A Conversation with Moshe

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A Conversation with Moshe:
He started it with the following...

I’ve taken a good look at your new website, and I’d say it has great potential. It’s attractive, not overly wordy and written in the kind of light, witty yet informative style that makes for easy reading – and that’s the name of the game in a website, isn’t it? Also, the breakdown into topics is a good idea. Judging from the times of the night that you posted some of these items, you must be pretty busy during the day. Which of course is good. But, hey, when do you sleep?! Suggestion: Why not write up some of those questions that tourists ask and put them on your site – together with your answers. Might be fun – and, again, informative – to read that kind of stuff.

Part of my answer follows:
Ahh, You are so kind.
I am afraid that some of those questions will come up on the site. Many of them are potential fuel for global war. I had one yesterday as a matter of fact. The lady asked me if there could be salvation for Jews in a future temple. The implications are extended in every direction, wouldn't you agree? Since I was in the car having a private discussion, I felt I could talk about the obvious fact that the sacrifices in the Temple never did provide salvation as Christians define salvation but were rather a means of devotion and faith. I noted that there is at least one sin offering that involves only grain and not blood. I don't think she was satisfied but I shudder to think where that sort of discussion could go in a more public setting.

Moshe extended my line of thought:
Yes, I’d put that little exchange about the sacrificial cult onto your website – especially in view of the fact that you offered a good answer to the lady’s rather challenging question. By the way, you mention “at least one sin offering that involves only grain…” Take a look at Chapter 2 of Leviticus. The chapter is devoted, in its entirety, to a number of such offerings. Chief Rabbi J. H. Hertz of Britain, in his “The Pentateuch and Haftorahs,” analyzes this issue in quite some detail, in his commentary on the Book of Leviticus, in terms of weaning the Israelites away from the ugly and immoral practices so widely prevalent, in those days, in the sacrificial cult as it was practiced by other nations.