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Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, [and] my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, [for] a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.<\/em><\/p>\n

And thou shalt say unto them, This [is] the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, [for] a continual burnt offering.<\/p>\n

The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even;\u00a0And a tenth [part] of an ephah of flour for a meat offering, mingled with the fourth [part] of an hin of beaten oil.<\/em><\/p>\n

[It is] a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As I mentioned yesterday in my Seven Quick Takes, I\u2019m reading through the Bible as part of the The King and I<\/a> project. \u00a0The passage above is taken from Numbers 28:2-6<\/a>, part of yesterday\u2019s reading. \u00a0So far, in my reading, the lengthy descriptions of the proper form of sacrifices are second in dullness only to the\u00a0genealogical\u00a0recitations. \u00a0Unlike the \u2018begats,\u2019 the sacrifice laws are related to the practice of\u00a0Judaism, not just its history, so they win out on interest.<\/p>\n

But that leads me to a question: when did the Jews stop obeying all these highly detailed sacrifice laws? \u00a0I grew up in very Jewish (if very secular) Long Island, and certainly no one there was making sin offerings or burning livestock.<\/p>\n

The precise details of sacrifice have gotten a lot of attention in Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, so it\u2019s hard for me to imagine how Jews would let these practices fall by the wayside, when they seem to be at the heart of the Pentateuch. \u00a0Christians have an excuse, since the sacrifice of Jesus replaced that of the paschal lamb, but what prompted the Jews to abandon these laws?<\/p>\n

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Edited to add<\/strong>: It didn\u2019t occur to me that these laws might still be followed in more orthodox communities, but then I remembered an article from the NYT about Orthodox Jews who swing live chickens over their heads<\/a> and then slaughter them as a sin offering for Yom Kippur. \u00a0Are these\u00a0practices\u00a0still common in highly observant communities?<\/em>
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\nEdited again to add:<\/strong>\u00a0Commenters are suggesting that sacrifices could only be in the Temple which was most recently destroyed in 70 AD. \u00a0So were sacrifices on hold between the destruction of the first Temple and the construction of the second? \u00a0Why couldn\u2019t Jews return to the mobile Tabernacle used in the desert? \u00a0Did all Jews live close enough to the Temple that they could participate in ritual, or was their part in the covenant satisfied by the actions of others?<\/em><\/p>\n

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