<<My knowledge in these areas is sorely lacking, but my impression is<br>that the main obstacle to bringing the Korban Pesach, even nowadays,<br>is not knowing the exact location of the mizbayach. And this is<br>certainly something that was common knowledge for the first years
<br>after the churban.>><br><br>For a discussion of the importance of the place of the mizbeyach see<br><font class="search-results" size="2"><i><a href="http://www.vbm-torah.org/archive/halak57/04mizbea.doc">http://www.vbm-torah.org/archive/halak57/04mizbea.doc
</a><br><br></i></font><font style="font-family: verdana;" class="search-results" size="2"><i>Chatam Sofer (among others) discuss the issue - mainly for Pesach .<br>Among other issues are finding cohanim with geneological records
<br>and the bigdei kehuna<br><br>In fact when the Gemara talks about R. Gamliel the assumption it that<br>it refers to R. Gamliel of Yavne and that korbanot were indeed brought<br>in the years immediate following the churban. There are even theories
<br>that Bar Kochba rebuilt the bet hamikdash and korbanot were brought.<br>This is one of the answers to the contradictions between Mesechet Midot<br>and Joesphus that Middot was referring to Bar Kochba's time.<br>Of course all of this is very controversial
<br><br>What seems clear is that after Bar Kochba's revolt Har HaBayit was razed<br>and Jews were not allowed in Jerusalem for many years (just read a theory<br>that they returned in the days of R. Yehudah HaNasi) and then korbanot
<br>finally stopped.</i></font><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="search-results" size="2"><i><br clear="all"></i></font><br>-- <br>Eli Turkel