Jews/Goyim and Noahide Laws?

Question

How many are familiar with these terms, beliefs and laws? please elaborate.

Answer 1

The Noahide Campaign refers to a campaign by Orthodox Jews of the Chabad movement to influence all non-Jews to follow the Noahide Laws. This was one of the Mitzvah campaigns of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of Chabad.

Aside from prescribing laws for Jews, the Torah contains a universal moral code directed to all non-Jews, known as the Noahide laws. Briefly, this code forbids non-Jews from murder, blasphemy, idolatry, adultery, robbery, tearing off flesh from a living animal and consuming it, and failing to set up courts of justice to enforce the above laws.

Rabbi Schneerson taught that according to Maimonides, the Jewish people were entrusted with the mission of promoting this message to all mankind, but have been largely unable to carry it out historically due to the threat of religious persecution.

He believed that without these laws it is impossible for non-Jews to attain true ethical behavior and that in general, non-Jews are still wanting in basic observance of the Noahide Code, never mind complete observance.

He taught that the Messianic age is imminent, and concluded that it is therefore vital to help prepare non-Jews for that age by teaching them the Noahide Code. He taught that the closer we draw to this age, the more important this activity becomes. He predicted that non-Jews will be receptive, as they sense subconsciously that they need the Noahide Code.

The Rebbe called numerous times to involve every single Jew in this campaign, whether great scholars, Jewish community workers, lay leaders, or simple laborers, pointing out that Maimonides obliges everyone to join. The Rebbe especially charged all his Shluchim with this task, and emphasized that it even involves reaching out to non-Jews in places uninhabited by Jews.

He deduced from this that failure to engage in this campaign is also detrimental to Jews living among non-Jews. Conversely, he declared that concerted efforts to promote the Noahide Code carry the secondary advantages of bringing material prosperity and boosting Jewish pride.  He emphasized that G–d surely grants every single individual the ability and opportunity to play an active role in the Noahide Campaign.

He instructed Jews to delve into the relevant Torah sources; he said that this will infuse one with additional inspiration to implement this campaign. He declared that one should not suffice with influencing one individual, or with teaching on a superficial level; rather, large group classes must be established to teach the Noahide laws in all their details, and not just the dry do’s and don’ts, but the mystical meaning underlying these laws.

He maintained that Jews must promote awareness of what he maintained to be their divinely appointed role to teach the Noahide Code until this role becomes world-famous. He predicted that not only will non-Jews accept this message, but they will even assist the Jewish people in this task. Similarly, he taught that Jews must publicize amongst non-Jews the concept of G–d’s Absolute Unity as taught by Chasidic philosophy until it too becomes world-famous.

He believed that creating Noahide communities of many thousands is an attainable goal. Moreover, he taught that non-Jews themselves should be urged to actively spread the Noahide laws, such that the numbers of Noahides will multiply exponentially until the Noahide movement encompasses all mankind.