What I learned from sacrificing:
Fellowship offering - Just like grilling out with your friends, the most amazing meat seasoned on an open wood fire.
Scary the first time because we were taught "Jesus is the sacrifice, so we shouldn't"
I cut off the best fatty portion of a ribeye steak and threw it in the fire as a burnt thanksgiving offering to YHWH, that was much harder to do than you think when you are really hungry, then you realize the guilt of not trusting YHWH to give you everything you need when you need it. Hard to describe until you try it.
I did a burnt offering sacrifice for my sins on Yom Kippur, A nice ribeye for my sin offering and a small kobe steak for my thanksgiving offering. What I learned is that the steak catches on fire on the grill and and smells amazing while it is burning. just like sin is while it is happening. Then I pray and I am forgiven, the meat continues to burn and turns in to ashes that fall in to the fire and are forgotten (forgiven).
YES, Yeshua is our sacrifice, but no where in the Bible is it forbidden, YHWH just got sick of it because of their hearts, your heart must be right first. (Not true, read the scripture below). But I left this statement, because sacrifices were allowed before the temple, the temple is gone, so are they allowed other places now? Was God stopping sacrifices to idols in high places? or outside the temple?
This was all done by buying meat from the store. The correct way for a sin offering is to take a perfect innocent animal, kill it and burn it on the alter, If I had a problem sin that I couldn't get rid of and had to do that every time. I believe my sin would stop very soon.
I fasted all day and was on my 22nd hour of fasting when I sacrificed the burnt offering, I could feel the hunger, but it is completely irrelevant, because I am focused on my relationship with YHWH. Not a miracle or special, its the same thing when I have a very important deadline and work hard all day forgetting to eat.
Later when you are not fasting, and haven't eaten in a long time, Hunger no longer matters, it is no longer an earthly pursuit of the flesh, it is just part of life, not a main focus. The pursuit of YHWH becomes my new hunger.
I believe and many Jews believe, God used sacrifices done his way to ween the Jews away from sacrifices done the wrong ways for pagan religions. (baby sacrifices, self mutilations). And eventually to sacrificing self indulgence earthly
1 kings 3: 2 The people, however, were still sacrificing at the high places, because a temple had not yet been built for the Name of the Lord. 3 Solomon showed his love for the Lord by walking according to the instructions given him by his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.
4 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for that was the most important high place, and Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. 5 At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said, “Ask for whatever you want me to give you.”
Leviticus 17: The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites and say to them: ‘This is what the Lord has commanded: 3 Any Israelite who sacrifices an ox,[a] a lamb or a goat in the camp or outside of it 4 instead of bringing it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the Lord in front of the tabernacle of the Lord—that person shall be considered guilty of bloodshed; they have shed blood and must be cut off from their people. 5 This is so the Israelites will bring to the Lord the sacrifices they are now making in the open fields. They must bring them to the priest, that is, to the Lord, at the entrance to the tent of meeting and sacrifice them as fellowship offerings. 6 The priest is to splash the blood against the altar of the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting and burn the fat as an aroma pleasing to the Lord. 7 They must no longer offer any of their sacrifices to the goat idols[b] to whom they prostitute themselves. This is to be a lasting ordinance for them and for the generations to come.’
8 “Say to them: ‘Any Israelite or any foreigner residing among them who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice 9 and does not bring it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to sacrifice it to the Lord must be cut off from the people of Israel.
………..26 “That is why we said, ‘Let us get ready and build an altar—but not for burnt offerings or sacrifices.’ 27 On the contrary, it is to be a witness between us and you and the generations that follow, that we will worship the Lord at his sanctuary with our burnt offerings, sacrifices and fellowship offerings. Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to ours, ‘You have no share in the Lord.’ 28 “And we said, ‘If they ever say this to us, or to our descendants, we will answer: Look at the replica of the Lord’s altar, which our ancestors built, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices, but as a witness between us and you.’ 29 “Far be it from us to rebel against the Lord and turn away from him today by building an altar for burnt offerings, grain offerings and sacrifices, other than the altar of the Lord our God that stands before his tabernacle.”..................32 Then Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, and the leaders returned to Canaan from their meeting with the Reubenites and Gadites in Gilead and reported to the Israelites. 33 They were glad to hear the report and praised God. And they talked no more about going to war against them to devastate the country where the Reubenites and the Gadites lived. 34 And the Reubenites and the Gadites gave the altar this name: A Witness Between Us—that the Lord is God.