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From: teitz@aecom.UUCP (Eliyahu Teitz)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Re: Christians desecrate Sabbath, not keep it
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Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 14:00:36 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  4 14:00:36 1984
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> Mr. BenDavid:
> 
> You constantly refer to your keeping Torah.  I thought one of the
> most important aspects of this was the sacrifice of animals for your
> sins.  Do you still practice animal sacrifice??
> 
> 					Sincerely, Gary McNees

   Gary,
 	The answer to your question is a simple one. Before the Temple was
built there was no law regarding private altars for sacrifice. Once the
Temple was built, though, Jews were prohibited from building private altars
and only the altar in the Temple was used for sacrifice. This law did not and
does not apply to non-Jews and they may offer sacrifices as they see fit, 
provided they are to G-D. 
	With the destruction of the Temple and the removal of the altar it
ha become impossible to offer sacrifices. If we were to know the exact location
of the altar and we could rebuild it ( I can just see the Arabs letting us !! )
then we would have sacrifices again, also provided we had some priests who
could prove their lineage from priestly families.

				Eliyahu Teitz.