Living Torah Archives

Michael Tabor is an educator and musician. In 1970, as a student at the London School of Economics, he had an audience with the Rebbe. After a conversation with the Rebbe about music and the arts, he learned an important lesson that has remained with him ever since.

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

Reach out to the non-Jewish members of Knesset, as well, by promoting the Seven Noahide Laws which were given to all mankind.

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).

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.

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...

“Bring all Jews under the wings of G-d’s Divine Presence, including the ministers of the Knesset — even the non-Jewish ministers, who are obligated in the Seven Noahide Laws.

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, by promoting the observance of the Seven Noahide Laws.

“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.

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

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.