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Since the meat and food through community offering is eaten and shared with the less fortunate and the community gathering is a teshuva and healing experience then it's not barbaric or archaic as you wish to project. Even your communities that have bring your own dish holiday picnics, parties, and communal gathering is in likeness to the Temple gathering offerings. It's done to appreciate the labors and blessing of your neighbors. What do you think they are doing today when giving thanks to the essential workers by offering them pizza? -oh the horror!Understanding what. You going back to burnt offerings?In a round about way you answered his concern about the purpose of THE Temple (Mikdash) in YeruShalem. Basically admitting the teachings are all over the place and look where that got us, so he must understand without a real central source for teaching the teachers who go out and teach, then there will be many paths leading away from our purpose and direction rather then towards one in understanding.No, not necessarily true. It is the congregations who may not realize that there is so much more to learn and to fathom than they can possibly get from an hour or two at church each week.Organized religion generally hides the truth.
A new Temple can open. It can teach. However, teaching even 24/7 can only do so much if the students can only attend or tune in a very small fraction of that. The information is already here--just not the time (and perhaps not even the inclination) for people to study.