"Some of the 613 Commandments are for when there is a Temple"
Were any of those "commandments... for when there is a Temple" followed *before* there was a Temple?
If 'yes,' for what reason(s) are they not being followed today?
What do you make of the scarlet-dyed wool not turning white for 40 years?
From https://www.equip.org/article/the-jewish...ologetics/
In Tractate Yoma 39b, the Talmud…discusses numerous remarkable phenomena that occurred in the Temple during the Yom Kippur service…. There was a strip of scarlet-dyed wool tied to the head of the scapegoat which would turn white in the presence of the large crowd gathered at the Temple on the Day of Atonement. The Jewish people perceived this miraculous transformation as a heavenly sign that their sins were forgiven. The Talmud relates, however, that 40 years before the destruction of the second Temple [approximately AD 30 at the time of the Crucifixion] the scarlet colored strip of wool did not turn white.11
What do you make of the lot always coming up in the left hand for 40 years?
From https://windowview.org/hmny/pgs/talmuds.30ce.html
We read in the Jerusalem Talmud:
"Forty years before the destruction of the Temple, the western light went out, the crimson thread remained crimson, and the lot for the Lord always came up in the left hand. They would close the gates of the Temple by night and get up in the morning and find them wide open" (Jacob Neusner, The Yerushalmi, p.156-157). [the Temple was destroyed in 70 CE]
A similar passage in the Babylonian Talmud states:
"Our rabbis taught: During the last forty years before the destruction of the Temple the lot ['For the Lord'] did not come up in the right hand; nor did the crimson-colored strap become white; nor did the western most light shine; and the doors of the Hekel [Temple] would open by themselves" (Soncino version, Yoma 39b).
....
The lot chosen determined which of two goats would be "for the Lord" and which goat would be the ''Azazel'' or ''scapegoat.'' During the two hundred years before 30 CE, when the High Priest picked one of two stones, again this selection was governed by chance, and each year the priest would select a black stone as often as a white stone. But for forty years in a row, beginning in 30 CE, the High Priest always picked the black stone! The odds against this happening are astronomical (2 to the 40th power). In other words, the chances of this occurring are 1 in approximately 1,099,511,627,776 — or over one trillion to one! .... The lot for Azazel, the black stone, contrary to all the laws of chance, came up 40 times in a row from 30 to 70 AD!
What's your take on Zech 12:12?
From
https://www.equip.org/article/the-jewish...ologetics/
And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart [Zech. 12:12]… What is the cause of the mourning mentioned in the last cited verse? — R. Dosa and the Rabbis differ on the point. One explained, The cause is the slaying of Messiah the son of Joseph, and the other explained, The cause is the slaying of the Evil Inclination. It is well according to him who explains that the cause is the slaying of Messiah the son of Joseph, since that well agrees with the Scriptural verse, And they shall look upon me because they have thrust him through, and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his only son. (Sukkah 52A5)
"I spend a lot of time 'thinking about' all the Jews killed over all these centuries by"
God cursed those that would come against practitioners of Judaism, and at the time of Yeshua the Meshikha's crucifixion, practitioners of Judaism cursed themselves and their children during the killing of the innocent Yeshua the Meshikha. Have you pondered the effect on history of the interplay of those 2 curses?
"Maybe try a little LESS worshipping a dead guy?"
Yeshua the Meshikha died, but then he rose from the dead.
For Daniel chapters 2-7 and Ezra chapters 4-7, what language(s) are "the Torah Scrolls written in"?
Were any of those "commandments... for when there is a Temple" followed *before* there was a Temple?
If 'yes,' for what reason(s) are they not being followed today?
What do you make of the scarlet-dyed wool not turning white for 40 years?
From https://www.equip.org/article/the-jewish...ologetics/
In Tractate Yoma 39b, the Talmud…discusses numerous remarkable phenomena that occurred in the Temple during the Yom Kippur service…. There was a strip of scarlet-dyed wool tied to the head of the scapegoat which would turn white in the presence of the large crowd gathered at the Temple on the Day of Atonement. The Jewish people perceived this miraculous transformation as a heavenly sign that their sins were forgiven. The Talmud relates, however, that 40 years before the destruction of the second Temple [approximately AD 30 at the time of the Crucifixion] the scarlet colored strip of wool did not turn white.11
What do you make of the lot always coming up in the left hand for 40 years?
From https://windowview.org/hmny/pgs/talmuds.30ce.html
We read in the Jerusalem Talmud:
"Forty years before the destruction of the Temple, the western light went out, the crimson thread remained crimson, and the lot for the Lord always came up in the left hand. They would close the gates of the Temple by night and get up in the morning and find them wide open" (Jacob Neusner, The Yerushalmi, p.156-157). [the Temple was destroyed in 70 CE]
A similar passage in the Babylonian Talmud states:
"Our rabbis taught: During the last forty years before the destruction of the Temple the lot ['For the Lord'] did not come up in the right hand; nor did the crimson-colored strap become white; nor did the western most light shine; and the doors of the Hekel [Temple] would open by themselves" (Soncino version, Yoma 39b).
....
The lot chosen determined which of two goats would be "for the Lord" and which goat would be the ''Azazel'' or ''scapegoat.'' During the two hundred years before 30 CE, when the High Priest picked one of two stones, again this selection was governed by chance, and each year the priest would select a black stone as often as a white stone. But for forty years in a row, beginning in 30 CE, the High Priest always picked the black stone! The odds against this happening are astronomical (2 to the 40th power). In other words, the chances of this occurring are 1 in approximately 1,099,511,627,776 — or over one trillion to one! .... The lot for Azazel, the black stone, contrary to all the laws of chance, came up 40 times in a row from 30 to 70 AD!
What's your take on Zech 12:12?
From
https://www.equip.org/article/the-jewish...ologetics/
And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart [Zech. 12:12]… What is the cause of the mourning mentioned in the last cited verse? — R. Dosa and the Rabbis differ on the point. One explained, The cause is the slaying of Messiah the son of Joseph, and the other explained, The cause is the slaying of the Evil Inclination. It is well according to him who explains that the cause is the slaying of Messiah the son of Joseph, since that well agrees with the Scriptural verse, And they shall look upon me because they have thrust him through, and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his only son. (Sukkah 52A5)
"I spend a lot of time 'thinking about' all the Jews killed over all these centuries by"
God cursed those that would come against practitioners of Judaism, and at the time of Yeshua the Meshikha's crucifixion, practitioners of Judaism cursed themselves and their children during the killing of the innocent Yeshua the Meshikha. Have you pondered the effect on history of the interplay of those 2 curses?
"Maybe try a little LESS worshipping a dead guy?"
Yeshua the Meshikha died, but then he rose from the dead.
For Daniel chapters 2-7 and Ezra chapters 4-7, what language(s) are "the Torah Scrolls written in"?