Briefly emerging from the shadows to post an update to this thread; a couple of kohens have apparently finagled their way onto the Temple Mount in priestly garb during Shauvot and performed a wave offering for the first time since the Second Temple was destroyed.
Maybe Trump is the anti Christ and this is the end times.
He’s too lazy for that.
Trump is, to hijack the German, “die underChristus”
Hijacking the Trump hijack
What is that ritual? Simply waving two loaves of bread? Is it considered a sacrifice?
Also why did the guards stop it? Is it because the priest needed to go inside the Dome of the Rock or they were simple uncomfortable with a Jewish ritual?
A “wave offering” of two loaves of leavened bread, in which the article is waved before the presence of the Lord and may then be eaten by the priests, was part of the Shauvot rites in the era of the temples.
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2599670/jewish/The-Shtei-Halechem-Two-Breads.htm
Under Israeli law Jews are not allowed to pray or engage in ritual on the Temple Mount and may only visit as tourists. The grounds are managed by an agency run by the Jordanian government (called a waqf) which predates the state of Israel and was grandfathered in, and is allowed to prioritize Muslim access. The kohens involved are associated with the Temple Institute, an Orthodox group that advocates for rebuilding the Temple, and argues that since this sacrifice is supposed to occur on a certain day and time it can be performed even when the priests involved suffer from corpse impurity as discussed above.
(I’m only breaking my six months of silence to post about this because it’s stuff I’ve been studying recently.)
Most of the sacrifices weren’t burnt up. Most entailed either killing an animal or presenting some other foodstuff (grain, oil, bread) at the altar, and then the sacrifice would go partly to the temple, to feed the priests and their families, and partly to the person offering the sacrifice.
I guess God got the blood from sacrificed animals. But the grain, oil, bread, and meat from sacrificial offerings were usually consumed by people. (Except for the holocaust offering, which actually was burnt. I’ve read that the Greeks and Romans thought the Israelites were crazy for burning the edible parts of some of their sacrificial offerings.)
I believe mt Shiloh was one of them. The Ark lived there for some time. And we know where it is-
Nitpick: it’s Shavuot, not Shauvot.
That’s what happens on Black Friday in the US.