Q&A Session | Can a Noahide/Non-Jew keep Shabbat?

Q&A Session: Can a Noahide/Non-Jew keep Shabbat?

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Can a Noahide/Non-Jew keep Shabbat?

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[MannaEntertainment]

What a blessing it is to see how much Rabbi Moshe has grown since this video. This was 2015, I would ask what he would say today. It is true that we are taught Halachically a non-Jew shouldn't keep Shabbat, but the Torah says even the non-Jew among you can NOT work on Shabbat. The Halacha is wrong, it needs to be re-evaluated based on Torah, and updated.

[gblades]

I am a non Jew who keeps Shabbat as best as I know how. I do all for Hashem and I love His Torah and accept His Covenant. I do not need a Rabbi to accept me...only Hashem!! We non Jews want to learn from our elder brother (Judah) but we get pushed aside with keeping Noahide Laws.

[christodoula]

"but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord, your God; you shall perform no labor, neither you, your son, your daughter, your manservant, your maidservant, your beast, nor your stranger who is in your cities." - Exodus 20:10. I am the stranger in your city, you want me to disobey?

[marylusuriano]

Question.. then does that make people like me who converted by other means and not the RCA, etc. Are Noahides? I converted with someone who claimed to be a rabbi, didn't find out he used the term rabbi to just to mean teacher. But didn't have an inordination as a rabbi.

[carrot]

The heavenly food manna rained down daily and jews in the desert went out to collect it. But on Friday, they collected double portion of manna enough for 2 days: For Friday and Shabbat. On Shabbat it didn't rained down.

[preussenuberalles]

In Shemot _(Exodus)_ 31:15 it says that whoever defiles the Shabbat by doing any kind of work shall be put to death.

This is obviously a commandment for Israelites to keep the Shabbat.

But there is no provision against Gentiles that keep the Shabbat. In fact, Gentiles in Israel were to keep it.

Just Gentiles that defiled the Shabbat or made an Israelite to break it were put to death.

But puting to death a Gentile for keeping the Shabbat?

Come on!

Where is that teaching from?

I bet that is an Ashkenazi invention since you say Shabbos.

[VYmzsd]

Hey Guys!  Its actually pretty simple...In order to completely keep shabbis (or any mitzvot) your intent has to be that you are keeping the mitzvot because you are "commanded" to do so.We (non jews) were never commanded to keep shabbis, so that aspect of the mitzvot cannot never be fulfilled, thus the answer to the question "Can a Noahide/Non-Jew keep Shabbat"  is always going to be no.A non Jew who has given up the false idols of our fathers CAN keep any of the mitzvot he chooses - as per the RamBam, this includes 99% of Shabbis activities/prohibitions. However, since we chose it out of our own free will, we were never be able to fulfill the "commanded" part. The Jew has no choice in the matter - fully keep Sabbath and the Mitzvot or else.. So, bless the creator, and enjoy this gift of choice..Keep as much or as little as you want, or don't keep any of it at all. Its up to you.. If you want "to be commanded", there is a way to do that too..get an orthodox conversion...

[victormorgado]

This was posted on my father's birthday, the very same year that I connected to Judaism through a Noahide lecture, but it wasn't until tonight that I got a straight answer about shabbat for a non jew, I feel so in peace now with my simple lightning of my candles like rav dror says, in the mean time I do feel the call to convert and celebrated shabbat the real way, but said said, it deels really good to understand where am at as a non JEw and to accept it as it is, is peaceful to me, because I no longer have a longin for something that didn;t belong to me and I instead see clear what path to follow to fullfil that longing

[Hisloyalservantslistenlovec]

Being a descendant of Abraham is like being the eldest child in a family. They have more privileges but more responsibilities. If they do not fulfill their duties then they have more consequences. A Semite has a responsibility to be an example to the world and to provide knowledge to the world. It’s deeds that make one special. Yosef was not firstborn but was special. Oscar Schindler was not Jewish but was special. In 2 kings 5 Elisha had no objections to Naaman’s statement “17 And Naaman said: 'If not, yet I pray thee let there be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth; for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt-offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD.”

[dpapaioannow]

i'm not a jew and i keep shabbat...come and get me LOL

[clva]

Respectfully I ask you Rabbi...where in Torah, does it say that if a non-Jew keeps the shabbos, he/she is to be punished or killed???

I see in torah, and Tenakh, that there is ONE-LAW for the stranger and home-born alike...I see in 1Ki 8, that when the non-Jew, after hearing of Gods great name, comes to Jerusalem from a far-away place, his sacrifice, prayer and worship will be excepted, etc.

I see, in the Tanakh, that 10 foreigners will grab a-hold of the garment of one Jew, and learn the ways of God.

Conversion is in the heart, and God does not see as a man see's, so a formal "conversion" is not for God, but for the Jewish (human-beings) people, who see with a limited sight, and it is they, who need to see "convincing-proof" of their conversion, not God.

I know that you cannot show me anywhere in the Jewish Bible where it says that a NON-JEW cannot observe the Sabbath.

In-fact, Isaiah 56:6 commends the non-jew for keeping Hashems Sabbath...I challenge you to change my mind...NOT WITH THE RABBINICAL COURT RULINGS, NOR WITH THE MYSTICAL WRITTINGS OF THE JEWISH SAGES, BUT WITH THE JEWISH BIBLE ITSELF... YOU CANNOT DO IT, I GUARANTEE IT.

Please except this challenge. Reply back to me with your answer.

[mwatts-riley]

I was taught that the Shabbot was for All peoples; it is not exclusive. As a Noahide is called to follow the 7 laws, those laws include Keeping The Sabboth? Yes. M

[michekids]

I am eternally grateful for the Mercies of HaShem and pray not to enter into competition with any flesh and that He receive Glory and Honor Forever

[fox]

It's nonsense, that the other nations are not allowed to keep Shabbat. read Jeshajahu 56:) And Isaiah 56 is not talking about Gerim...it talks about Ben HaNekhar.

[Kingalbertmax]

My great Rabbi thanks for teaching me everyday

[mwatts-riley]

God gave the Shabott to all. To everyone. How dare the Orthodox hyjack a whole law given by God to ALL;
Remember the Sabbath and to keep it Holy.
Period. This man has no dictatorship or exclusive ownership over the celebration of Shabbat.
No. He is blasphemous.
M. IL. ✡

[williamhoule]

As a religious day, no. As a day of rest, absolutely. It’s even a day that animals are to rest from work

[patrickbly]

I and my machines need a day off ... I am not making any new religion nor am I stealing anyone's traditional respect ... I recognize that the Eternal One rested from all his Creative work ...and protects me with the Jetzer Tov and reveals secret things ...My parents taught me to speak and I learned to talk to the G#D who sees me and is my Deliver

[elramoty]

yo guys should be able to convert people in a near future, there has never been an unified politically controlled conversion process fror gerim in the exile, is sad how gerim are treated that´s why there is a convertion reform under way in Osrael where rabbis can stablish the're own converstion courts, where bresleevrs wanna be converts can be treated fairly and where is not any bad treatment taking the halackha with the left side and not with rachmanut.

[imrananand]

One side rabbi get conversion process tu difficult no one supports . Rabbi always ignore and rejects . The question arises is the torah for human beings aur it is just for Jews . Why the importance of shabad is? It is time to spend with hashem, as rested for seventh day . So I thinks all human beings could keep shabad
If they could, but they have to believe in one supreme God