[Avodah] Why didn't the other nations accept the Torah?

Lisa Liel via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Wed May 20 18:57:21 PDT 2015


I think the obvious answer is that midrash is midrash.  One midrash 
doesn't have to be consistent with another.  It's there to learn from, 
and the message of this one comes through regardless of the Noachide laws.

On 5/20/2015 9:11 AM, Marty Bluke via Avodah wrote:
> There is a famous Medrash that before offering the Torah to the Jewish 
> people Hashem offered it to the other nations of the world.
>

<snip>

> However, the Medrash has an obvious question. All of the examples of 
> Torah prohibitions given by the Medrash, are also prohibited by the 7 
> mitzvos of Bnei Noach. The Bnei Eisav were already prohibited from 
> murder so how would accepting the Torah make things worse for them? 
> The same goes for arayos and stealing, these were already prohibited 
> to them anyway so why does the medrash specifically pick these as 
> examples for Torah prohibitions?
>




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