Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site aecom.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!aecom!teitz From: teitz@aecom.UUCP (Eliyahu Teitz) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Re: Christians desecrate Sabbath, not keep it Message-ID: <994@aecom.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 14:00:36 EST Article-I.D.: aecom.994 Posted: Tue Dec 4 14:00:36 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 02:22:10 EST References: <1767@ucf-cs.UUCP> <266@ho95b.UUCP> Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY Lines: 22 > 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.