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Old 02-01-2011, 02:34 PM   #21
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Default Re: [Thaumatology] Real world magical traditions

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Originally Posted by Tinman View Post
This is absolutly incorrect.

According to the Torah there have been only 2 places where sacrifices Jews were permitted to bring sacrifical offerings.

One was The Mishkan (the tabernacle) the jewish people carried with them through the desert. The other was The Temple.

It's also important to note that only the Kohanim (a subset of the priests - Levites) were premited to acctualy preform the sacrifices.
And yet Kapparot/Kapores is still practiced, and it still involves the sacrifice of a chicken before Yom Kippur.

There's Judaism according-to-the-book and then there's Judaism as actually practiced, which in a significant portion of communities still involves some animal sacrifice.
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