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What Torah commandments may a Noahide do? - Director Michael - 08-30-2026
Quote:In The Divine Code, Part I ("Fundamentals of the Faith"), Chapter 3, Topic 6, it is stated: If a Gentile wants to do one of the other commandments from the Torah in order to receive a practical benefit (but not as a direct commandment), we do not prevent him from doing so, even according to its correct laws for Jews..." What other commandments is it referring to?
In addition to the Seven Noahide commandments themselves, there are some Jewish commandments which should be observed by Gentiles as logical offshoots of the Seven Commandments. Those are discussed in the other parts of the book under the headings of each one of the Seven Commandments. For example, as offshoots of the Noahide commandment that forbids idolatry, Gentiles should also observe the prohibitions listed in Part II, Chapter 11 (deceitful magic, sorcery, divining, soothsaying, charming dangerous creatures, and necromancy). As examples of the Noahide commandment that forbids murder and injury, Gentiles should also observe the prohibitions listed in Part V, Chapter 8 (embarrassing others, evil gossip, slander and tale-bearing). Numerous other commandments that are to be observed by Gentiles as offshoots of the Seven Commandments are discussed throughout the book.
Those are not the other commandments which the sentence you cited from Part I, Chapter 3, is referring to. There, and in the following topics in that chapter, it refers only to:
a) the particular commandments in the Torah which generate a practical, logical, natural benefit;
b) those which are the correct way for a person to act as matters of human decency (those are actually duty-bound by logic); and
c) prohibitions for the sake of guarding one's self against transgression, or to establish a correct and orderly society.
The text in the book gives a number of examples. You can read that chapter, and all of the preceding chapters, in this PDF file:
https://asknoah.org/wp-content/uploads/fundamentals-faith-chapters1-3.pdf