Every year on the Jewish High Holidays I send you an edited version of my High Holiday sermon. The differences between this one and the one I preached is that this one lacks some jokes, but on the ...

What is a burnt offering, and what are offerings? The first communication to Moses after the Mishkan (Tabernacle) is completed is about korbanot (offerings). We wonder what that has to do with us ...

God Squad: The altar of burnt offerings — Part I. Marc Gellman. Every year on the Jewish High Holidays I send you an edited version of my High Holiday sermon.

The burnt offering is brought early in the morning after the priests have been up all night. They were feeding the altar with animals slaughtered earlier that day. By 4 a.m., they’re beat and ...

“Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it” (Genesis 8:20-21). Then click to read God’s promise to ...

Do not put a burnt offering or grain offering on it! Do not pour a libation on it! Now that we’ve been suitably warned, let’s turn to v. 10, the last verse of this paragraph and of the parashah: ...

Tabernacle replica on display at Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church. June 9, 2012 at 1:01 a.m. ... The 150- by 30-foot curtained area contains the altar of burnt offering, ...

The stone altar above may have been used for sacrificial offerings in ancient Shiloh long after the time of the Tabernacle. A dramatic discovery at the ancient site of Shiloh, located in Samaria ...