oh yes, that is true everyone agrees that ALL Bnai Noach are righteous, but the debate then becomes who is a Ben Noach. The Meiri includes most Christians in his definition, whereas the Rambam explicitly excludes Islam and Christianity from the Ben Noach definition. Hilchot Melachim and Hilchot Sanhedrin.
I am not sure who told you that Yekutiel wasnt part of the Kach list, but it simply isnt true. And the letter from the Rav in which he says if he is killed Yekutiel is to lead really cant be argued with.
kahaneloyalist, a few points to think about:
1. Yekutiel was never on the Rabbi's Kach Knesset list. I know because I was active in JDL when Chaim was raising money for the Rabbi's Knesset campaign. We showed who the various people on the list were. The members of the Kach board that Yekutiel claims the Rabbi wanted to fire were on the list. Yekutiel was not on the list. No one even knew who Yekutiel was at the time. In 1984 and in 1988, Chaim translated into English what the Rabbi was distributing in Israel so that our American supporters could read it as well. That literature included the Kach Knesset lists.
2. Do you have a copy of the letter in which Yekutiel claims that the Rabbi said that if he is murdered, he wants Yekutiel to lead? Please get us a copy. We want to reprint it on our English and Hebrew forums. In fact, I know that the letter did NOT say anything of the sort. You have been misled, kahaneloyalist. But if you produce the letter, we will be happy to reprint in its entirety.
3. There is indeed a machloket in regard to what constitutes a righteous Gentile. Chaim does NOT claim that most people who today call themselves "Christians" are righteous Gentiles. Most Europeans call themselves "Christians", and the majority of them are anti-Semitic, anti-Israel and anti-American. They clearly are NOT righteous Gentiles. Even most Americans are NOT righteous Gentiles. But there are tens of millions of Bible-believing Christians in the U.S. who genuinely support Israel because of the Biblical commandment to do so. Chaim considers these Bible-believing Gentiles to be righteous, however they are a MINORITY of the American people (about 50 million Americans are Bible-believing Christians out of a total U.S. population of over 300 million - so the real Christians are less than 20% of the American people).
Now there are those who contend that the Christian concept of trinity is idolatry and polytheism, and therefore, Christians cannot be righteous because they are violating the Noahide commandment that forbids idolatry. Chaim believes that even if you accept this premise that Christianity is idolatry, Gentiles can be righteous even if they practice idolatry because Gentiles do not have the benefit of the Torah revelation that the Jews received at Har Sinai. Accordingly, we cannot expect Gentiles to be held to the same monotheistic standard as the Jews. Even if Gentiles mistakenly practice idolatry, as long as they live moral and virtuous lives, and as long as they support Israel and the Jewish people, these Gentiles are righteous and they will receive the ultimate reward of eternal life in the next world. Jews, on the other hand, absolutely must believe in strict monotheism and must follow all of the Torah commandments.
4. Now let's put aside the halachic disagreements above for a moment. I personally do follow the sheva mitzvot bnei Noach, including the prohibition against avodah zara. My guides in life are ONLY the great Rabbinical scholars. And my entire life is dedicated to helping Am Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael. My son is a ger (a convert to Judaism) who lives in Shomron with his Israeli Jewish wife, and my two grandchildren are Jews who are enrolled in yeshiva. Yekutiel's web site tolerates and encourages insults and namecalling even against Gentiles like me. Would Chazal approve of that? Would Rabbi Kahane?
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