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The Torah Allows Gentiles to Offer Particular Animal Sacrifices, Even Today

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edu:
Here's another reason why a righteous gentile might want to bring sacrifices.
Namely, to hurt the cause of idol worship in the world.
How?
I won't "pull my punches", regular Christianity that believes in a Trinity is a form of idol worship.

By offering sacrifices you weaken the claims of Christianity.
Why?
Because some of them make the lying claim, that without the blood of sacrifices and without the blood of their founder J.C. you have nothing to atone for your sins.
When Gentiles offer the blood of sacrifices, they are weakening one of the propaganda arguments of certain forms of Christianity.

Note: Originally I posted the following:
--- Quote ---If you want a scholarly explanation, why deification of any human being is idol worship among the many articles that are out there I recommend
Monotheism Vs. The Outlook That Everything is G-d which although dealing with another issue also deals with the pagan status of standard Christianity.
 http://www.vilnagaon.org/monotheism.htm
--- End quote ---

But then I thought it was first more appropriate to read direct and more simpler proofs against Christianity instead of jumping straight ahead to the more complicated and indirect article that I proposed.
Therefore the average guy should first probably go to Rabbi Tovia Singer's site at http://www.outreachjudaism.org/biblical.html#

edu:
Another good starting point for the Gentile who is looking for proof against Christianity is at
http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/Christmas_TheRealStory.htm
The article points out the pagan origins of X-mas [the Christian Holiday of Dec. 25th]

edu:
It says in Zechariah chapter 2

--- Quote ---Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold four horns. And I said to the angel that talked with me, What are these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Yehuda {Judea},Yisrael {Israel} and Yerushalayim{Jerusalem}.
  And Hashem{G-d} showed me four craftsmen. Then said I, What are they coming to do? And he spoke, saying , Those, were the horns which scattered Yehuda, so that no man could lift up his head: but these are come to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the nations, which lift up their horn towards the land of Yehuda to scatter it.
--- End quote ---
According to many commentaries on the Talmud tractate Succah 52b, one of these 4 craftsmen is a righteous Gentile who built an altar to G-d.
More on this, G-d willing, at another time.

edu:
Who are the 4 craftsmen in the prophecy of Zechariah chapter 2.
The Talmud in tractate Succah 52b identifies them with 4 individuals who have some connection to either building the Temple or building an altar.
Namely, they are Messiah son of Yoseph{Joseph} Messiah son of Dovid{David},Eliyahu{Elijah} and Cohain Tzedek.
Who is Cohain Tzedek? This is Malkitzedek the righteous gentile of Breishit{Genesis} chapter 14 who is described as a Cohain to the Almighty who is most high and who aids and praises Avraham{Abraham} and similarly in Tehillim{Psalms 110:4} Malkitzedek earns high praise.
In Shir Hashirim Rabba,Pesikta Drav Kahana,Pesikta Rabati, and Yalkut Shimoni, Malkitzedek is explicitly substituted for the 4th craftsman which the Talmud labels as Cohain Tzedek.
If we indeed agree that the 4th craftsman is Malkitzedek, one can rightfully raise the question, how can the actions of a man that died thousands of years ago, somehow save the Jewish people from the horns that come to scatter Jews from the land of Yehuda{Judea}.
I will try to answer this question on a later date, G-d willing and without making a vow; if no one else has already answered the question.

Raulmarrio2000:
I believe the Hallacha is that Gentiles CAN offer sacrifices today in the way Chafetz Chaim says. But it's not recommended for several reasons. A Gentile must be extremely careful to do it properly and, since it's not an obligation for him, it's not worth taking the risk of making a mistake. There is also a danger that the Gentile, even the most pious of us, could focus his attention on enjoying re-living an ancient practice rather than prasing H". That would probably invalidate his sacrifice and even turn it into a sin.

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