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History of Noahides
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Noahides have been around for a very long time!

The first observers of G-d's universal commandments were Adam and Hava (Eve). Between their creation and the great flood, people increasingly abandoned the six commandments that were given to Adam and Hava and their descendents, but there were righteous individuals over the course of those generations who did keep the commandments. After the flood, G-d renewed those commandments with Noah and his family, and added a seventh. This is why they are called the "Seven Commandments for the Children of Noah," or the Seven Noahide Commandments.

Noah's son Shem maintained a house of learning where he taught the Seven Commandments, and he was joined in this effort by his righteous descendant Eber. Although people in general again were abandoning the commandments as the generations passed, and almost everyone turned to idolatry, eventually Abraham and his wife Sarah arose as a light to the nations, teaching vast numbers of people about the Noahide Commandments, and especially to worship only the One True G-d, Who created everything in the spiritual heavens and the physical universe. Although the influence of the following Patriarchs, Isaac and Jacob, was not so far-reaching to the nations of the world, from that point on the Hebrew Bible includes mention of a number of notable Righteous Gentiles who observed the Noahide Code.

As detailed in the thread https://asknoah.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=8&page=1 :
historically it is known that there were large numbers of Gentiles in the Roman Empire who lived as Righteous Gentiles, up until they were repressed by the idolatrous Roman government after the destruction of the Second Temple. We know of individual cases in Talmudic times, extending up through the past several hundred years, of Righteous Gentiles who worshiped only the One True G-d. The term "Noahide" was used by a Rabbi in France in the late 1800's, and the Noahide path began to be publicized in the early 1900's in Europe. However this was interrupted by WWI and WWII.

After a world-wide Noahide movement was launched by the Lubavitcher Rebbe beginning in the 1980's, the number of Gentile individuals, families and communities who are turning to the Noahide faith has been constantly increasing.
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Historical Ger Toshav & Heaven Fearers - by Mike - 07-25-2007, 12:43 PM
RE: History of Noahides - by Director Michael - 08-07-2015, 04:41 PM

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