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  2. Water of lustration - Wikipedia

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    An unclean person they shall take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin, and running water shall be put on them in a vessel. A clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, the slain, the dead, or a ...

  3. Kallal - Wikipedia

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    According to rabbinical sources, the kallal was a small stone urn kept in the Tabernacle and later in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem which contained the ashes of a red heifer. The Hebrew Bible does not mention any urn in the Numbers 19 account. [1] Kallal is the Aramaic word for a stone vessel or pitcher.

  4. Parah - Wikipedia

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    Parah (Hebrew: פָּרָה) is the name of a treatise in the Mishnah and the Tosefta, included in the order Tohorot.The Pentateuchal law (Num. 19) decrees that a red heifer, "wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke," shall be burned and her ashes mixed with spring water, that the compound so obtained may be used to sprinkle and cleanse every one who becomes unclean.

  5. Jewish leaders in Israel needed a red heifer for a temple ...

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    Jewish faith leaders he knew needed a red heifer to replicate a ceremony depicted in the Bible. ... They’ll mix the ashes of the heifer with water from Israel’s Gihon Spring and other ...

  6. Chukat - Wikipedia

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    Noting that Numbers 19:2, "This is the statute (חֻקַּת ‎, ḥuqqaṯ) of the Law," uses the same term as Exodus 12:43, "This is the ordinance (חֻקַּת ‎, chukat) of the Passover," a midrash found the statute of the Passover like the statute of the Red Heifer. The midrash taught that Psalm 119:80, "Let my heart be undivided in ...

  7. Tumah and taharah - Wikipedia

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    Mei hatat - water into which ashes of the red heifer were mixed; People who were involved in the red heifer procedure and in certain procedures of the Yom Kippur sacrifices; Niddah - a menstruant woman; a man who has had sex with such a woman; the woman's blood, spit, and urine; objects which she has sat, reclined, or rode upon

  8. Corpse uncleanness - Wikipedia

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    Corpse uncleanness (Hebrew: tum'at met) is a state of ritual uncleanness described in Jewish halachic law.It is the highest grade of uncleanness, or defilement, known to man and is contracted by having either directly or indirectly touched, carried or shifted a dead human body, [1] or after having entered a roofed house or chamber where the corpse of a Jew is lying (conveyed by overshadowing).

  9. Ash Wednesday 2024: When and why Christians wear ashes to ...

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    Ashes are applied to the forehead or the top of the head in the form of a cross by a priest or minister to those who observe Ash Wednesday. This is to remind them they'll die and to reorder their ...