Noahide Laws, The Seven

In 1983, the Rebbe expanded his outreach campaign beyond the Jewish community to embrace all of mankind. He instructed his Chassidim to introduce the world to the Torah’s universal guide to life for all of mankind. In his talks that year, the Rebbe explai...

“G-d did not create the world for there to be chaos, but for peaceful civilization.” This unified purpose for mankind lies at the heart of the Seven Noahide Laws, which preceded even the Giving of the Torah.

Maimonides rules that every Jew was commanded at Sinai to influence all of mankind to observe the Seven Noahide Laws. Therefore, even in a place where not a single Jew seems to live, you must do everything in your power to make that place more civilized, ...

The universal mandate of divinely inspired morality is central to the Rebbe’s wider vision of Judaism as a path that will ultimately raise the entire world to a higher station.

Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin served for over three decades as Assistant Chief of Chaplains of the US Army. The Rebbe taught him that being a Jewish chaplain is not only about ministering to Jews (circa 1986).

I am very occupied now with spreading the Seven Noahide Laws for all mankind. When all people will follow these laws, it will also make easier our work as Jews.

All human beings are commanded to believe in G-d. But must they “trust” in Him, as well?

It happened once on Shabbos that in the midst of prayer, the Alter Rebbe removed his Tallis and went to the edge of the town. There, he found a woman who had just given birth. The Alter Rebbe had sensed that she needed help...

In the early 1980s, the Rebbe began to speak on the importance of raising awareness about the Seven Laws of Noah among non-Jews.

Maimonides rules that a non-Jew must keep the Seven Noahide Laws, not because he agrees with them intellectually, but because they were commanded to him by G-d, through Moses at Sinai.