Between a Rock and a Hard Place

The day begins with me getting prepared for our first Passover dinner. We do not know the Seder, but I had plans to read through the Seder and allow my daughter to find the Matzos and get a prize. My expectation was that next year we will be ready to attend the Seder dinner with the rest of the community next year.

To my dismay, my son informs me that today on our communities website there is an article saying non-Jews are not allowed to celebrate Passover. We are not allow to celebrate Easter either, since it is a Idolatry worship.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/13069#.U0w3SptOXIX

So, now I feel lost. I do not feel like doing anything at all. Even if I am part Jewish, which I highly doubt based on where my family ancestors immigrated from. I think I am only German and Irish and nothing more. My heart feels dashed. I believe in a G-d I cannot serve. It appears all I have to do is a obey seven commandments, but I wonder, am I required to pray, what are my rules. I once again feel like the red-headed step child that I had from so many years in my youth.

A part of me isn't happy to know I am still an outcast in some way, but if I truly am a Gentile or Goy, I guess I should be thankful that I get to get off easy in this life for the world to come. . . but why am I not?

The Seven Laws of Noah

According to Torah tradition, God gave Noah and his family seven commandments to observe when he saved them from the flood.  These commandments, referred to as the Noahic or Noahide commandments, are learned by tradition but also suggested in Genesis Chapter 9, and are as follows:

1. not to commit idolatry
2. not to commit blasphemy
3. not to commit murder
4. not to have forbidden sexual relations
5. not to commit theft
6. not to eat flesh cut from a living animal
7. to establish courts of justice to punish violators of the other six laws.

These commandments may seem fairly simple and straightforward, and most of them are recognized by most of the world as sound moral principles.  But according to the Torah only those Gentiles who observe these laws because God commanded them in His Torah will enjoy life in the World to Come:  If they observe them just because they seem reasonable or because they think that God commanded them in some way other than in the Torah, they might as well not obey them so far as a part in the World to Come is concerned