Jews/Noahides: Are Noahides part of Judaism or a separate entity?

[Flankerl]

You got tons of stuff your not even using....

Like?

Right, those sub-DIRs don't seem very active, it'd be the same with a Noachide I think. Low numbers.

Yeah well there aren't many Jews and even less Noachides on RF. Such is life.

See, what I'd like is to be able to talk with various other Abrahamic faiths about things we have in common, and only those things.

Because, some members it seems to me, don't venture out of their own DIR, so I'd like to pay them a friendly visit, eh?

(and being confined to questions only makes convos awkward and hard)

So you basically want to be exempted from the basic rules which make the DIRs the DIRs. Good luck with that.

 

[Shem Ben Noah]

Returning to the subject, I think much like Tumah and the others. Without the Talmud, an exclusively Jewish book, we'd have no knowledge of Noahides.

I'm not sure, but in the Tanakh, do we see any references to Noahides after Sinai?

As far as I know, the schools of Shem & Eber were extinct by the time of Sinai. However, I think that these laws are so basic that they can be deduced from the written Torah by anyone, no need for Talmud. When you look at the flood and Sodom, these are judgements right? There has to be some standard for these judgements or else it's just the whim of God and those people are not to blame, right?

 

[Shem Ben Noah]

Like?

How many of the 613 are not applicable today, without the temple?

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

An organized Noachide faith clearly existed before the first Jew, Abraham.

Rubbish.

 

[Tumah]

How many of the 613 are not applicable today, without the temple?

Not applicable and not being used are two different things. I just recently finished studying a tractate on someone who uses an object belonging to the Temple. And Torah study is one of the most important commandments. So its still very much in use.

 

[Theweirdtophat]

Rubbish.

Not really. It wasn't called Noahidism but there were adherents and Noah was clearly around before Abraham.

 

[Flankerl]

I quite honestly doubt that there was more than one household upholding the laws.