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<font size=3>At 08:22 AM 11/18/2012, Micha Berger wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at
07:19:40PM -0500, Prof. Levine wrote:<br>
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... Clearly if the gentile<br>
: is a ger toshav then there is a mitzvah to give him or her tzedakah
if<br>
: they are in need, and one would presumably get sechar for
this.<br><br>
Is it possible to have a ger toshav today? We're not simply talking
about<br>
an observant Noachide, but the observant Noachide who agreed to live as
a<br>
citizen in a Jewish Israel. Ger toshav = resident alien, quite
literally.<br><br>
Medinat Yisrael might qualify; perhaps someone today who came before<br>
beis din in EY and took an oath of loyalty to the Jews in it would
be<br>
a ger toshav. But I think it's more likely that one needs a gov't
that<br>
includes a Sanhedrin to which that court answers.<br><br>
Does anyone know of a discussion of ger toshav bizman
hazeh?</blockquote><br>
RSRH writes on pages 379 to 380 of volume 2 of the Horeb that a ger
toshav is "he who expressly accepts those duties [the sheva mitzvos
of a bnei Noach] in the presence of three persons as having been enjoined
upon all men by God in his Revelation to Moses." He makes no
mention of living in Israel. <br><br>
On the other hand at
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ger_toshav" eudora="autourl">
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ger_toshav</a> it says that a ger toshav
must live in EY. YL<br><br>
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