Hello,

I am new to the forum. My question is how long have Noahides been around. I have recently heard of Noahides and wanted to know more. Thank you for your time. Have a nice day.

Anthony

This post was last modified: 01-02-2009 08:56 PM by Director Michael.

Noahides have been around for a very long time!

The first observers of G-d's universal commandments were Adam and Hava (Eve). Between their creation and the great flood, people increasingly abandoned the six commandments that were given to Adam and Hava and their descendents, but there were righteous individuals over the course of those generations who did keep the commandments. After the flood, G-d renewed those commandments with Noah and his family, and added a seventh. This is why they are called the "Seven Commandments for the Children of Noah," or the Seven Noahide Commandments.

Noah's son Shem maintained a house of learning where he taught the Seven Commandments, and he was joined in this effort by his righteous descendent Eber. Although people in general again were abandoning the commandments as the generations passed, and almost everyone turned to idolatry, eventually Abraham and his wife Sarah arose as a light to the nations, teaching vast numbers of people about the Noahide Commandments, and especially to worship only the One True G-d, Who created everything in the spiritual heavens and the physicial universe. Although the influence of the following Patriarchs, Isaac and Jacob, was not so far-reaching to the nations of the world, from that point on the Hebrew Bible includes mention of a number of notable Righteous Gentiles who observed the Noahide Code.

As detailed in the thread http://www.asknoah.org/forums/showthread...d=8&page=1 :
historically it is known that there were large numbers of Gentiles in the Roman Empire who lived as Righteous Gentiles, up until they were repressed by the idolatrous Roman government after the destruction of the Second Temple. We know of individual cases in Talmudic times, extending up through the past several hundred years, of Righteous Gentiles who worshiped only the One True G-d. The term "Noahide" was coined by a Rabbi in France in the late 1800's, and the Noahide path began to be publicised in the early 1900's in Europe. However this was interrupted by WWI and WWII.

After a world-wide Noahide movement was launched by the Lubavitcher Rebbe beginning in the 1980's, the number of Gentile individuals, families and communities who are turning to the Noahide faith has been constanly increasing.

This post was last modified: 07-15-2010 02:04 PM by Director Michael.

Hi p8riot76,

Well, the Biblical, Monotheistic faith that was common among non-Jews who lived in or around Israel for hundreds of years until the destruction of the second Temple, is called in Rabbinic literature "the Covenant of Bnei Noah" or the "Noahide" faith.

Judaism does not view itself as a universal religion, instead it sees itself as a national faith. There is however a basic minimum common to proper faith for non-Jews, and this is the Noahide teachings.

Thanks

This post was last modified: 10-18-2009 11:06 AM by Director Michael.

Hi,
I wanted to know about the History of Noahides but I can not find it.
I want to say thanks to you for sharing the history of Noahides.

Chukjones: even i have not complete idea regarding that, but i read somewhere that Noahidism is a monotheistic ideology based on the Seven Laws of Noah. According to Torah, non-Jews are not obligated to convert to Judaism, but they are required to observe the Seven Laws of Noah. Those who subscribe to the observance of such commandments and their supporting organizations are referred Children of Noah or Noahides.

This post was last modified: 02-23-2010 07:32 PM by Director Michael.