Lecture 2

15:00 – 16:00

Noahide History 101

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Rabbi Yermihau Bindman

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Lecture 1: The Torah has a Place for Noahides; Six Commandments in the Garden; Noah the Just Man among lawbreakers. A Sacrifice and a Covenant.

Lecture 2: The Tower of Babel, a Sin of Idolatry. The Creation of Different Languages. Shem and Ever teach the Seven Laws. The Patriarchs and the Seven Laws; Moses and the Giving of the Law; a Greek attack on the Seven Laws; Chanukah; “Godfearers” in the Greek and Roman worlds; the emperor Julian and the Seven Laws.

Lecture 3: Destruction of the Temple; rise of ch’ristianity; The Seven Laws submerged; pockets of “ Judaizers”; Reformation and interest in the Seven Laws; Dialogue in Holland; the Seven Laws and the foundation of America.

Lecture 4: The quest of Aime Palliere, a 19th Centure Noahide

Lecture 5: Freedom and “commandments”; United States and Congress resolves that the Seven Laws are the “bedrock of civilization”; simple laws anyone can understand.

Lecture 6: The Seven Laws listed; no obligation to Convert to Judaism; the Kabbalah and the Ten Sefirot; the seven emotional attributes and the Seven Emotional Sefirot.

Lecture 7: The commandment against sexual misconduct; relationship of this commandment to chessed or “kindness”; prohibition against incest, adultery; the value of Marriage; rules for marriage; prohibition of homosexuality; rules for divorce; rules for polygamy; AIDS; different natures for men and women; the importance of boundaries.

Lecture 8: Sexual immorality as « joking » ; sexual misconduct and depression; the repugnant sin of incest; the ridiculous sin of bestiality; the accepted sin of homosexual behavior; the common sin of adultery; real intimacy; relation of this commandments to the color blue.

Lecture 9: The commandment against murder, relationship of the commandment to gevurah or “strength”; the obligation of capital punishment; permitted forms of capital punishment; prohibition against amputation and scarring as punishment; prohibition against abortion except to save the mother’s life; military defense; prohibition against euthanasia; prohibition against suicide; relationship of this commandment to the color red.

Lecture 10: The commandment against theft; the first sin in the garden; relationship of this commandment to tiferet or ”beauty”; ownership as power to act in a Godly way; definition of theft; property transactions; usury and the great misunderstanding; slavery; concealed theft; effect of theft on the personality; unfair gain and rules for business transactions; relationship to the color yellow.

Lecture 11: The commandments against idolatry and blasphemy;relationship of these commandments to netsach “eternity” and hod ”glory”; Ha|Shem’s rulership and love; how the world slipped into idol worship; non-Jewish world” religions” as a step up from idolatry.

Lecture 12: The trouble with intermediaries; Nazism and the generation of te flood; communism and the generation of the tower of Babel; the defeat of Nazism and communism; why HaShem allows misdeeds; superstitious beliefs’ astrology’ palmistry; direct contact with divinity; Jewish Festivals.