Chance for Sheep to Join Noahide Movement

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"life as a Noahide is an end in itself, a way to be partners--if not quite equals to the Chosen People"

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The Adult Education Committee will hold an Interfaith Program on the Noahide movement on Sunday, April 26 at 11:30 a.m. Rabbi Yitzchok David Smith of Passaic on behalf of Ask Noah International will hold a program on the Noahides, or B'nei Noah--the Children of Noah.

The Noahide movement is a life based on, or starting from, the so-called Sheva Mitzvot B'nei Noah, the Seven Commandments for the Children of Noah. Derived from the Book of Genesis and elucidated in the Talmud and other traditional texts, the laws are, according to Jewish tradition, incumbent on all humanity.

Though sometimes phrased and ordered differently, the Sheva Mitzvot B'nei Noah are: (1) Do not worship false gods; (2) Do not murder; (3) Do not steal; (4) Do not be sexually immoral; (5) Do not eat a limb removed from a live animal; (6) Do not blaspheme; (7) Set up a court system.

To Noahides, these seven laws are but a starting point, the foundation on which they've built a lifestyle of obligations and voluntary observances. While others drawn so intensely to Judaism would likely convert, these non-Jews have chosen to remain outside the fold, believing that life as a Noahide is an end in itself, a way to be partners--if not quite equals to the Chosen People--in the divine plan for the world.

Unbeknownst to most Jews, there are hundreds, maybe even thousands, of Noahides, and most, are former Christians who've turned away from the faith. Noahides represent the first modern attempt to take that 2000-year-old body of theoretic writings and bring it to life as a worldwide movement.

This event on the Noahide movement is part of the Church's Interfaith Education series which is designed to promote respect and mutual understanding between all faiths and cultures by focusing on what we have common rather than on our differences. There is no charge to attend the program and all in the community are welcomed and encouraged to attend this unique educational opportunity. The program will be held at the Parish House located at 32 Ridge Road, Rutherford across from the Church.

For more information go to www.fpcrutherford.org.