Why don't followers of Judaism sacrifice livestock on an altar like they...

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...did thousands of years ago, was? animal sacrifice officially abolished or di it just gradually die off. I know that the Levites were the only ones allowed to sacrifice on behalf of all of Israel, what happened to them and is their absence the reason sacrifices are no longer performed?
 
Because they secretly believe in Jesus as Messiah, and that he died already for their sins .j.k.
 
because Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice that basically was the sacrifice to stop all animal sacrifice and wash the sins of the world away.
 
In some places some groups still practice animal sacrifice, for others the practice has been abandoned. It stopped mainly with the destruction of the second temple in Jerusalem. After that Judaism went through some big changes and animal sacrificing was one of the things to go.

Taylor Hellrazer- Actually, animal sacrifice was still preformed in Judaism after Jesus came along, until about 40 or 50 years later. Jesus has absolutely no role in Judaism, so they wouldn't stop a long held practice just for him.
 
When the temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD it took the fire out of it, so to speak. Sacrifices had been done in the temple for about a couple of thousand years, (minus the years of the Babylonian captivity, when the first temple was destroyed and before the second was built) Well, since the exodus from Egypt, when the tabernacle in the wilderness was made really, the sacrificing of animals has been focused on that special place.
 
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