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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.
The Copper Scroll is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in Cave 3 near Khirbet Qumran, but differs significantly from the others.Whereas the other scrolls are written on parchment or papyrus, this scroll is written on metal: copper mixed with about 1 percent tin, although no metallic copper remained in the strips; the action of the centuries had been to convert the metal into brittle oxide. [1]
The red ink on the scrolls was found to be made with cinnabar (HgS, mercury sulfide). [65] There are only four uses of this red ink in the entire collection of Dead Sea Scroll fragments. [65] The black inks found on the scrolls are mostly made of carbon soot from olive oil lamps. [66]
The Judean scribal gloss "(Ephrath, ) which is Bethlehem" was added to distinguish it from a similar toponym Ephrathah in the Bethlehem region. Some consider as certain, however, that Rachel's tomb lay to the north, in Benjamite , not in Judean territory, and that the Bethlehem gloss represents a Judean appropriation of the grave, originally in ...
kallal, term used in rabbinical writings for the stone vessel used for the ashes of the red heifer Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Qalal .
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 ...
Nowhere is the show more dramatic than in southern Israel, near Gaza, where brilliant red anemones burst forth with such intensity that rolling hills seem to be covered in red carpets ...
the Kohen who performed the red heifer ritual; [43] one who has contacted a corpse or grave, [44] in addition to having the ashes of the red heifer ritual sprinkled upon them; one who has eaten meat from an animal that died naturally. [45]