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The Importance of Universal Principles
Echoing the words of a speech prepared for presentation at the United Nations in 1987 and edited by the Rebbe, Goldstein spoke about the moral duty to educate the world about the universal ethical principles, known as the Noahide Laws, which were the bedrock of societies that survived and thrived since the dawn of civilization.
“The Rebbe writes about the power of the United Nations,” said Goldstein. “All of you here have been given by G‑d an opportunity to make a difference in the world. The Rebbe taught us something very poignant. That indeed when the world was repopulated after the flood with Noah, G‑d gave seven laws called the Noahide Laws.”
Goldstein called these laws “the bedrock of any civilization that was to exist.”
He suggested that if only the United Nations will go back to the basics, and inspire and empower member nations to adopt the seven Noahide Laws, then “this world would be a very different world, and perhaps we wouldn’t have lost 150 million lives that we have lost in the last 200 years. So I ask every nation that is here, everyone listening, consider taking the seven Noahide Laws back to the basics and apply them to real daily life, and we will see a world of difference.”
Echoing the words of a speech prepared for presentation at the United Nations in 1987 and edited by the Rebbe, Goldstein spoke about the moral duty to educate the world about the universal ethical principles, known as the Noahide Laws, which were the bedrock of societies that survived and thrived since the dawn of civilization.
“The Rebbe writes about the power of the United Nations,” said Goldstein. “All of you here have been given by G‑d an opportunity to make a difference in the world. The Rebbe taught us something very poignant. That indeed when the world was repopulated after the flood with Noah, G‑d gave seven laws called the Noahide Laws.”
Goldstein called these laws “the bedrock of any civilization that was to exist.”
He suggested that if only the United Nations will go back to the basics, and inspire and empower member nations to adopt the seven Noahide Laws, then “this world would be a very different world, and perhaps we wouldn’t have lost 150 million lives that we have lost in the last 200 years. So I ask every nation that is here, everyone listening, consider taking the seven Noahide Laws back to the basics and apply them to real daily life, and we will see a world of difference.”
Goldstein noted how on the day of the attack on his synagogue, the last day of Passover, a prophecy of Isaiah is read where, the rabbi noted, “it talks about a perfect world, the world when Moshiach will come, when the Messiahwill arrive, and it talks about the world when the wolf and the lamb will dwell together, a world that everyone would love each other, that the knowledge of G‑d would be everywhere.”
On the day that he was shot by an anti-Semitic gunman, “I was getting ready to read that. I was excited to read that because the world needs to be a better world. We need to welcome a new era that we have been praying for, for 2,000 years.”
On the day that he was shot by an anti-Semitic gunman, “I was getting ready to read that. I was excited to read that because the world needs to be a better world. We need to welcome a new era that we have been praying for, for 2,000 years.”
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