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How do the 613 Commandments given to Israel relate to The Seven Noahide Laws and to the Universal Commandment (The UC), from which they are derived?
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How will I know that I will inherit the land?
How will I know that I will inherit the land?
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Document Category: Mahx Cvnnt Notes On The 248 Positive Commandments
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Positive Commandments #1
Positive Commandments #1
Mahx Note: April 26, 2019
What, in truth, is the first commandment of the ten commandments? How is it defined? In Christian traditional, institutional theology it includes, what for Judaism is the second commandment. That is not to commit idolatry. In Judaism the first commandment is simply the commandment to believe in God or to have faith in God. It is certainly this understanding which is correct. We will ask, however, whether this commandment is to believe in God only on the basis of the testimony of nature, or if it is evidently not only this but also the commandment to believe in God on the basis of the special revelation of the redemption of Israel from Egypt. We will answer that indeed, in this commandment the knowledge that God exists is to be itself redeemed, through the knowledge of God as the Redeemer of Israel from Egypt.
The commandment to believe in Hashem, given to the Adam created by the Creator, has itself become the commandment to repent from the Adamic rebellion. It is not possible to obey this commandment while sinning in adherence to that rebellion. This commandment to repentance is first given to Israel in its election for redemption from Egypt. Through that redemption, it is given to all people everywhere, although this is not immediately accomplished. In the failed completion of that redemption, due to Israel's failure to enter the land in faithful obedience to the Torah. As a result, the universal commandment of repentance to all people everywhere is rectified on the behalf of Israel, through the atonement made for Israel by Mashiach, and this is declared through his resurrection from the dead.
1 The first of the positive commandments is to know that there exists God, as it is written "I am the LORD, thy God" (Exodus 20,2; Deuteronomy 5,6).
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In this commandment God is to be known as the Redeemer of Israel from Egypt. To know him as such means to know him as fully redeeming Israel from Egypt to be in relationship with him according to the promise made to the fathers. It is not just to know God as Adam did without the revelation of the covenant and Israel’s redemption. But isn't that the way Noah believed in God, as Adam did? Not exactly, for Adam wasn't given the promise and Noah wasn't given the promise, but Noah was given the promise that the promise would be given to his posterity. This is the covenant of the rainbow. And that was enough for Noah to enter into the New Creation through regeneration. This actually occurred for Adam in a similar way after Adam was driven out of the Garden. Being driven out was a part of it. But the promise was given for the first time directly to Abraham. And without that promise being given there was no way to enter into eternal life. But because he would give in, first in Abraham and then in Mashiach, he was able to regenerate even those who came before Abraham.
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