Sprinkle The Holy Water I P' Parah, P' Chukat

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Aaron L Raskin’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

the red heer is considered to be one of the most baffling statutes in the entire Torah in general there three categories of there are laws that are civil laws M don't kill don't steal this is something we all agree upon this is something that even without the Torah we would derive on our own then there are laws called adus testimonies in other words they testify to a miracle or a kindness of almighty God for example we eat mat to testify that God took us out of Egypt we make KES andab to testify God created the world and rested on chabas these are called adus and then you have laws that are called statutes which logically make no sense according to many cabalists there is a reason behind it but they were not reveal to us like the laws of Purity and impurity going to the mik washing your hands before you eat and the most challenging of all the statutes is the Mitzvah of the red heer the Torah says if a person comes in contact with a dead body in order for that person to be pure to enter into the Holy Temple to eat sacrificial meat that individual needs to become purified how not by taking a shower not only by immersing in a Mikvah but you need to take the ashes of a red heer a red cow that was burned and then those red ashes of the red cow are now sprinkled upon you on the third day and seventh day of the cycle and only then do you become

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1. 0:01the red heer is considered to be one of the most baffling statutes in the entire…
2. 2:37even the Israelites and what should you do you should burn the entire calf the entire…
3. 5:43answers that makes these tablets so important so holy is that God engraved into the tablets…
4. 8:49sages by the matriarchs and the Patriarchs so if so what happened now all of a…
5. 11:25Mitzvah this is this is a design IR ired treasure that the Angels wanted to keep…
6. 14:29in that moment that God revealed the Mitzvah of the red he before Moses it says…
7. 17:37lam we read the portion of P to remind us that every single one of us…
8. 20:14to become purified the coin would then mix it with water and sprinkle it upon the…
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