Maimonides calls them '''צדיקי אומות העולם''' meaning '''Righteous of the Nations'''. They are the [[Chasidei Umos HaOlam]] who have taken an oath in front of a recognised beth deen and been granted official residence status/honorary citizenship in the Land of Israel because of their outstanding righteousness among the nations of the world. Only a Tzadik umot ha Olam is an official Ger Toshav. According to Maimonides, the Official Ger Toshav can only exist when the Jubilee law is in place. Messianists disagree with Maimonides.

~~Please read through [[God-Fearers_and_the_Identity_of_the_Sabians]] for more information.~~

~~See also:~~

~~[[Hagarim]]~~

'''Ger toshav''' (pl. ''geirei toshav'', [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: גר תושב, Arabic: صبغت الله, Greek: Θεοσεβεια), according to [[Judaism]] and the [[Torah]], is a [[gentile]] who is a "resident alien," that is, one who lives in the [[Land of Israel]] under certain protections of the system, and is considered a righteous gentile.

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