Do the Jews still sacrifice animals to God?

[Celeste88]

I have not heard of modern day Jews sacrificing animals in their temples. Do they still do this? I know that we Christians don’t as Christ Himself became the Lamb for our sins.

 

[puzzleannie]

sacrifice requires a temple, with an active priesthood and a gathered faithful community, but the temple was destroyed, the priests executed and the community dispersed by the Romans in 70 AD.

 

[Jeanette_L]

Since the Herod’s Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in the first century, by Jewish Law, the Jews do not sacrifice any longer. When they go to temple on sabbath, it is not the same as the Temple in Jerusalem which was the only place God allowed sacrifices to be made. That is why there is such a controversy concerning the Muslim Dome that sits on the old Temple site. Until the Jews can rebuild their Temple on that site, they cannot sacrifice. Of course, we know why God planned all that, because the One and only True Sacrifice already took place just outside the walls of Jerusalem 2000 years ago!

 

[Suavemente]

Of course, we know why God planned all that, because the One and only True Sacrifice already took place just outside the walls of Jerusalem 2000 years ago!

And JesusChrist predicted that the Romans would destroy the Temple, did he not?? It must be God’s will indeed, even that the Muslims were able to conquer Jerusalem during the first great wave of Muslim invasions out of Arabia , and 'Abd Al-Karim build the Dome of the Rock on top of Mount Moriah, where the Temple used to be, above the last remnant of a wall that the Romans / Italics / Latins (whatever you want to call the armies of Rome) had left standing. And also, Celeste, that wall you sometimes see Jews praying in front of and sticking rolled up pieces of paper into, is that “last remnant of a wall” of the Temple which was left standing after the year 70 AD. They call it the Western, or “Wailing” , Wall. Above it is a kind of plateau, and there you have the mosque, very important in Islam, called Al Aqsa (third most important mosque in Islam) and above that towers the golden Dome of the Rock. I’ve been there and seen it all. It’s amazing. Al Aqsa mosque was built after the first Muslim conquest of the land in like the seventh century AD.

Before it was Al Aqsa though, it was a Byzantine (that is, Eastern Roman) church. But, as we have seen, whatever else happened apparently it was God’s will that there be no more Jewish Temple there. Some Orthodox Jews, certain types of Hasidim for example, even strongly oppose the modern state of Israel being there. They feel that Jews do not belong having a (secular, non - religious ) modern day state in the holy land until the Messiah comes.

So who knows which side is “right” on that debate??

 

[Talitha]

No, but some Ethiopian Orthodox Christian sects and cults still sacrifice animals.
See
voicefinfinne.org/English/Column/Galma_EOC.htm

Blessings this night

 

[stillsmallvoice]

Hi all!

I’m taking a break from Passover cleaning.

Puzzleannie, you are entirely correct!

Please allow me to recycle an old post.

I don’t care for the mistranslation “sacrifice” for the Hebrew word korban, which actually is a cognate of a root meaning “to approach” or “to draw near/close to”) Because there is no Temple (and for other reasons as well), the order of offerings (as well as other Torah precepts which are dependent on the Temple & a fully functioning Aaronic priesthood, such as accepting tithes, administering the bitter waters to a suspected adultress, 7th and Jubilee years, etc. etc.) are also temporarily suspended :crying: .

The order of offerings on a regular basis ceased in CE 70, when the Romans destroyed the Second Temple. It was briefly reinstituted during the Bar Kokhba revolt against Rome (in CE 132-135, see jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/revolt1.html). There are vague hints that it may have been reinstituted for an even shorter period during the brief reign of the Roman Emperor Julian (“the Apostate”) in CE 361-363 (see jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=716&letter=J&search=Julian) It probably was reinstituted for a short time after CE 614, when the Sassanid Persians captured Jerusalem from the Byzantines & turned the city over to us. But this interlude came to an end when the Byzantines retook the city a few years later. Since then, nada. :crying:

See jewfaq.org/qorbanot.htm for a very good read on the whole issue of *korbanot *(plural).

We orthodox Jews refer to our houses of worship only as synagogues (or the Yiddish word shul, or the Hebrew words beit knesset) and would never use the word “Temple” that we believe rightly & only applies to the Temple in Jerusalem, the rebuilding of which we pray for & await. If a Jewish place of worship is called Temple Something, it’s a Reform place of worship. Reform Judaism is (more or less) heresy. Historical, traditional, normative Judaism is orthodox.

Suavemente:

Some Orthodox Jews, certain types of Hasidim for example, even strongly oppose the modern state of Israel being there. They feel that Jews do not belong having a (secular, non - religious ) modern day state in the holy land until the Messiah comes.

See forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?p=1262825&highlight=Karta#post1262825.

Be well!

ssv

 

[Celeste88]

Was the temple in Jerusalem the ONLY temple where animal sacrifices were made? Is this the temple (which was destroyed) that Jesus went to and became angry at the sellers turning it into a market place?
I heard or read somewhere…that the temple in Jerusalem will be eventually rebuilt and that this will happen in the end times.

 

[Ghosty]

Celeste88:

Was the temple in Jerusalem the ONLY temple where animal sacrifices were made? Is this the temple (which was destroyed) that Jesus went to and became angry at the sellers turning it into a market place?
I heard or read somewhere…that the temple in Jerusalem will be eventually rebuilt and that this will happen in the end times.

Yes, that is the Temple, and it is that Temple that Catholic Churches are modeled after, and it was the only Temple of the Jews (though there were two, it was in the same place and the second was a rebuilding of the first that had been destroyed).

Incidently, the New Testament isn’t the only place you’ll find criticism of the “economic” practices of the people who controlled the Temple in the time of Jesus. The Talmud also has some rather choice words for those folks, arguably much harsher than what appears in the New Testament. The Sadducee families that controlled the Temple in its last decades were notoriously corrupt, and the surviving Pharisee tradition (Orthodox Judaism) has few nice things to say about them (I’ve never heard any nice things said about them from Orthodox sources quite frankly, but I’m leaving open the possibility that there are some somewhere).

Peace and God bless!