What does the Old Testament teach about how the Jew obtains salvation/forgiveness?
I believe they offered animal sacrifices every year in the temple.
I've often wondered what the modern belief is. The Jews don't have a temple in Israel (right now), and they don't make sacrifices anymore, so how are they redeemed?
The muslims now have that big ugly dome thing where they worship one of those rocks on the site of where the Jewish temple used to be. I've heard that there are certain factions of Ultra-orthodox Jews who want to rebuild the temple there. I've always felt that if the tension got too high in the Mid-East, that dome will disappear with a loud BOOM...
What were religious Jews doing all day yesterday, that some noticed their conspicuous absence from the forum?
Deuteronomy 4:29-35 29. From there you will seek the Lord, your God, and you will find Him, if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul.
30. When you are in distress and all these things have befallen you, at the end of days, you will return unto the Lord, your God, and hearken to His voice.
31. For the Lord, your God, is a merciful God, He will not abandon you nor destroy you, and He will not forget the covenant of your forefathers that He swore to them.
32. For inquire now regarding the early days that preceded you, from the day when God created man on the earth, and from one end of heaven to the other end of heaven: Has there ever been anything like this great thing [giving of the Torah on Sinai] or has anything like it been heard?
33. Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire as you have heard, and survived?
34. Or has any god ever miraculously come to take for himself a nation from amidst another nation, with challenges, with signs, and with wonders, and with war, and with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with greatly awesome deeds, such as everything that the Lord, your God, did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35. You have been shown in order to know that the Lord, He is God! There is none beside Him!