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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.
Rubinstein noted: "Once it established public mikvahs, and put them at the service of the public—including for the process of conversion—the State cannot but be even-handed in allowing their use." He also said. "The State of Israel is free to supervise the use of its mikvahs, so long as it does so in an egalitarian manner." [69]
To explain this discrepancy, Yosef Qafih in his Hebrew translation and commentary on Saadia's work, argues that this is the normal color of a heifer. He explains the Biblical requirement to mean that the heifer must be entirely of one color, without blotches or blemishes of a different color. [7]
Shabbat Shirah (Hebrew: שבת שירה, lit. 'Shabbat of Song') is the name given to the Shabbat that includes parashat Beshalach. The Torah reading of the week contains the Song of the Sea (Book of Exodus 15:1–18). This was the song by the Israelites after crossing the Red Sea. There is no special Torah reading.
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.
Those five, perfectly unblemished red heifers landed in Israel in September 2022, a feat that cost around $500,000 when you factor in the first-class plane tickets for rabbis to come examine the ...
In contemporary times, all people are considered to be defiled by a type of "impurity" (Hebrew: טומאה tumah) which can only be purified through the ritual of the red heifer (Hebrew: פרה אדומה parah adumah). It has not been possible to perform this sacrifice since the destruction of the Second Temple.
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