The Rebbe's Rambam | Marking the completion of the entire set

Hilchos Melachim | Ch 10

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If two gentile litigants come before you to be judged according to Jewish law, and both agreed, they are judged in accordance with Jewish law. If one of them agrees and the other does not agree, he is only pressured to be judged in accordance with their law. If it was a Jew and gentile as litigants, it depends ; if there are rights to the Jew according to their secular laws, he is judged in accordance with their law, and he is told: “This is your law.” and if there are rights to the Jew according to our laws, he is judged according to Jewish law , and he is told: “This is our law.” It seems to me that this procedure is not practiced on a ger toshav who is a litigant , rather he is always judged in accord ance with their secular laws. It also seems to me that the ger toshav should be treated with decency and acts of kindness, in the same manner as Jews. For we are commanded to sustain them, as it states: “You shall give it to the stranger who is in your gates, that he may eat it.” And the statement of the Sages that “We should not extend greetings of peace to them,” only applies to gentiles and not to the ger toshav . Even regard ing gentiles, the Sages commanded to visit their sick, bury their dead with the dead of the Jews, and provide for their poor along with the poor of the Jews, for the sake of peace. After all, it states: “The L-rd is good to all, and His mercies are over all His creations,” and it states: “Its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace.”

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