Posted on 04/03/2007 1:20:14 PM PDT by ChicagoHebrew
Court nixes Passover lamb sacrifice at Temple Mount
By Nadav Shargai and Amiram Barkat
In their efforts to sacrifice a live animal at the Temple Mount, the New Sanhedrin Council adopted an almost underground modus operandi. Rabbis Adin Steinsaltz, Israel Ariel, Yishai Baved and their associates secretly located a butcher, found a Cohen hailing from a lineage 1,000 years old and worked out a plan to quickly erect an alter on the Temple Mount.
They tried to revive the customs of the ancient Sanhedrin tribunal, which was the highest judicial body for the Jewish people in Israel some 1,600 years ago. They sought to slaughter a sacrificial animal across from the Western Wall.
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It is amazing how Israel denies religious freedom to Jews just to appease the Arabs.
Btw, just so everyone here knows (of course, watch me still get 20 pings ignoring this), the Pesach "sacrifice" was eaten. It was not burned or wasted. Unless you are an uber-vegetarian, there is nothing cruel in killing an animal for food. In effect, the Pesach sacrifice resembled a great communal BBQ -- all Israel, including the poor and destitute, getting a portion of lamb to eat to fulfill their obligation.
It also was NOT a sin-offering, and had nothing to do with redeeming from sin. It was given (and eaten) in historical remembrance of the Exodus from Egypt.
It is amazing how Israel denies religious freedom to Jews just to appease the Arabs.
It’s amazing that this is more and more the norm throughout the world, America included to the detriment of Christians.
No offense, but that's mostly nonsense -- America protects the rights of Chirstians to practice the rituals of Christianity pretty much anywhere they want. Israel, conversely, restricts the rights of Jews to Jewish holy places (the Temple Mount, the Tomb of the Patriarchs, Joseph's Tomb) to avoid ticking off the Arabs.
It is not nonsense, and you don’t need to adopt the role of the lonely victim and sole reciepient of religious annimosity.
Christianity is much less acceptable in the public square than Judaism in America, especially if there is any sort of relationship to government. This is done more and more to avoid offending neoPagans and Muslims most recently and Athiests and Jews historically. To ignore this is not only nonsensicle but self serving and delusional.
I forgot to mention that I am in full agreement with you that it is completely insane than Israel denies herself religious practice for fear of offending her enemies.
We American Christians certainly don’t have restrictions even approaching the degree Jews in Israel experience.
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