Project description

Students of the Noahide Code should be illuminating candles 
May it be G-d’s will that everyone will increase in activities of sharing Torah universal knowledge amongst Gentiles from whatever background, to all the world’s inhabitants. Words that emanate from the heart will surely penetrate the heart and have their desired impact. This applies all the more when one sets a living example in his personal behavior in all matters of goodness and kindness.

In this way, each person will merit to see the fine fruits of his labor. This is a teacher’s greatest reward – seeing his student go in the path that he was taught, coming closer and closer to the Creator and Director of the universe by fulfilling His Will, until the student himself becomes an “illuminating candle,” “moist enough to transmit moisture.”

The obligation for Gentiles to promote justice is related to the notion of education. The Rambam writes about promoting justice, “[Gentiles] must set up judges and magistrates in every major city to render judgment concerning these six commandments, and to admonish the people [regarding their observance].” Thus, one of the Noahide precepts is to appoint judges whose role is to educate the people in the Noahide Code.

This is comparable to the Midrashic statement concerning the Jewish Sanhedrin: “They were obligated to go, tie iron garters around their loins, lift their robes above their ankles, ... and travel throughout the villages of Israel ... teaching the people.”