Noahide laws (Seven laws of Noah)
Author: Steven J Caswell
Website: MessiahsLove.com
First International Congress of Noahides Set for Jerusalem This November
November 2-6 2026
International Congress of Noahide laws
The congress, scheduled from November 2 through 6, will unfold under the formal recognition of the State of Israel. On the final day, six continental representatives will convene at the official residence of Israeli President Isaac Herzog to read the Declaration of the Founding in their own languages and present the signed charter. The moment is being framed by the organizers as nothing less than the launch of a new chapter in the relationship between Israel and the nations.
For the first time in history, tens of thousands of non-Jews who have voluntarily embraced the Seven Laws of Noah are no longer scattered and stateless. They have an address: Yerushalayim (Jerusalem.) This November, the Brit Olam Noahide World Center will host the First International Congress of Noahides in the eternal capital, bringing together delegates from six continents to formally establish the World Noahide Movement — complete with a founding charter, a rabbinic court, regional councils, and a financial infrastructure designed to sustain a global religious civilization.
Worshiping Yeshua under these laws is worthy of decapitation because they view it as idolatry. Although there are Jews who have come to know Yeshua is Messiah, the Orthodox Jews don’t credit Yeshua as being Messiah because they don’t think he has yet come the first time. They thought he would come in power the first time but when he came as a servant they didn’t know he is Messiah. Even though he fulfilled all the prophecies about Messiah they have been blind to it for a long time.
In Judaism, the Seven Laws of Noah (Hebrew: שבע מצוות בני נח, Sheva Mitzvot B’nei Noach), otherwise referred to as the Noahide Laws or the Noachian Laws (from the Hebrew pronunciation of “Noah”), are a set of universal moral laws which, according to the Talmud, were given by God as a covenant with Noah and with the “sons of Noah”—that is, all of humanity.
The rainbow is the unofficial symbol of Noahidism, recalling the Genesis flood narrative in which a rainbow appears to Noah after the Flood. It represents Elohim’s promise to Noah to refrain from flooding the Earth and destroying all life again.
The Seven Laws of Noah consist of prohibitions against worshipping idols, cursing God, murder, adultery and sexual immorality, theft, eating flesh torn from a living animal, as well as the obligation to establish courts of justice.
According to Jewish law, non-Jews (Gentiles) are not obligated to convert to Judaism, but they are required to observe the Seven Laws of Noah to be assured of a place in the World to Come (Olam Ha-Ba), the final reward of the righteous. The Goyim that choose to follow the Seven Laws of Noah are regarded as “Righteous Gentiles” (Hebrew: חסידי אומות העולם, Chassiddei Umot ha-Olam: “Pious People of the World”).
The Seven Laws of Noah as traditionally enumerated in the Babylonian Talmud (Sanhedrin 56a-b) and Tosefta (Avodah
Zarah 9:4), are the following:
Not to worship idols.
Not to curse God.
Not to commit murder.
Not to commit adultery or sexual immorality.
Not to steal.
Not to eat flesh torn from a living animal.
To establish courts of justice.
According to the Talmud, the seven Noahide laws were given first to Adam and later to Noah. The Tannaitic and Amoraitic rabbinic sages (1st–6th centuries CE) disagreed on the exact number of Noahide laws that were originally given to Adam. Six of the seven laws were exegetically derived from passages in the Book of Genesis, with the seventh being the establishment of courts of justice. The earliest complete rabbinic version of the seven Noahide laws can be found in the Tosefta.
NOTE: The Tosefta (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: תוספתא, romanized: tosep̄tā “supplement, addition”) is a compilation of Jewish Oral Law from the late second century CE, the period of the Mishnah and the Jewish sages known as the Tannaim.
Seven commandments were commanded of the sons of Noah:
concerning adjudication (dinim)
concerning idolatry (avodah zarah)
concerning blasphemy (qilelat ha-Shem)
concerning sexual immorality (gilui arayot)
concerning blood-shed (shefikhut damim)
concerning robbery (gezel)
concerning a limb torn from a living animal (ever min ha-hay)
Tannaim (Amoraic Hebrew: תנאים [tannɔʔim] ‘repeaters, teachers’, singular tanna תנא [tanˈnɔː], borrowed from Aramaic) were rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, approximately from 10–220 CE. The period of the Tannaim, also referred to as the Mishnaic period, lasted aproximately 210 years. It came after the period of the Zugot (“Pairs”) and was followed immediately by the period of the Amoraim (“Interpreters”). The root tannā (תנא) is the Aramaic equivalent of the Hebrew root shānā (שנה), which also is the Semitic root found in the word Mishnah. The meaning of Shana is ‘to repeat [what one was taught]’ and is used to mean ‘to learn’.
The Mishnaic period is commonly divided into five time periods which correspond to the generations. There are approximately 120 known Tannaim.
The Tannaim lived in several areas of Roman-ruled southern Levant. The spiritual center of Judaism at that time was in Yerushalayim, but after the destruction of the city and the Second Temple, Yohanan ben Zakkai and his students founded a new Council of Jamnia. Additional places of learning were founded by his students in Lod and in Bnei Brak.
Some Tannaim worked as laborers (e.g., charcoal burners, cobblers) in addition to their positions as teachers and legislators. They were also leaders of the people and negotiators with the Roman Empire.
Author: Steven J Caswell
Website: MessiahsLove.com
First International Congress of Noahides Set for Jerusalem This November
November 2-6 2026
International Congress of Noahide laws
The congress, scheduled from November 2 through 6, will unfold under the formal recognition of the State of Israel. On the final day, six continental representatives will convene at the official residence of Israeli President Isaac Herzog to read the Declaration of the Founding in their own languages and present the signed charter. The moment is being framed by the organizers as nothing less than the launch of a new chapter in the relationship between Israel and the nations.
For the first time in history, tens of thousands of non-Jews who have voluntarily embraced the Seven Laws of Noah are no longer scattered and stateless. They have an address: Yerushalayim (Jerusalem.) This November, the Brit Olam Noahide World Center will host the First International Congress of Noahides in the eternal capital, bringing together delegates from six continents to formally establish the World Noahide Movement — complete with a founding charter, a rabbinic court, regional councils, and a financial infrastructure designed to sustain a global religious civilization.
Worshiping Yeshua under these laws is worthy of decapitation because they view it as idolatry. Although there are Jews who have come to know Yeshua is Messiah, the Orthodox Jews don’t credit Yeshua as being Messiah because they don’t think he has yet come the first time. They thought he would come in power the first time but when he came as a servant they didn’t know he is Messiah. Even though he fulfilled all the prophecies about Messiah they have been blind to it for a long time.
In Judaism, the Seven Laws of Noah (Hebrew: שבע מצוות בני נח, Sheva Mitzvot B’nei Noach), otherwise referred to as the Noahide Laws or the Noachian Laws (from the Hebrew pronunciation of “Noah”), are a set of universal moral laws which, according to the Talmud, were given by God as a covenant with Noah and with the “sons of Noah”—that is, all of humanity.
The rainbow is the unofficial symbol of Noahidism, recalling the Genesis flood narrative in which a rainbow appears to Noah after the Flood. It represents Elohim’s promise to Noah to refrain from flooding the Earth and destroying all life again.
The Seven Laws of Noah consist of prohibitions against worshipping idols, cursing God, murder, adultery and sexual immorality, theft, eating flesh torn from a living animal, as well as the obligation to establish courts of justice.
According to Jewish law, non-Jews (Gentiles) are not obligated to convert to Judaism, but they are required to observe the Seven Laws of Noah to be assured of a place in the World to Come (Olam Ha-Ba), the final reward of the righteous. The Goyim that choose to follow the Seven Laws of Noah are regarded as “Righteous Gentiles” (Hebrew: חסידי אומות העולם, Chassiddei Umot ha-Olam: “Pious People of the World”).
The Seven Laws of Noah as traditionally enumerated in the Babylonian Talmud (Sanhedrin 56a-b) and Tosefta (Avodah
Zarah 9:4), are the following:
Not to worship idols.
Not to curse God.
Not to commit murder.
Not to commit adultery or sexual immorality.
Not to steal.
Not to eat flesh torn from a living animal.
To establish courts of justice.
According to the Talmud, the seven Noahide laws were given first to Adam and later to Noah. The Tannaitic and Amoraitic rabbinic sages (1st–6th centuries CE) disagreed on the exact number of Noahide laws that were originally given to Adam. Six of the seven laws were exegetically derived from passages in the Book of Genesis, with the seventh being the establishment of courts of justice. The earliest complete rabbinic version of the seven Noahide laws can be found in the Tosefta.
NOTE: The Tosefta (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: תוספתא, romanized: tosep̄tā “supplement, addition”) is a compilation of Jewish Oral Law from the late second century CE, the period of the Mishnah and the Jewish sages known as the Tannaim.
Seven commandments were commanded of the sons of Noah:
concerning adjudication (dinim)
concerning idolatry (avodah zarah)
concerning blasphemy (qilelat ha-Shem)
concerning sexual immorality (gilui arayot)
concerning blood-shed (shefikhut damim)
concerning robbery (gezel)
concerning a limb torn from a living animal (ever min ha-hay)
Tannaim (Amoraic Hebrew: תנאים [tannɔʔim] ‘repeaters, teachers’, singular tanna תנא [tanˈnɔː], borrowed from Aramaic) were rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, approximately from 10–220 CE. The period of the Tannaim, also referred to as the Mishnaic period, lasted aproximately 210 years. It came after the period of the Zugot (“Pairs”) and was followed immediately by the period of the Amoraim (“Interpreters”). The root tannā (תנא) is the Aramaic equivalent of the Hebrew root shānā (שנה), which also is the Semitic root found in the word Mishnah. The meaning of Shana is ‘to repeat [what one was taught]’ and is used to mean ‘to learn’.
The Mishnaic period is commonly divided into five time periods which correspond to the generations. There are approximately 120 known Tannaim.
The Tannaim lived in several areas of Roman-ruled southern Levant. The spiritual center of Judaism at that time was in Yerushalayim, but after the destruction of the city and the Second Temple, Yohanan ben Zakkai and his students founded a new Council of Jamnia. Additional places of learning were founded by his students in Lod and in Bnei Brak.
Some Tannaim worked as laborers (e.g., charcoal burners, cobblers) in addition to their positions as teachers and legislators. They were also leaders of the people and negotiators with the Roman Empire.