Living Torah Archives

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.

A sword or gun, or fire or water, can affect only the physical body or the soul’s connection to the body, but never the soul itself . . .

Renowned Nazi-hunter Tuvia Friedman reveals the Rebbe’s role in his life’s work (circa 1970).

Wisdom and Torah are not identical. The Rabbis tell us that wisdom may be found in the world at large, but not Torah. When ethics come from G-d, they are unalterable. Only this formula, based on Torah, G-d’s wisdom, can make true ethical life possible. Every person must then perpetuate that life by “raising many students” — continuing to make true morality known so that all may live in true peace and harmony.