castrated Noah, and that Noah told Ham, `You have prevented me from doing something in the dark [having sex], therefore your seed will be ugly and dark-skinned.'" [more on Maimonides' racism later] Midrash Rabbah: Genesis I, translated by Rabbi Dr. H. Freedman (Soncino, 1983) vol. 1, p. 283.