Egla Arufa: The Mitzvah of the Decapitated Calf

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foreign So today we're going to talk a little bit about this very strange and rare Mitzvah the egla arufa the Deep decapitated calf so the Mitzvah took place in the land of Israel when we lived under Jewish law enforced by a Jewish court and legal system overseen by a central Sun Hedren or Central Supreme Jewish Council that is Central Supreme Jewish Council that is something that happened while the temple stood for the first temple stood second temple stood it ended shortly after the destruction of the second temple Jews were no longer independent we no longer had independent Jewish Reign soon after the Sanhedrin was disbanded we'll still talk about specifically when this Mitzvah ended and today although Jews controlled the land of Israel or at least most of it Jews do not have the land of Israel does not follow Jewish law the law of the land is not Jewish law the law of the land is not Jewish law at least not yet so this special ceremony involves the Sanhedrin and the Elders of a city near where someone is murdered the Torah tells us if someone is found to have been murdered murdered because they are found with their um with a um markings from having been killed by a knife or a some other sword or some other weapon um so they have been murdered on the

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1. 0:00foreign So today we're going to talk a little bit about this very strange and rare…
2. 4:11plows and to dig and to grind the Mills they would use they were strong animals…
3. 8:17did it they the members of the Sanhedrin themselves we can presume that they are not…
4. 12:54this is why you should do it you should keep Shabbat to remember how God Hashem…
5. 17:00to understand reason um however the rambam says by Monday says that the purpose of this…
6. 21:37within a reasonable amount of time um if not what we would do is we would…
7. 25:49no okay so although this Mitzvah no longer applies we said it was suspended during the…
8. 29:57that the um that he remembered the lesson from 22 years earlier from the morning before…
9. 34:34town not my problem not our problem it is our responsibility this Mitzvah teaches us a…
10. 38:40the Mitzvah of egla a roof of the decapitated calf teaches us that we are responsible…

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