pandamonk said:
Would you kindly show why, instead of leaving us to wonder
concerning sacrifices, yes, in the days of the Temple sacrifices were part of the service, they were eaten by the Kohanim, and on High Holidays like Passover, the rich and the poor, the have's and have nots sat and ate the Passover offering of roasted Lamb...
oh no! the horrors of eating a roasted lamb on a holiday!!! what a horrible thing!!
every animal sacrificed in those days was a Kosher animal and could ONLY be sacrificed in the Temple, an animal can be sacrificed no where else.
as far as human sacrifice, that is absolutely ridiculous. First off, as i pointed out, only animals that could be eaten, Kosher animals, could be sacrificed as Kohanim would eat the roasted animal.
HUMANS ARE NOT KOSHER TO EAT, PERIOD.
Numbers 31:40 is talking about sacrificing the animals that the Israelites take after a conquest, what is owed to HaShem for aiding them in battle. It is not about sacrificing people!
in regards to the story in Judges 11 commentary from Rashi shows that G-d did NOT want this and when it happened He punished her father because G-d does not desire human sacrifice:
and it was a statute They decreed that no one should do this anymore (i.e., they publicized that no one should offer a human being), because had Jephthah gone to Phinehas or vice versa, he would have nullified his (i.e., Jephthahs) vow (i.e., he would have instructed him what the law is in such an instance). However, they were particular about their honor, and as a result she was destroyed. Consequently, they were punished; Phinehas, by the Divine presence leaving him as it is stated in (I) Chron. (9:20) Previously God was with him, so we see subsequently God was not with him; and Jephthah was afflicted with boils and dismemberment as it is stated, (below 12:7) And he was buried in the cities [pl.] of Gilead. (His limbs were buried in the various cities.)
also other commentators have suggested that his daughter lived on but did not marry and spent her life in solitude studying Torah taken from the verse "and she had not known a man", meaning she never had children.
what's also great is taking verses out of context to support wild accusations in an attempt to drag the holy scripture of another through the mud, for example the verses in Deut. are taken from a section describing the blessings that HaShem would pour upon Israel when it harkened to the Torah and the curses and punishments that would befall Israel when it fell away from the Covenant, including being besieged by an outside force and having to resort to the disgusting practice of cannibalism, which is NOT A MITZVOT OF THE TORAH.
so in review, back in the olden days sacrifice was the normal means of communing w/ one's Deity so laws were established by HaShem the particular way they were to be done and where. However you will not find such practices done today, not in Judaism or Christianity.
and Human sacrifice is not Kosher.