{"id":8000,"date":"2012-11-13T10:07:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T07:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noahideworldcenter.org\/ask\/2012\/11\/13\/marking-the-twenty-seventh-of-cheshvan\/"},"modified":"2020-02-11T03:24:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T00:24:10","slug":"marking-the-twenty-seventh-of-cheshvan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/marking-the-twenty-seventh-of-cheshvan\/","title":{"rendered":"Marking the Twenty-Seventh of Cheshvan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Q:<\/strong> Why exactly is 27 Cheshvan celebrated? Isn&#8217;t this &#171;creating a new religion&#187;?<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Q: (1) <\/strong>What is the exact reason for celebrating the twenty-seventh of Cheshvan? Are the seven Mitzvot of Noach an integral part of the covenant between G-d and humanity which is symbolized by the rainbow? Or, alternatively, were the Mitzvot given at a later date, such that there is no reason to include them in a celebration of the day?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(2) Is there a &#171;red line&#187; that must not be crossed in celebrating in order to avoid the prohibition of creating a new religion? For example, is it permitted to give the day a name, such as &#171;Noach Day,&#187; and to light a candle?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(Note: The twenty-seventh of Cheshvan this year was on Monday, November 12, 2012.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>A: (1) Noach received the Seven Mitzvot on the day that he left the ark, the twenty-seventh of Cheshvan. Therefore, in some ways this can be considered as the day when the Bnei Noach &#171;received the Torah.&#187;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>(2) The prohibition of creating a new religion mentioned by the Rambam is limited to an initiative by the Gentiles, as he writes: &#171;The general rule is that we do not allow them [the Gentiles] to create a new religion and to make up new mitzvot for themselves&#187; (Rambam, Laws of Kings, 10,9). This implies:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>(a) There is no problem if the initiative is that of some rabbis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>(b) Note also that there is a difference between Gentiles and Bnei Noach, who have formally committed themselves in front of a Jewish court of law to observe the Seven Mitzvot. Bnei Noach are not included in the ruling of the Rambam.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Why exactly is 27 Cheshvan celebrated? Isn&#8217;t this &#171;creating a new religion&#187;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8018,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000\/revisions\/8018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}