Parashat Hukkat: The Law of The Red Cow as a Metaphor For The Torah

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The opening of this shiur, in Chacham Baruch Ben-Haim ztl’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Sharmila hey my friends we're going to discuss a few thoughts regarding the parish of this coming Shabbat for outside the Land of Israel because in the Land of Israel we are going to read the parasha of Ballack but in America and elsewhere in the world outside the Land of Israel you will be reading the parasha of who cut so we will discuss now the parish of who cut this parasha is very special because it begins with one of the laws or rather v lo the most bizarre law that we have in all the 613 commandments of the Torah this is the law of para Adama the Red Cow the Torah says like the bearish Amon mashallah more and are only more and God spoke to Moses and Aaron thought who cut a Torah this is the law of the Torah and then it tells us that the barrel Ben Israel speak to the people of Israel Vic who le ha para a Duma and they will take for you a Red Cow Tamim a Duma red team EEMA without any blemish whatsoever assure n-bomb I meant me ma means perfect a sure and bam um that it does not have any blemish assure lo a la ilaha all that never any kind of yoke has been put upon it not even a match all right this was something difficult to find a red cow of this kind of qualifications nevertheless in the time of mache they found one and according to our sages

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3. 6:16they carried his casket so they became automatically Tamim which means they were not pure anymore…
4. 9:31happens that he entered the land I mean the the the the the building of Batum…
5. 12:42more and more with more explanations more commentaries there are thousands maybe tens of thousands of…
6. 15:56here again today three thousand and three hundred years later in fact Jewish people exist for…
7. 18:35known not enough words to explain how beautiful is our Torah for that you have to…
8. 21:52has absolutely no blemish we liken it to the Torah also the Torah has no blemish…
9. 25:06being resurrected go and believe that and base the whole religion upon that or another case…
10. 28:23began in this parasha but instead of saying this is the law of the red cow…

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