The Divine Code The Guide to Observing the Noahide Code, Revealed from Mount Sinai in the Torah of Moses

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Contents Editor’s Preface by Dr. Michael Schulman Author’s Introduction Part I: Fundamentals of the Faith Introduction by Rabbi Dr. J. Immanuel Schochet 1. Awareness of God; 2. Proselytizers and False Prophets 3. The Prohibition Against Making a New Religion or Adding a Commandment 4. Liability to Divine and Earthly Punishments 5. Torah Study for Gentiles 6. Serving God; Prayer and Grace After Meals 7. Sacrificial Offerings 8. Obligatory Moral Conduct 9. Repentance Part II: The Prohibition of Idolatry Introduction by Rabbi Dr. J. Immanuel Schochet 1. The Prohibition of Idol Worship 2. The Prohibition of Turning to Idol Worship 3. Which Actions Make One Liable for Idol Worship 4. The Service of Moleĥ 5. Forbidden Statues, Images and Pillars 6. The Prohibition of Creating a New Religion 7. The Obligation to Eliminate Idol Worship, and the Prohibition of Benefiting from It 8. Aspects of Idolatry from which Benefit is Allowed, and Nullification of Idols 9. Objects Offered to Idols, and Decorations of Idols 10. The Prohibition Against Aiding Idol Worshipers 11. Practices that are Forbidden as Customs of Idol Worshipers 12. The Prohibition of Swearing or Vowing in the Name of an Idol Part III: The Prohibition of Blasphemy Introduction by Rabbi Dr. J. Immanuel Schochet 1. The Obligation to Respect God’s Name, and What is Forbidden as Blasphemy 2. Obligations to Revere and Fear God 3. Laws of Vows and Promises 4. Annulment of Vows and Promises, and Vows Made According to the Public’s Understanding Part IV: The Prohibition of Eating Meat That was Separated from a Living Animal Including Restriction on Causing Suffering to Living Creatures, Mating Different Species of Animals, and Grafting Different Species of Fruit Trees Introduction by Dr. Joe M. Regenstein 1. Permissions and Prohibitions for Gentiles Regarding Meat; Species for which Meat from a Living Animal is Forbidden 2. Which Parts from Living Animals are Prohibited to be Eaten 3. The Prohibition of Separating Meat from an Animal that is Living or in the Process of Dying, and Restrictions on Consuming such Meat after the Animal’s Death 4. Maimed or Broken Limbs 5. The Precepts Pertaining to a Fetus, and to Eggs 6. Deriving Benefit from Meat Severed from Living Animals; Cases with a Doubt, and Mixtures with Forbidden Meat 7. Restrictions on Causing Suffering to a Living Creature 8. The Prohibition of Mating Different Species of Animals 9. The Prohibition of Grafting Different Species of Fruit Tress Part V: The Prohibition of Murder and Injury Introduction by Dr. Michael Schulman 1. Details of the Prohibition of Murder; 2. Suicide, and Sacrificing One’s Life for One of the Seven Noahide Commandments 3. Laws of a Pursuer and Self Defense; Saving the Life of a Woman in Danger from Childbirth 4. An Accidental Killer’s Obligation for Exile 5. Inentional and Unintentional Killing, and Killing Through Negligence or Under Duress 6. The Prohibition of Causing Personal Injury or Damage 7. The Prohibition of Endangering Oneself or Another, and the Obligation to Save a Person’s Life 8. The Prohibitions of Embarrassing Another Person, Evil Gossip, and Talebearing 9. Reproductive Sterilization, Contraception, Emitting Semen “in Vain,”and the Severity of the Sin of Murder Part VI: The Prohibition of Forbidden Relations Including Precepts Related to Marriage, Divorce, Marital Relations, and Being Alone with a Forbidden Partner Introduction by Arthur A. Goldberg 1. Categories of Sexual Partners and Acts that are Forbidden 2. The Prohibition of Homosexual and Bestial Relations 3. The Prohibition of Relations with Other Men’s Wives; 4. Precepts Related to Marriage, Fornication and Divorce 5. Precepts Related to Spilling Semen, and Contraception 6. Guarding Against Forbidden Relations, and Following Ways of Modesty 7. Prohibitions Related to Being Alone with a Forbidden Partner Part VII: The Prohibition of Theft Introduction by Rabbi Moshe Weiner 1. The Prohibition of Theft 2. Laws of Returning Stolen Objects, and Restitution for Theft 3. The Prohibitions of Aiding or Having Benefit from Theft or Buying Stolen Property, and the Laws of Unintentional Theft 4. Laws of Saving Oneself or One’s Property at the Expense of Another’s Money; Taking the Law into One’s Own Hands 5. Theft Incurred by False Measurements, and the Prohibition of Cheating or Misinforming Another Person 6. The Prohibitions of Extortion and Forcing a Sale 7. Laws of Borrowing, Renting, Responsibility for an Entrusted Item, and Holding Collateral for a Loan 8. Stealing or Encroaching Upon Real Estate Property 9. The Prohibition of Kidnapping; Stealing Enslaved Persons 10. The Prohibtion of Rape, and Laws of Taking Captives 11. Bodily Injury and Damaging Another’s Property 12. The Laws of a Delinquent Debtor and One Who Withholds Payment Owed to a Hired Person 13. The Laws of a Worker in Regard to the Employer 14. Government Authority; Laws of Land Conquered in War 15. Laws of Ownerless Items and Finding Lost Objects 16. Maintaining Peace in Society by Forbidding Acts Similar to Theft Part VIII: Establishment of Laws and Courts Introduction by Rabbi Dr. Shimon D. Cowen 1. The Obligation for a Gentile Society to Set Up a Judicial System 2. The Prohibition Against Perverting the Course of Justice or Taking a Bribe 3. Monetary Laws, and Laws of Mediation and Arbitration 4. Societal Morality and the Obligation of Doing Kindness Appendix: The Pious Gentile and the Ger Toshav in Torah Law