Israel and Humanity - The Mosaic worship obligatory for Gentile

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The Mosaic worship is optional for the Gentile.

The Mosaic is so far to replace or absorb Noachism that it rather is presented to us, the advent of the Mosaic itself as the first stage of the same scale as the Israelite must pass before profess the Mosaic law. This is so true that Israel, out of Egypt, runs through these two distinct levels: it is first introduced to Noachism and only after this initiation he received prior to the law of Moses. He would not have been so if Noachism Mosaic and had found them in the same reports that Judaism with Christianity. One imagines there, for example Christian bishops introducing first the pagan practices and beliefs Jewish before admitting them to the Church by baptism. However, on the verse of Exodus says that Moses brought to people all the words of the Lord and his commandments, we hear the doctors tell us: "The words of the Lord, what are the orders for the purity that the people must observe and their expectations at the foot of Sinai, and his commandments, are the seven precepts of Noah's son .

This religious and legal Gentile is affirmed repeatedly by the Rabbis. There is also a provision on the sacrifices that implicitly contains the Jewish doctrine about Noachides. This is the principle that we must accept the victims presented to the Temple by the Gentiles, but that we must reject those who would be made by a Jewish apostate. This assumes that the commandments of the Mosaic law are not binding on the Gentile, because if not fulfill, he was not in compliance with it, there would be no need to distinguish between him and the renegade Jew and the other one would not authorize a practice that would be for him not only a right but a duty. Contrary, the sacrifice is accepted from the hands of the Gentile is on his part that the observation of a portion of the Act to which he voluntarily subject themselves. He repeats this process, this state of affairs in which pre-Mosaic patriarchs lived sometimes watching, sometimes disregarding what later became the Jewish religion, which was then a state of religious perfection reserved for those who, whole or in part, subjected them voluntarily.

The Talmud also shows an example of a partial observation of the law in the case of this pagan woman who, having made a rash vow, uses the Rabbis to be issued .

Maimonides, in turn, expresses the same doctrine when he says that if the Noachide while observing its own law, wants to run some of the precepts of Judaism, one must not prohibit someone . Thus Judaism is so far the only religion for everyone that its practices are optional for those who are not Jewish by birth.

The refusal to accept the sacrifices of the apostate, contrary to the authority behind the "non-Jew, proves that the former is regarded as in rebellion against the law to which he is required, while free choice is left the Gentile. But the distinction we draw with respect to the latter, between the sacrifices he has to offer and those we do not accept it, is equally instructive. The authority in effect is that it receives from its hands the votive sacrifice and pure oblation to the exclusion of victims presented as an expiation of any kind whatsoever. If the Mosaic was the only way of salvation open to the Gentiles, the provisions for them are all different and certainly

might have prescribed them before accepting any propitiatory sacrifices imposed by the Act for the forgiveness of sins.

How can we imagine for a moment that the Mosaic is mandatory for everyone in the spirit of his doctors, when we see the rituals they have fixed for converting the Gentile? This is the story of Ruth, which has suggested that all the rules and became the normal type of conversion. Among the requests and instructions to the novice, we find that a warning would be sufficient by itself to prove that the Mosaic, the confession of his followers, is not imposed on the Gentile and there for him, beyond its legal requirements, another aspect of the divine law. "As long as you do not accept the Mosaic Law, Law said, if you eat meat that prohibits you are not punishable, if you violate the Sabbath, you will not incur punishment and so for all the other precepts, which means that as a Gentile did not submit voluntarily to all charges Mosaic, there is no obligation to observe it.

The ancient rabbis, it appears, are explicit on this point. The doctors later in another language are not. "Moses," says the author of Cuzari, has called for the execution of its laws as its people and those who spoke his own language. " As for Maimonides, we found under his pen a confession of faith no less explicit.

Religion for all peoples is so little that we see the Mosaic theological rigor that it will release when it comes to humanity, a point of such capital importance, for which he has always shown such zeal that one would expect to find more precisely intransigent we speak of monotheism. The fact is that Judaism has a horror of any involvement in the worship to be su-preme Being, a kind of intuition of the metaphysical trend that we see today in the other races and especially in the Aryan race, the noblest of all with the Semitic race, however, he proclaimed, as we have recalled in the first part of this work, that does not commit the Noachide of blasphemy, while addressing his cult to sovereign power and creative, it involves other people, forces or deities, because according to Jewish formula we have already quoted, speaking of Jewish monotheism, "the association (other gods to worship (the one God) has not been banned in Noachide "

Thus, not only the requirements of the Mosaic law is optional for the Gentile, but he enjoys the Jewish point of view, even in the belief that freedom is denied to the Jew. Both aspects of the universal law, and Mosaic Noachism, begin to be clear, they will emerge even more chapters.