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GENESIS | 9:1 said — GEN656 Maimonides rules: “Anyone who accepts the ...

GEN656 Maimonides rules: “Anyone who accepts the seven [Noahide laws, that is, the minimal laws required of non-Jews: the duty to establish courts of law and the prohibitions of blasphemy, idolatry, incest, murder, robbery, and eating a limb from a live animal] [this verse, Sanhedrin 56a] … is among the pious of the nations of the world and has a portion in the world-to-come…if one accepts them because God has commanded them in the Law…; but if one observed them because of a rational decision, one is … not one of the pious of the nations of the world, but one of their wise.” Law of Kings 8:11 (By Warren Zev Harvey, “Ethical Theories among Medieval Jewish Philosophers”) OXFORD 97

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