How do Jews offer sacrifices?
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The Bible only allowed sacrifices to be brought to Jerusalem to the Temple.  When there is no Temple standing, sacrifices can not be properly brought.  This was true during the Babylonian exile (way before Jesus), and it is true today, since the year 70 CE/AD when the 2nd Temple was destroyed.\n\nBut God did not leave the people without a way to Him.  Hosea told the people what to do in those times when there is no temple.  He said the Jewish people would be many days without a temple, and during that time, the people should simply offer prayers in place of sacrifices.\n\nThis is what the Jews do today, in obedience to the words of God through the Prophet Hosea.  \n\nThere are 3 daily prayers, coinciding with the temple services.  There is the morning (shacharit), afternoon (minchah), and Evening (ma'ariv) prayers.  Religious Jews say these every day.  And there are additional prayers for Sabbath and holidays, also coinciding with the additional sacrifices that would have been brought in Temple days.\n\nThanks for asking.  It is a common question, and it is good to clear up any misunderstanding!
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This is the right category to ask seeing as there are certain dietary restrictions that both Jews and Muslims MUST adhere to.  Anything from a pig is forbidden including anything made from pig leather.  They can't even keep one of those little Vietnamese Pot Bellied pigs as a pet.
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The sacrifice is the same. As a matter of fact, we are commanded to love one another in the same way Christ loved us, so much so we would die for one another.\n\n"Greater love hath no man, than to lay down his life for his brother"\n\nBe it man, or God, it is a GREAT sacrifice, no matter how you slice it.
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You would have to ask someone who was Jewish. But animals do not have souls which are "accountable" for sin, so I wouldn't think that it would matter to the animal. They aren't going to go to hell. But the owner is in charge of what the pet gets to eat (most of the time!) so it would be up to them.
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I have never taken part in the Jewsih feast of passover as much as I would LOVE to.\n\nI have experienced passover in the sense that I believe the passover lamb perfect and spotless was sacrificed for me...Jesus.\n\nThanks for the question,\n\nDavid
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Judeo-Christianity has a long lineage of abusing women:\n\nAs you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace.  If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. (((We aren't going to kill you, just enslave you, do you surrender now?)))  But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town.  When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town.  But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder.  You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you. Deuteronomy 20:10-14
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Because how can God sacrifice Himself to Himself to appease Himself? Then knowing full well there is no death involved because Jesus is going to wake up in a few days. That's not a sacrifice. Besides human sacrifice is forbidden in Judaism and Deuteronomy 24:16 says no one can die for someone else's sins. Since Jesus hadn't died and risen again allegedly doing away with the Mosaic law at that point, it would have been impossible for him to be a sacrifice for others, let alone mankind.
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Let's cut through the bull, shall we?\n\nThe three things they want are:\n\nFor the Jews to move out.\n\nFor the Jews to go away.\n\nFor all Jews to die.\n\nIf you think they want anything else you are mistaken.\n\nThank you very much, while you're up!!!
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How can a non valid sacrifice that is not killed in a sacrificial manner be deemed a sacrifice that fulfills all other sacrifices?
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People who open up their hearts to Him, and offer to serve Him.
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You are correct. God is not capable of simply forgiving someone, as you and I are; he must kill someone in order to do it. In the Old Testament, he required that animals die every single day so that he could forgive the Israelites. This worked just fine for thousands of years, and then one day God just wasn't satisfied. I guess the novelty of animal sacrifices wore off and he needed a human sacrifice. But not just ANY old human sacrifice, this one had to be special, so he sent his Holy Spirit to Earth to impregnate a teenage girl (does that count as sex with a minor?), then he arranged for the resulting offspring--his own son--to die.  Only then was God able to forgive everyone.\n\nOr was he? People are supposedly forgiven for every bad thing they ever did or will do, yet they are required to beg forgiveness, anyway, every time they do something bad. And if they do a lot of bad things, they get sent to eternal punishment...even though God forgave them.
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No.  In fact, the per capita charitable giving by Jews far out ranks the charitable average giving by other groups.  However, we value the idea of giving in secret, so most of us don't make a big deal of it. The result of this secrecy is that we may appear to the casual observer to be selfish. Read this story for a typical example of this way of thinking:\nhttp://www.chabad.org/library/article.asp?AID=71893\n\nAs far as the question of being "Chosen" is concerned I think if you did a survey you would find that many Jews feel that Tevia in "Fiddler On The Roof" spoke for them in saying "So choose someone else for a change!"\n\nReligious Jews look upon the fact that we are chosen as putting additional responsibilities upon us.  We are suppose to perform "Tikkun Olam" (repair of the world).  One of the ways in which we are taught to perform this is by being self-sacrificing.  Just as Isaac was willing to lay upon the altar and not fight against his aged father Abraham, so too we are to be selfless in our pursuit of making the world a better place.
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Sacrifice. But it might interest you to note two things. \n\nFirst, most sacrifices offered had nothing to do with sin. There were all sorts of other reasons to offer a sacrifice, free-will offerings, thanksgiving offerings, just to name two of them.\n\nSecond, please remember that there was no need to offer animal sacrifices, a blood sacrifice was not necessary for the forgiveness of sin:::\n\nThe Bible describes blood sacrifices for the forgiveness of sin in the Book of Leviticus. But it is in Leviticus itself, in the middle of the discussion of the sin sacrifices, that we are taught that we do not need a blood sacrifice to be forgiven for our sins. Offering a blood sacrifice was an expensive thing to do for the family offering the animal. Was forgiveness then, to be only for the rich? No, because if one could not afford a blood sacrifice then one who sins could bring flour, which has no blood and no life as their sacrifice, and Gd forgave them!\n\nLeviticus 5:11-13; But if he be not able to \nbring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, \nthen he that sinned shall bring for his \noffering the tenth part of an ephah of fine \nflour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil \nupon it, neither shall he put any \nfrankincense thereon: for it is a sin \noffering.\n\nFurthermore, read the Book of Jonah. In Jonah, the People of Ninevah do three things in order to be forgiven by Gd. They fast, they pray for forgiveness, and they stop doing the Bad and start doing the Good, and Gd forgave them! This is exactly what we do on Yom Kippur, we fast, we pray for forgiveness, and, hopefully, we stop doing the Bad and start doing the Good, and Gd forgives us. And what book do we read on Yom Kippur afternoon? The Book of Jonah!\n\nJonah 3:7-10 And he caused it to be proclaimed \nand published through Ninevah, by the decree \nof the King and his nobles, saying, Let \nneither man nor beast, herd nor flock taste \nanything; let them not feed nor drink water; \nbut let man and beast be covered with \nsackcloth, and cry mightily unto Gd; yea, let \nthem turn every one from his evil way, and \nfrom the violence that is in their hands. Who \ncan tell if Gd will turn and repent, and turn \naway from his fierce anger that we perish not? \nAnd Gd saw their works, that they turned from \ntheir evil way; and Gd repented of the evil, \nthat he had said that he would do unto them; \nand he did not do it.\n\nPlease notice that Jonah tells us that Gd saw their WORKS, their deeds, how they turned from their evil ways, and Gd forgave them. It does not say that Gd saw their blood sacrifice, they never offered one. It does not say that Gd forgave them because they had the right faith, but rather it says that Gd forgave them because of their deeds!\n\nFurthermore, Where were the sacrifices to have taken place? In the Temple built by Solomon. And what did Solomon himself say at the dedication of this very Temple where these sacrifices were to take place?\n\n1 Kings 8:46-50 If they sin against thee, (for \nthere is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be \nangry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, \nso that they carry them away captives unto the \nland of the enemy, far or near; Yet if they \nshall bethink themselves in the land whither \nthey were carried captives, and repent, and make \nsupplication unto thee in the land of them that \ncarried them captives, saying, We have sinned, \nand have done perversely, we have committed \nwickedness; And so return unto thee with all \ntheir heart, and with all their soul, in the \nland of their enemies, which led them away \ncaptive, and pray unto thee toward their land, \nwhich thou gavest unto their fathers, the city \nwhich thou hast chosen, and the house which I \nhave built for thy name: Then hear thou their \nprayer and their supplication in heaven thy \ndwelling place, and maintain their cause, And \nforgive thy people that have sinned against \nthee, and all their transgressions wherein they \nhave transgressed
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Its an altar where the Republicans make sacrifices.
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The Bible never said one could only get forgiveness of sin through a blood sacrifice.\n\nIf one believed that a blood sacrifice was necessary before God would forgive you, then even one example where God forgave without a blood sacrifice would prove that this idea is UnBiblical. \n\nThere are many such examples, but the most interesting is found in the Book of Leviticus. The reason this is so interesting is that it comes right in the middle of the discussion of sin sacrifices, which is found in the first chapters. In Leviticus 5:11-13, it states, \n\n       "If, however, he cannot afford two doves or two \n       young pigeons, he is to bring as an offering for his \n       sin a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin \n       offering." \n\nOne can also see that one does not need a blood sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins in the Book of Jonah 3:10. There, the Bible simply states that God saw the works of the people of Ninevah. Specifically it says that the works God saw were that they stopped doing evil, and so God forgave them. There are plenty of other examples, and the idea that one needs a blood sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins is UnBiblical.
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New testement gave the allowance.  This was used also to show that unclean things had now become clean,  Allowing the Gentiles to become Christian.\n(although they were actually still Jewish at that time but Christian Jews)
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first off its a misnomer to think that animal sacrifices was the way to cleanse your sins. The point was for you to give something of your self and seeing the animal killed would hopefully bring you to repentance. but if a person brought an animal and did not repent in his heart then it was worthless. I do not have the quotes but one example is when King David realized he sinned he fell upon the ground and asked G-d what he should do or what sacrifice he should bring. G-d replied that he was forgiven the moment that his knees hit the floor. This shows us that the sacrifice was never the Important part but the meaning behind it. Their are other examples just look for them.\n\nthis website might give you some more insight