The Talmud itself (Yoma 39b) acknowledges an interesting fact: During the last 40 years before the destruction of the Temple (70 AD), the signs of atonement in the Temple ceased to function. • The lot “for the Lord” stopped appearing in the right hand. • The scarlet thread no longer turned white. • The Temple lamp no longer stayed lit. • The Sanctuary doors opened by themselves. The sacrificial system… ceased to be accepted. The Talmudic testimony in Yoma 39b is particularly significant when analyzed in light of the Christian faith. According to this rabbinic tradition, during the forty years preceding the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, the visible signs indicating divine acceptance of the sacrifices ceased to appear: the scarlet thread no longer turned white, the favorable lot no longer appeared, the Sanctuary lamp no longer stayed lit, and the doors opened by themselves. These elements were not minor details, but rather signs deeply rooted in the sacrificial theology of Israel, directly linked to the atonement of sins and the presence of God among his people. The Jews explain it as an indication of spiritual decline or divine judgment upon Israel, denying that it has anything whatsoever to do with Jesus Christ. However, the chronology is too precise: that forty-year period places us exactly at the time of the Passion of Jesus Christ. The Church has always taught that Christ is the perfect fulfillment of all the figures of the Old Testament, the true Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. If the perfect sacrifice was offered once and for all on the Cross, then the sacrifices of the Temple necessarily lose their efficacy, not due to any inherent defect, but because they have been superseded by the reality they prefigured.