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The Golden calf from a Jewish perspective at Chabad.org; Rabbi Fohrman's Lectures on the Golden Calf; The Golden calf from Ein Hod perspective; Islamic interpretation of the story of the Golden calf in the Qur'an; Story of Muses and Aaron in the Qur'an; Jewish Encyclopedia: Calf, Golden; Online Quran Project 20.83 Archived 2009-01-29 at the ...
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 ...
Because the state of ritual purity obtained through the ashes of a red heifer is a necessary prerequisite for participating in Temple service, efforts have been made in modern times by Jews wishing for Jewish ritual purity (see tumah and taharah) and in anticipation of the building of the Third Temple to locate a red heifer and recreate the ...
According to The Jerusalem Post, the red heifer appears in a portion of the Book of Numbers 19:3 that reads “This is the ritual law that God has commanded: Instruct the Israelite people to bring ...
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.
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
Shabbat Parah ("Sabbath [of the] red heifer" שבת פרה) takes place on the Shabbat preceding Shabbat HaChodesh, in preparation for Passover. Numbers 19:1-22 (the beginning of Parasha Chukat ) describes the parah adumah (" red heifer ") in the Jewish Temple as part of the manner in which the kohanim and the Jews purified themselves so that ...
The five uses in Numbers all concern the red heifer ceremony (Numbers 19:1) and use the phrase mei niddah, "waters of separation". [ 15 ] 2 Chronicles 29:5 includes a single exhortation of Hezekiah to the Levites, to carry forth the niddah (translated: "filthiness"), possibly idols of his father Ahaz , out of the temple in Jerusalem . [ 16 ]