A Noahide Doesn't Steal

Shalom Aleichem!

Recently I stumbled upon some people online who claim to be of religious authority (I will not mention their names in order to not give them the popularity theu want). They are actively claiming that Noahides are, somehow, stealing the Commandments from Jews by observing them.

The immense absurdity of such a claim is obvious, but I cannot leave it to deceive people without a righteous opposition.

First and foremost, as those people of untrue claims may not even know, a Noahide is any human who keeps the Seven Laws given to Noah by the Lord, one of which is to not steal.

Secondly, one who obeys God and learns what they are told cannot be stealing, because hearing what is told to you is not stealing of any sort. God gave those 7 Mitzvoth, so we, the ones to whom they are addressed (i.e. all of mankind, uncluding the Jews as we are also descendants of Noah), observe them and follow His will.

How can such claim even be born by someone's brain?

The only analogy that can be made here is to an idiom which exists in some rural dialects in Eastern Europe: "to steal one's craft." This idiom is result of the idea that learning from someone, and then applying the obtained knowledge, is somehow a form of spealing.

Yet, everyone who gives a bit of thought can see that this is not real stealing but some kind of cultural peculiarity which has, for a reason, faded away in most places where it originally dwelled, except in some "isolated cases," as Eastern Europeans still say.

All this said, by trying to condemn the righteous Noahides who hear what they are told and obey their God, the Only God, those people of big claims actively discourage people from observing God's will.

I hope no one will falls for the deceptions of those folks.

Aleichem Shalom!