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Articles: Introducing the First Covenant

Central to the main organizing purpose of the Bible, the First Covenant's seven laws make up the backbone, the basis, of all true civilization (see the official resolution of the United States Congress, below).

• Joint Resolution of the United States Congress
  (March 20, 1991. Public Law 102-14)
• Noah and 9/11 New York Times
• The Constitutionally Religious United States
• Good Reading [some book recommendations]
• Noah, Meet Jacob
• Israel: Not the Point, Just the Instrument
  from Rabbi Dr. J.H. Hertz
• Rainbow Covenant, the illustrated version

Noah, Meet Jacob

• How Non-Jews Will Save Judaism - A call to action:
  No Holds Barred: Non-Jews as the Saviors of Judaism, by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, in The Jerusalem Report of November 16, 2010. Also, read our comments about this action-program in connection with the First Covenant, posted right below it.
• How Odd of God. . . the Torah-system at work:
  life stories - from Abraham to Einstein,
  Paula Abdul, "Captain Kirk," "Indiana Jones," etc.

  
William Shatner                                          Photo by Joe Rosenthal, Associated Press

• Abortion - What's the Law?
  by Michael Dallen
• 'Proto-Islam' Rocks! from The Covenant Connection,
  January 2010
• What Happens to the Rothschilds? / What's
  to Learn When Jews Succeed?   (How does
  prophecy get realized in history and the news?)
• Belief in God in a God-denying Age
  "Science" and disbelief versus real science, common sense
  and logic in the face of God's unfolding larger Plan
• The Revolutionaries, Torah Portion for February 19, 2011,
  Exodus 30:11 - 3:35, by Michael Dallen
• "Avatar" and Pantheism - Heaven and Nature, "Atheism
  Made Sexy": the New Religion, by Ross Douthat
  (New York Times) *New*
• If You Were God - The Problem
  by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan
• Questions from an Atheist  courtesy of e-Kiruv's "Ask the Rabbi"
• Fulfilling Our Biblical Mandate by Rabbi S. Boteach
• Israel's Lost Mission Statement by Rabbi S. Boteach
• A Letter from Jerusalem to our B'nai Noach friends by
  Yosef Ben Shlomo Hakohen
• The Holy Names of God by Michael Dallen
• Judaism: Openness and Toleration from Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
• Does History Point to God?
  charts from John C.L. Hulley
• Prophecy fulfilled again: Commandments,
  Statutes, and Circumcision by Michael Dallen
  - listen to The Circumcision Song (sounds like reggae),
  courtesy of the British Broadcasting Corp. - and
  "U.S. Officials Weigh Circumcision to Cut HIV Risk"
  The New York Times, August 24, 2009
• How is Rainbow Covenant received among
  "the experts," such as Jewish religious scholars?
• Eternal Life/Soul of Fire looking into the beyond (and into Kaddish, Israel's famous, remarkable 'Prayer for the Dead') by Ethan Dor-Shav
• The Book of Job: a New Interpretation - Job's Path to Enlightenment by Ethan Dor-Shav, in Azure ("Ideas for the Jewish Nation")
• Sex and Gender Roles: Sexual Egalitarianism and the Jews
  by Rabbi Avi Shafran
• Sex, Gender and Justice, from the journal Nature and The New York Times
• Hebrew Dictionary - Metaphysics (plus, links to more by Ethan Dor-Shav)
• The Reappearance of God-Fearers in Our Time by Prof. James D. Tabor
• El, God of Abraham Why did men like Freud and Einstein reject their fathers' God? Why aren't Jews more religious? by Michael Dallen
• Musician/poet Leonard Cohen, "the little Jew who wrote the Bible"
  Interview by Arthur Kurzweil and Pamela Roth
• Hatian Earthquake, Voodoo, and the Culture of No Improvement: The Underlying Tragedy, by The New York Times' David Brooks
• Does the Talmud Speak Ill of Non-Jews? by Michael Dallen

First Covenant spirituality and observance

In ancient times the Children of Israel called them "God-fearers." In modern times, after the Holocaust and destruction of the Jews in Europe, Israel calls the heroic souls who tried to save their fellows from the Nazis' genocide "righteous gentiles." The righteous men and women of every nation, according to the Torah (Sinai's "Guide" or "Teaching"), are blessed. Today, those who consciously try to keep the Seven Noahide laws - the seven sacred touchstones of true ethics and morality - which constitute the basic, ancient Universal Law are frequently called Noahides.

• Haiti: Earthquake and Tsunami and the Seven Noahide Laws
  by Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski
• Beginnings: the first international noahide conference,
  1990 by Jack E. Saunders
• Noahides 2.0: Internet Fuels Non-Jewish Interest
  in the Seven Laws of Noah_(June 22, 2009) by Ben Harris,
  Jewish Telegraphic Agency - and see Torah-Based Noahism
  (August 6, 2009), by Michael Dallen,
  for the story behind the story
• Covenant ("What's a Covenant?")
• A Noahide Family's Journey
  Two b'nai No'ach commit to God, begin to learn and practice Torah,
  and endeavor to successfully transmit that culture of goodness
  to succeeding generations,
  by Kal Taylor
• The Seven Principles
• Stranger In a Strange Land,
  by Shlomo Riskin, Jerusalem Post
• Switching Horses in Mid-Stream
  by Andrea M. Chester
• Prayer, How Should Noahides Pray?
• Sabbath For Everyone by Rabbi S. Boteach
• Is the Sabbath Universal? by Rev. Jack E. Saunders
• Entrepreneurs Find Ways to Make Technology
  Work With the Jewish Sabbath
  by Dan Levin, The New York Times
• Astrology, by Dimitar Kosev
• Praying For Rain (observations on reactions to drought,
  from the Biblical point of view) by Jack E. Saunders
• Celebrating Creation by Rabbi David Eidensohn
• The First Two (of the Ten) Commandments
  by Rabbi David Eidensohn
• Law of the Torn Limb
• Dishonesty and Holiness
• Prayer, an open-source movement
• First Covenant Religion (and Maimonides)
• First Covenant Worship, Holy Days and Rituals
• Sabbath and holiness
• Universal holidays
• The Original Bible
• The Rainbow Connection
• From Minister to Torah Observant Noahide
  by Jack Saunders
• God Saves, with or Without Jesus
  by Robert Lido (from our blog)
• Developing a Correct Concept of the Creator
  by Jack Saunders
• The Universal Torah
• Background: the First Covenant
• What is the Hebrew Revolution?
  by Michael Dallen
• Biblical Riddles (Creation theories, evolution, biblical census
  figures, and other puzzles)
• Science, the Hebrew Calendar, and the "Adam Gene"
  by Michael Dallen
• The Seven Laws of Noah and the Non-Jews Who Follow Them
  by Michael Kress, Moment Magazine
• New Noahide Prayerbook by the Oklahoma B'nai Noach Society
• Keep the Seven, Go to Heaven   by Chaim Revier,
  Mishpacha Magazine
• Building Noahides' Ark by Karin Kloosterman, Jerusalem Post
• Are Noahides Obligated to Sanctify the Name of God? (Noahide Conference Address, June 26, 2008) by Rabbi Michael Katz
• The Significance of Torah Conversations in the Bible by Rabbi Michael Katz
• Jew and Noahide by Rabbi David Eidensohn
• The Donkey of Bila'am by Rabbi David Eidensohn
• Noahides and the Torah from Rabbi M.M. Schneerson
• Symposium: What Does it Mean to Keep the Law?

[A scholarly conversation, including the articles Man of Faith and Man of Law and Legalism and Spirituality. Ten papers posted before January, 2007. Papers by Alan W. Cecil, Jeremy Lawson, Adam Penrod, Michael Dallen, and Rev. Jack E. Saunders]

• Noahide Rebirth, 1990 (Report from a conference on the modern rebirth of the Noahide movement) by Rabbi Michael Katz

Biblical studies/Torah studies

Suppose you come from the vast majority of humankind, the more than 99.75 percent of humanity which isn't Jewish. In Hebrew thinking, you're a gentile, a Noahide, one of the non-Hebrew descendants of Noah. One who studies the First Covenant's Universal Law sincerely, in order to do God's will and come closer to Him, receives infinite blessing. According to the Torah, that person shall attain the same heights of perfection as Israel's own High Priest.

• Evangelical Christians and Israel
  by Yosef Ben Shlomo Hakohen
• From the Office of the Priest [a new First Covenant series!]:
  "Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me," or
  "Why the Rebbe's Picture Isn't Before Me" *NEW!*
  by Shmuel Yitzchak ben Aaron HaCohen
• Readers' Response: Rabbi Scott Israel Seldowitz replies
  to Why the Rebbe's Picture Isn't Before Me *NEW!*
• From the Office of the Priest,
  "Dead Letters," or "Believing in Moses Doesn't Mean
  Sending Letters to the Deceased"*NEW!*
  by Shmuel Y. ben Aaron HaCohen
• Rise of the Religious Charlatans
  by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (in The Jerusalem Post) *NEW!*
• What Noahides Were Meant to Be by Rabbi Michael Katz
• Conversation on What Noahides Were Meant to Be a symposium
• Who is Isaiah's "Suffering Servant of the Lord"? (Isaiah 53), by Jerry and Norma Reynolds
• Who is Isaiah's "Suffering Servant"?(Isaiah 53, again) by Hiram Rosa
• Christian Meanings by Robert Lido
• Where do I, a non-Jewish "stranger," fit in? By Rachav
• Shabbat for the Universe by Miriam Ben-Yaacov
• For God So Loved the World, a Noahide's Meditation  by Hiram V. Rosa,
  and Addendum, by Jack E. Saunders)
• The Third Opportunity (a Chinese Noahide's concerns) by Dr. Xiaodong Wu
• Response to Dr. Wu by Miriam Ben-Yaacov
• Virgin Birth, Fact or Fabrication? by Rev. Jack E. Saunders
• Reflections on Dr. Kevorkian - I Did Know Jack, by
  Jack Lessenberry, The Metro Times
• Terri Schiavo, Life and Death [Updated April 2006/5 Nissan 5766]
• Torturing the Geneva Convention September 26, 2007
• Noahide Journey, Christianity's Roots, and more -
  Mesora.org's Jewish Times magazine,  July 3, 2009
• A Balanced Approach to Kabbalah by Miriam Ben-Yaacov
• One Reason to Be Happy by Shoshana Clark
• Why I'm Not an Atheist- a mini-autobiography by Michael Dallen (paused in progress)
• Noah, Meet Jacob - Israel's Universal Calling (paused in progress)
• High Holiday Guide: synagogue seating, holiday prayer, and the breads
  of tashlich (call it humor), by anonymous
• B’nai Noach: Leadership Mission in Israel by Yigal Levin
• Daniel's Story, So Far  Daniel, son of Dimitar and Milena, and the nature of HaShem, by Dimitar [New]
  

From Genesis to 9/11, Islam, Israel,
and Amalek*

• Amalek* by Michael Dallen
• Does the Torah or Talmud Speak Ill of Non-Jews?
• Amalek Defeats Leon Klinghoffer
  by Bill Day (below)
  

  

• Faith Keeps Israel in the News
  by Michael Dallen, The Jewish Press
• Disappointed in Israel? Let's Discuss...
  Article from OUTPOST (November, 2010)
  
• A Palestinian State Won't Bring Peace
  by Shmuel Katz, Jerusalem Post
• Ex-Jihadist Seeks Islam's Martin Luther
  by Nolan Finley, Detroit News
• Jews expelled from Arab lands lost all they had;
  the Exodus that President Obama forgot to mention,
  by Andre' Aciman, The New York Times
• Polygamy and Suicide Bombing by Alan S. Miller, Ph.D., and
  Satoshi Kanazawa, Ph.D., Psychology Today
• Leave Little Israel Alone
  by Mike Royko, Chicago Sun-Times
• Temple Mount in Ruins, by Rabbi Dr. Israel Eldad
• No-Prayer Zone: the Temple Mount Today
  World Net Daily
• Terrorism by Lawsuit by Sam Abady and H. Silverglate , Boston Globe
• Six Children Died Today  from Pearls Before Swine,
  by Stephen Pastis (comic strip, from the daily newspaper)
• Holocaust Studies, Two: Frustrating Truth; Collective Historical Guilt
• The Jewish War by Michael Dallen
• The Rights of the "Settlers" in the Land of Israel, by Samuel Katz
• Geographic Perspective: Maps of the Arab-Israeli/Muslim-Jewish War
• More maps: Israel Size Comparison Maps
• Israel Virtual Tour by Leonard Ivanhoe
• Appreciating Rabbi Meir Dovid Kahane (1932-1990) by Michael Dallen
• Banned UN Speech: "Human Rights Nightmare"

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