Disseminating the Seven Commandments of the Noahide Children
Hello Rabbi,
Is there an (existential) mitzvah for an individual, in our day, to spread the Seven Commandments of the Children of Noah to the Gentiles? Can we learn this from the words of Rabbi ben Maimonides:
“And you shall be to me” – the intention is not only the connection, but rather the intention in the article “and you” which necessarily follows from what preceded and followed from it, that you yourselves shall be a kingdom of priests.
And the interpretation of the Kingdom of Priests is that the priest of each community is the leader who is its honorable one and its example, that the people of the community will follow in his footsteps and find the right path through him, and he said, “You shall be the leaders of the world in keeping my Torah. Your relationship with them is like the relationship of the priest to his community. The world shall follow in your footsteps and they shall imitate your deeds and walk in your ways.” Is this the reason I received in this commentary (of the Bible) from Abba Mari, the late?
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There is no doubt that it is appropriate to bring a person to fulfill his duty to his Creator. But if the question is a formal halachic one, whether or not there is such a mitzvah, as far as I understand, no.
There is a good reason to follow the Meiri, who claims that the Gentiles of our time are not like the ancient nations, because they are bound by the manners of the nations and therefore all halakhic differences between them and Israel are null and void (meaning the confiscation of their loans, interest, saving them on the Sabbath, etc., not marriage with them). According to this, perhaps there is also a duty to prove and not stand for the blood of your neighbor towards them, and then perhaps there is also a halakhic source.
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According to the Meiri method, there is a proof that you will prove your *fellow*? This is talking about the sons of Noah?
According to him, then, they took upon themselves the seven commandments?
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I.e., how does the Rabbi see the reference of the seven commandments, is it a commandment that creates or fulfills or is created from a sabbath or the LBM? etc.
I don't know. I said in a possible way.
I didn't understand what you asked about the acceptance. The Meiri doesn't claim that they accepted before the court, but even without that they have the law of a resident alien. And that's what Rabbi Kook and others concluded from it (that there is no need for acceptance before the court when there is a presumption that this is the case).
I don't know.
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