20 June 2026
Chapter 7, Part 3, "Brit Shalom" by Rabbi Oury Cherki
All kinds of private behaviors that are included in the prohibition of stealing.
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Brit Olam · Noahide World Center
Many nations, united.
Answers. Truth. Emuna.
A covenant for all humanity, carried through Israel and lived today on six continents. Not a religion to join, but a way of life: given at the beginning, and kept ever since. Content in more than twenty languages.
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What this is
You are not asked to leave your people, your language, or your nation. The Seven Laws were given to all of humanity at the very beginning, through Noah. A covenant older than any religion, and wide enough to hold every nation inside it.
Family, work, justice, the marking of time. The covenant is not a list of prohibitions you keep on the side. It is the shape of an ordinary life lived well.
Prayer, study, and a direct relationship with the God of Israel. Not borrowed from someone else's tradition, and not held at second hand.
The Torah was given to Israel to be carried to the nations. Jerusalem is where that transmission has always had its address, and where it has one again.
"And many nations shall join themselves to HaShem in that day, and shall be My people."
Zechariah 2:15
For two thousand years these words waited. What is happening now, with communities forming on six continents and a movement founded in Jerusalem, is the next step in that history. You can take part in it.
Where to begin
Whether you have just heard the word "Noahide" or have been living this path for years, there is one clear next step for you.
Start with the course: what the Seven Laws are, where they come from, and what a life built on them actually looks like.
Study, prayer, and the yearly cycle, with a community and rabbinic guidance you can rely on.
Who we are, who stands behind us, and how our work is governed and funded.
Where we are
From Jerusalem outward: Noahides and communities we are in contact with, in more than seventy countries. Each point is people living the covenant where they are.
Community leaders and local contacts, by region — get in touch and we will connect you.
A life, marked
A covenant is not lived in the abstract. It is lived at the moments that carry the most weight: the birth of a child, a marriage, a death in the family, the turning of the year. The Noahide life cycle gives those moments their shape and their words.
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Lessons on Brit Shalom by Rabbi Oury Cherki, and articles on faith, ethics, and Jewish thought.
20 June 2026
All kinds of private behaviors that are included in the prohibition of stealing.
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Theft from the public is especially grave because one sins against many people.
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Anyone who steals from his fellow even a very small amount—is as if he takes his soul from him.
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Brit Shalom and the Noahide prayer book. The practical daily life of a Noahide, and the words to pray it with. Available in eight languages, in hardcover, paperback, and ebook.
Our work carries letters of endorsement from Chief Rabbis of Israel and leading halachic authorities.
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"I pledge my allegiance to Hashem, God of Israel, Creator and King of the Universe, and to God's Torah…"
The Preliminary Noahide Self-Declaration is how those who have chosen this path make it formal: an acceptance of the Seven Laws as given to all humanity.
Make your declarationThe Noahide World Center (Brit Olam) is the Jerusalem-based center for Bnei Noach, the children of Noah, serving a worldwide community of non-Jews who live the covenant given to all humanity. This covenant, expressed through the Seven Laws of Noah, is not a religion to join but a way of life rooted in the Hebrew Bible and carried through the people of Israel. Founded under the presidency of Rabbi Oury Cherki, the Center teaches, connects, and serves Noahides in more than eighty countries and over twenty languages.
A Noahide (Ben Noach, "child of Noah") is a non-Jew who lives by the covenant God gave to all humanity through Noah. Noahides keep the Seven Laws of Noah as a way of life — without converting to Judaism and without leaving their own nation, language, or people. The worldwide Noahide community is served from Jerusalem by the Noahide World Center (Brit Olam).
They are the moral foundation the Hebrew Bible gives to every nation: to establish justice, and to turn away from idolatry, blasphemy, murder, theft, forbidden relationships, and cruelty to living creatures. They are not seven restrictions but the framework of a righteous life open to all humanity. Learning to live them is where the Noahide way begins.
No. The Noahide path is a covenant and a way of life, not a religion to join and not a conversion. A Noahide keeps the Seven Laws as a non-Jew, remaining within their own nation and people, while drawing on the wisdom of the Hebrew Bible carried through Israel.
Bnei Noach are the peoples of the world descended from Noah — all of humanity outside the Jewish people. In the Hebrew Bible, every nation stands within the covenant God made with Noah after the flood, and those who consciously live by it today are called Noahides.
Yes. Noahides form living communities on six continents, connected through the Noahide World Center in Jerusalem. From November 2–6, 2026, the Center will host the First International Congress of Noahides at the Seven Arches Hotel in Jerusalem — the first worldwide gathering of the Noahide community.