home / questions / top ten / What is Moshiach? When will Moshiach come? Who is Moshiach ben Yosef? 10 Questions about Resurrection of the Dead How can we identify Moshiach? Why did the Holocaust Happen? Why don't you accept Jesus as the Messiah? What is the purpose of the sacrificial offerings in the Holy Temple? What is the Livyatan? What will happen when Moshiach comes? Question: Please explain all this business about animal sacrifices in the Temple. Are you really planning to re-initiate this at some point? Answer: Cain and Abel made vegetable and animal sacrifices. Noah made animal sacrifices. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob -- all highly enlightened people -- made animal sacrifices. And the Torah prescribes a whole slew of sacrifices to be made in the Tabernacle in the desert, and then later in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. And guess what? In our prayers, for the past 2,000 years, we’ve been asking for G-d to let us rebuild that Temple so that we can start doing those sacrifices, just like He asked us to. So there’s got to be something deep going on here, more than meets the eye. [Continue]

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