A Jewish question?

Question

Why don't Jewish people make burnt offerings. Or do they sometimes kill animals on holy days?

Why does it have to be in the temple. Many times in the bible people gave offering outside the temple.

Answer 1

Since the destruction of our Temple, we can't bring offerings, so we pray on the holy days and read the passages that discuss the offerings. The Torah (Deuteronomy 14) says that after G-d picks a place for the Temple, we can't sacrifice outside of it.

Answer 2

In ancient times, the patriarch of each tribe would act as a priest, and offer sacrifice to God for all those under him.

Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and others were all priests, in that regard.

In the time of Moses, God instituted the Levitical priesthood, which profoundly changed the way sacrifices were done.

This was obviously an accomodation for the Israelites, who, instead of wandering around the desert, would finally reside in the promised land, in their own country, where they would first, semi-permanently erect the desert tabernacle, and later, during the time of Solomon, build the very first Temple.

Things quickly became rather structured, with individuals no longer offering sacrifices on their own. Instead, the Temple priests would handle those duties for all.

By the second Temple (Herod's Temple) period, around the time of Christ, and for a number of reasons, all the Temple rules and regulations had become codified and very strictly enforced, and the Jerusalem Temple was the only place sacrifices could be done, and done only by select, Temple priests.

In the year 70 AD when Jerusalem was sacked, the Temple destroyed, and the Jews dispersed by the Romans, the old Jewish Temple Worship System came to a definitive end and the Levitical priesthood soon dissolved.

The Temple Worship System has never been reestablished. A Muslim mosque, complete with a golden dome, stands on the old Temple site today.

The Muslims officially deny that a Jewish Temple ever existed there, on the Temple Mount.

This is all just as well, because the old law had been fulfilled and set aside by Christ, and replaced with a better system, the New Covenant of grace, which Jesus paid for with his own blood.

Jesus was the perfect, atoning sacrifice that was prefigured by all the sacrifices that came before.

God no longer accepts animal sacrifices. They, and all the other statutes, traditions, ordinances and rituals of the old law are now void and of absolutely no effect, even for the Jews.

In truth, the old law never saved, anyway. It was simply a "learn by doing" system that God used to teach sinful mankind how badly they really needed a savior.

Under the New Covenant, salvation is obtained through faith in Jesus Christ, through his once for all atoning sacrifice, and through the universal church he founded, and left behind for us on the earth.

Answer 3

they have no temple to make a sacrifice in, the place of the temple must be on a holy site, their holy site was taken by the Muslims. they will get their holy place back and the burnt offerings will commence again.

I'm not a Jew but I have studied the culture and beliefs.

Answer 4

Burnt offerings are to be done in the Temple which currently does not exist.

Answer 5

we used to, when we had our bais hamikdosh (holy temple). now, we pray in the place of giving offers. (u'nishalmah parim sifaseinu-in exchange for cows we give our lips (words))

Answer 6

They are too worried the flames might catch onto their dollar bills.

Answer 7

They have a phobia about gas

Answer 8

i dont know...iam not jewish...its dumb cuz iam answerin something that idk o well iam gettin 2 points 4 it :)