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The Jews used to sacrifice animals as a tribute or offering to God. They believed that God would be kind to them if they offered up an animal. They were usually young animals because they were considered to be more pure and more valuble. They thought that the sacrificer must please God.

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Q: Sacrifices could not be performed in synagogues during Jesus' time in the temple in Jerusalem explain why the Jews used to sacrifice animals and why were they usually were young animals?
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Can you sacrifice in modern day synagogues?

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What is the plural of sacrifice?

The plural form of sacrifice is sacrifices.


Whats the difference between a blood sacrifice and a solstice sacrifice?

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Would Jews have animal sacrifice if they had a temple?

No. Animal sacraficed stopped in 70 A.D. when the last temple in Jerusalem was destroyed. Clarification: Sacrifice was only applicable for unintended sin, and even then, was meaningless without atonement. Sacrifice can only be done in the Temple, when we are without the Temple, prayer replaces sacrifice.


What religious practices of Judaism separated it from other religions in the first century?

A:For a study of Jewish practices, the first century CE can conveniently be divided into two parts - the period up to the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE, and the period following the destruction of the Temple. Throughout the entire first century, Judaism was strongly monotheistic, although there is evidence that Lady Wisdom (perhaps the pre-Exilic Hebrew goddess of wisdom) was still venerated until the end of the century. Apart from Zoroastrianism and Christianity, all the other religions were polytheistic, henotheistic or monistic.The Jewish first-century practice of dual burials, with the body allowed first to decompose in a tomb and then the bones placed in an ossuary or bone box, separated Judaism from other religions (apart from Christianity).In the early period of the century, Jews performed sacrifices to God, but only in the Jerusalem Temple. Other religions had more freedom as to where they performed sacrifices or libations to their gods. Following the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple, Jews suddenly were faced with the fact that their own laws now precluded the possibility of making sacrifices to God. Judaism was forced to continue its worship rituals in synagogues without the usual animal sacrifices. Christian tradition says that Christians ceased making sacrifices after the crucifixion of Jesus, but the fact that Christians continued to use the Temple suggests that they may have continued to participate in Jewish rituals of sacrifice until 70 CE, after which the new religion developed its own traditions about not allowing sacrifices.


What kind of sacrifice does not use blood?

Typically grain sacrifices (such as wheat or barley sacrifices) or tool sacrifices (such as swords or plowshares) do not use blood because they have no blood to use.


Was human sacrifice done in biblical days to God?

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What is the duration of The Sacrifice?

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Why do Freemasons perform human sacrifice?

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