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The Jewish people have the obligation to be Ohr leGoyim (a Light unto the Nations). Israel as a nation is required to teach the non-Jews the Seven Laws of Noah, which are seven Universal categories of Law/Ethics based upon a belief in God.
Yet we as non-Jews are not without obligations to Israel ourselves. B’nei Noach has the obligation to encourage the Jews to perform this mitzvah along with the 613 mitzvot they are obligated to observe since their acceptance of the Torah at haSinai (Mount Sinai). But once you are educated and recover the truth concerning Acts 15 and the Covenant of Noah along with it's Covenant Stipulations called "Laws" then as an educated Gentile Christians or follower of Jesus then you have an even bigger responsibility before God. Study of these Covenant Laws detail often commandments and laws regarding your worship of God. Not knowing these we often fall into false worship and vain worship of God not knowing. Israel, as God's Priest and Holy Nation, was commissioned at Sinai to be a light to all non-Jewish nations whereby we might be instruced in the "Pattern of Worship" ofGod which He commanded himself.
As an "INFORMED BELIEVER" then you now also have the obligation of interfering with and stopping the missionary efforts of the “messianic” Jews and their fellow Christians which try to infect the Jewish people with their paganized form of Biblical faith which not only opposes "the Pattern of Worship" but debases it by replacing it with various forms of idolatry which is passed off as "worship" today to the unsuspecting and unknowing Gentiles. Apostasy into a man-made gentile religion is forbidden to the Jew - the Jew has an Eternal and Everlasting Relationship with God and within this Covenant is a place for the non-Jew worshiping along side the Jew according to "the Pattern" he examples to the wide world.
B’nei Yisrael (the Children of Israel [the Jewish people] have the Covenant of Faith (the Abrahamitic Covenant of Circumcision - bris milah) and the Covenant of Moses (the Wedding Ceremony under the chuppah at Mount Sinai and the acceptance of the wedding ketubah, [contract]) - the Torah of God.
Yisrael has a special relationship with God, and a special responsibility.
Exod 19:6 6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. (KJV)
B’nei Yisrael [the Sons of Israel] are the Priests of Humanity unto God, and the non-Jews are the Laymen of Humanity unto God. Being the Chosen of God includes a greater responsibility - and for the Jew it is the way of life ordained by God. Choseness implies responsibility, and the Jew has the responsibility to be Jewish - to accept and observe the entire of the Torah - the 248 positive commandments and the 365 negative prohibitions, taught in both the Written and Oral Law.
On that note let me say that conversion to Judaism is a serious matter because violation of the Laws of God is sin. The misplaced desire and zealousness for God does not need to be channeled into conversion to Judaism by the non-Jew where he stands before his personal Sinai before God and say as the Israel of old "I will do all that you say." I understand the desire and love for God that makes one yearn for God in such a way but failure to observe these other Commandments and mitzvoth that are now required by God of the non-Jewish convert renders him now a greater sinner than before and that is not the goal of our love and desire of God. God understood this desire in the heart of the non-Jew once he learns the truth about the God of Israel and allows the non-Jew to approach Him in ways that go well beyond the Covenant of Noah (like keeping the Sabbath, observing the Festivals, putting up a mezuzah, keeping kosher, tithing correctly, etc.) As non-Jews we are allowed and encouraged by God to take upon ourselves more mitzvoth and Commandments of God into our lives and incorporate them into our lives as Godfearers and Ger Toshavs. The principle can be found all through the Jewish Scriptures as well as Isa. 56. I suggest that the proper response short of conversion of the "informed believer" and educated Christian is to adopt Isa. 56 as a life-style as one's studies show him other ways whereby he might please God by going beyond the minimum.
Unlike the other religions of the world, Judaism does not believe that everyone must become "Jewish"; it neither solicit converts, nor does it suggest that everyone must follow our ways in order to approach God. Quite to the contrary! Maimonides in the laws of Kings (8:10) says: Moshe Rabbeinu (Rabbi Moses) did not give the Torah and the Commandments to anyone but Israel, as the verse says, "The Inheritance of the Congregation of Jacob." [It was also given] to anyone from the other nations who desires to convert... but we do not force anyone who does not want [to accept them] to accept the Torah and the Commandments. But even so, the Jewish religious nation is to be "a light unto the Nations" and in their siddur (prayer book) pray that the day will soon come when "all humanity will call upon Your Name... they will all accept upon themselves the yoke of your Kingship...." Has God nothing to say to gentiles?
Answer for yourself: How is a non-Jew to come close to God, to do His will? The answer is that God gave seven laws (or more accurately, seven categories of legal obligations) which are incumbent upon all humanity and are the core and center of the Covenant of Noah given to all mankind long before there was “Jews”; and they include 7 categories of Commandments with subsets under each…the following are the 7 categories:
And with this, concludes Maimonides (8:11):
Anyone who accepts these seven commandments, and is careful to do them, this person is one of the 'Pious of the Nations of the World' and has a share in the World to Come. This is provided that s/he accepts them and performs them because they are God's command, part of His Torah, which the Rabbi Moses informed the Jewish people because they were commanded previously to the sons of Noah.
Shalom.
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