Leviticus 29 & 30
Describing the pattern of the religious observations, there is a prescribed service every morning and evening.
Every week there is another service on the sabbath.
At the start of each month there is another service. The Hebrew calender is based on the lunar cycle so this I think coincides with the new moon.
There are then the annual celebrations that we have already seen in Leviticus, namely Passover, weeks, trumpets, day of atonment and festival of tabernacles.
Each of these has their own service and sacrifice rituals.
The idea of animal sacrifice seems a bit barbaric to modern eyes. and in total 1051 lambs, 102 bulls, 24 goats and 31 rams are sacrificed on the alter every year.(that is a western year not a Jewish year)
Though since the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in about AD80 there have been no official Jewish animal sacrifices.
By the way, as a meat eater, I really cannot take any moral high ground on this, however barbaric it may seem after all the majority of the sacrificed animals were actually eaten.
I will say that these animal sacrifices are pretty humane compared to a lot of the extremely unpleasant "sports" that used to be very popular but thankfully are now illegal including cock fighting, dog fighting, hare coursing, badger baiting, bear baiting, fox hunting etc.
Describing the pattern of the religious observations, there is a prescribed service every morning and evening.
Every week there is another service on the sabbath.
At the start of each month there is another service. The Hebrew calender is based on the lunar cycle so this I think coincides with the new moon.
There are then the annual celebrations that we have already seen in Leviticus, namely Passover, weeks, trumpets, day of atonment and festival of tabernacles.
Each of these has their own service and sacrifice rituals.
The idea of animal sacrifice seems a bit barbaric to modern eyes. and in total 1051 lambs, 102 bulls, 24 goats and 31 rams are sacrificed on the alter every year.(that is a western year not a Jewish year)
Though since the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in about AD80 there have been no official Jewish animal sacrifices.
By the way, as a meat eater, I really cannot take any moral high ground on this, however barbaric it may seem after all the majority of the sacrificed animals were actually eaten.
I will say that these animal sacrifices are pretty humane compared to a lot of the extremely unpleasant "sports" that used to be very popular but thankfully are now illegal including cock fighting, dog fighting, hare coursing, badger baiting, bear baiting, fox hunting etc.
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