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--- Quote from: edu on May 17, 2013, 05:55:36 AM ---The Chafetz Chaim in his Likutei Halachot on chapter 14 of Zevachim, rules that Non-Jews are allowed to build an altar anywhere in the world and offer animal sacrifices even in our days (if done properly) although Jews can only offer sacrifices in our times on the Temple Mount (and the Jews have to abide by additional restrictions that do not apply to  Gentiles in this matter).
However, non Jews have to offer from the tahor animals or birds(commonly translated as pure or clean) and not the tamei (impure or unclean) animals or birds.
Given this introduction there was a need for No'ach (Noah) to know what were the tahor animals in order to bring a proper sacrifice.

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I think what confuses me about this whole topic was trying to figure out how he knew which ones were clean and which were unclean. When was this knowledge originally given? It was apparently lost at some point and was given again during Moses' time if that's the case. If it was lost though how did the original story survive at all and the concept that there might have been unclean and clean animals way back before then?

Sorry if this involves too many questions. It's just something that's interesting to me. There's a lot of the Bible dedicated to purity and cleanliness and so I think this must be a very important topic to understand.

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