The Seven Lights

Who made this, and what it is not

About.

A short page, because the seven are the point and this is not.

An open desert at midday with a single road, vast and unowned, heat haze on the horizon.

The standing of this material

This site is offered for study and contemplation. It does not carry halachic authority. It does not rule, it does not answer a shailah, a question of Jewish law put to a rabbi for decision, and it does not replace rabbinic guidance.

Where a question turns on the facts of your own life, this site says so on the page and points you to a person. That is not modesty. It is how the material works.

Who wrote it

Written by Aaron Abush and published by Sacred Bridge Collective. It is built on two Chassidic discourses by the same author, one on the verse in Bereishis 2:16 from which all seven laws are read, and one on the seven lights. Those discourses were written for a learned reader. This site is not, and nothing from them appears here verbatim.

What this site is for

One thing. That a person anywhere can arrive knowing nothing, find out what the seven laws given to all of humanity are, and be able to tell what the tradition says from what this site proposes.

It is free to read and free to share, and it is not for sale. There is nothing to buy, nothing to sign up for, no analytics vendor building a profile of you, and no organisation you are being funnelled toward.

What it will not do

It will not invite you to convert, and it is not a step toward that. It will not speak badly of any other religion, tradition or people. It will not present the seven as a consolation prize or a waiting room. It will not claim authority it does not have.

How to find a rabbi

If you want a real answer about your own situation, ask a person. Two straightforward routes, both of which cost nothing and neither of which requires you to know anything first:

  • Contact a local Chabad centre. They exist in most cities in the world, they are set up to take exactly this kind of question from somebody with no background and no affiliation, and there is no expectation attached.
  • Contact any local Orthodox synagogue and say you have a question about the seven laws given to the sons of Noach. Somebody there will know who to send you to.

You do not need an introduction, you do not need to use the right words, and you do not need to have decided anything in advance.

Sources and honesty about them

Every claim on this site names its source in the body text rather than hiding it in a footnote. The sources page lists all of them with a status saying whether the reference has been independently confirmed, and where it has not, the site says so rather than dressing it up. Nothing here was invented.

Where this site proposes a reading of its own rather than reporting one the tradition states, it is marked on the page as a derived reading.

The imagery

Every image and the hero video on this site are generated by artificial intelligence. None of them are photographs of real places, none depict the divine, none contain script of any kind, and none show a face.

Where this ends up

The Rambam closes the whole of the Mishneh Torah, fourteen books of Jewish law, with the nations of the world: that the occupation of the entire world will be only to know G-d. And the prophet Tzefaniah says that G-d will turn to the peoples a clear language, that they may all call on His Name and serve Him with one shoulder.

That is the whole ambition of this site, scaled down to something a website can honestly do: state seven laws clearly enough that somebody who had never heard of them can keep one this week.