# What Happens to Non-Jews When Moshiach Comes? | Learn about Moshiach | Moshiach Life > The Rebbe taught that Moshiach will bring all nations to serve G-d together, and that all people keep the Seven Noahide Laws now (Rambam, Melachim 8:10). URL: https://moshiach.life/learn-about-moshiach/moshiach-and-non-jews/ Language: en Site guide for agents: https://moshiach.life/llms.txt --- [Learn about Moshiach](https://moshiach.life/learn-about-moshiach/) # What Happens to Non-Jews When Moshiach Comes? ![A full rainbow arching over green countryside and a distant town](https://moshiach.life/assets/archive/learn-about-moshiach--the-seven-laws.webp) The Lubavitcher Rebbe, King Moshiach, taught that Moshiach will perfect the whole world so that all nations serve G-d together, and that every person should keep the Seven Noahide Laws now. The Rambam rules that Moshe was commanded to bring all humanity to accept these laws (Hilchos Melachim 8:10). ## What did the Rebbe teach about non-Jews and the Redemption? The Rebbe taught that Moshiach will perfect the entire world to serve G-d together (Rambam, Hilchos Melachim 11:4). The Rambam ends chapter 11 of Hilchos Melachim with Moshiach’s work for all mankind: he “will perfect the entire world to serve G-d together, as it says, ‘For then I will turn to the peoples a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of G-d and serve Him with one consent’” (Tzefaniah 3:9). The Rebbe pointed out that the Rambam ends the next chapter on the same theme from another side. Chapter 11 describes what Moshiach and the Jewish people actively do for the nations. Chapter 12 describes the result: “The occupation of the entire world will be solely to know G-d” (Hilchos Melachim 12:5). The nations’ knowledge of G-d comes as a result of the service of the Jewish people (Likkutei Sichos vol. 35, pp. 97–98). The Rebbe also taught that nothing good done in exile is lost. All the positive achievements of the Jews, and also of the non-Jews, will not be cancelled in the Redemption. What will be removed is only the concealment of G-dliness (Sichos In English, Shabbos Parshas Acharei-Kedoshim 5751). ## What are the Seven Noahide Laws? The Seven Noahide Laws are seven universal laws G-d gave all humanity (Sanhedrin 56a). The Talmud lists them, and the Rambam codifies them (Hilchos Melachim 9:1). Each is a broad category with many details: 1. Do not worship idols. 2. Do not curse G-d. 3. Do not murder. 4. Do not steal. 5. Keep the boundaries of family and intimacy. 6. Do not eat flesh taken from a living animal. 7. Establish courts of justice. The Rambam writes that six of these laws were commanded to Adam, and the law against eating flesh from a living animal was added for Noach (Hilchos Melachim 9:1). Each of the [Seven Noahide Laws](https://moshiach.life/sheva-mitzvos/) sets out a basic respect: for G-d, for human life, for family, for property, for justice and for all creatures. ## Why did the Rebbe launch a campaign for the Noahide Laws? The Rambam rules that Moshe was commanded to bring all humanity to accept the Noahide Laws (Hilchos Melachim 8:10). In the days of King Shlomo, whose influence reached the whole world, these laws could be enforced. As the Jewish people were scattered, that became impossible, and the way open to us is persuasion (Geulah Weekly 5772/368 Sukkot). The Rebbe made this a worldwide campaign. He called on Jews to teach these laws, and on every society to build its structure on them. The Rebbe explained that the structure of every society should rest on “the seven universal laws commanded to Noah and his descendants, i.e., to all humanity. For this is the blueprint which the Almighty gave Moses to allow all men to live in harmony” (Sichos In English, “The Fulfillment of Our Human Potential,” Elul 5751). The Rambam writes that a Jewish king is crowned “to fill the world with justice” (Hilchos Melachim 4:10). Geulah Weekly notes that the Rebbe fulfilled this through the Noahide Laws campaign, a “peaceful war” whose weapons are good deeds (Geulah Weekly 5780/790 Mishpatim). On Shabbos Parshas Tzav 5751, the Rebbe called again for spreading the seven universal laws to all mankind, and pointed to the United States Senate resolution 104 that declared Yud-Alef Nissan a national “Day of Education” (Sichos In English, Shabbos Parshas Tzav 5751). ## Why must the laws be kept because G-d commanded them? The Rambam rules that a non-Jew who keeps them as G-d’s command is among the pious of the nations (8:11). The Rambam writes that anyone who accepts the seven laws and keeps them carefully is one of the chassidei umos ha’olam and has a share in the World to Come. The condition is that he keeps them because G-d commanded them in the Torah and made them known through Moshe (Hilchos Melachim 8:11). The Rebbe explained why. Since the giving of the Torah, every command of G-d to the world comes through the Torah and the Jewish people, so the Noahide Laws depend on them. The Rambam wrote the duty to bring the nations to these laws (8:10) and the condition of accepting them as G-d’s command (8:11) as two separate rulings. The Rebbe drew from this two ways the Jewish people affect the nations: direct teaching and persuasion, and an indirect result, in which the nations come to recognize on their own that the laws must be kept because G-d commanded them (Likkutei Sichos vol. 35, pp. 96–97). The Rebbe stressed the same point in Shvat 5752: even the laws that human reason grasps should be kept, by Jews and gentiles alike, because of their Divine origin and not only because society needs them (Sichos In English, “Swords into Plowshares”). ## Do non-Jews need to become Jewish? No; the Rambam rules that a non-Jew who keeps the seven laws has a share in the World to Come. The Torah does not ask non-Jews to convert. It asks each person to keep the seven laws as G-d’s command (Hilchos Melachim 8:11). The Sages praise a non-Jew who studies the parts of Torah that concern his own commandments, and liken him to the Kohen Gadol (Sanhedrin 59a; Geulah Weekly 5778/712 Ekev). By the same Torah standard, a messiah who changes the Torah’s laws cannot be Moshiach, which is [why Judaism does not accept the Christian messiah](https://moshiach.life/learn-about-moshiach/jewish-messiah-vs-christianity/). ## What will non-Jews do in the days of Moshiach? The Rambam writes that the whole world will be occupied only with knowing G-d (Hilchos Melachim 12:5). The Rebbe proved from these words of the Rambam that the nations, too, will be occupied with Torah when Moshiach comes, in the parts that apply to them, since knowing G-d comes through Torah (Geulah Weekly 5778/712 Ekev). The prophet foretells that all nations will call on G-d’s name and serve Him with one consent (Tzefaniah 3:9). - **Peace:** “They shall beat their swords into plowshares; nation shall not lift up sword against nation” (Yeshayahu 2:4). The Rebbe saw the arms reductions announced in Shvat 5752 as a foretaste of this prophecy. - **Plenty:** “There will be neither famine nor war, neither envy nor competition, for good things will flow in abundance” (Hilchos Melachim 12:5). - **Prayer:** “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations” (Yeshayahu 56:7), a verse the Rebbe applied to [the Third Beis Hamikdash](https://moshiach.life/learn-about-moshiach/the-third-temple/). ## What can non-Jews do now to prepare for Moshiach? The Rebbe asked every person, Jew and gentile alike, to add in kindness and tzedakah. In Shvat 5752 the Rebbe said that the emphasis on deeds of kindness and tzedakah “should be communicated to others, to Jews and gentiles alike,” and that the world is ripe for these ideas (Sichos In English, “Swords into Plowshares”). In Elul 5751 he told children that the lesson “And G-d saw that it was good” is for all created beings, Jews and gentiles alike, to spread goodness around them (Sichos In English, Gan Yisrael and Emunah camps, 17th of Elul 5751). - Keep the seven laws, and teach them to children. - Give tzedakah and do acts of kindness. - Recognize the one G-d and pray to Him. The Rebbe’s teachings on [the Noahide Code and the Messianic era](https://moshiach.life/learn-about-moshiach/the-seven-laws/) show that this is not a side issue. It is part of the Redemption itself, and every act of goodness is part of [bringing Moshiach](https://moshiach.life/learn-about-moshiach/how-to-bring-moshiach/), when [the whole world is transformed](https://moshiach.life/learn-about-moshiach/what-happens-when-moshiach-comes/).